Apama Medical Obtains $11,000,000 Series B Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=31c474bd-7fc3-4ca7-98cf-488257694bdb Date 1/14/2015 Company Name Apama Medical Mailing Address 745 Camden Avenue Campbell, CA 95008 USA Company Description Recognizing the need for a more effective means of treating atrial fibrillation, Apama Medical has developed a unique approach designed to increase procedural efficiency and safety, addressing fundamental obstacles to the more widespread adoption … Continue reading “Apama Medical Obtains $11,000,000 Series B Funding Round”

CrunchyRoll Receives $28,749,421 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2e7127fb-43fc-42eb-a1c7-6bfd4c68c555 Date 1/14/2015 Company Name CrunchyRoll Mailing Address 340 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description The company operates a web site that allows users to share their favorite anime videos. Website http://www.crunchyroll.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $28,749,421 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “CrunchyRoll Receives $28,749,421 New Funding”

BlockCypher Lands $1,300,000 Seed Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b4a787fe-d78f-44d1-8659-91e34fc643c9 Date 1/14/2015 Company Name BlockCypher Mailing Address Undisclosed San Mateo, CA 94110 USA Company Description BlockCypher runs the Bitcoin and Litecoin Main and Test block chains as well as the Uro block chain. We provide APIs and libraries to browse block chains, create standard and multisig transactions, and register callbacks to … Continue reading “BlockCypher Lands $1,300,000 Seed Funding”

mNectar Receives $1,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2298463f-9508-40a0-8095-ab2ae1293fef Date 1/14/2015 Company Name mNectar Mailing Address 450 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description mNectar revolutionizes app discovery with its Playable technology, allowing customers to try mobile apps and games before downloading. mNectar has proven to drive higher ad revenue for app developers and delivers higher quality users … Continue reading “mNectar Receives $1,000,000 New Financing”

Capital One Financial Acquires Level Money for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ec037ab2-74cf-4226-8cb0-2a6af792df00 Date 1/14/2015 Company Name Level Money Mailing Address 847 Sansome San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description Level’s first product, Level Money, launched in partnership with Intuit, provides a Financial GPS solution designed to deliver smart and simple financial control without the need for complicated budgets. Level helps you achieve balance … Continue reading “Capital One Financial Acquires Level Money for Undisclosed Sum”

With Vedanta Deal, J&J Marks Big-Pharma Milestone in the Microbiome

Through its Janssen Biotech division, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: [[ticker:JNJ]]) is taking over the development of a biotech bacterial mix that within a couple years could become the latest microbiome-related treatment in human testing. Although the microbiome is an immensely promising area to mine for human health secrets—not to mention fascinating as-yet-undiscovered biology—no big drug … Continue reading “With Vedanta Deal, J&J Marks Big-Pharma Milestone in the Microbiome”

Schools Should Nurture Kids’ Natural Knack for Entrepreneurship

I think the most important change we could make in education would be to put more emphasis on exposing kids to entrepreneurship, starting very early on. I’ve found that kids have a natural inclination towards entrepreneurship—we just need to give them the opportunity to learn and practice the skills they need to act on their … Continue reading “Schools Should Nurture Kids’ Natural Knack for Entrepreneurship”

Yozio Receives $1,600,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2ad18098-46d6-48b8-a3bf-58143e4d5784 Date 1/13/2015 Company Name Yozio Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description 95% of all mobile app installs come from organic, non-paid channels. For the best mobile teams, more than half of those organic installs come from email, SMS, mobile web and social media. Yet, mobile growth teams … Continue reading “Yozio Receives $1,600,000 Seed Financing Round”

3VR Security Obtains $8,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=695f99e8-e262-40e5-9bf5-6c7a489fc9cf Date 1/13/2015 Company Name 3VR Security Mailing Address 475 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description 3VR Security, Inc. was founded to address the most pressing issue in the security industry today: overwhelming data stores. Website http://www.3vr.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $8,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “3VR Security Obtains $8,000,000 New Financing Round”

Personalis Lands $33,000,000 Series C Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=53f93fd4-14c1-4817-8abc-73bcbd621b08 Date 1/13/2015 Company Name Personalis Mailing Address 1350 Willow Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Company Description Personalis combines world class expertise in the technology of genome sequencing and interpretation with an extensive track record of peer-reviewed publications and commercial success. Website http://www.personalis.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $33,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Personalis Lands $33,000,000 Series C Financing”

Percolata Receives $5,000,000 Seed Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c51d590-123f-47a4-b08f-ae323ec95bcd Date 1/13/2015 Company Name Percolata Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Percolata helps retailers better manage their employee workforce in a way that meets actual customer demand. Our goal is to shape the customer experience by ensuring that the best employees serve customers at the best times. … Continue reading “Percolata Receives $5,000,000 Seed Round”

Basho Technologies Obtains $25,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=eb7494e3-a8bc-4d91-9df0-f0d3e6e35bae Date 1/13/2015 Company Name Basho Technologies Mailing Address 929 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Basho produces Riak, a distributed datastore that combines high availability, easily-scalable capacity and throughput, and ease of use. Riak’s complete availability means that applications built using Riak remain both read- and write-available under … Continue reading “Basho Technologies Obtains $25,000,000 New Financing Round”

App Annie Obtains $55,000,000 Series D Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d409f205-c66f-4f50-a060-ff137c079859 Date 1/13/2015 Company Name App Annie Mailing Address 23 Geary Street San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description At App Annie, we believe there has been a radical shift in the way content is being distributed. In times gone by, print, radio, television, retail and the web have dominated as content … Continue reading “App Annie Obtains $55,000,000 Series D Funding”

Apple’s Boston-Area Lease Carves Out Room for About 65

We know that the most important company in tech has been growing its office in the Boston area as it continues to build a speech-recognition engineering team on MIT’s doorstep. Now, we have a few more numbers to fill in the blanks. Documents filed with the local government show that Apple has leased about 11,500 square … Continue reading “Apple’s Boston-Area Lease Carves Out Room for About 65”

Seven Surprises About Convertible Notes That Founders Should Know

Over the past two years, there has been an explosion of the use of convertible notes for seed rounds. It used to be these debt instruments that convert to equity later at a discount to the price of the next round were only for small initial financings of, say, $250,000 for a company to get … Continue reading “Seven Surprises About Convertible Notes That Founders Should Know”

10X Genomics Emerges With $80M and Toaster-Sized Sequencer Upgrade

Making Illumina’s industry-leading gene sequencing machines better? There’s an app for that. That’s the shorthand pitch from fresh-from-stealth sequencing company 10X Genomics, which is unveiling itself today with $80 million in venture funding. It has already raised two rounds, the latest being a $55.5 million Series B led by Foresite Capital Management, with Venrock, the … Continue reading “10X Genomics Emerges With $80M and Toaster-Sized Sequencer Upgrade”

Second Genome Has Begun First Drug Trial Based on Microbiome Secrets

The microbiome is moving forward. Second Genome of South San Francisco, CA, said Monday that it has begun its first human trial, and what could be the first in the field, of a drug based upon the emerging field of research around the trillions of microbes that live in our guts. Second Genome began life … Continue reading “Second Genome Has Begun First Drug Trial Based on Microbiome Secrets”

Genentech Redux? Roche Buys Majority Stake in Foundation Medicine

In a deal that shakes up the full-steam-ahead world of cancer diagnostics, the world’s top oncology drug company, Roche, said today it’s spending more than $1 billion for a majority stake in Foundation Medicine and creating a powerful drug-diagnostic collaboration. It’s a significant gamble on the as-yet-unrealized potential of tests that aim for broad genetic … Continue reading “Genentech Redux? Roche Buys Majority Stake in Foundation Medicine”

Motista Receives $5,800,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6ddba1de-ba72-42d3-bec1-4b9ddece4f55 Date 1/12/2015 Company Name Motista Mailing Address 1777 Borel Place San Mateo, CA 94402 USA Company Description The company provides motivational insights that provide brands with information on what is motivating consumers. Website http://www.motistainsights.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,800,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “Motista Receives $5,800,000 New Financing”

Augmedix Obtains $16,000,000 Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=58be9396-9465-49a9-8979-a887805ab278 Date 1/12/2015 Company Name Augmedix Mailing Address 1161 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Augmedix was founded with one core belief: technology can free physicians and allow them to focus on what they do best – taking care of patients. Augmedix is a service for medical doctors that’s … Continue reading “Augmedix Obtains $16,000,000 Series A Funding Round”

Kit Check Lands $12,000,000 Series B Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=40a64e63-1981-4625-bc3f-f4e8a695165f Date 1/12/2015 Company Name Kit Check Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Kit Check is the leader in hospital pharmacy kit automation. Since its founding, Kit Check has been focused on replacing old manual processes with faster and safer automated technologies. Website http://www.kitcheck.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Kit Check Lands $12,000,000 Series B Round”

iCharts Garners New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9af786c3-8b1e-4eb7-8b32-f9b9ddf3d673 Date 1/12/2015 Company Name iCharts Mailing Address 440 North Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description iCharts is a cloud-based company that makes online data publishing and social sharing of branded, interactive charts easy. Our vision is to empower the world to explore and share data by enabling the free … Continue reading “iCharts Garners New Funding”

10X Genomics Receives $55,500,000 Series B Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8526eeec-aa22-4702-83c5-23a8ead04382 Date 1/12/2015 Company Name 10X Genomics Mailing Address 7068 Koll Center Parkway Pleasanton, CA 94566 USA Company Description Sequencing technology have brought unprecedented access to sequence data, fueling advances in applications such as SNP identification and molecular quantitation at a massive rate and scale. However, a significant amount of critical genetic … Continue reading “10X Genomics Receives $55,500,000 Series B Funding Round”

CalBio 2015

CalBio is the annual industry conference sponsored by San Diego-based Biocom and San Francisco-based BayBio. To discuss how CEOs and entrepreneurs perceive and manage risk within the turbulent life science industry, CALBIO 2015 offers a platform for industry leaders in California to share ideas ranging from science to business and relevant global issues and events. … Continue reading “CalBio 2015”

DiaCarta Lands $8,000,000 Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9d0b0c7b-675b-4181-8de2-27190014e241 Date 1/10/2015 Company Name DiaCarta Mailing Address 3535 Breakwater Ave. Hayward, CA 94545 USA Company Description DiaCarta provides precise cancer molecular tests including NRAS, EGFR and KRAS mutation test kits, PCR ready lysis kit, HPV E6/E7 mRNA test kits for cervical and head-neck cancer, cancer biomarker gene expression detection kits and … Continue reading “DiaCarta Lands $8,000,000 Series A Financing”

As Turner Suspends Media Camp, Its Founder Yearns To Duplicate It

For a consumer or a reporter, the International Consumer Electronics Show would be an exhilarating tour of the latest gadgets and tools, as well as a preview of marvelous technologies of the future. For established companies, the annual CES event might be a sobering catalog of technological changes they must either master or allow to … Continue reading “As Turner Suspends Media Camp, Its Founder Yearns To Duplicate It”

Milestones of Innovation 1: Hamilton’s 1790 Report on the Public Credit

Today is the 225th anniversary of a milestone in the history of American innovation. On January 9, 1790, the 35-year-old secretary of the Treasury of the United States sent the House of Representatives a 40,000-word blueprint for the new nation’s financial system. The report was produced just four months after Congress commissioned it. Proposing the … Continue reading “Milestones of Innovation 1: Hamilton’s 1790 Report on the Public Credit”

Solexel Garners $25,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d36274e9-1b60-48a2-9921-2c48a5bd14cd Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Solexel Mailing Address 1530 McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, CA 95035 USA Company Description SOLEXEL, INC. is developing high-efficiency, low-cost, crystalline silicon solar cell and module products for grid-tied residential, commercial, and industrial photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation applications. Website http://www.solexel.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Solexel Garners $25,000,000 New Round”

Fitmob Garners $5,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d16a7e6d-df69-47c8-a0d5-52114cb1fefb Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Fitmob Mailing Address 571 5th St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description fitmob is cooking up a new recipe for fitness and we want you to be part of it. fitmob strives to get the world healthy and fit through the power of community. Website http://www.fitmob.com … Continue reading “Fitmob Garners $5,000,000 New Financing Round”

Reset Therapeutics Lands $5,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e799b814-b4eb-45ba-a6b7-9fe316144157 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Reset Therapeutics Mailing Address 260 Littlefield Avenue South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA Company Description Reset Therapeutics is focused on harnessing the power of the body’s internal molecular clocks to discover, develop, and commercialize high-value therapeutics for a variety of disease indications. Website http://www.resettherapeutics.com Transaction Type Debt … Continue reading “Reset Therapeutics Lands $5,000,000 New Financing Round”

Nvest Garners $11,000,002 Series C Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8f40105b-d2e9-4eb9-9568-c7f6bea85e38 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Nvest Mailing Address 1663 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Nvest is a performance-tracked stock recommendation platform that helps investors gain credible information about the market. Stock investors pay increasing attention to stock advice before their investment decision. However, the problem is that people … Continue reading “Nvest Garners $11,000,002 Series C Funding Round”

Vascular Dynamics Obtains $16,850,000 Series B Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7a2f8fd8-8939-47ad-a957-e35c20504ad2 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Vascular Dynamics Mailing Address 2134 Old Middlefield Way Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description Vascular Dynamics, Inc. (VDI) is a privately-held company founded in 2008 by Rainbow Medical Ltd. (Rainbow). Rainbow is a healthcare accelerator developing the technologies invented by Israeli inventor, Yossi Gross. In November … Continue reading “Vascular Dynamics Obtains $16,850,000 Series B Round”

Health Fidelity Garners $5,176,429 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c75a3a90-935d-4aa0-8d60-f55276d6a8b8 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Health Fidelity Mailing Address 459 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Health Fidelity, Inc. offers a clinical natural language processing (NLP) platform that enables medical practitioners and administrators to effectively make use of the wealth of currently unusable medical information they collect. The company … Continue reading “Health Fidelity Garners $5,176,429 New Round”

Silver Spring Networks Acquires Escondido’s Detectent for $12M

Silver Spring Networks (NYSE: [[ticker:SSNI]]), which makes smart grid technologies for electric utilities, says it has agreed to pay $12 million in cash to acquire Detectent, an Escondido, CA-based company that provides analytic software to utilities. Detectent initially began in 2004 as a research project, when ConEdison asked founder Mike Madrazzo to analyze the New … Continue reading “Silver Spring Networks Acquires Escondido’s Detectent for $12M”

West Coast Biotech Roundup: Hep C, 23andMe, Kite, Cash, Isis & More

What a week for life sciences news, and it’s not even over. Perhaps we’ll get a slight break as the healthcare and biopharma worlds get on airplanes and descend upon San Francisco starting in 3…2…1…. Two requests from this veteran attendee: Leave your colds and flu at home, and wear bright colors if the weather’s … Continue reading “West Coast Biotech Roundup: Hep C, 23andMe, Kite, Cash, Isis & More”

Seismic Raises $20M in Round Led by Software Growth Equity Fund

After tripling revenues in 2014, Encinitas, CA-based Seismic says today it has closed a $20 million round in Series B funding led by JMI Equity, the growth equity firm that specializes in software and services. Seismic was founded in 2010 to advance what co-founder and CEO Doug Winter calls “sales enablement software” that helps sales … Continue reading “Seismic Raises $20M in Round Led by Software Growth Equity Fund”

Startup to Watch at CES: A Chat with Captureproof’s CEO Meghan Conroy

Medical diagnosis may get more mobile and visual through Captureproof’s app. The San Francisco-based startup is trying to reduce the need for patients to see their doctors in person. Through an iPhone app and mobile Web portal, Captureproof lets people send images and video to their physicians to help assess their recovery from surgery, as … Continue reading “Startup to Watch at CES: A Chat with Captureproof’s CEO Meghan Conroy”

One Week Into The New Year, Five Biotechs Reel in $220M Venture Cash

Is everyone in biotech putting out news this week so they won’t be distracted from their partying next week at the J.P. Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco? That’s a joke, of course, but the news flow of the new year is serious enough to merit an extra round-up from us. We’ll still have our … Continue reading “One Week Into The New Year, Five Biotechs Reel in $220M Venture Cash”

State of the Internet: U.S. Connection Speeds Rank 17th in World

If you think Internet speeds could be faster in the U.S., you’re not imagining things. The latest rankings of global Internet speeds by digital traffic company Akamai have the U.S. once again absent from the top 10 list of countries with the speediest networks. The U.S. has fared better in previous editions of these quarterly rankings, which are part of … Continue reading “State of the Internet: U.S. Connection Speeds Rank 17th in World”

Apartment List Garners $1,369,999 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=db919612-0c26-4eb8-a9f0-09f027b8d529 Date 1/8/2015 Company Name Apartment List Mailing Address 500 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description ApartmentList.com is the web’s fastest growing apartment search site we consolidate millions of listings from hundreds of sources, all searchable on an intuitive map-based interface. Our vision is to reinvent the rental marketplace … Continue reading “Apartment List Garners $1,369,999 New Round”

Plex Garners $10,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a022fe67-c496-4e05-a2a9-8a314a043887 Date 1/8/2015 Company Name Plex Mailing Address 211 Bachman Ave. Los Gatos, CA 95030 USA Company Description Plex is made up of media enthusiasts who are dedicated to bringing a more organized and enjoyable experience to media lovers around the world. We draw inspiration from a dynamic community of Plex users, … Continue reading “Plex Garners $10,000,000 New Funding Round”

Adaptive Biotechnologies Acquires Sequenta for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=065fbcf6-25e3-4ae7-b8e1-8edd40bde0f0 Date 1/8/2015 Company Name Sequenta Mailing Address 400 East Jamie Court South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA Company Description Sequenta is a venture funded biotech company dedicated to the discovery and development of clinical diagnostics based on a revolutionary new platform for understanding immune system status. Website http://www.sequentainc.com Transaction Type M&A … Continue reading “Adaptive Biotechnologies Acquires Sequenta for Undisclosed Sum”

With $21M, Retooled Blend Whips up Mini-Smart Bombs For Cancer

Sometimes in biotech, you go in with one plan, and an unexpected discovery changes everything. That’s the case with Blend Therapeutics, which has morphed into a company trying to use nanotechnology to create a new type of cancer therapy. Watertown, MA-based Blend is announcing today that it has raised $21 million in new equity and … Continue reading “With $21M, Retooled Blend Whips up Mini-Smart Bombs For Cancer”

CART + CRISPR = 1st-Of-Its-Kind Biotech Deal From Novartis, Intellia

Novartis has already invested in Intellia Therapeutics. Now it wants to use Intellia’s cutting-edge gene-editing tools on one of the world’s most promising new kinds of medicine. In a deal that brings together two of the highest-profile fields in biotech, healthcare giant Novartis (NYSE: [[ticker:NVS]]) has negotiated with tiny Intellia for exclusive rights to the … Continue reading “CART + CRISPR = 1st-Of-Its-Kind Biotech Deal From Novartis, Intellia”

Even When Money is Easy, Rules of Biotech Finance Still Apply

Last month Juno Therapeutics closed a $250 million IPO, bringing the total raised since it was founded in Seattle in 2013 to close to $600 million. The money is earmarked to support more than ten clinical trials over the next 12 months. Last year, 133 biotech companies around the world raised $11 billion in initial … Continue reading “Even When Money is Easy, Rules of Biotech Finance Still Apply”

Even Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=050c3058-0d3d-4a64-b3a6-1d2d6e3cee88 Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Even Mailing Address 1389 Jefferson St. Oakland, CA 94612 USA Company Description Even gives you a consistent paycheck every week, no matter how many hours you got this week. Even does this by setting aside a little bit of money for you in good weeks, and by … Continue reading “Even Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing Round”

Tapcentive Lands $1,500,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=adbbc3e4-9534-4884-b942-1dc0dfbf62da Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Tapcentive Mailing Address 307 Santa Ana Ave. San Francisco, CA 94127 USA Company Description Tapcentive was created by a team that has lived the mobile commerce revolution from the earliest days of mCommerce with WAP, to leading the charge in mobile payments and services with NFC worldwide. … Continue reading “Tapcentive Lands $1,500,000 New Funding”

Stem Receives $27,000,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f71e443d-12c0-47fc-98b5-3798df569fd9 Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Stem Mailing Address 100 Rollins Road Millbrae, CA 94030 USA Company Description Stem is leading the way to a brighter, more cost-effective energy future. Since 2009, Stem has been analyzing how various types of businesses use electricity and how they are charged for it. Website http://www.stem.com Transaction … Continue reading “Stem Receives $27,000,000 New Funding”

Cuff Receives $5,000,000 Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d106a4e3-a7ad-4774-82be-39e51a7b039a Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Cuff Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Cuff is a new line of jewelry wearables that serves as an alert system for family and friends. The collection consists of bracelets, necklaces and key chains. Website http://www.cuff.io Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 … Continue reading “Cuff Receives $5,000,000 Series A Financing”