Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=927fc433-c6de-4820-963c-652f56580117&Preview=1 Date 2/21/2013 Company Name Madefire Mailing Address 1515 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description With A-list story talent, minds culled from leading technological innovators, and experience that combines leadership in all forms of media, we’re confident that we’re cultivating an experience people will want to share, and share in. … Continue reading “Madefire Garners $2,218,168 Series A Financing Round”
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Drawbridge Receives $14,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f60de0a5-d3c4-4049-9f2f-6687ef6bb5c0&Preview=1 Date 2/21/2013 Company Name Drawbridge Mailing Address 2121 S El Camino Real 7th Floor San Mateo, CA 94403 Company Description Drawbridge’s self-learning algorithm takes a mountain of consumer behavior data from both online and mobile ad requests and then tries to determine through an inference model if two users from a … Continue reading “Drawbridge Receives $14,000,000 Series B Financing”
BAM Labs Obtains $3,515,781 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b8faa8f-991d-4527-b797-89792922d04f&Preview=1 Date 2/21/2013 Company Name BAM Labs Mailing Address 901 Campisi Way Campbell, CA 95008 Company Description The company provides a medical device and service that monitors sleep inpatients. Website http://www.bamlabs.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,515,781 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A … Continue reading “BAM Labs Obtains $3,515,781 New Round”
Zero Motorcycles Secures $1,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=464d1527-ca88-4276-b8b1-a304637b8b28&Preview=1 Date 2/21/2013 Company Name Zero Motorcycles Mailing Address 170 Technology Circle Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Company Description Zero Motorcycles is the next step in motorcycle evolution and represents the ultimate electric motorcycle technology. Unencumbered by conventional thinking about how we design, manufacture, and sell high performance electric motorcycles, we’re on a … Continue reading “Zero Motorcycles Secures $1,000,000 New Financing Round”
Clustrix Lands $1,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=620c36d1-d82f-4180-8765-a711bf9020e3&Preview=1 Date 2/21/2013 Company Name Clustrix Mailing Address 201 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description We are building the next generation of highly scalable distributed infrastructure products. Our products make it possible to scale infrastructure just by adding nodes – without custom software engineering or special administrative activities. Website http://www.clustrix.com … Continue reading “Clustrix Lands $1,000,000 New Funding Round”
Playnomics Receives $5,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b124716a-311d-4116-9289-eb1809053572&Preview=1 Date 2/21/2013 Company Name Playnomics Mailing Address 525 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description We believe that play reveals a fundamental part of a person’s personality & outlook. Our goal is to use deep data science to uncover it – to both the people who run game environments and … Continue reading “Playnomics Receives $5,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
Facebook, Google Moguls Give $33M in Prizes to Biomedical Stars
[Updated 11:35 am with Zuckerberg comment] Some of the highest achievers in technology are giving away a lot of money to people who have made some of the biggest achievements in biotech. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, along with Google’s Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, announced today they have come … Continue reading “Facebook, Google Moguls Give $33M in Prizes to Biomedical Stars”
Rod Brooks, Chris Anderson, Aldo Zini to Star at SRI Robotics Event
A couple of weeks ago we opened ticket sales for our second annual Silicon Valley robotics forum. It’s called Robots Remake the Workplace. But we could have just as easily called this April 11 event When Bad Things Happen to Good Robots. That’s because the national media is practically blowing a gasket over a freshly … Continue reading “Rod Brooks, Chris Anderson, Aldo Zini to Star at SRI Robotics Event”
Lost My iPhone in Royal Danish Moat—Can You Beat That?
I don’t have too many firsts to my name. But I’m betting I’m the first to lose an iPhone 5 in the moat of Rosenborg Castle, the famous Danish royal family castle in the heart of Copenhagen. At least in 2013. It just happened today—luckily my laptop was back at the hotel. I am here … Continue reading “Lost My iPhone in Royal Danish Moat—Can You Beat That?”
Natera Joins Quest in Four-Way Battle for Prenatal Genetic Tests
[Corrected: 9:10 am PT] Parents have long wanted to know whether they are about to bring a child into the world with a chromosomal abnormality like Down syndrome. There’s never been a noninvasive, simple, and highly accurate way to make that call at an early stage of pregnancy. But after a flurry of innovation in … Continue reading “Natera Joins Quest in Four-Way Battle for Prenatal Genetic Tests”
The Academy Awards: Biopharma Edition
Academy Award season is upon us, with the Oscars being polished up in anticipation of the big night. Who knows which Hollywood heavyweights and newcomers will be recognized for their seminal contributions to this year’s films? Suppose, however, that there was a drug industry version of the awards. What kind of categories would there be, … Continue reading “The Academy Awards: Biopharma Edition”
Trends to Watch at This Year’s Big AGBT Meeting
Mainstream news stories often mistake technology for science. Such conflation likely reflects how gizmos and knowledge, like arteries and veins, form a virtuous cycle: understanding nature requires, and refines, good tools. In genomics, that symbiosis burns brightest at Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT), the yearly nucleic acid trip in Florida, where new sequencing … Continue reading “Trends to Watch at This Year’s Big AGBT Meeting”
Gynesonics Lands $21,000,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4edba57f-3801-40ee-868f-4c7589dff1a0&Preview=1 Date 2/20/2013 Company Name Gynesonics Mailing Address 604 Fifth Avenue Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Gynesonics is a private company that is developing a novel, minimally invasive system to treat uterine fibroid tumors, The VizAblate system. Gynesonics’ disposable, hand-held device combines ultrasound imaging to allow the gynecologist to identify fibroids … Continue reading “Gynesonics Lands $21,000,000 Series D Financing Round”
TVU Networks Receives New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ce84ce89-2f50-4e26-8dbe-708a86552179&Preview=1 Date 2/20/2013 Company Name TVU Networks Mailing Address 1225 Pear Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description TVU networks enables any size broadcaster to effectively monetize their content through a live Internet TV platform which reaches the entire world, has unlimited channel capacity, and allows for very low broadcasting costs. Viewers … Continue reading “TVU Networks Receives New Funding Round”
BrightBytes Garners $750,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b0a4e38a-7a8e-4ebd-bb8c-975d326b622d&Preview=1 Date 2/20/2013 Company Name BrightBytes Mailing Address 156 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Technology is an indispensable part of a 21st century education, but at BrightBytes we understand how difficult it can be to assess the impact of technology investments on teaching and student learning. BrightBytes delivers tools … Continue reading “BrightBytes Garners $750,000 Seed Funding”
Silicor Materials Secures $2,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d526901-0bee-4d54-b33f-a6c19e9c7537&Preview=1 Date 2/20/2013 Company Name Silicor Materials Mailing Address 985 Almanor Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Silicor Materials is a photovoltaic (PV) company that designs, patents, manufactures and markets solar cells in high volumes for the largest segments of the PV industry. Website http://www.silicormaterials.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $2,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Silicor Materials Secures $2,000,000 New Round”
Pinterest Receives $200,000,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fd09df5d-1b1b-4e1f-9bde-a760c31b017f&Preview=1 Date 2/20/2013 Company Name Pinterest Mailing Address 635 High St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Website http://www.pinterest.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Pinterest Receives $200,000,000 Series D Financing Round”
Gary Vaynerchuk Chats with Dave McClure, Calls Entrepreneurs a Rare Breed
Angel investor, Wine Library-phenom, and VaynerMedia co-founder Gary Vaynerchuk dropped by last week’s 500 Startups demo day in New York for a brazenly candid talk on investment strategies and deal valuations. “I don’t give a [expletive] about the numbers,” he said. “I don’t understand the math of it well enough. I’m a salesman. I bet … Continue reading “Gary Vaynerchuk Chats with Dave McClure, Calls Entrepreneurs a Rare Breed”
Crazy Enough to Change the World
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow … Continue reading “Crazy Enough to Change the World”
Mindflash Zooms Ahead in Online Employee Training, Adds $3.5 Million
In the world of online training and education, personal video instruction sites like Udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, and Lynda.com have been sucking up a lot of the oxygen. Certainly, that’s where the big venture dollars are going: Udacity raised $12 million last year, Coursera pulled in $22 million, and Lynda.com recently attracted a whopping $103 … Continue reading “Mindflash Zooms Ahead in Online Employee Training, Adds $3.5 Million”
The Reimbursed Personal Genome—-Five Years Away?
Genome sequencing will be a routine diagnostic test for patients at the new Institute for Precision Medicine in New York City, a joint project of the Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Doctors will be searching for new genetic clues about disease by taking an unbiased survey along the genome, rather than scanning only … Continue reading “The Reimbursed Personal Genome—-Five Years Away?”
Stormpath Garners $8,200,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=73fd0eed-6808-4f30-a8c0-9a7b1bcde68c&Preview=1 Date 2/19/2013 Company Name Stormpath Mailing Address Undisclosed San Mateo, CA 94401 Company Description Stormpath is a cloud service that developers can use to manage users and simplify authentication and access control in your applications. We contribute to and support Apache Shiro, a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that abstracts … Continue reading “Stormpath Garners $8,200,000 Series A Financing Round”
High Hanging Fruit
Let’s face it. There are tens of thousands of super smart, tech-savvy, funded teams out there chasing the next Massively Viral consumer Internet phenomenon. Think of it like an incredibly parallel search algorithm where every conceivable customer acquisition twist and hook is being explored with effectively infinite resources of fine young minds backed by the … Continue reading “High Hanging Fruit”
Biotech & Pharma Whining About Talent: That Makes Me Mad
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies axed something like 150,000 workers from 2009 through 2012. Now guess what? Those same companies are complaining, in a recent report from the consulting firm PwC, that they are unable to find enough qualified workers to fill key positions they need to grow. Sometimes, you come across a message in one of these … Continue reading “Biotech & Pharma Whining About Talent: That Makes Me Mad”
Dialogic Secures $3,490,054 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=70dd425b-44ff-4a35-8929-3cf330bb5ef1&Preview=1 Date 2/16/2013 Company Name Dialogic Mailing Address 1504 McCarthy Boulevard Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description Dialogic, the Network Fuel company, inspires the world’s leading service providers and application developers to elevate the performance of media-rich communications across the most advanced networks. We boost the reliability of any-to-any network connections, supercharge the … Continue reading “Dialogic Secures $3,490,054 New Round”
Hstreaming Garners New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f6e11f64-5789-4da6-a1dc-e0e5bff65168&Preview=1 Date 2/16/2013 Company Name Hstreaming Mailing Address 548 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description HStreaming enables performing advanced analytics in real-time, creating live dashboards, identifying and recognizing patterns within one data stream or across multiple data streams, and triggering of actions based on predefined rules or heuristics. HStreaming can … Continue reading “Hstreaming Garners New Funding Round”
Opera Software Acquires Skyfire for $155,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=09b719d7-62b9-4e01-b6cd-8b70fe9f6378&Preview=1 Date 2/16/2013 Company Name Skyfire Mailing Address 779 East Evelyn Ave Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Skyfire is an exciting venture-backed innovator in mobile web browsing with a mission to dramatically improve your browsing experience on mobile phones. We created the only mobile browser that delivers both the speed and … Continue reading “Opera Software Acquires Skyfire for $155,000,000”
Prostate Cancer Drug Winners and Losers at ASCO GU
The latest clinical research in prostate cancer is being presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitorinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU) in Orlando, FL. Presentations started yesterday, and run through tomorrow, but here’s some quick commentary on three of the early “winners” and “losers” in the oral presentations. Winners San Francisco-based Medivation (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MDVN]]): … Continue reading “Prostate Cancer Drug Winners and Losers at ASCO GU”
Mailbox App Is Fun, But There’s Only One Real Fix for E-Mail
I have some difficult news to share. Your e-mail overload problem is here to stay. We’d all prefer to spend less time managing e-mail, and every so often a new app, service, or time-management system comes along promising to help. The latest one is called Mailbox, and it’s been generating a lot of buzz over … Continue reading “Mailbox App Is Fun, But There’s Only One Real Fix for E-Mail”
Corporate Compliance Programs: The Importance of Being Effective
Now more than ever, pharmaceutical companies must not only have an effective Corporate Compliance Program in place, but senior management and boards of directors at these companies must ensure that their Corporate Compliance departments evaluate the effectiveness of those Programs. The federal government has sent numerous signals of its intent to hold the highest levels … Continue reading “Corporate Compliance Programs: The Importance of Being Effective”
Amazon, eBay Wrestling Over Newest Online Sales Tax Plan
This looks like the beginning of the end for tax-free online shopping. Federal lawmakers from both parties today are unveiling their plan to close a loophole in federal tax law that has let retailers like Amazon and eBay avoid charging sales tax to shoppers in many states. Amazon has long said it would support a … Continue reading “Amazon, eBay Wrestling Over Newest Online Sales Tax Plan”
Facebook Doesn’t Have Big Data. It Has Ginormous Data.
One thing that makes Facebook different from most other consumer Internet services is the vast scale of the data it must manage. Start with a billion-plus members, each with 140 friends, on average. Add some 240 billion photos, with 350 million more being uploaded every day. Mix in messages, status updates, check-ins, and targeted ads, … Continue reading “Facebook Doesn’t Have Big Data. It Has Ginormous Data.”
Big Data at Facebook—A Glossary
Facebook, like many engineering-driven companies, is seldom satisfied with off-the-shelf solutions for its computing problems. Its software teams regularly come up with new algorithms or management systems meant to make the company’s infrastructure more reliable and scalable. Many of these projects are offshoots of open-source technologies like Hadoop, and Facebook ends up contributing many of … Continue reading “Big Data at Facebook—A Glossary”
Why Conveying a Clear Vision for Your Startup Is Important
Can you see the forest for the trees? If you can’t, and you’re an entrepreneur seeking out seed money for your business, it’s likely you won’t succeed. Recently, an investor friend of mine approached me and asked that I review a company slide deck for him. He said he was considering an investment in the … Continue reading “Why Conveying a Clear Vision for Your Startup Is Important”
The Holy Grail of Drug Development: Small Molecules with the Power of Biologics
FDA new drug approvals hit a 16-year high with 39 drugs approved in 2012; the highest number since 1996 when 53 drugs were approved. Of those, 18 or slightly less than half, were biologics up from 12 in 2011 but still surprisingly low when you consider an industry report citing that nearly 40 percent of … Continue reading “The Holy Grail of Drug Development: Small Molecules with the Power of Biologics”
Bislr Obtains $3,500,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d5c9ba38-fb0f-45e6-8bf8-3024b81155aa&Preview=1 Date 2/14/2013 Company Name Bislr Mailing Address 177 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94108 Company Description Bislr encourages you to unleash your creativity again and not be bounded by technical limitation. It lets you think differently, move fast and adopt a more integrated and high-impact philosophy. To launch something fast and … Continue reading “Bislr Obtains $3,500,000 New Funding Round”
InVisage Technologies Garners $20,000,000 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cafa602c-48d7-4b85-929d-8e2b08ac5933&Preview=1 Date 2/14/2013 Company Name InVisage Technologies Mailing Address 990 Hamilton Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description QuantumFilm was developed by InVisage after years of research under the guidance of notable scientist and InVisage CTO Ted Sargent. It is based on quantum dots — semiconductors with unique light-capture properties. It works … Continue reading “InVisage Technologies Garners $20,000,000 Series D Financing”
Leanplum Obtains New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=54e850cb-79a8-4189-bb79-d8e3684fd1d0&Preview=1 Date 2/14/2013 Company Name Leanplum Mailing Address 181 Fremont St San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Leanplum is a platform for optimizing mission-critical metrics of your mobile app. We make it easy for product managers to conduct on-the-fly optimization tests and see immediate results with powerful analytics. Website http://www.leanplum.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Leanplum Obtains New Funding Round”
Morta Security Garners Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4b00655e-87d5-4657-a0d5-e4d75a7acf7b&Preview=1 Date 2/14/2013 Company Name Morta Security Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Morta Security is a stealth-mode start-up developing a new paradigm to counter advanced cyber threats. Traditional layered network defense is broken and Morta is poised to turn the tables on advanced attackers. Led by executives and … Continue reading “Morta Security Garners Series A Funding Round”
Twitter’s Crashlytics Goes Free—Part of Bigger Mobile Strategy?
I’ve been trying to get my head around Twitter’s recent acquisition of Crashlytics, the mobile app crash-reporting startup. It didn’t make immediate sense to everyone, which probably means there’s some real strategic thinking behind it. Now we have another clue in the ongoing mystery. As of today, it looks like Cambridge, MA-based Crashlytics is making … Continue reading “Twitter’s Crashlytics Goes Free—Part of Bigger Mobile Strategy?”
Small Businesses Aren’t Too Small to Go Mobile
Shifts in technology often occur first in large organizations and trickle their way down to small businesses years later. During the Internet boom of the mid-to-late 1990s, most small businesses avoided having a Web presence. In the early-to-mid 2000s, while these companies finally ventured into the Web, the overwhelming majority didn’t offer e-commerce solutions to … Continue reading “Small Businesses Aren’t Too Small to Go Mobile”
Lex Machina Secures $412,338 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d4a7ecf5-8cdd-48eb-bf25-84d8f88e542b&Preview=1 Date 2/13/2013 Company Name Lex Machina Mailing Address 1000 Elwell Court Palo Alto, CA 94303 Company Description In 2009, Lex Machina spun out of a Stanford University Law School and Computer Science Department project called the IP Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC). Founded by Law Professor Mark Lemley in 2006, and launched with … Continue reading “Lex Machina Secures $412,338 New Funding”
MetricStream Issues $420,000 in Warrants
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=54f6a253-ac94-469d-86b4-a9275884e0a2&Preview=1 Date 2/13/2013 Company Name MetricStream Mailing Address 2600 E. Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Company Description MetricStream is the leading provider of solutions for Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC), and Quality Management. Organizations today need a systematic approach to defining and managing GRC initiatives and quality management programs through a sustainable … Continue reading “MetricStream Issues $420,000 in Warrants”
AOL Acquires gdgt for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b2a4c84c-bf74-4643-8f4b-70c4b174983e&Preview=1 Date 2/13/2013 Company Name gdgt Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94100 Company Description gdgt (like gadget — or g-d-g-t) is a new kind of technology site — a social gadget platform that enables you to connect with the community through your gadgets, and connect with your gadgets through the community. … Continue reading “AOL Acquires gdgt for Undisclosed Sum”
Rally Acquires Flowdock for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6f79aba2-a3cb-42c9-8377-f3b4269730b2&Preview=1 Date 2/13/2013 Company Name Flowdock Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Flowdock brings activity from your project management tools (Pivotal Tracker, JIRA), version control systems (GitHub, BitBucket, Kiln), customer feedback channels (Zendesk, email lists) and many other sources to an easily consumable stream. The team can then work … Continue reading “Rally Acquires Flowdock for Undisclosed Sum”
MetricStream Lands $420,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=54f6a253-ac94-469d-86b4-a9275884e0a2&Preview=1 Date 2/13/2013 Company Name MetricStream Mailing Address 2600 E. Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Company Description MetricStream is the leading provider of solutions for Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC), and Quality Management. Organizations today need a systematic approach to defining and managing GRC initiatives and quality management programs through a sustainable … Continue reading “MetricStream Lands $420,000 New Round”
Yahoo Goes Shopping in Seattle, Acquiring Alike Team
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made no secret of her ambition to remake Yahoo into a company with a strong mobile streak. Today, she’s picked up a Seattle startup to help with that mission. Alike, a small mobile-app startup that specializes in data about places, has been purchased by the pioneering Internet company and … Continue reading “Yahoo Goes Shopping in Seattle, Acquiring Alike Team”
In VC ‘Hat Trick’ for San Diego’s Avalon, RQx Inks Genentech Deal
RQx Pharmaceuticals, founded in 2010 to commercialize a scientific breakthrough with the potential to create a new class antibiotics, has signed a drug discovery collaboration with Genentech, the Roche subsidiary based in South San Francisco. Genentech agreed to pay the San Diego startup an up-front payment, the amount of which was not disclosed, along with … Continue reading “In VC ‘Hat Trick’ for San Diego’s Avalon, RQx Inks Genentech Deal”
Nextdoor Obtains $21,300,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fc235eba-5e9e-4ad1-abb3-2537efb6160a&Preview=1 Date 2/12/2013 Company Name Nextdoor Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Nextdoor is a private social network for your neighborhood. It’s the easiest way for you and your neighbors—and only you and your neighbors—to talk online and make all of your lives better in the real world. And … Continue reading “Nextdoor Obtains $21,300,000 New Funding”
Pie Digital Lands $9,056,095 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ef42201a-77ac-4d30-a47d-81b67a1c35d7&Preview=1 Date 2/12/2013 Company Name Pie Digital Mailing Address 2255 E. Bayshore Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Company Description Pie has developed an affordable software platform, desktop device and service that, together, dramatically simplify the installation, maintenance and expansion of home computing equipment and networks. Website http://www.piedigital.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Pie Digital Lands $9,056,095 New Funding”