Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=67a93237-7b6f-4b60-a09d-13504e879bca&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2012 Company Name Wowzer Mailing Address 444 Castro Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Wowzer is a video screening platform, highly scalable and customizable, enabling both organizations and candidates to create a more human oriented recruitment experience. Wowzer’s unique platform enables an organization to communicate its strengths, efficiently manage … Continue reading “Wowzer Lands New Funding”
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CareInSync Lands $1,600,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ba6933d2-3b47-4a59-8707-5414527838cf&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2012 Company Name CareInSync Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description At CareinSync, our mission is to: Significantly improve patient care quality & efficiency by enhancing communication across care providers & patients over a real-time, mobile, collaboration platform Website http://www.careinsync.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,600,000 Transaction … Continue reading “CareInSync Lands $1,600,000 Series A Funding”
Cobalt Technologies Receives $2,916,394 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e7aa04bd-2288-45e9-ad37-85aa36f58098&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2012 Company Name Cobalt Technologies Mailing Address 500 Clyde Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Cobalt Technologies is contributing to solving energy challenges by making commercial scale biobutanol from biomass a sustainable reality. Our patented and proprietary technologies create favorable economics for the biorefinery business model by increasing productivity … Continue reading “Cobalt Technologies Receives $2,916,394 Series D Financing Round”
Quixey Garners $20,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bac7e132-980d-47c4-aa33-bb77e6231f49&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2012 Company Name Quixey Mailing Address 320 Logue Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Quixey specializes in functional search for apps. It allows you to describe your needs in plain English and find the best functional matches. Whether it is a mobile device, a tablet, a desktop or a … Continue reading “Quixey Garners $20,000,000 Series B Round”
PrivateCore Obtains $2,250,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=679f5a5a-9362-402f-87d8-de3bc3614689&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2012 Company Name PrivateCore Mailing Address Undisclosed Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description PrivateCore is developing an innovative private computing platform that allows individuals or organizations to safely use cloud computing resources without ceding control of their data. PrivateCore’s software eliminates privacy concerns by enabling the private execution of virtual … Continue reading “PrivateCore Obtains $2,250,000 Seed Funding”
Emerging Challenges of Prostate Cancer Drug Development
The world’s largest cancer meeting of scientists, physicians and industry has just ended in Chicago. The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) attracted over 30,000 attendees to hear leading experts on the latest in cancer drug development. From what I heard at ASCO, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies with new prostate cancer … Continue reading “Emerging Challenges of Prostate Cancer Drug Development”
Bayer Oncology Dubs ASCO “Turning Point” for Cancer Efforts
If one were to list the top cancer drugmakers of all time, it’s fair to say Bayer wouldn’t make the top 10. Despite the German drug giant’s leadership position across the healthcare spectrum—from over-the-counter aspirin to diabetes glucose-testing meters—it has never made much of a splash in cancer. In 2000, Bayer’s (OTCBB: [[ticker:BAYRY]]) top executives … Continue reading “Bayer Oncology Dubs ASCO “Turning Point” for Cancer Efforts”
Rennovia Secures $4,050,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0307c71b-17dd-4c54-89af-6e090298ceb7&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name Rennovia Mailing Address 1080 Hamilton Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Rennovia is developing advanced chemo-catalytic processes for the conversion of bio-derived, renewable feedstocks to major-market chemical products. These processes are designed to be readily scalable and to employ standard chemical production and purification equipment. Website … Continue reading “Rennovia Secures $4,050,000 New Funding”
Lending Club Obtains $17,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5068a9b2-163c-44cd-b277-74485ae7684f&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name Lending Club Mailing Address 71 Stevenson San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Lending Club is an online lending community where people can borrow and lend money, bypass the banks, and get better rates. By working together, members can borrow money more easily and at a better rate … Continue reading “Lending Club Obtains $17,500,000 New Financing”
Pubmatic Secures $45,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=15239042-f3c7-4ed5-8bf3-7558953a1205&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name Pubmatic Mailing Address 901 Marshall Street Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description PubMatic is the world’s first service that increases Web publishers’ revenue by automating and optimizing ad serving decisions. Publishers use PubMatic to significantly increase their ad sales revenue by optimizing across leading ad networks such … Continue reading “Pubmatic Secures $45,000,000 New Financing Round”
Pubmatic Receives $45,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=15239042-f3c7-4ed5-8bf3-7558953a1205&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name Pubmatic Mailing Address 901 Marshall Street Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description PubMatic is the world’s first service that increases Web publishers’ revenue by automating and optimizing ad serving decisions. Publishers use PubMatic to significantly increase their ad sales revenue by optimizing across leading ad networks such … Continue reading “Pubmatic Receives $45,000,000 New Financing”
Delphix Receives $25,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=41434740-f8f5-49aa-a58e-9beb57a10e18&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name Delphix Mailing Address 275 Middlefield Rd. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Delphix Corp. is a stealth software company funded by Greylock and Lightspeed, developing an innovative database management application. Our software reduces load on production databases and enhances DBA productivity. Website http://www.delphix.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Delphix Receives $25,000,000 Series C Funding”
Auxogyn Receives $18,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b6f57de5-7c2e-4004-a8a9-a96d9093b6c1&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name Auxogyn Mailing Address 1490 O’Brien Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Auxogyn – Advancing women’s reproductive health through novel scientific and clinical knowledge of early human developmental biology. Website http://www.auxogyn.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $18,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes The proceeds will … Continue reading “Auxogyn Receives $18,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
IndieGoGo Lands $15,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7b1a225e-fc06-41c1-9ffd-d712d71b2cb7&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name IndieGoGo Mailing Address 301 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description We founded IndieGoGo in 2008 because there are so many people in this world, with great ideas and big dreams, who are looking for the opportunity to get funding. IndieGoGo offers anyone with an idea … Continue reading “IndieGoGo Lands $15,000,000 Series A Round”
Identified.com Secures $21,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c8c3ea1-1a50-40fb-b8d8-f50e1d34d98a&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2012 Company Name Identified.com Mailing Address 185 Berry St San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Identified is the fastest growing career site for young professionals. We are tackling one of the last “great frontiers” of the Internet: professional identity. In short, what Facebook did for your social life, Identified is … Continue reading “Identified.com Secures $21,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
With Media Camp, Turner Broadcasting Hedges Against a Digital Future
Every recent tome on corporate innovation preaches the same basic truth: big companies need to keep taking risks on new products and business models, or they’ll eventually lose market share to nimbler upstarts. It turns out that this is easier said than done—and big media companies like newspaper chains and record labels have been among … Continue reading “With Media Camp, Turner Broadcasting Hedges Against a Digital Future”
Complete Genomics Cuts Staff, Hires Banker for ‘Strategic Alternatives’
Complete Genomics has seen its cash reserves dwindle and its stock tumble, and now it is sending a big group of its workers to the exits. The Mountain View, CA-based company (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GNOM]]), which provides whole human genome sequences as a service for researchers and clinicians, said today it is cutting 55 workers. It has … Continue reading “Complete Genomics Cuts Staff, Hires Banker for ‘Strategic Alternatives’”
ASCO Wrap-Up: A Summary of This Week’s Cancer R&D Headlines
There’s so much going on in the world of cancer drug R&D that it’s hard to keep up with all the news about drugs that are changing the standards of care. And quite a few of those standards are changing, based on a quick rundown of what was new at this year’s American Society of … Continue reading “ASCO Wrap-Up: A Summary of This Week’s Cancer R&D Headlines”
Clarizen Obtains $12,000,000 Series E Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c774e0f-796f-49b4-948b-63f8df522856&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name Clarizen Mailing Address 2988 Campus Drive San Mateo, CA 94403 Company Description Clarizen enables on-demand, enterprise-grade project management for everyone. Active participation and secure cooperation lead to true team collaboration, while up-to-the-minute live knowledge helps align project data with business objectives. Website http://www.clarizen.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Clarizen Obtains $12,000,000 Series E Round”
FlightFox Obtains $800,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3f6c62bb-c217-4920-ab29-7604f524201a&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name FlightFox Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View , CA 94041 Company Description Flightfox is a platform for crowd-sourced (or human-powered) flight search. That means our registered flight experts, from all over the world, compete to find you the best flights. Website http://www.flightfox.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “FlightFox Obtains $800,000 New Funding”
Trivascular Lands $60,000,000 Series D Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cce75b5c-5596-479c-a8e1-8d53fbb8d04e&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name Trivascular Mailing Address 3910 Brickway Blvd Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Company Description Trivascular is developing novel endovascular repair devices to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Website http://www.trivascular2.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $60,000,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes Proceeds from the financing will be used … Continue reading “Trivascular Lands $60,000,000 Series D Funding Round”
mOasis Lands New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=292a9850-b1ca-40cd-b23c-9211f42f4837&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name mOasis Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description mOasis develops mOasisgel TM, which is a non-toxic, low-cost water storage material for the high-value crop market in California. mOasisgel increases crop yields and reduces water and water-related energy use to enable California farmers to grow more … Continue reading “mOasis Lands New Financing”
Threadflip Lands $6,500,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c1b3f8b9-4712-4ae7-87c4-9c528b305787&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name Threadflip Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description The company operates an online social marketplace for clothing. Website http://www.threadflip.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $6,500,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The company will add a mobile app and enhance its signature services and … Continue reading “Threadflip Lands $6,500,000 Series A Financing”
InSite Medical Technologies Obtains $705,066 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bd4f07d1-4197-4a91-9c89-ba0ff622360d&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name InSite Medical Technologies Mailing Address 19639 Farwell Avenue Saratoga, CA 95070 Company Description The company manufactures medical devices used to deliver epidural anesthesia. Website http://www.insitemedtech.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $705,066 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing-amended. M&A Terms Venture … Continue reading “InSite Medical Technologies Obtains $705,066 New Funding”
HotelTonight Receives $23,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8406a414-4b4a-4947-8cea-91bee65d925e&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name HotelTonight Mailing Address 144 2nd Ave. Third Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description HotelTonight is the only hotel booking application that is made for mobile from the ground up. Available for free in the App Store for those with Apple iOS devices – the iPhone, iPod … Continue reading “HotelTonight Receives $23,000,000 Series C Financing”
JOYUS Acquires Foodzie for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0db6d26b-d34d-4558-bf65-457d4be4d120&Preview=1 Date 6/5/2012 Company Name Foodzie Mailing Address 580 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The company operates an online marketplace for food. Website http://www.foodzie.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Undisclosed
Entrepreneurship for the 99 Percent
As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. Berkeley. This is a three-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world to learn how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach (business … Continue reading “Entrepreneurship for the 99 Percent”
Leftronic Turns Any Startup Office into a Command Center
Walk into a network operations center for an electrical utility or an ISP, or the command center for a space or military agency, and what do you see? Displays. Lots and lots of displays, showing all sorts of data visualizations. The people who design command centers obviously think this data is mission-critical, or they wouldn’t … Continue reading “Leftronic Turns Any Startup Office into a Command Center”
Salesforce.com Buys Buddy Media for $690M, Plans to Augment Radian6
In an effort to beef up its cloud-based social marketing services, San Francisco’s Salesforce.com (NYSE: [[ticker:CRM]]) announced today it acquired New York’s Buddy Media for nearly $690 million in cash, stock, and options. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during a conference call the deal is the largest acquisition to date for his company and is expected to … Continue reading “Salesforce.com Buys Buddy Media for $690M, Plans to Augment Radian6”
Building Bridges in a New Global Health Landscape
[Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a speech given at PATH’s annual Breakfast for Global Health on May 22, 2012.] Today I begin a new chapter in my life as president and CEO of the global health organization PATH. Why has this business and social entrepreneur, IP attorney, and human rights activist made this … Continue reading “Building Bridges in a New Global Health Landscape”
Why Would a Biotech Company Go the Trouble of Changing Its Name?
[Updated 1:26 pm PT with survey results] If you’re trying to figure out what the heck a certain biotech company does, the last place to look is usually the company name. Names often don’t mean much, or at least it isn’t obvious. But sometimes you actually can learn a lot about what makes a company … Continue reading “Why Would a Biotech Company Go the Trouble of Changing Its Name?”
WaterSmart Software Lands $944,999 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fdc442eb-a5de-4fc2-9d7a-740a9bb716e5&Preview=1 Date 6/4/2012 Company Name WaterSmart Software Mailing Address 1550 G Tiburon Blvd. Tiburon, CA 94920 Company Description The mission of WaterSmart Software is to help water utilities make it easier for their customers to save water and save money. Using our software and services, our utility partners make sure each consumer … Continue reading “WaterSmart Software Lands $944,999 New Round”
Google Acquires meebo for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4234ccbf-6ea5-44c5-9bc1-423ac15061af&Preview=1 Date 6/4/2012 Company Name meebo Mailing Address 215 Castro Street 3rd Floor Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description meebo is the first all-in-one, Web browser-based instant messaging service. Website http://www.meebo.com 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 “Google Acquires meebo for Undisclosed Sum”
J&J Prostate Cancer Trial Shouldn’t Have Been Stopped Early
One of the more anticipated clinical trials at this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting was for Johnson & Johnson’s abiraterone (Zytiga) in prostate cancer patients. This study, known as COU-AA-302, was stopped early because independent monitors said the drug was clearly effective. But that decision to stop the trial early is questionable, … Continue reading “J&J Prostate Cancer Trial Shouldn’t Have Been Stopped Early”
Genentech, ImmunoGen ‘Smart Bomb’ for Breast Cancer Blazes New Trail
Genentech has spent more than a decade developing a souped-up version of its multi-billion dollar breast cancer drug, and today it is delivering hard evidence on cancer R&D’s biggest stage that it works. The South San Francisco-based biotech company, a unit of Roche, has shown that its experimental drug trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) hit its main … Continue reading “Genentech, ImmunoGen ‘Smart Bomb’ for Breast Cancer Blazes New Trail”
The Pace of Re-Imagination: We All Live in Dog Years Now
My dog Rhody, an Australian Shepherd, turned 15 a few weeks ago. He’s a living refutation of the old myth that dogs age as much in one year as humans do in seven. By that formula he’d be acting like a doddering 105-year-old, but if you met him you’d agree that he doesn’t seem a … Continue reading “The Pace of Re-Imagination: We All Live in Dog Years Now”
Datahero Lands $1,000,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3e915b32-aef5-46a9-bbd1-2aad13d5c89e&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name Datahero Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Analyze, visualize, and understand the data that matters most to you. Website http://www.data-hero.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Datahero is currently in closed alpha testing and is expected to be … Continue reading “Datahero Lands $1,000,000 Seed Financing Round”
NanoSolar Receives $70,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=349f00a2-c26e-4218-8c7a-2eae53655800&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name NanoSolar Mailing Address 5521 Hellyer Avenue San Jose, CA 95138 Company Description NanoSolar is one of several companies with promising technologies aimed at narrowing the gap between the cost of solar power and energy from fossil fuels. Website http://www.nanosolar.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $70,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “NanoSolar Receives $70,000,000 New Financing”
Zero Motorcycles Obtains $9,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=995509aa-d64e-452c-866c-41ce712faff6&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 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 Obtains $9,000,000 New Round”
Meteor Development Garners $9,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2d0f1239-3d82-4bf8-bfdb-74ef8a197067&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name Meteor Development Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started. Website http://www.meteor.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $9,000,000 … Continue reading “Meteor Development Garners $9,000,000 New Round”
Solar Mosaic Receives $2,500,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=77567498-95c4-4004-bd83-7e174f5bd880&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name Solar Mosaic Mailing Address 55 Harrison Street Oakland, CA 94607 Company Description We are a team of entrepreneurs, coders, finance experts and changemakers. We want to create a world that is powered by abundant clean energy sources and owned by people like me and you. We’re excited … Continue reading “Solar Mosaic Receives $2,500,000 Series A Funding”
Calithera Biosciences Obtains $4,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1f8cf748-0395-4329-95ed-8b321a79c329&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name Calithera Biosciences Mailing Address 341 Oyster Point Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080 Company Description The primary mission of Calithera Biosciences is to develop novel therapeutic approaches to the treatment of cancer by using small molecules to activate, rather than inhibit, enzymes. Our first program is focused … Continue reading “Calithera Biosciences Obtains $4,000,000 Series B Financing”
Diffbot Garners $2,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7f3e9c20-e6f2-4256-a9bd-dcfc99fdf373&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name Diffbot Mailing Address 395 Page Mill Rd Palo Alto, CA 94043 Company Description Diffbot, the first company funded out of Stanford’s StartX accelerator program, makes its APIs available to users wanting to extract the components of web pages in a way that makes that content reusable and … Continue reading “Diffbot Garners $2,000,000 New Round”
TurnHere Garners $150,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5dfd3b36-abee-44d0-942f-f8729408ceee&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name TurnHere Mailing Address 121 2nd Street, Floor 2 San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description TurnHere, Inc. is a full-service Internet video solutions provider to the media, publishing, travel, local and real estate industries. We provide video strategy development services, produce high quality low-cost Internet videos and develop … Continue reading “TurnHere Garners $150,000 New Round”
Danaher Acquires VSS Monitoring for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0180f3cf-a95e-4bb3-be8d-750b90fc45d6&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name VSS Monitoring Mailing Address 1850 Gateway Drive San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description VSS Monitoring is the world leader in traffic capture, allowing IT professionals to see into the farthest reaches of even the largest networks, preventing problems from reaching end users, and dramatically reducing the time … Continue reading “Danaher Acquires VSS Monitoring for Undisclosed Sum”
Diffbot Secures $2,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7f3e9c20-e6f2-4256-a9bd-dcfc99fdf373&Preview=1 Date 6/1/2012 Company Name Diffbot Mailing Address 395 Page Mill Rd Palo Alto, CA 94043 Company Description Diffbot, the first company funded out of Stanford’s StartX accelerator program, makes its APIs available to users wanting to extract the components of web pages in a way that makes that content reusable and … Continue reading “Diffbot Secures $2,000,000 New Round”
Optimizely’s Assault on the One-Size-Fits-All Web
Dan Siroker has a habit of looking at the future and imagining something very different from the present. Back in 2007, when George W. Bush was still president, he left his plum product-manager job at Google to work for a junior Illinois senator named Barack Obama, as director of analytics for the candidate’s presidential campaign. … Continue reading “Optimizely’s Assault on the One-Size-Fits-All Web”
Medivation Emerges With New Prostate Cancer Drug
San Francisco-based Medivation doesn’t quite have the brand name recognition of its rivals in the world of prostate cancer drug development, but that could be starting to change, as soon as this weekend. Medivation (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MDVN]]) has been on a big-time roll since November, when it released results from a study of 1,200 patients, called … Continue reading “Medivation Emerges With New Prostate Cancer Drug”
True&Co Secures $2,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8c0c929-2925-4c89-9777-2f7fb9131578&Preview=1 Date 5/31/2012 Company Name True&Co Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description We are changing the way women shop online. We redesigned the art of bra shopping, one of the most unpleasant shopping experiences we have personally endured. Instead, we created a proprietary way to fit women online in … Continue reading “True&Co Secures $2,000,000 Seed Financing”
InstaEDU Secures $1,100,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=804f2a96-b49f-4242-bfdc-6d0c93c95a5a&Preview=1 Date 5/31/2012 Company Name InstaEDU Mailing Address 115 Sansome St. San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Stumped high school and college students pay InstaEDU by the minute to video chat with tutors from top universities at any hour of the day. InstaEDU will use the seed to grow its team and … Continue reading “InstaEDU Secures $1,100,000 Seed Funding”