Just a few days after tech moguls Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin gave a bunch of prize money to some of biotech’s biggest stars, along comes Paul Allen doing his own thing, giving his money to some lesser-known scientists striving for all different kinds of breakthroughs. The Seattle-based Paul G. Allen Family Foundation said today … Continue reading “Paul Allen Gives $7.5M to Little-Known Scientists Dreaming Big”
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Byliner’s New Adventure in Publishing—A Talk with CEO John Tayman
In 1997, Outside magazine published a memorable non-fiction story by Peter Stark about what it feels like to freeze to death. The headline, awesomely, cribbed from Emily Dickinson: “As freezing persons recollect the snow—First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.” John Tayman was an editor at Outside at the time, and he remembers that … Continue reading “Byliner’s New Adventure in Publishing—A Talk with CEO John Tayman”
SummerQAmp Tech Internship Expands to Boston, LA, Austin
Steve Martocci, co-founder of GroupMe in New York, let me drop by his office Tuesday so he could shed some light on how a summer program to train youths for technology jobs in quality assurance is expanding in its second year. “We talked a lot last year about having an online learning platform,” he says. … Continue reading “SummerQAmp Tech Internship Expands to Boston, LA, Austin”
Gild Obtains $8,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f3a57818-b97f-4a14-97f5-1e43bd55b9ec&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2013 Company Name Gild Mailing Address 221 Main St. San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Gild exists to map the world’s talent. By doing so, we are enabling students and professionals to earn opportunities based on merit. Website http://www.gild.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,000,000 Transaction Round Series A … Continue reading “Gild Obtains $8,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
CardioKinetix Secures $4,000,000 Series E Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ce0df807-2608-4bcb-940a-4781179275bb&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2013 Company Name CardioKinetix Mailing Address 925 Hamilton Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 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 five … Continue reading “CardioKinetix Secures $4,000,000 Series E Funding Round”
GlobeIn World Garners $1,100,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=57a48b8a-714c-432c-824d-8351589ade53&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2013 Company Name GlobeIn World Mailing Address 450 National Ave Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description We created GlobeIn to make a difference in the lives of local artisans by connecting them with the global economy. Website http://www.globein.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,100,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “GlobeIn World Garners $1,100,000 Seed Funding Round”
Menlo Ventures Steps into the Spotlight
Venky Ganesan, the newest managing director at Menlo Ventures, likes to tell a story about one of his business idols, Sidney Weinberg. When Weinberg was building Goldman Sachs into a financial giant in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, Ganesan recounts, he employed a full-time public relations officer whose sole job was to make sure the … Continue reading “Menlo Ventures Steps into the Spotlight”
Marc Benioff Talks Up Salesforce.com’s Strategy for the Mobile Arena
On Tuesday, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff dropped by the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to talk about the ways his company plans to evolve, particularly through mobile platforms. “It feels like a huge wave of innovation is coming,” he said, regarding the overall surge of connected mobile devices and touch screen interfaces in the … Continue reading “Marc Benioff Talks Up Salesforce.com’s Strategy for the Mobile Arena”
Third Rock’s Bet on Lotus Tissue Repair Generates Big Return
Third Rock Ventures has seen its biotech startup companies achieve some impressive things since it got going in 2007. But now the firm can point to the first venture-style return on one of its home-grown startups. Dublin, Ireland-based Shire (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SHPG]]) shed some light on Third Rock’s biggest return in a regulatory filing this week. … Continue reading “Third Rock’s Bet on Lotus Tissue Repair Generates Big Return”
Armor5 Lands $2,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=92cbf753-2e04-419b-8b58-5127c4de7784&Preview=1 Date 2/27/2013 Company Name Armor5 Mailing Address 4555 Great America Parkway 3rd Floor Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Armor5, Inc. is a cloud service provider that’s solving the problem of secure mobile access to enterprise data and applications in a new way. We offer the only zero touch, 100% cloud-based … Continue reading “Armor5 Lands $2,000,000 New Financing Round”
Codenvy Obtains $9,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5ef6a160-30fd-4994-9d45-5e589e6483e4&Preview=1 Date 2/27/2013 Company Name Codenvy Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description The technical underpinnings of the IT world have matured: we have better browsers, faster networks, reliable cloud infrastructures and multi-core processors. At Codenvy, we embrace these changes to find new solutions to old problems. Our cloud environment … Continue reading “Codenvy Obtains $9,000,000 New Financing Round”
Nexenta Systems Secures $24,000,000 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f38664f3-60b5-481c-ba8e-b14b9ac0ec95&Preview=1 Date 2/27/2013 Company Name Nexenta Systems Mailing Address 444 Castro Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description NexentaStor provides enterprise class unified storage capabilities via a software solution that ends vendor lock-in while delivering superior storage management functionality with a particular focus on virtualized environments. Website http://www.nexenta.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Nexenta Systems Secures $24,000,000 Series D Financing”
CollabNet Receives $2,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=729bf4c5-f787-4393-b48b-e75154a93dca&Preview=1 Date 2/27/2013 Company Name CollabNet Mailing Address 8000 Marina Boulevard Brisbane, CA 94005-1865 Company Description CollabNet is the leading provider of distributed software development solutions. Our solutions help corporations reduce costs, increase revenues, and capture market loyalty by bringing together software development teams, regardless of geographic location. Website http://www.collab.net Transaction Type … Continue reading “CollabNet Receives $2,500,000 New Financing Round”
Practice Fusion Acquires 100Plus for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ca4c130d-7926-46be-80fb-c22ec3f29e0b&Preview=1 Date 2/27/2013 Company Name 100Plus Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description 100Plus is a personalized health prediction startup using data analytics and game mechanics to show how small changes in behavior can lead to a longer and better life. Website http://www.100plus.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction … Continue reading “Practice Fusion Acquires 100Plus for Undisclosed Sum”
Failure and Redemption
What’s gone and what’s past help Should be past grief. —William Shakespeare – The Winter’s Tale We give abundant advice to founders about how to make startups succeed, yet we offer few models about dealing with failure. So here’s mine. ——– In my experience, living through failure has 6 stages: Stage 1: Shock and Surprise … Continue reading “Failure and Redemption”
New Partner at Quiet Hambrecht Fund Takes ‘Moneyball’ Approach to VC
Thomas Thurston says we’ve entered “the era of the Moneyball VC,” and no less a name than investment banking pioneer Bill Hambrecht is placing a bet on this Northwest-based data scientist’s formula for picking winners. Over the last seven years, Thurston (pictured) has been developing algorithms—first at Intel Capital, and later in collaboration with Harvard … Continue reading “New Partner at Quiet Hambrecht Fund Takes ‘Moneyball’ Approach to VC”
CircleCI Lands $1,500,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5c1282e3-f3b0-4a58-ad82-108b9503ce05&Preview=1 Date 2/26/2013 Company Name CircleCI Mailing Address 325 9th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description CircleCI gives web developers powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment with easy setup and maintenance. Website http://www.circleci.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms … Continue reading “CircleCI Lands $1,500,000 Seed Funding”
LightSail Energy Secures Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1a084904-a8dd-4a6a-b6d2-1adbc9f05987&Preview=1 Date 2/26/2013 Company Name LightSail Energy Mailing Address 914 Heinz Avenue Berkeley, CA 94710 Company Description LightSail Energy is developing energy storage systems that use compressed air as the storage medium. Energy storage is the key to modernizing the electrical grid world-wide. Energy storage allows intermittent renewable sources, such as solar … Continue reading “LightSail Energy Secures Series D Round”
Polar Lands $1,200,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=35f5a829-0d47-4c95-9a93-7ce3e037f0d0&Preview=1 Date 2/26/2013 Company Name Polar Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Polar is a super-fast and easy way to create and vote on great-looking photo polls. Website http://www.polarb.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The new funding will be used toward hiring … Continue reading “Polar Lands $1,200,000 New Financing”
Agari Obtains $5,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=74206c11-996c-4918-b467-bc5009a4d8fb&Preview=1 Date 2/26/2013 Company Name Agari Mailing Address 400 Hamilton Avenue 4th Floor Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Agari collects terabytes of email data from sources across the Internet to create a cloud-based solution to assess, visualize, and protect against email threats to brands, such as phishing and other fraud. Website … Continue reading “Agari Obtains $5,000,000 New Round”
Ag Tech Startup FarmLogs Nets $1M in Seed Funding
The Ann Arbor, MI-based ag tech startup FarmLogs is on a quest to bring farm management into the digital age, and the recent completion of a $1 million seed round lead by Ann Arbor-based Huron River Ventures and Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners will push the company forward. What FarmLogs offers is a one-stop farm … Continue reading “Ag Tech Startup FarmLogs Nets $1M in Seed Funding”
Cubist Grabs Option to Acquire Adynxx, Getting Drug for Pain
Cubist Pharmaceuticals has been looking to diversify for a while, to get something more than antibiotics it can sell to hospitals. Now it’s getting the rights to what it hopes will be a big new pain drug. The Lexington, MA-based biotech company (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CBST]]) said today it has obtained an exclusive right to acquire San … Continue reading “Cubist Grabs Option to Acquire Adynxx, Getting Drug for Pain”
Rainforest Architects Workshop
From the organizers: “The Rainforest Architects Program is the first-of-its kind interactive workshop incorporating design principles, novel innovation frameworks, and practical applications / tools for those committed to creating, building, and championing their ecosystems. We accomplish this by driving (and accelerating) more innovative thought, novel technology development, talent, new products, and global human connectivity. We … Continue reading “Rainforest Architects Workshop”
Shipwire Gives Mom-and-Pops the Fulfillment Services of Big Retailers
Shipwire CEO Damon Schechter started his company with a simple goal: “To help small businesses take on the efficiencies that big businesses have.” He cofounded the Palo Alto-based order fulfillment services operation with chief technology officer Evan Robinson at the end of 2006, but to get there, he had to wait until the timing was … Continue reading “Shipwire Gives Mom-and-Pops the Fulfillment Services of Big Retailers”
Intersect ENT Grabs $30M for Drug/Device Combo for the Sinuses
If you utter the phrase “drug/device combo” inside the life sciences industry, most people will think you’re talking about products for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or maybe neurological disorders like Parkinson’s. Intersect ENT is hoping to find a niche of its own with combo products for the sinuses. The Menlo Park, CA-based company is announcing today … Continue reading “Intersect ENT Grabs $30M for Drug/Device Combo for the Sinuses”
Active Endpoints Bought by Informatica in Cloud Workflow Deal
Chalk up another acquisition of a Boston tech company by a Silicon Valley giant. Waltham, MA-based Active Endpoints has been acquired by data-integration software maker Informatica (NASDAQ: [[ticker:INFA]]), of Redwood City, CA. The news was buried in a press release announcing Informatica’s latest cloud-based product. It’s not immediately clear when the acquisition happened, or what … Continue reading “Active Endpoints Bought by Informatica in Cloud Workflow Deal”
As MWC Opens in Barcelona, We’re All on the Eve of Disruption
It’s sunny but cold in Barcelona today, as more than 72,000 telecom and technology professionals arrive for the first day of the Mobile World Congress. They come for the spinning, networking, and opportunity seeking—and perhaps for the tapas and Spanish wine. Yet the show is so big and so dispersed that most companies begin trumpeting … Continue reading “As MWC Opens in Barcelona, We’re All on the Eve of Disruption”
Zuckerberg Takes a Small Step in Right Direction, Backing Biotech
Woody Allen is often quoted as saying 80 percent of life is just showing up. This past week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a decent check, and just as important, he showed up for life sciences. It’s a small gesture, but a start. The social-networking wizard took some time out of his week to stop … Continue reading “Zuckerberg Takes a Small Step in Right Direction, Backing Biotech”
Intersect ENT Obtains $30,000,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=258fafcc-4882-44d7-81cf-6e46a960c8b2&Preview=1 Date 2/25/2013 Company Name Intersect ENT Mailing Address 1555 Adams Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Intersect ENT Inc. (formerly Sinexus) is a medical device company pioneering novel therapies for Ear, Nose & Throat surgeons to utilize in providing improved treatment for their patients. Website http://www.intersectent.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Intersect ENT Obtains $30,000,000 Series D Financing Round”
ReVance Therapeutics Obtains $5,000,001 Series E Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2538540b-0922-4304-98c7-c082c9437eca&Preview=1 Date 2/25/2013 Company Name ReVance Therapeutics Mailing Address 7555 Gateway Boulevard Newark, CA 94560 Company Description Revance is developing its lead compound, a topical botulinum toxin based on its cutting-edge drug delivery platforms and low molecular weight botulinum toxin. This product leverages Revance’s platform technologies to enhance patient tolerability of botulinum … Continue reading “ReVance Therapeutics Obtains $5,000,001 Series E Financing Round”
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Acquires Adynxx for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5f623379-f5df-4cc7-a84e-5c45a9175d46&Preview=1 Date 2/25/2013 Company Name Adynxx Mailing Address 731 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description The company is dedicated to developing the next breakthrough therapeutic treatments for chronic pain. Website http://www.adynxx.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not … Continue reading “Cubist Pharmaceuticals Acquires Adynxx for Undisclosed Sum”
Wedding Party Obtains $1,000,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c780e28c-f508-460b-b404-02ee574ea198&Preview=1 Date 2/23/2013 Company Name Wedding Party Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description The app for your wedding. Capture all the amazing photos from your wedding. Your guests will love it! Website http://www.weddingpartyapp.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Wedding Party Obtains $1,000,000 Seed Round”
Wireless Glue Networks Lands $4,500,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=18f4211e-7dc6-41c9-9f1a-39e3d49064db&Preview=1 Date 2/23/2013 Company Name Wireless Glue Networks Mailing Address 100 Lafayette Circle Lafayette, CA 94549 Company Description Wireless Glue is excited to be a global partner to provide software for the STiNC II gateway platform. We bring the Smart Edge Energy Management Solution (SEEMS) to the STiNC II, and enable it … Continue reading “Wireless Glue Networks Lands $4,500,000 Series B Funding Round”
Sokikom Lands $2,000,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ebc90de7-72ff-4919-b10c-5d9cd76dc557&Preview=1 Date 2/23/2013 Company Name Sokikom Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94035 Company Description Sokikom is an online program that uses positive reinforcement, social learning, and personalization to help solve these problems. It’s FREE to signup and teachers use it in 2 ways: to engage students and differentiate math instruction in … Continue reading “Sokikom Lands $2,000,000 Seed Round”
Genentech, ImmunoGen Win FDA OK for Souped-Up Breast Cancer Drug
Genentech’s scientists have long wondered about what would happen if they could deliver a more powerful version of their original hit antibody drug for breast cancer. Now they’ll see. The South San Francisco-based company, a unit of Roche, said today that it won FDA clearance to start selling ado-trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla) as a new treatment … Continue reading “Genentech, ImmunoGen Win FDA OK for Souped-Up Breast Cancer Drug”
Battery Ventures’ Recent Fund Performance: Nothing Special
With this week’s news that Battery Ventures has closed new venture capital funds worth a combined $900 million, we thought it might be interesting to take a look back at the firm’s recent performance. So we turned to information from state pension funds, one of the few sources of publicly available information about venture capital … Continue reading “Battery Ventures’ Recent Fund Performance: Nothing Special”
I Switched from Mint.com to Pageonce. Maybe You Should Too.
[Update: As of May 2013, Pageonce has officially changed the name of its app and service to Check.] For more than a decade, I was a faithful user of Quicken, Intuit’s desktop personal finance program. I stopped using it in 2008 after Mint.com came along, giving me the ability to monitor all my accounts from … Continue reading “I Switched from Mint.com to Pageonce. Maybe You Should Too.”
Fortumo Secures New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=26a4b1fc-771d-4a9e-8f03-044c89c21321&Preview=1 Date 2/22/2013 Company Name Fortumo Mailing Address 625 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Fortumo, founded in 2007, is the most developer-friendly mobile payments provider. We enable app and game developers to monetize their users through mobile operator billing in more than 73 countries. Website http://www.fortumo.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Fortumo Secures New Funding Round”
Liquidity Receives New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=abe5c839-38d4-4cb9-ba25-1ab80f05f6a1&Preview=1 Date 2/22/2013 Company Name Liquidity Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description Liquidity’s team brings over a century of accumulated knowledge, expertise and success in founding, growing and operating global filtration companies. Website http://www.liquico.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “Liquidity Receives New Funding Round”
View Garners $5,190,839 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=60811a42-2b54-4f22-b2c0-510ea38aed31&Preview=1 Date 2/22/2013 Company Name View Mailing Address 195 South Milpitas Boulevard Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description With built-in intelligence, View Dynamic Glass automatically transitions between clear and variable tint, providing control over the amount of light and heat entering a building. In all conditions, View Glass remains transparent, keeping you connected … Continue reading “View Garners $5,190,839 New Funding”
Skyera Receives $51,600,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fc0daacc-11bb-4abf-8924-891cf86d3f19&Preview=1 Date 2/22/2013 Company Name Skyera Mailing Address 1704 Automation Parkway San Jose, CA 95131 Company Description Skyera Inc. is an emerging provider of enterprise solid state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise … Continue reading “Skyera Receives $51,600,000 Series B Round”
Euclid Obtains $17,300,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=71de2010-8ce9-416d-a645-8a24c9948097&Preview=1 Date 2/22/2013 Company Name Euclid Mailing Address 1027B Alma Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Euclid delivers actionable shopper insights to brick-and-mortar retailers—think Google Analytics for offline retail. Providing real-world metrics like Engagement Rate, Visit Duration, and Visit Frequency, Euclid helps retailers optimize the performance of their marketing, merchandising, and … Continue reading “Euclid Obtains $17,300,000 New Funding Round”
Nexmo Secures $3,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=14cdf508-bc98-4e6f-83ce-b8e74aff8ac8&Preview=1 Date 2/22/2013 Company Name Nexmo Mailing Address 1530 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 Company Description Nexmo is a cloud-based SMS API that lets you send and receive high volume of messages at wholesale rates. Website http://www.nexmo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Nexmo Secures $3,000,000 New Financing”
Aggregate Knowledge Receives $11,392,065 Series E Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=adda56fd-3b7b-4268-a8d0-e230d2e58546&Preview=1 Date 2/22/2013 Company Name Aggregate Knowledge Mailing Address 1820 Gateway Dr San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Aggregate Knowledge offers the industry’s first online Collective Discovery Service, which emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built atop a sophisticated, super computing architecture, Aggregate Knowledge harnesses … Continue reading “Aggregate Knowledge Receives $11,392,065 Series E Financing”
National Science Foundation Scales Up Entrepreneurship Program
The National Science Foundation said today that it will fund a major expansion of its Innovation Corps program, an effort to teach NSF-funded university researchers how to build profitable startups around their technologies. In its initial stages, the two-year-old “I-Corps” program has been flying researchers to Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and Georgia Tech … Continue reading “National Science Foundation Scales Up Entrepreneurship Program”
Battery Ventures Closes New Funds at $900M
Battery Ventures, a major Boston-area VC firm, has raised two new funds that total $900 million. The firm says its approach will remain pretty consistent—covering a broad array of bets on companies in several technology sectors, at several different stages of growth. Battery Ventures, which also has offices in Silicon Valley and Israel, is putting … Continue reading “Battery Ventures Closes New Funds at $900M”
Startups Getting the Word Out—Cost-Effective Public Relations for Entrepreneurs
Prescience International presents a panel and networking reception focused on public relations for early stage startups. OVERVIEW As a startup, you need to effectively get the word out about your products and/or services. But as a startup, your main issue when hiring a PR firm is its cost. Fortunately, an expensive PR agency or a … Continue reading “Startups Getting the Word Out—Cost-Effective Public Relations for Entrepreneurs”
Innovations in Financial Technology: Wisdom of the Crowd
It is of particular interest to me when an established industry begins to innovate and move in new directions. Financial technology has been an active area of innovation all along, but the advent of social media and crowd sourcing has infused new life to the sector. Aside from crowdfunding, here at 1M/1M we are also … Continue reading “Innovations in Financial Technology: Wisdom of the Crowd”
Meet the 14 New Rock Health Startups Innovating in Digital Health
San Francisco’s Rock Health startup accelerator held its fourth semi-annual Demo Day at UCSF’s Genentech Hall Wednesday afternoon. Investors and journalists heard pitches from 14 startups working to introduce new health-related services for consumers and new ways to improve the efficiency of the U.S. healthcare system. On the consumer side, one intriguing presenter was Beam … Continue reading “Meet the 14 New Rock Health Startups Innovating in Digital Health”
Adara Media Obtains $20,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c0ce58bd-e5e6-4f3a-936e-42ea38c13836&Preview=1 Date 2/21/2013 Company Name Adara Media Mailing Address 800 W. El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Adara Media makes online display advertising more effective for advertisers while enhancing the appeal and value of ads for consumers. Using proprietary data and audience segmentation, Adara Media enables advertisers to choose … Continue reading “Adara Media Obtains $20,000,000 New Funding Round”