Physicians don’t usually learn much about genetics in medical school, but they increasingly need to know about it. That’s why Dietrich Stephan, the co-founder of Navigenics, is building a new company to give physicians clear and simple information about the genome so they can better tailor treatment to individual patients. Foster City, CA-based SV Bio, … Continue reading “SV Bio, Backed by Sequoia, Strives to Make Medical Genomics Simple”
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Optimal Obtains $7,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=574a932f-abaf-44c7-8169-059bc97a4678&Preview=1 Date 1/22/2013 Company Name Optimal Mailing Address 100 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Optimal, Inc. provides unparalleled audience data to help marketers manage and optimize their social advertising campaigns, all in real-time. The company is a member of Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program and is based in … Continue reading “Optimal Obtains $7,000,000 Series B Round”
Ceterix Orthopaedics Lands $19,500,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d73d2917-a510-447d-90d5-461683cdda0e&Preview=1 Date 1/22/2013 Company Name Ceterix Orthopaedics Mailing Address 959 Hamilton Ave Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Ceterix Orthopaedics, Inc. develops novel surgical tools for arthroscopic procedures. The Ceterix technology enables surgeons to place stitches in very tight joint compartments, while protecting sensitive surrounding structures such as nerves, arteries and cartilage. … Continue reading “Ceterix Orthopaedics Lands $19,500,000 Series B Round”
SpinalMotion Garners $1,500,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5ee182fd-4ea5-4009-8649-a1580d6374ef&Preview=1 Date 1/22/2013 Company Name SpinalMotion Mailing Address 201 San Antonio Circle Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description SpinalMotion is dedicated to preserving motion in the spine for patients with degenerative disc disease. Website http://www.spinal-motion.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC … Continue reading “SpinalMotion Garners $1,500,000 New Round”
Prosper.com Obtains $20,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bf3d381a-54ac-4bc0-bdbd-b7f74bf3a198&Preview=1 Date 1/22/2013 Company Name Prosper.com Mailing Address 111 Sutter Street 22nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Prosper, America’s first people-to-people lending marketplace, was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone. Website http://www.prosper.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $20,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Prosper.com Obtains $20,000,000 New Financing Round”
PayNearMe Garners $10,000,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2f871b73-0aae-4c6c-8347-ba4e67f8c690&Preview=1 Date 1/22/2013 Company Name PayNearMe Mailing Address 100 View Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description PayNearMe enables consumers to pay conveniently with cash for a wide variety of goods and services from leading companies in e-commerce, direct response and catalog marketing, consumer finance and beyond at a local store, starting … Continue reading “PayNearMe Garners $10,000,000 Series D Financing Round”
BuildingIQ Receives $9,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=532778bb-e0bc-4859-8681-cf5c7950fc66&Preview=1 Date 1/22/2013 Company Name BuildingIQ Mailing Address 1710 South Amphlett Blvd San Mateo, CA 94402 Company Description BuildingIQ‘s mission is to change the way energy is managed in the commercial building sector. BuildingIQ‘s management team and advisors bring decades of valuable experience with technology and technology start ups, energy management and … Continue reading “BuildingIQ Receives $9,000,000 New Financing”
Radius Receives $12,400,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d64d408a-9e96-412c-8e90-d2a507cc375f&Preview=1 Date 1/22/2013 Company Name Radius Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description Radius provides actionable insights for selling to SMBs. Simply put, we are a GeoData platform that powers the local data (places, news, events, reviews, photos, and more) for Partners and Developers who use our API and Local … Continue reading “Radius Receives $12,400,000 Series B Funding”
Boston’s Got Big Mo in Biotech, But SF is Pushing Back
San Francisco is used to being No. 1 in lots of things. It’s there in technology, and in biotechnology. Every magazine that ever ranked ‘Best Places to Live’ is practically required to put it near the top. Even Bay Area sports teams are riding high, as the Giants won the World Series, the 49ers are … Continue reading “Boston’s Got Big Mo in Biotech, But SF is Pushing Back”
Circa Obtains $750,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e80a72e5-497e-4931-a841-251c90077d4f&Preview=1 Date 1/19/2013 Company Name Circa Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Circa will re-imagine the way you consume news. We’re crafting an experience that we feel is missing in today’s world of current affairs and building the product that as users, we would want. Our vision is to … Continue reading “Circa Obtains $750,000 New Funding”
Newhive Obtains New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d6295013-961e-4300-a5c0-c37426ab45b2&Preview=1 Date 1/19/2013 Company Name Newhive Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description We developed New Hive because we wanted to see creativity and connectivity join forces on the web. We are web designers, thinkers, artists and, above all, people who like to tell stories. And we believe you shouldn’t … Continue reading “Newhive Obtains New Funding Round”
Reachli Lands Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bbbb3cb3-c34c-4ed9-9ee2-d48d1241ceac&Preview=1 Date 1/19/2013 Company Name Reachli Mailing Address 440 N Wolfe Rd. Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Reachli makes it easy for anyone to market their visual content across the web. Over 1 billion images are shared daily, we make it easy for advertisers to spread their visuals and for publishers to … Continue reading “Reachli Lands Seed Funding”
Facebook Used to Be Fun—Graph Search Makes It Useful
I spend a lot of time on Facebook. Probably more than the average user, who spends around 400 minutes on the site per month, or about 13 minutes per day, according to data from comScore. It isn’t exactly wasted time—I’m usually gathering or spreading news and keeping up with my friends by browsing their news … Continue reading “Facebook Used to Be Fun—Graph Search Makes It Useful”
InVitae, Led by Randy Scott, Goes ‘All-in’ For Genomic Diagnostics
You could call Randy Scott an E.F. Hutton for the genomics business. People listen when the co-founder and former CEO of Genomic Health talks. And Scott isn’t just talking. He’s gone “all-in,” putting his time, and a significant amount of his own money, into a new San Francisco company called InVitae. The plan is to develop a … Continue reading “InVitae, Led by Randy Scott, Goes ‘All-in’ For Genomic Diagnostics”
2012 VC Funding Strong in Software, Soft Elsewhere: The Top 10 Deals
Venture capital investments receded nationwide in 2012, with double-digit decreases in funding for new cleantech and life sciences companies weighing upon the $26.5 billion that was invested in 3,698 companies nationwide. It marked a 10 percent slide from the $29.5 billion that VCs invested in 2011, with the deal count declining 6 percent (from 3,937), … Continue reading “2012 VC Funding Strong in Software, Soft Elsewhere: The Top 10 Deals”
MobileSpan Obtains $2,300,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=df67c838-d2f5-425f-9dbc-ae3419daab0e&Preview=1 Date 1/18/2013 Company Name MobileSpan Mailing Address 2350 Mission College Blvd Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description MobileSpan was founded in 2011 to help enterprises transition from a Desktop-centric world to an always-on, any content, any screen, BYOD world. Website http://www.mobilespan.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,300,000 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “MobileSpan Obtains $2,300,000 Series A Funding”
JustFab Acquires FabKids for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b725eb2b-a63d-430c-897d-189bf1a9e0d0&Preview=1 Date 1/18/2013 Company Name FabKids Mailing Address 118 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description FabKids is a new children’s brand and personalized e-commerce service. Website http://www.fabkids.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the parties.
Violin Memory Acquires GridIron Systems for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=832862fe-3b35-41a5-afe3-53c645e03c03&Preview=1 Date 1/18/2013 Company Name GridIron Systems Mailing Address 726 Palomar Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Develops plug-and-play systems for data center appliance performance. Website http://www.gridironsystems.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the parties.
Who Should—and Shouldn’t—Become A Tech Investor? Freestyle Weighs In
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a former entrepreneur in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of investments. Or to put it another way: If you’re a 30-year-old startup founder who’s cashed out of your first company and you suddenly find yourself with a life-altering amount of money (and a lot … Continue reading “Who Should—and Shouldn’t—Become A Tech Investor? Freestyle Weighs In”
Flingo, Accedo Broadband, and Others Cram New Tricks into Smart TVs
Between the digital content being squeezed into televisions and the perpetual stream of new hardware, sitting down to watch a show is far from simple these days. Companies such as Flingo in San Francisco and Stockholm-based Accedo Broadband, which got a foothold in Brooklyn last fall, develop apps and platforms designed to enhance TV viewing. … Continue reading “Flingo, Accedo Broadband, and Others Cram New Tricks into Smart TVs”
The Problem With Kickstarter
Kickstarter helped pioneer crowdfunding for creative projects. It has been enormously successful. The Kickstarter model is to set a fundraising goal. If the project meets its goal, the money is transferred to the creators to fund the development of the project. Kickstarter collects a 5 percent fee, the creator gets funding, and the backers get … Continue reading “The Problem With Kickstarter”
How the TCA is Making 2013 The Year of the Angel Investor
A number of pundits have been claiming that angel investment is waning, and that such funding opportunities will remain few and far between for deserving startups seeking to take their innovations to market. I beg to differ. In fact, 2013 could very well be the year of the angel investor. Case in point: Southern California’s … Continue reading “How the TCA is Making 2013 The Year of the Angel Investor”
Kiip Garners New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e03b83bc-a453-4b51-b58e-ce7c14d6db5a&Preview=1 Date 1/17/2013 Company Name Kiip Mailing Address 240 Dolores Street Unit 105 San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description The company designs mobile gaming advertising technologies. Website http://www.kiip.me Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Interpublic Group
SurveyMonkey Secures $794,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b89dcdc0-b220-4dba-bb17-dd1e17914894&Preview=1 Date 1/17/2013 Company Name SurveyMonkey Mailing Address 285 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Founded in 1999, SurveyMonkey is the world’s leading provider of web-based survey solutions. Powerful, yet easy-to-use, SurveyMonkey helps millions of people gain the insights they need to make more informed decisions. Customers include 100% of … Continue reading “SurveyMonkey Secures $794,000,000 New Funding Round”
SurveyMonkey Garners $794,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b89dcdc0-b220-4dba-bb17-dd1e17914894&Preview=1 Date 1/17/2013 Company Name SurveyMonkey Mailing Address 285 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Founded in 1999, SurveyMonkey is the world’s leading provider of web-based survey solutions. Powerful, yet easy-to-use, SurveyMonkey helps millions of people gain the insights they need to make more informed decisions. Customers include 100% of … Continue reading “SurveyMonkey Garners $794,000,000 New Funding”
Fanplayr Secures $2,000,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0217d86c-36ca-494f-937f-f59ac3f15283&Preview=1 Date 1/17/2013 Company Name Fanplayr Mailing Address 530 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Fanplayr was founded in August 2010 by entrepreneurs that have built multi-billion dollar data analytics and social marketing companies. The Founders spent 2011 working with leading brands, marketers, agencies and ecommerce companies to build six … Continue reading “Fanplayr Secures $2,000,000 Seed Funding Round”
BillFloat Garners $21,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7ea1c108-467a-4a24-a464-f71d594f0f7a&Preview=1 Date 1/17/2013 Company Name BillFloat Mailing Address 3340 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304 Company Description Our patent pending service helps ease short-term cash flow bumps more conveniently than ever before. We do this by partnering with service providers who have a strong commitment to customer service and satisfaction. Together, we … Continue reading “BillFloat Garners $21,000,000 New Funding Round”
Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins on Sticking With Healthcare
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is one of the kingpins of venture capital, best known as the firm that got in on the ground floor at Google, Amazon, Genentech and plenty of other industry-defining companies. The firm has gotten its share of glory, but it attracted some unwanted attention last year when a sexual harassment … Continue reading “Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins on Sticking With Healthcare”
Early Stage Deals, Cleantech Collapse Drive 2012 VC Trends
They were two of the major storylines in startup investing this past year: The collapse of cleantech and the march of venture capitalists into earlier stages. Now, we’ve got some fresh numbers to help illustrate those trends. A new report out today by CB Insights, a New York-based VC research firm, shows that venture investors … Continue reading “Early Stage Deals, Cleantech Collapse Drive 2012 VC Trends”
vArmour Networks Secures $6,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1cbdddbd-0d5a-4cbd-a2e9-0b4e2bfe319f&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name vArmour Networks Mailing Address 4633 Old Ironsides Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description vArmour is the pioneer of software defined security, SDSec. vArmour’s SDSec brings a scalable, flexible, programmable, network-based security enforcement layer to the highly agile computing environment in a way that fits; the security … Continue reading “vArmour Networks Secures $6,000,000 Series A Round”
Sungevity Receives $85,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=00fc172f-603e-4a97-9e3e-2642eedb0197&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name Sungevity Mailing Address 66 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 Company Description Sungevity is a solar sales company, with a mission to take solar to the mainstream market. Our company has a strong team that brings together successful start-up experience, environmental leadership and solar industry knowledge. Sungevity has … Continue reading “Sungevity Receives $85,000,000 New Financing”
Desti Receives $1,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f53f1b97-057f-4c00-8a0a-40ceafae63f4&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name Desti Mailing Address 333 Ravenswood Ave Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Desti is changing the way people search and plan their travel. Instead of sifting thru hundreds of search results and reading countless travel reviews, Desti can find precisely the right places to stay and things … Continue reading “Desti Receives $1,000,000 Seed Financing”
15Five Lands $1,000,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7e464f11-e243-4765-a14c-6dc6a4ce52cc&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name 15Five Mailing Address 3053 Fillmore St San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description The idea behind 15Five originated in the 1980s with entrepreneur Paul Hawken, who realized that if he asked all of his employees to spend 15 minutes writing a report that took their manager no more … Continue reading “15Five Lands $1,000,000 Seed Funding”
InternMatch Garners $1,200,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=112afd37-0713-4553-ba7d-b32f5fffa148&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name InternMatch Mailing Address 425 2nd St San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description InternMatch is an online ecosystem committed entirely to internships. Website http://www.internmatch.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The company will use the financing to expand its platform beyond internships. … Continue reading “InternMatch Garners $1,200,000 New Funding Round”
YouSendIt Acquires Found Software for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3cddeef4-585a-456a-85a5-11a21a09cf62&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name Found Software Mailing Address 582 Market St San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Found is an application that enables you to instantly find your stuff across your Mac and personal cloud services from one integrated search experience. Website http://www.foundapp.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “YouSendIt Acquires Found Software for Undisclosed Sum”
YuMe Acquires Crowd Science for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=05b5a3e8-6d40-44f0-883d-9ab0d368c4d8&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name Crowd Science Mailing Address 1735 Technology Drive San Jose, CA 95110 Company Description Crowd Science Inc., an audience targeting technology company whose investors included Granite Ventures. Website http://www.crowdscience.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not … Continue reading “YuMe Acquires Crowd Science for Undisclosed Sum”
Wanderful Media Receives New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c51839fc-4afa-4340-85b1-f64667345f0e&Preview=1 Date 1/16/2013 Company Name Wanderful Media Mailing Address 100 Los Gatos-Saratoga Road Los Gatos, CA 95032 Company Description A company reinventing local discovery shopping, making it engaging, fun and social for consumers, wherever they are and however they shop — tablet, mobile or web. Website http://www.wanderful.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Wanderful Media Receives New Financing”
Graph Search is Facebook’s Bid to Compete with…Everyone
There’s broad agreement in the tech industry that search should be more personal and more social. Google certainly thinks so—that was the whole point of last year’s “Search Plus Your World” initiative, which saw the search and advertising giant begin to customize its search rankings for individual users to highlight material from people connected to … Continue reading “Graph Search is Facebook’s Bid to Compete with…Everyone”
California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills
California is a great place to live and work, but it is not a particularly friendly place to start and run a small business. In 1999, I co-founded Sagient Research Systems, an enterprise-focused data company in San Diego. Over the ensuing 13 years we tinkered, triumphed, failed, and even tempted bankruptcy. But through it all, … Continue reading “California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills”
Illumina CEO Jay Flatley on Diagnostics, the $1K Genome & China
Illumina is the dominant player in the high-speed gene sequencing business, and has been for a number of years. That powerful position in a field that’s vital to the future of healthcare has made it the object of intense scrutiny, and in some cases, scorn, from customers, competitors, and potential acquirers. Last year, the big … Continue reading “Illumina CEO Jay Flatley on Diagnostics, the $1K Genome & China”
Zirtual Lands $2,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d50db92-1385-4aa0-87bb-1d4a4c78d4de&Preview=1 Date 1/15/2013 Company Name Zirtual Mailing Address 222 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA 94108 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 calendar, … Continue reading “Zirtual Lands $2,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
PBworks Obtains $3,212,536 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b497c0c2-e163-436f-844c-3d6abaa5c73a&Preview=1 Date 1/15/2013 Company Name PBworks Mailing Address 1825 S Grant St San Mateo, CA 94402 Company Description PBworks is the world’s largest provider of hosted business and educational workspaces. We host over one million, serve millions of users per month, and 96% of PBworks business users would recommend PBworks to a … Continue reading “PBworks Obtains $3,212,536 Seed Round”
Versartis Secures $25,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0cb8aacf-0c5e-42ff-b915-a47e6641e77b&Preview=1 Date 1/15/2013 Company Name Versartis Mailing Address 500 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Versartis is developing new therapeutic proteins utilizing the novel half-life extension technology, XTEN. Versartis has licensed the rights to three products (VRS-826, VRS-859, and VRS-317) from Amunix. Website http://www.versartis.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Versartis Secures $25,000,000 Series C Funding”
LiquidSpace Lands $6,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=76bae9c7-1d8b-4ec6-80c6-cbdb623d0288&Preview=1 Date 1/15/2013 Company Name LiquidSpace Mailing Address 2225 Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94043 Company Description The company develops technology to help users work productively. Website http://www.liquidspaceapp.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $6,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes The new capital will be used to fuel market development efforts … Continue reading “LiquidSpace Lands $6,000,000 Series B Round”
Tech Search Party Scavenger Hunt
From the event site: Tech Search Party, San Francisco’s premiere smart phone scavenger hunt, is scheduled for February 2, 2013. This will be the fourth annual event. There’s no reason to delay, so go ahead and register today. You know you want to. Apart from the frolic, prizes, and geek.fun, all money raised benefits local public … Continue reading “Tech Search Party Scavenger Hunt”
This Is What You Want Your Next Startup’s Office to Look Like
Yammer celebrated its move to the Central Market area today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and catered gourmet breakfast for all its employees. They’d better get used to the luxuries fast—the new office, on the third floor of the renovated S.F. Furniture Mart building at 1355 Market Street, is one of the spiffiest spaces occupied by … Continue reading “This Is What You Want Your Next Startup’s Office to Look Like”
Marvell Gives a Glimpse of the New OLPC Laptop, Bearing Its Tech Inside
Part of the fun during last week’s International CES in Las Vegas was coming across surprises, such as Marvell of Santa Clara, CA bringing along the yet-to-be released new computer from the One Laptop Per Child project. The nonprofit OLPC project, whose foundation is based in Cambridge, MA, develops rugged, inexpensive laptops for children in … Continue reading “Marvell Gives a Glimpse of the New OLPC Laptop, Bearing Its Tech Inside”
Why Women Tech Execs Can and Must Thrive on Risk
The stereotypical image of women as risk avoiders is changing fast. More women are occupying the boardroom, making important strategic decisions, and taking on high-risk responsibilities as CEOs, CFOs, and even chief risk officers. As a woman who worked her way up to various executive roles, and now as the CEO of a governance, risk, … Continue reading “Why Women Tech Execs Can and Must Thrive on Risk”
If You’ve Got a Real Breakthrough, the FDA Wants To Talk
If you ever want to have an interesting chat with a healthcare journalist, ask about use of the word “breakthrough.” Like many reporters, I generally avoid it. The word may be good for generating eyeballs/pageviews/ratings, but it’s usually an exaggeration that serves the financial interest of drugmakers and gives patients false hope. Sometimes, though, breakthroughs … Continue reading “If You’ve Got a Real Breakthrough, the FDA Wants To Talk”
ConnectSolutions Garners $10,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7ab48429-d14f-4e40-aa4b-1ab170fb6307&Preview=1 Date 1/14/2013 Company Name ConnectSolutions Mailing Address 731 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Connectsolutions is a leading private-cloud service provider of unified communications solutions for enterprise and government organizations. We deliver and provide our customers a scalable, best-of-breed UC product and service with industry-leading security and reliability. We … Continue reading “ConnectSolutions Garners $10,000,000 New Round”