Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3a66e1ab-39bb-4199-abcc-9c501d5e484a Date 12/9/2014 Company Name UpCounsel Mailing Address 178 Bluxome St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description UpCounsel is a marketplace for legal services. By using technology to reinvent the traditional legal model, we are making legal services accessible for every individual and business. Website http://www.upcounsel.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “UpCounsel Garners $2,400,000 Seed Funding”
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Bottlenose Lands New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6b276632-d995-40c8-9762-9ddc2eee7057 Date 12/9/2014 Company Name Bottlenose Mailing Address 555 California Street 12th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Bottlenose is a real-time discovery engine for the social web. It measures what the crowd is paying attention to, so you can discover and focus on what’s important now. Bottlenose is used … Continue reading “Bottlenose Lands New Financing Round”
CardioKinetix Secures $50,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0b3e3219-d158-43e1-bc85-c20929c039fb Date 12/9/2014 Company Name CardioKinetix Mailing Address 925 Hamilton Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Company Description CardioKinetix, Inc. is developing new technology for treating Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). This is a catheter-based intervention implanted into the heart. CHF results from damage to the heart from several causes, which affects nearly … Continue reading “CardioKinetix Secures $50,000,000 New Round”
Hired Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=331e17bd-f322-47d7-a19c-dba86fe34fd1 Date 12/9/2014 Company Name Hired Mailing Address 460 Bryant St. 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Hired was launched in order to disrupt the recruiting industry, and provide a better and more efficient way for talented developers to get exposed to exciting job opportunities at tech companies. Website … Continue reading “Hired Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Financing”
Seeo Receives New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2aad01f2-b114-4aaa-b756-e3d4426b4969 Date 12/9/2014 Company Name Seeo Mailing Address 3906 Trust Way Hayward, CA 94545 USA Company Description Seeo was founded in 2007 with the goal of creating a new class of high-energy rechargeable lithium-ion batteries based on a nanostructured polymer electrolyte initially developed at the esteemed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under funding … Continue reading “Seeo Receives New Funding”
3Scan Receives $6,673,012 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c7bb15ed-6c13-4ec1-986f-e3ef336047c3 Date 12/9/2014 Company Name 3Scan Mailing Address 1087 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Our microscope utilizes a novel serial sectioning technique to create three dimensional models of large volume tissue samples. 3Scan uses the cutting edge technology of the KESM (Knife Edge Scanning Microscope) to automatically section … Continue reading “3Scan Receives $6,673,012 New Financing”
YouEye Secures $1,214,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=41ff6af2-a2c7-4173-85c6-eade2613e330 Date 12/9/2014 Company Name YouEye Mailing Address 278 Villa St. Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description YouEye is a usability testing service that uses a pool of screened candidates to help designers and developer get feedback for their sites, Website http://www.youeye.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,214,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “YouEye Secures $1,214,000 New Round”
Nginx Garners $20,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=510d5618-2a58-42be-bfd2-f7de00bb03cc Date 12/9/2014 Company Name Nginx Mailing Address 600 Montgomery St 43rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description Nginx, Inc. provides products, solutions and services for its renowned open source software, NGINX. Run by the busiest web sites on the Internet, NGINX enables high performance web architectures to improve user … Continue reading “Nginx Garners $20,000,000 Series B Round”
Addvocate Lands $7,686,585 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d7ca9d06-4123-4834-9612-fe2ae4f1ac2d Date 12/9/2014 Company Name Addvocate Mailing Address 156 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Addvocate can also delegate access to branded social channels without having to surface the passwords to employees. By removing passwords and connecting company accounts to Active Directory, channels are secure from spoofing, email phishing, … Continue reading “Addvocate Lands $7,686,585 New Financing Round”
Addvocate Acquires Trapit for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=23f9ef54-b7ae-460d-8e42-95b2c0dcd9ce Date 12/9/2014 Company Name Trapit Mailing Address 2390 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Company Description The company provides users with a cognitive computer system that can learn from its experience, as well as by being advised. Website http://www.trapit.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Addvocate Acquires Trapit for Undisclosed Sum”
Pioneer’s Lament: Lack of Checkpoint Immunotherapy For Blood Cancer
It might be hard to tell these days, but cancer immunotherapy can be disappointing, too. In a lunchtime review Monday at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting in San Francisco, Ronald Levy, a Stanford University professor with a long, storied history in the field, reviewed the trickle of clinical research presented at the meeting … Continue reading “Pioneer’s Lament: Lack of Checkpoint Immunotherapy For Blood Cancer”
Immunotherapy Confidence (And Audience) Abundant At ASH T-Cell Talk
With cancer immunotherapy tallying impressive patient results and new drug approvals, people in the field are confident about expanding its scope. That confidence was abundant in back-to-back presentations Sunday at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting before an audience into the thousands. Two heavyweights in cancer immunotherapy, Carl June, a professor at the University … Continue reading “Immunotherapy Confidence (And Audience) Abundant At ASH T-Cell Talk”
The Risks and Opportunities in a Startup: Age 5 Years and Up
In my last two articles, I explored the top risks and opportunities that startups face during their first five years of existence. In this conclusion to the series, I’d like to discuss the final phase of startup growth—Year 5 and up. If your business has made it to the crucial 5-year mark, that’s a good … Continue reading “The Risks and Opportunities in a Startup: Age 5 Years and Up”
Tachyus Secures $1,196,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c6d78186-e3e8-4a09-aef5-2e3af669409b Date 12/8/2014 Company Name Tachyus Mailing Address 170 Seale Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Oil and gas producers will need to reinvent themselves as data companies. Tachyus delivers the end-to-end technology to make that possible. Website http://www.tachyus.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,196,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Tachyus Secures $1,196,000 New Financing Round”
Extole Obtains $14,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d937ab54-6b99-4042-b47e-4816f56ae6b2 Date 12/8/2014 Company Name Extole Mailing Address 111 Sutter Street 16th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Extole helps brands harness the marketing potential of the growing social channel. The company’s unique full-service Social Marketing as Service offering enables brands to tap into a new customer acquisition channel, increase … Continue reading “Extole Obtains $14,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Mesosphere Garners $36,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0ae47de1-af94-4693-a0cb-a0a5e24cfa8e Date 12/8/2014 Company Name Mesosphere Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Mesosphere is dedicated to helping enterprises unlock the next generation of datacenter scale, efficiency and automation with the power of Apache Mesos. Mesos is an open source, server-side technology that pools datacenter resources and automates IT … Continue reading “Mesosphere Garners $36,000,000 Series B Financing”
Connexity Acquires Become.com for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6970b40b-e07c-4e89-ae7d-0a7515367cd0 Date 12/8/2014 Company Name Become.com Mailing Address 640 W. California Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA Company Description We founded Become, Inc. in early 2004 with a mission to help people make ideal buying decisions. As avid shoppers, we realized the tremendous difficulty associated with researching new products and services. Website http://www.become.com … Continue reading “Connexity Acquires Become.com for Undisclosed Sum”
At ASH, Sunesis Dices Data to Argue For “Failed” Leukemia Drug
No drug has been approved to treat acute myeloid leukemia in four decades. As two specialists in the field wrote a couple years ago, “We indeed regularly administer the same chemotherapy regimens that became standard care for AML in the 1970s, back when each of us was playing Little League baseball.” South San Francisco, CA-based … Continue reading “At ASH, Sunesis Dices Data to Argue For “Failed” Leukemia Drug”
With New Data, Agios Plots Quick Turn into Key Late-Stage Trials
Agios Pharmaceuticals has already established itself as a star of the 2013 biotech IPO class. Since going public last year, the company has increased its value nearly six fold—from $18 per share to $105 as of Friday—and shown early signs that two different drugs might have an impact on a deadly blood cancer known as … Continue reading “With New Data, Agios Plots Quick Turn into Key Late-Stage Trials”
Amid String of Exits for VenBio, a Founding Partner Leaves, Too
With three acquisitions of its portfolio companies, San Francisco biotech investment firm venBio has had a few good exits recently. Now one of its partners is exiting, too. Kurt Von Emster, one of four venBio founders, has decamped for Abingworth, a life science venture firm with a much longer history and global reach. Abingworth made … Continue reading “Amid String of Exits for VenBio, a Founding Partner Leaves, Too”
Innovating with Bitcoin at MIT
In November, we began distributing $100 in Bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT. A large share of the 4,500 eligible students participated in the project. Bitcoin is an innovative payment network that allows for instant peer-to-peer transactions with zero or very low processing fees on a worldwide scale. The objective of the study is … Continue reading “Innovating with Bitcoin at MIT”
Innovation Hub: Are Entrepreneurs a Dying Breed?
It feels like every day, we hear another story of a 22-year-old who sold his app for millions. But the truth about entrepreneurs may be very different. In fact, if you look at the official data, entrepreneurship in the U.S. has been in decline for over thirty years. We talked to Ben Casselman, the chief … Continue reading “Innovation Hub: Are Entrepreneurs a Dying Breed?”
Norwest’s Edtech Play: Aim Straight For Consumers Needing Skills
Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest Venture Partners is one of the investment firms that are placing bets on educational technology, a fast-growing field that is transforming the way students learn, from kindergarten through college and beyond. I talked recently with Sergio Monsalve, one of the Norwest partners who is shepherding the firm’s edtech investments. In the … Continue reading “Norwest’s Edtech Play: Aim Straight For Consumers Needing Skills”
Zosano Pharma Secures $1,333,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=914c3bc3-6ccc-458f-837c-5e4861d3166a Date 12/5/2014 Company Name Zosano Pharma Mailing Address 34790 Ardentech Court Fremont, CA 94555 USA Company Description Zosamo Pharma (FKA The Macroflux Corporation) is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel proprietary products via the Macroflux technology. Website http://www.zosanopharma.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,333,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Zosano Pharma Secures $1,333,000 New Funding”
Zirtual Obtains $850,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fb53ff6b-50fe-4d90-9fd3-6e3da83f5b3b Date 12/5/2014 Company Name Zirtual Mailing Address 222 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description At Zirtual, we connect busy people with virtual personal assistants who are passionate about making their clients’ lives better. Whether it’s finding a great apartment in a hot market, or helping manage your busy … Continue reading “Zirtual Obtains $850,000 New Financing”
Qolsys Secures New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=61f2e827-24ff-43b9-a73d-8e12b49f40e0 Date 12/5/2014 Company Name Qolsys Mailing Address 1900 The Alameda 4th Floor San Jose, CA 95126 USA Company Description At Qolsys, we believe technology can improve your life. From smartphones to computers, having access to information when and where we need it makes us smarter, more efficient, and more connected. Nowhere … Continue reading “Qolsys Secures New Financing”
MetaMind Obtains $8,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=08aff6b2-98b2-468a-8ace-89f94f08c4f5 Date 12/5/2014 Company Name MetaMind Mailing Address 172 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Our image prediction infrastructure provides state-of-the-art performance for any image classification problem. Would you like to distinguish categories that are not in our database? Train your own image classifier here. Website http://www.metamind.io Transaction Type … Continue reading “MetaMind Obtains $8,000,000 New Financing Round”
West Coast Biotech Roundup: Amgen, Ariosa, Avanir, Audentes & More
Where is biotech innovation? All over, we would contend, but according to The Scientist magazine, San Diego has been an especially good place to look this year. The publication listed its top 10 life science innovations of 2014, and five are from San Diego companies. Fifty percent. It might have helped that 40 percent of … Continue reading “West Coast Biotech Roundup: Amgen, Ariosa, Avanir, Audentes & More”
Xfund Closes $100M Fund as Venture Firms and Universities Get Cozier
[Updated, 1:05pm] Big universities are trying to figure out this venture capital thing. Should they form partnerships with specific venture firms? Should they start their own funds and incubators? How best to do that? The latest exhibit is the venture firm Xfund (originally called Experiment Fund), which is affiliated with Harvard University and says it … Continue reading “Xfund Closes $100M Fund as Venture Firms and Universities Get Cozier”
Fast-Growing Maxwell Nets $26M More to Manage Your Healthcare
Two years ago, Maxwell Health started up with 12 employees and a plan to make benefits enrollment more user-friendly than the mind-numbing, paper-wasting process it typically is. Now, the Boston-based company has 70 employees and counting in several cities and barely resembles its former self. It aims to be, essentially, the go-to operating system for … Continue reading “Fast-Growing Maxwell Nets $26M More to Manage Your Healthcare”
Uber Lands $1,200,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6dbbdb22-ea88-4ba8-a49a-10bf6df62a9e Date 12/4/2014 Company Name Uber Mailing Address 182 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description The company has created a mobile application that allows users to request car service to pick them up wherever they are located. Website http://www.uber.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Uber Lands $1,200,000,000 New Funding Round”
Next Issue Media Obtains $50,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c15245aa-9fee-4098-997a-ab49418658d8 Date 12/4/2014 Company Name Next Issue Media Mailing Address 4600 Bohannon Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Company Description Next Issue Media is a joint venture of six leading publishers – Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, Meredith, News Corp., Rogers Communications and Time Inc. The company was formed to bring the world’s … Continue reading “Next Issue Media Obtains $50,000,000 New Financing”
ThreatStream Garners $22,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ba6f1f77-20bc-48a1-93c5-bc7de6377084 Date 12/4/2014 Company Name ThreatStream Mailing Address 401 Warren St. Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description ThreatStream’s approach is simple: leveraging data science to map out the relationships between adversaries and targets in real-time creating a feed of actionable intelligence that can be fed back to existing security defenses to … Continue reading “ThreatStream Garners $22,000,000 Series B Round”
ChangeTip Lands $3,500,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c0670696-10fa-404e-a5ee-c382aa758b3e Date 12/4/2014 Company Name ChangeTip Mailing Address 548 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description ChangeTip makes it really fun to be a content creator again. I wake up in the morning, and there are bitcoin tips waiting for me from podcast listeners who listened while I was asleep. … Continue reading “ChangeTip Lands $3,500,000 Seed Financing Round”
Connora Receives New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ddd20ad2-65d6-4788-8e56-ecac5ea5e7cc Date 12/4/2014 Company Name Connora Mailing Address 30621 San Antonio St. Hayward, CA 94544 USA Company Description Connora builds relationships with manufacturers and customers to facilitate the development of recyclable composite materials via the implementation of Recyclamine® hardener products. Website http://www.connoratech.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Connora Receives New Financing Round”
Chute Garners $2,999,997 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bcd2fade-1e8e-47d2-88e9-fd063ca5e10e Date 12/4/2014 Company Name Chute Mailing Address 480 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description We are a venture funded, Y Combinator-backed, engineering-driven startup in SoMA, San Francisco. Our goal is to serve, route, or analyze every photo and video on the web. We are a small team of … Continue reading “Chute Garners $2,999,997 New Funding Round”
Drone Makers Worry FAA Rules Will Quash Industry
Having a drone deliver a package to your doorstep minutes after ordering it online would bring instant gratification to a new level. But there’s a problem: that and many other commercial uses of drones are illegal in the U.S. under current regulations. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working on rules to govern the use … Continue reading “Drone Makers Worry FAA Rules Will Quash Industry”
Direct Flow Medical Garners $32,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a4784ac5-4992-4ca2-9b68-293392399f72 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name Direct Flow Medical Mailing Address 451 Aviation Blvd. Santa Rosa, CA 95403 USA Company Description Direct Flow Medical is a medical device company located in Santa Rosa, CA. Direct Flow Medical is developing a percutaneous aortic tissue valve prosthesis to provide patients requiring treatment of cardiac valve … Continue reading “Direct Flow Medical Garners $32,000,000 New Funding”
The Grid Secures $4,600,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=200e44df-8ead-4e19-83d9-517bf4d1c687 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name The Grid Mailing Address 2816 Clay Street San Francisco, CA 94115 USA Company Description This is not another do-it-yourself website builder. The Grid harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it – videos, images, text, urls and more – and automatically shape … Continue reading “The Grid Secures $4,600,000 Series A Funding Round”
Loup Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=60c01d17-273a-4c98-97ed-51db7b684aa4 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name Loup Mailing Address 848 Battery St. San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description At Loup, we believe that affordable, convenient, & comfortable local transportation should be available for everyone Website http://www.loupapp.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Loup Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing”
Stripe Garners $80,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=73e54a3c-6f9a-4704-8b42-7a80bae4d297 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name Stripe Mailing Address 3180 18th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Stripe is a simple, developer-friendly way to accept payments online. We believe that enabling transactions on the web is a problem rooted in code, not finance, and we want to help put more websites … Continue reading “Stripe Garners $80,000,000 New Financing Round”
Veniam Obtains $4,900,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a86eedd7-3abc-4cc3-b1dc-984d285cc7fb Date 12/3/2014 Company Name Veniam Mailing Address 119 Easy Street Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description Leveraging the 1 billion vehicles around the globe, Veniam delivers advanced networking technology that connects infrastructure, people and moving things to each other and to the Internet. Website http://www.veniam.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Veniam Obtains $4,900,000 Series A Funding Round”
CloudMosa Lands $18,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=72ed66e1-c47d-4420-bcc1-bf739c6b4360 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name CloudMosa Mailing Address 19468 Burgundy Way Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Company Description CloudMosa’s mission is to accelerate web experience on mobile devices through cloud computing. To most web users, speed is everything. Unfortunately, many mobile devices are slow due to constraints on cost, size and weight. CloudMosa … Continue reading “CloudMosa Lands $18,000,000 New Funding”
PMV Pharmaceuticals Lands $30,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=10bbd273-801a-48d3-a796-ca6f21bb8bfd Date 12/3/2014 Company Name PMV Pharmaceuticals Mailing Address 497 Seaport Court Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description PMV Pharmaceuticals is developing first-in-class p53 and p53 pathway modulators for the treatment of cancer. Bringing together leaders in the field to utilize over three decades of p53 biology, PMV combines unique biological … Continue reading “PMV Pharmaceuticals Lands $30,000,000 Series A Financing”
ad2games Receives $9,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0c04ae16-c763-4351-bee4-d64293212561 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name ad2games Mailing Address 6 Mint Plaza San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description ad2games is an innovative, technology driven performance marketing platform for games. As the largest game-focused ad-tech company in Europe, it is one of the leading game distribution companies worldwide. Website http://www.ad2games.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “ad2games Receives $9,000,000 Series A Financing”
Audentes Therapeutics Garners $42,500,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ab240430-bac8-4099-b0d6-e4016c5cbf91 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name Audentes Therapeutics Mailing Address 101 Montgomery Street. San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Audentes is a biotechnology company committed to the development and commercialization of innovative new treatments for people with serious, rare muscle diseases through the application of adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy technology. Website … Continue reading “Audentes Therapeutics Garners $42,500,000 Series B Financing Round”
InternMatch Acquires ReadyForce for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c94d6796-856f-4afc-93a5-69594fe242c7 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name ReadyForce Mailing Address 645 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Readyforce was founded on the belief that the traditional job search process is broken. This is true for both job seekers and hiring companies. We exist to make the job search process better and … Continue reading “InternMatch Acquires ReadyForce for Undisclosed Sum”
Zetta Receives $3,100,002 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=302708c3-4d80-4327-b20a-029f4e7a6f61 Date 12/3/2014 Company Name Zetta Mailing Address 1362 Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Company Description Zetta delivers storage solutions to enterprises that increase productivity, data availability and data protection while reducing the costs, complexities and risks of traditional storage hardware and software solutions. Website http://www.zetta.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Zetta Receives $3,100,002 Series B Funding”
“Innovation at Biotech’s Epicenter,” Dec. 17: Check Out the Agenda
We’re less than one month away from our annual biotech event in San Francisco. This year, it’s called Xconomy Forum: Innovation at Biotech’s Epicenter, and we’re gathering December 17 in the Mission Bay neighborhood to talk about the emerging science, unique geography, and risk-taking strategies that will spur the Bay Area’s biomedical innovation for the … Continue reading ““Innovation at Biotech’s Epicenter,” Dec. 17: Check Out the Agenda”
Roche Enters Noninvasive Prenatal Test Market With Ariosa Purchase
Eyeing the biotech IPO boom earlier this year, Ariosa Diagnostics planned to go public as it battled larger competitors in the prenatal testing field. But the San Jose, CA-based company backed off in late April, and that was its last chance. Multinational healthcare firm Roche has bought Ariosa for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced … Continue reading “Roche Enters Noninvasive Prenatal Test Market With Ariosa Purchase”