Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=847b4e27-d736-47c4-89a6-3c68d35615e1&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Breker Verification Systems Mailing Address 800 West El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Breker Verification Systems solves the challenges of functional verification for complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs containing one or more embedded processors. Our TrekSoC product is proven in production at leading semiconductor companies. … Continue reading “Breker Verification Systems Secures $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
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DocuSign Secures $47,491,299 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bce38dda-258e-4a66-826e-3fcf3f8a2bb0&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name DocuSign Mailing Address 111 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description DocuSign was founded in 2003 with one goal: to make electronic signatures as ubiquitous and simple as email. DocuSign delivers the final step in the online customer relationship—the ability to complete a legally binding agreement … Continue reading “DocuSign Secures $47,491,299 New Funding”
Jetpac Obtains $2,400,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6c3fb637-a588-4417-8d30-409dc7e546e2&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Jetpac Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The promise of a Jetpac is that it will transport you anywhere in the world. We’re going to deliver the Jetpac you were promised as a kid.Travel should be more fun. We’re building Jetpac because we want … Continue reading “Jetpac Obtains $2,400,000 Series A Financing”
Svaya Nanotechnologies Obtains $8,432,191 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=63223250-a29d-42db-9639-a556bf9ddb79&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Svaya Nanotechnologies Mailing Address 275 Santa Ana Court Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Nanotechnology has the power to transform the world in ways scientists are just beginning to imagine. Svaya’s mission is to use nanotechnologies to make everyday products better and to enable revolutionary new products. Our … Continue reading “Svaya Nanotechnologies Obtains $8,432,191 Series B Financing”
ProMed Receives $2,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7ab05d98-52c7-4e2d-9fea-e6f8cfecd0eb&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name ProMed Mailing Address 2045 Martin Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95050 Company Description The company is developing unspecified medical devices. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
Fuzebox Obtains $22,500,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9c637562-de91-4718-bd3a-e7547cc904b6&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Fuzebox Mailing Address 150 Spear San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description FuzeBox has developed some serious UC technology. We’ve been awarded 24 patents—with 42 more pending—in the fields of telephony, web, and visual media technologies. Website http://www.fuzebox.com Transaction Type Debt, Venture Equity Transaction Amount $22,500,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Fuzebox Obtains $22,500,000 Series A Financing”
Fuzebox Garners $22,500,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9c637562-de91-4718-bd3a-e7547cc904b6&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Fuzebox Mailing Address 150 Spear San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description FuzeBox has developed some serious UC technology. We’ve been awarded 24 patents—with 42 more pending—in the fields of telephony, web, and visual media technologies. Website http://www.fuzebox.com Transaction Type Debt, Venture Equity Transaction Amount $22,500,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Fuzebox Garners $22,500,000 Series A Financing Round”
DocuSign Raises Another $47.5M
Updated 7/13 DocuSign, a well-funded provider of software that captures and transmits electronic signatures, has raised nearly $47.5 million in additional financing to pay for continued growth. The investment, which puts total financing in DocuSign above $100 million, was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, and SAP Ventures also invested in … Continue reading “DocuSign Raises Another $47.5M”
Xconomist of the Week: ATV’s Bob Hower on “A” Startups, IPOs, & the God of VC
The venture capital industry is in flux. A lot of firms and funds are contracting. Big guys are doing more later-stage investments (see GitHub). Little guys are trying to innovate with early stage companies. Fund investors are trying to figure out how to get more bang for their venture buck. In the midst of all … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: ATV’s Bob Hower on “A” Startups, IPOs, & the God of VC”
Crocodoc’s HTML Document Viewer Infiltrates the Enterprise
It wasn’t that long ago that you could only read Word documents in Word, you could only view PowerPoint decks in PowerPoint, and you could only read PDFs in Acrobat. But without fully realizing it, we’ve come to the end of an era—the era when reading a digital document required a specialized document viewer (usually … Continue reading “Crocodoc’s HTML Document Viewer Infiltrates the Enterprise”
CaptureToCloud Receives $4,700,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1d4d6d68-427d-412f-af4f-41b6f061640a&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name CaptureToCloud Mailing Address 6980 Santa Teresa Blvd San Jose, CA 95119 Company Description CaptureToCloud was established with the vision to streamline how you gather items from the internet and easily bring these items into your workflow. Our goal is to simplify how you capture information and collaborate … Continue reading “CaptureToCloud Receives $4,700,000 Series A Funding Round”
Tout.com Secures $13,400,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=99835fdd-fab8-421c-b624-5235543a1530&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Tout.com Mailing Address 139 Townsend St 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Tout is a social media platform that allows users to shoot 15-second video status updates via smartphones and webcams. Touts are shared real-time and automatically to Tout.com, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, SMS and email … Continue reading “Tout.com Secures $13,400,000 Series B Financing”
YesVideo Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2eb343d9-9753-465b-970f-635615213c22&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name YesVideo Mailing Address 3281 Scott Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description YesVideo is dedicated to providing its customers with easy and affordable solutions to preserve and enjoy their video and photographic memories. To maintain leadership in automated digital media authoring, YesVideo invents, develops and utilizes best-in-class … Continue reading “YesVideo Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round”
Copious Obtains $5,500,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dfc3d5c2-9094-412b-8d65-cfeca4120573&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Copious Mailing Address 164 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Founded in January 2011, Copious is a social marketplace for buying from and selling to people, not strangers. Copious is backed by Foundation Capital, Embarcadero Ventures, The Blackberry Partners Fund, Google Ventures and a handful … Continue reading “Copious Obtains $5,500,000 Series A Round”
Intransa Receives $600,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=16f76c9b-90b7-4ecf-93dc-ef8f8b63f3c2&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Intransa Mailing Address 10710 N. Tantau Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 Company Description Intransa is an innovator of an enterprise class, intelligent IP storage products and software. Based on technology that leverages the low cost and maturity of Ethernet technology, Intransa’s IP SAN solutions dramatically reduce the cost … Continue reading “Intransa Receives $600,000 New Financing Round”
InMobi Acquires AppBistro for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a6af882f-1641-4f9b-a719-2f957089e633&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name AppBistro Mailing Address 311 Oak St. Oakland, CA 94607 Company Description Created by ex-Facebook employee, Ryan Merket, and ex-Zappos consultant, Nalin Mittal, Appbistro is changing the way brands and companies use Facebook Pages. Website http://www.appbistro.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms … Continue reading “InMobi Acquires AppBistro for Undisclosed Sum”
betaworks Acquires Digg for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=39926460-b774-4ef2-8d07-a846aeaced07&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Digg Mailing Address 1576 12th Ave San Francisco, CA 94122 Company Description Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on Digg is submitted by our community (that would be you). After you submit content, other people … Continue reading “betaworks Acquires Digg for Undisclosed Sum”
Insta-Friends? Spanish Hacker Reports Big Instagram Privacy Hole
Instagram was never the most private of apps. The photos you share there are public by default, meaning they’re visible to all of your followers. And you can “follow” any Instagram user you like—unless that user has selected the “photos are private” option in the app’s privacy settings. In that case, the user has to … Continue reading “Insta-Friends? Spanish Hacker Reports Big Instagram Privacy Hole”
In Search of Meaningful GAIN in Renewal of Prescription Drug Act
The repercussions of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act have largely overshadowed another key healthcare milestone—President Obama’s signing Monday of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, also known as PDUFA V. Originally passed in 1992, PDUFA V re-authorizes the FDA to collect fees from drug sponsors to speed the review and … Continue reading “In Search of Meaningful GAIN in Renewal of Prescription Drug Act”
Data, Analytics, & Finding Your OKM: Mixpanel Goes Beyond Page Views
What’s the true measure of success for a startup? That depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. If you work at Path, the San Francisco-based mobile social network, it’s probably not useful to obsess over how many people have downloaded your iOS or Android apps, or even how often the apps are opened or how … Continue reading “Data, Analytics, & Finding Your OKM: Mixpanel Goes Beyond Page Views”
Startup Superpowers, And How Big Companies Can Get Them Too
For nine years, I worked for one of the largest tech companies in the world, which will go unnamed at this particular time. I had so many ideas and was hopeful that my input and entrepreneurial spirit would be cultivated. Instead, I was consistently shut down and ended up feeling virtually powerless, like a cog … Continue reading “Startup Superpowers, And How Big Companies Can Get Them Too”
Protagonist Criss-Crosses Pacific, in Search of New Peptide Drugs
If your definition of hard work depends on getting to the office at 7 am every day, then Dinesh Patel might sound pretty lazy. He doesn’t usually pull out of his driveway for work until 9 am. He has a business reason for starting late, and it has little to do with beating traffic (although … Continue reading “Protagonist Criss-Crosses Pacific, in Search of New Peptide Drugs”
Guavus Lands $14,999,998 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b27f3162-4132-49ad-a3ec-388ff21ec8f9&Preview=1 Date 7/11/2012 Company Name Guavus Mailing Address 1810 Gateway Drive San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Guavus is a venture-backed company with a revolutionary set of analytics solutions that changes the way businesses make decisions. Our patented zero-latency, multi-silo data analytics platform continuously mines gushing streams of network, application, and customer … Continue reading “Guavus Lands $14,999,998 Series C Financing”
AdRoll Garners $15,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b5534c73-34e8-44c5-b220-98bded32b3d1&Preview=1 Date 7/11/2012 Company Name AdRoll Mailing Address 425 Bush St. Fifth Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 Company Description The company provides video streaming ad networks with behavioral targeting capabilities. Website http://www.adroll.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $15,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The funds will be used to further develop … Continue reading “AdRoll Garners $15,000,000 New Funding”
Phoenix Guild Secures $1,100,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=298a8fe2-ff64-4407-bbf7-a48dde44822b&Preview=1 Date 7/11/2012 Company Name Phoenix Guild Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The old way of building core games is dying, but gaming isn’t. The sales of post-pc devices are off the charts. So why is everyone still building these boring simulation games? In our quest to build … Continue reading “Phoenix Guild Secures $1,100,000 New Financing Round”
Pocket Change Receives $5,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=293ef1ac-62ed-4ba3-9fd8-1b61174a4780&Preview=1 Date 7/11/2012 Company Name Pocket Change Mailing Address 181 Fremont Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description We want to drive more value for game developers while improving the user experience for users. We’ve built a monetization platform for mobile game developers. Our platform enables iOS & Android game developers to … Continue reading “Pocket Change Receives $5,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Google to School
The rumor mill is heating up on Amazon’s plans to enter the smartphone business—a fiercely competitive market currently dominated by Apple’s iPhone franchise and Google’s Android platform. Despite massive investments, Microsoft has so far failed to make inroads as a third platform, so Amazon will have to pull off some very impressive work on many … Continue reading “How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Google to School”
Crossing Sand Hill Road: SLAC, X-Ray Lasers, and the Venture Industry
Sand Hill Road is a chasm. On one side: the lion’s share of prime Silicon Valley venture capital firms. On the other side, less than half a mile away: the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. If the chasm is crossed, it could bring new wealth to the venture industry, well-being to patients, new manufacturing industries, and … Continue reading “Crossing Sand Hill Road: SLAC, X-Ray Lasers, and the Venture Industry”
For Stealth HD’s Video Software, A Panorama of Applications
In 2007, Bill Banta got discharged by the U.S. Navy’s fighter pilot training school because he failed an eye exam. Today, his Silicon Valley startup is building video software that could help pilots by giving them eyes in the back of their heads. You could call that irony, or serendipity. After all, if Banta had … Continue reading “For Stealth HD’s Video Software, A Panorama of Applications”
Halo Report: Angel Investing Holds Steady in First Quarter
[Updated 7/9/12 12:42 am. See below.] The average amount of capital that angels invested in early stage companies during the first three months of 2012 declined slightly from last year, according to a new report on U.S. angel activity. The average size of deals involving only angels and angel groups was $940,000 during the first … Continue reading “Halo Report: Angel Investing Holds Steady in First Quarter”
PredPol Secures $1,300,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5b87de5c-5c47-43e1-b1ea-35e08645f7de&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name PredPol Mailing Address Undisclosed Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Company Description PredPol is helping law enforcement agencies in two ways, then. The first is by telling them how to better use their limited resources through big data and modern technologies. The second is preventing crime, which helps the … Continue reading “PredPol Secures $1,300,000 New Financing Round”
Stripe Garners $20,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=815f458f-4935-47c9-af5c-591160f9aa1d&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name Stripe Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 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 in business. Website … Continue reading “Stripe Garners $20,000,000 Series B Round”
Boundary Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3e70b358-e613-4086-bc3c-5e653c099d7f&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name Boundary Mailing Address 1475 Folsom St San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Boundary provides a real-time, SaaS-based solution for high-volume, high-resolution monitoring of cloud environments. Boundary is designed for organizations whose businesses depend on continuous, real-time operations. Website http://www.boundary.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $15,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Boundary Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Funding”
Avinger Garners $11,000,000 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f6e2ae32-f117-43b3-8433-ce1c1e235c6d&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name Avinger Mailing Address 400 Chesapeake Dr. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description The company is developing medical device treatments for peripheral artery disease. (PAD) Website http://www.avinger.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $11,000,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes The new funds will also support the company’s … Continue reading “Avinger Garners $11,000,000 Series D Round”
Real5d.com Obtains $1,200,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=61e637cc-ee5c-4d19-93e3-d8a450ac05e1&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name Real5d.com Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description real5D is designed to help you easily and consistently attract more clients, it will directly connect you with the client as soon as they enter your project. Website http://www.real5d.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Real5d.com Obtains $1,200,000 Series A Financing”
GitHub Garners $100,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cfa45ad4-8bfa-4215-bb5b-f1c97cfe4db7&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name GitHub Mailing Address 548 4th St San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over a million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. Website http://www.github.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $100,000,000 … Continue reading “GitHub Garners $100,000,000 New Financing”
Pure Energies Group Acquires One Block Off The Grid for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=33ae84bb-c91c-45cf-b588-592a1ae0fe18&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name One Block Off The Grid Mailing Address 164 South Park San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description The company operates as a solar discount company. Website http://www.1bog.org Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by … Continue reading “Pure Energies Group Acquires One Block Off The Grid for Undisclosed Sum”
Oracle Acquires Involver for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=835c3656-8627-452a-a6a3-4448d34c1121&Preview=1 Date 7/10/2012 Company Name Involver Mailing Address 611 Mission St 7th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Involver is the web’s most trusted social marketing platform supporting 80,000 brands and agencies and interacting with more than 200,000,000 fans. Involver’s platform powers over 30 applications built specifically for marketers engaging their … Continue reading “Oracle Acquires Involver for Undisclosed Sum”
The Best Boring Companies in Biotech
Sometimes great companies have really boring stories. Maybe the company makes great products, or generates big profits and returns, but just doesn’t have the sizzle to get on the TV news, or even keep folks away from the veggie dip at your neighborhood barbecue. It almost takes work to be boring in biotech, since this … Continue reading “The Best Boring Companies in Biotech”
AlienVault Garners $22,400,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dc13c09e-f946-41df-bc3b-ea4b27a7dc5b&Preview=1 Date 7/9/2012 Company Name AlienVault Mailing Address 1901 S. Bascom Ave. Campbell, CA 95008 Company Description AlienVault LLC is the leading global provider of Security Information and Event Management solutions, providing the technology for more than half of all SIEM installations in the world. The creators of the Open Source SIM … Continue reading “AlienVault Garners $22,400,000 Series C Funding”
The Burrill Personalized Medicine Meeting
Burrill & Co. is hosting its annual Personalized Medicine Meeting, a two-day event, on Sept. 13-14 in San Francisco. For more information on how to register, click here.
BayBio Pantheon Awards 2012
BayBio is organizing its annual Pantheon awards to recognize achievements in Bay Area biotech on Nov. 1. For more information about how to register, click here.
What the Higgs Boson Owes to the World Wide Web
Quick: Name the greatest thing ever to come out of CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. If your answer is the Higgs boson, the existence of which was more or less confirmed this week by two teams working on parallel experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), I respectfully disagree. The greatest thing to … Continue reading “What the Higgs Boson Owes to the World Wide Web”
Clustrix Secures $6,750,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0dad8524-1491-4745-9d41-56ce9c260cf9&Preview=1 Date 7/6/2012 Company Name Clustrix Mailing Address One Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104 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 Secures $6,750,000 New Round”
Solexel Lands $11,499,998 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dca40fa6-7f12-4bae-97b7-c6b8aca252c9&Preview=1 Date 7/6/2012 Company Name Solexel Mailing Address 1530 McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description SOLEXEL, INC. is developing high-efficiency, low-cost, crystalline silicon solar cell and module products for grid-tied residential, commercial, and industrial photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation applications. Website http://www.solexel.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $11,499,998 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Solexel Lands $11,499,998 New Round”
Kontiki Lands $4,039,650 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8bd49ab2-f46b-4d65-88eb-d0d03b95b5f0&Preview=1 Date 7/6/2012 Company Name Kontiki Mailing Address 1001 W. Maude Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Kontiki’s secure, scalable, and legitimate P2P delivery platform powers the world’s largest media companies broadband video on-demand download services including the BBC iPlayer, and BSkyB’s Sky Anytime on PC service, in the UK. Kontiki’s ISP-friendly … Continue reading “Kontiki Lands $4,039,650 Series C Financing”
CityPockets, Reborn as Reclip.it, Puts a Pinteresting Spin on Saving
If you blinked during the second week of May, you might have missed the fact that a Silicon Alley daily-deals-resale company called CityPockets had disappeared from the New York startup scene, only turn up in Silicon Valley a week later with a new name, Reclip.it, and a new focus, as a sort of Pinterest for … Continue reading “CityPockets, Reborn as Reclip.it, Puts a Pinteresting Spin on Saving”
CHI 2012, the California Healthcare Institute’s Annual Meeting
CHI’s Annual Meeting is focused on the relationship between biomedical innovation and public policy. This event on Nov. 8 brings together delegates from more than 200 of CHI’s member organizations with policymakers to discuss critical issues and opportunities facing the biomedical community. The goal of the meeting is to produce a clearer understanding of the … Continue reading “CHI 2012, the California Healthcare Institute’s Annual Meeting”
A Computer Guy’s Dream, Immusoft, Turns Cells Into Drug Factories
Matthew Scholz has been told many times that his idea for reprogramming the body’s immune cells to create drugs was impossible. Maybe dangerous. Maybe just dumb. Scholz, a computer scientist with no formal biology training, could easily have been written off as a quixotic dreamer until this spring, when he got his breakout moment. The … Continue reading “A Computer Guy’s Dream, Immusoft, Turns Cells Into Drug Factories”
Cielo Acquires Merchant e-Solutions for $670,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c4a80fb2-4381-4620-9034-cdbe8a5e8ad9&Preview=1 Date 7/5/2012 Company Name Merchant e-Solutions Mailing Address 3400 Bridge Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065 Company Description Merchant e-Solutions is an Internet technology focused company that has a full-service payment platform for financial institutions and merchants. Founded in early 2000, industry veterans, primarily former executives from Bank of America Merchant Services, … Continue reading “Cielo Acquires Merchant e-Solutions for $670,000,000”