From Phil Fernandez’s point of view, there’s a precise moment in the sales process when a potential buyer is ready to be contacted by a seller. Reach out too soon, and they’ll be annoyed or spooked. Contact them too late, and they may have moved on to another vendor. In the old days, human salespeople … Continue reading “Death of the Salesman? Marketo Is Automating Sales Relationships-And Growing Like Crazy”
Category: San Francisco
The Wisdom of the Crowd: Social Networking Meets Capital Formation
Last year I had a chance to visit Washington D.C. and tour the Washington Monument. I later learned that this magnificent national icon was, in fact, an early example of crowd funding. Crowd funding is the process of aggregating small amounts of money from a large number of people in order to accomplish great things. … Continue reading “The Wisdom of the Crowd: Social Networking Meets Capital Formation”
Pivot Medical Obtains $32,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=78c89966-0904-48bf-b080-0a2e7e506aa5&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name Pivot Medical Mailing Address 247 Humboldt Court Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Company Description Pivot Medical is a privately held medical device company focused on developing and marketing technologies for the rapidly growing hip arthroscopy segment of the orthopedic marketplace. The company’s initial offering, the Pivot Hip Arthroscopy System, … Continue reading “Pivot Medical Obtains $32,000,000 Series C Funding”
DFINE Obtains $25,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ed432806-8219-42cb-b150-424954c499ed&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name DFINE Mailing Address 3047 Orchard Parkway San Jose, CA 95134 Company Description The company develops electrosurgical systems for treating tissue. Website http://www.dfineinc.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The financing enables DFINE to make a greater investment in its launch of … Continue reading “DFINE Obtains $25,000,000 New Financing Round”
PunchTab Receives $4,400,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d936f3b-b529-44ed-ba07-617911d94158&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name PunchTab Mailing Address Undisclosed Redwood City, CA 94061 Company Description Using PunchTab publishers, retailers and application vendors can deploy a tightly integrated reward program to their users in minutes with no development or marketing costs. Consumers can immediately authenticate through popular social networks and start earning loyalty … Continue reading “PunchTab Receives $4,400,000 Series A Round”
VeloMedix Obtains $1,045,230 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a7fab260-dfd8-46dd-868b-7c2e0890c648&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name VeloMedix Mailing Address 1445 Adams Dr. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description VeloMedix, Inc. is a therapeutic hypothermia company that safely cools much more rapidly than competitive technologies. Website http://www.velomedix.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,045,230 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC … Continue reading “VeloMedix Obtains $1,045,230 New Round”
Quantenna Communications Obtains New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=44d769d6-a734-4b1a-8fff-a906a9d3e7c0&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name Quantenna Communications Mailing Address 3450 W Warren Ave Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description Quantenna Communications Inc., is a fabless semiconductor company creating disruptive next generation MIMO based wireless chips with game-changing size, power, and performance characteristics. Website http://www.quantenna.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “Quantenna Communications Obtains New Round”
Lenco Acquires iLoop Mobile for $42,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fc5c9c11-042d-4375-b97b-d0916e51f2e6&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name iLoop Mobile Mailing Address 25 Metro Drive San Jose, CA 95110 Company Description Loop Mobile is the leader in mobile services and technology for interactive mobile marketing, mobile advertising and mobile content distribution. The company’s patent-pending mFinity platform makes it fast and easy for brands, marketing agencies, … Continue reading “Lenco Acquires iLoop Mobile for $42,000,000”
Comprehend Systems Garners $1,200,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ae2a7adc-1a01-4133-83ca-1777f3d65c61&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name Comprehend Systems Mailing Address 235 Alma Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Our mission is to create tools that help understand, explore, and analyze data across multiple, disparate datasources. Our first product, Comprehend Clinical, ultimately improves and accelerates clinical trials to help bring new, safer treatments … Continue reading “Comprehend Systems Garners $1,200,000 Seed Round”
SoundTracking Garners $4,750,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0af25aac-3753-4291-a55b-322def2236d2&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name SoundTracking Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description With almost a million users and six million songs shared daily, Schematic Labs’ social music sharing app SoundTracking. Website http://www.soundtracking.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,750,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes SoundTracking co-founder Steve Jang … Continue reading “SoundTracking Garners $4,750,000 Series A Round”
Bitzer Mobile Secures $4,750,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=88e7be29-b45f-4ebf-ae3e-4f606830fec6&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name Bitzer Mobile Mailing Address 440 N Wolfe Rd Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Bitzer provides a platform that allows IT personnel to mobilize existing enterprise applications very rapidly. They can do that securely by consolidating all enterprise data inside a secure container that is completely under their … Continue reading “Bitzer Mobile Secures $4,750,000 Series A Financing Round”
Cherry Receives $750,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e7d7d5b3-1b99-4335-a9b3-e6e396ef482f&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2011 Company Name Cherry Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description Cherry is the carwash that comes to you. Park anywhere, check in online, and we’ll wash your car right where you left it. $29 per wash, tip’s included. Website http://www.cherry.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $750,000 … Continue reading “Cherry Receives $750,000 Seed Round”
Drug Development—Industry Knowledge for the Non-Scientist
BayBio presents one-day class delivering an overview of the discovery, development, and regulatory processes for bringing a new drug to market. Participants will learn about the business and scientific decisions involved in moving a product forward from basic research into preclinical and clinical trials, as well as a detailed consideration of the regulatory requirements of … Continue reading “Drug Development—Industry Knowledge for the Non-Scientist”
Ustream, Coraid, Gogobot: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers
Time to round up the latest local funding and deals numbers. Some of this is catch-up from last week. $500 million—The amount of a planned secondary stock offering by Mountain View, CA-based professional networking service LinkedIn (NYSE: [[ticker:LNKD]]), according to a November 3 regulatory filing. The company’s principal shareholders include LinkedIn founder and CEO Reid … Continue reading “Ustream, Coraid, Gogobot: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers”
Groupon: The IPO With More Sizzle, and Money, Than the Entire Biotech IPO Class of 2011
Groupon raked in so much cash through its initial public offering last week that it could buy the entire class of life sciences companies that have gone public in 2011. For those of you who aren’t following the Groupon melodrama, the Chicago-based online daily deals site raised $700 million last week in its IPO after … Continue reading “Groupon: The IPO With More Sizzle, and Money, Than the Entire Biotech IPO Class of 2011”
Oclaro Lands $2,758,328 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f2f51f1f-d22a-4b6c-be7b-7f9f0cf8d882&Preview=1 Date 11/7/2011 Company Name Oclaro Mailing Address 2560 Junction Ave. San Jose, CA 95134 Company Description Oclaro, with headquarters in San Jose, California, is a Tier 1 provider of innovative optical and laser components and solutions for a broad range of diverse markets, including telecommunications, industrial, consumer electronics, medical and scientific … Continue reading “Oclaro Lands $2,758,328 New Round”
Milk Garners New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aff5bdd7-7e96-4ea4-b933-976ea4cafbf1&Preview=1 Date 11/7/2011 Company Name Milk Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description The company develops mobile applications. Website http://www.milkinc.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Google Ventures
Own Lands $1,200,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=818e5268-bfa7-47fe-98cf-de645de0adab&Preview=1 Date 11/7/2011 Company Name Own Mailing Address 1 Market Street Steuart Tower San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description We enable businesses to interact intimately with their most important assets — their people. That is why we make the world’s first social point of sale, Own. Website http://www.ownpointofsale.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Own Lands $1,200,000 Seed Funding”
Cloudera Lands $40,000,000 Series D Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5af82b83-c001-4b7e-aae3-ded1a9608582&Preview=1 Date 11/7/2011 Company Name Cloudera Mailing Address 210 Portage Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Cloudera was founded to provide enterprise-level support to users of Apache Hadoop. Our founding team has deep expertise in commercial use of open source software and Hadoop. Website http://www.cloudera.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Cloudera Lands $40,000,000 Series D Funding Round”
The Rise of CIS (copper, indium, selenium)
The Silicon Valley Photovoltaics Society presents an evening seminar with Greg Ashely of Solar Frontier North America. From the event description: “Solar power is the best option available at the utility scale and as distributed generation, however, we can’t replace one environmental risk (carbon emissions) with another (toxic materials). Recognizing that green energy production must … Continue reading “The Rise of CIS (copper, indium, selenium)”
Mobile App Search is So Bad AltaVista Could Have Done It. Chomp Is Biting Off the Problem
There are roughly 500,000 iPhone and iPad apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store, and almost that many smartphone and tablet apps in Google’s Android Market. That gives mobile consumers lots of choices, but it has created an untenable situation for mobile developers. Unless you get lucky and your app vaults onto the top-5 or top-10 … Continue reading “Mobile App Search is So Bad AltaVista Could Have Done It. Chomp Is Biting Off the Problem”
Celgene To Pump $45M into Quanticel to Discover Cancer Drugs, Gets Option To Acquire
Celgene and a San Francisco-based cancer drug startup called Quanticel Pharmaceuticals have struck an unusual agreement in which the big company is getting the inside track on a new cancer drug discovery platform, and the little company is arranging upfront for a way to get its venture investors some returns. Summit, NJ-based Celgene (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CELG]]) … Continue reading “Celgene To Pump $45M into Quanticel to Discover Cancer Drugs, Gets Option To Acquire”
Calisolar Garners $14,837,295 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=82353dcb-3c89-43c1-838a-6f38a66400d0&Preview=1 Date 11/4/2011 Company Name Calisolar Mailing Address 985 Almanor Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description CaliSolar 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.calisolar.com Transaction Type Debt, Venture Equity Transaction Amount $14,837,295 Transaction … Continue reading “Calisolar Garners $14,837,295 New Financing Round”
BridgeLux Obtains $14,290,184 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f9974eb8-5ca2-4cf4-a09f-a8790909a964&Preview=1 Date 11/4/2011 Company Name BridgeLux Mailing Address 101 Portola Ave. Livermore, CA 94551 Company Description BridgeLux is a leading developer and provider of high power indium gallium nitride light emitting diodes (InGaN LEDs) which provide an efficient, reliable source of blue, green, or white light in various solid state lighting, mobile … Continue reading “BridgeLux Obtains $14,290,184 New Funding Round”
Ustream Secures $6,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=839ccca5-cc2c-402b-ac13-c9015e1653ed&Preview=1 Date 11/4/2011 Company Name Ustream Mailing Address 274 Castro Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Ustream is a platform for live online interactive video broadcasts that lets people everywhere connect, interact and engage with one another more deeply. Ustream.TV allows anyone with a camera, computer, and Internet connection to broadcast … Continue reading “Ustream Secures $6,000,000 New Round”
Massive Health’s App Data Proves It: People Eat More Junk Food at Work
Yesterday we told you about The Eatery, a new iPhone app from San Francisco-based Massive Health. The app lets users snap photos of their meals, rate how healthy they are, and get a reality check on those ratings from other users. While the app is designed to be fun, it also has a serious point—if … Continue reading “Massive Health’s App Data Proves It: People Eat More Junk Food at Work”
Xconomists of the Week: Tom Maniatis and Marc Tessier-Lavigne Lead the Charge on the New York Genome Center
Today marked the official launch of the New York Genome Center, a collaboration among 11 top academic institutions that’s designed to accelerate genomic research. The initiative—supported by the City of New York and private and public institutions—is being guided by two of our Xconomists: Rockefeller University’s Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who will serve on the center’s board … Continue reading “Xconomists of the Week: Tom Maniatis and Marc Tessier-Lavigne Lead the Charge on the New York Genome Center”
Infographic: College or Incubator for Startup Founders?
[Updated 11/4 at 2:30 pm] Not everyone can be a Gates, Allen, Jobs, or Zuckerberg—founders who dropped out of college and went on to change the technology industry by starting landmark companies. But there are more options available for budding entrepreneurs these days, most notably the explosion of incubators, accelerators, and other startup nurseries that … Continue reading “Infographic: College or Incubator for Startup Founders?”
Medivation, Astellas Prostate Cancer Drug Helps Men Live Longer; Shares Skyrocket
[Updated: 7:10 am PT] San Francisco-based Medivation has some big news to report today with a prostate cancer drug candidate that has been shown to prolong lives. Medivation (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MDVN]]) and its partner, Japan-based Astellas Pharma, said today that their experimental drug MDV3100 was able to prolong lives of men with advanced prostate cancer by … Continue reading “Medivation, Astellas Prostate Cancer Drug Helps Men Live Longer; Shares Skyrocket”
Trade Shows Go Virtual at ON24; The Civilized Alternative to Second Life?
The boardroom windows at ON24 look out over San Francisco’s Moscone Center, the city’s largest convention complex. Every year, Moscone is home to giant events like Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Oracle OpenWorld, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce, and the MacWorld Expo; in fiscal year 2009-2010, more than 919,000 registered event attendees visited the complex. But as busy as … Continue reading “Trade Shows Go Virtual at ON24; The Civilized Alternative to Second Life?”
Coraid Receives $50,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=00f64c8f-2738-46d3-bdf7-7d40eec8548f&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Coraid Mailing Address 255 Shoreline Dr. Redwood City, CA 94065 Company Description Coraid redefines storage economics with its breakthrough line of EtherDrive storage solutions. EtherDrive delivers scale-out performance, Ethernet simplicity, and 5-8x price performance advantage over legacy storage. Website http://www.coraid.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $50,000,000 … Continue reading “Coraid Receives $50,000,000 New Round”
Delivery Agent Receives $35,500,000 Series E Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=93256dfb-c8db-487f-9dc8-eca15b302e6a&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Delivery Agent Mailing Address 300 California St. 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Delivery Agent, Inc., is the leader in shopping-enabled entertainment for television shows, movies, magazines, sports, and music videos. Website http://www.deliveryagent.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $35,500,000 Transaction Round Series E Proceeds … Continue reading “Delivery Agent Receives $35,500,000 Series E Funding”
Kicksend Garners $1,800,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4c9426b7-b56f-4da5-9bc3-0b39133c3049&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Kicksend Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description File-sharing these days is much more difficult and complicated than it needs to be, and people are finding it confusing to easily share files without compromising and without having to jump through hoops. Kicksend (formerly Receivd) is … Continue reading “Kicksend Garners $1,800,000 Seed Financing Round”
Kaggle Secures $11,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cb446962-d54a-4285-8c6d-9b8a58fd4c42&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Kaggle Mailing Address 665 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Kaggle is an innovative solution for statistical/analytics outsourcing. We are the leading platform for predictive modeling competitions. Website http://www.kaggle.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $11,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “Kaggle Secures $11,000,000 Series A Round”
gogobot Garners $15,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=57925d89-cdab-4fd2-ad27-fe75aa5f5720&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name gogobot Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Whether it is a week’s vacation, a business trip or a weekend getaway, we believe planning your trip should be almost as fun as the trip itself. We believe the best advice comes from people you trust … Continue reading “gogobot Garners $15,000,000 New Funding Round”
Iddiction Lands $3,500,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5a639203-a490-4ff8-8b33-4e1271190343&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Iddiction Mailing Address 230 S California Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Iddiction is named after a slang term to describe dependency on mobile devices — particularly iPhones and iPads. The company is looking to improve “the experience of discovering apps for the user” in a … Continue reading “Iddiction Lands $3,500,000 Seed Financing”
Yahoo, Auditude, 100plus: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers
Time for our periodic data-driven roundup of funding news, acquisitions, and other developments in the Bay Area business and technology sphere. $270 million—The value of Yahoo’s acquisition of New York-based digital media company Interclick (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ICLK]]), announced yesterday. Interclick makes software that helps brands and agencies optimize their online advertising campaigns. Yahoo said the acquisition … Continue reading “Yahoo, Auditude, 100plus: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers”
Massive Health Builds an App for Healthy Eating; Think Foodspotting Meets FitnessKeeper
Do phones, food, photos, and fitness mix? Massive Health is hoping they do. The San Francisco mobile health startup, which debuted last spring with $2.25 million in seed funding from Felicis Ventures, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and Mohr Davidow Ventures, has come out with its first consumer app. It’s called The Eatery, and … Continue reading “Massive Health Builds an App for Healthy Eating; Think Foodspotting Meets FitnessKeeper”
Seeding Entrepreneurship: How to Build a Venture-Finance Ecosystem
[Editor’s note: Cross-posted from The Economist, 11/2/11] New York Mayor-entrepreneur Michael Bloomberg, not known for shyness, recently proclaimed New York City as America’s new entrepreneurship capital, roaring past Boston in venture capital and soon to leave Silicon Valley in the dust as the “go to” destination for entrepreneurs. Indeed, the world media are awash with … Continue reading “Seeding Entrepreneurship: How to Build a Venture-Finance Ecosystem”
Ubicom Receives $1,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ffc1b10e-059c-4162-bfc9-dc1441dc9ad3&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Ubicom Mailing Address 195 Baypointe Parkway San Jose, CA 95134 Company Description Ubicom develops communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time, interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. Website http://www.ubicom.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,000,000 … Continue reading “Ubicom Receives $1,000,000 New Funding Round”
100Plus Obtains New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5fbd2f38-fd6b-44b8-be36-5d222f2e8e48&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name 100Plus Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description 100Plus is a personalized health prediction startup using data analytics and game mechanics to show how small changes in behavior can lead to a longer and better life. Website http://www.100plus.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed … Continue reading “100Plus Obtains New Financing Round”
Humanoid Lands New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d86f8f9c-14b7-44f5-9b1a-c31fda4a7b80&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Humanoid Mailing Address 1061 Market St San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Welcome to Humanoid, the world’s first brainpower API! Humanoid offers a drag-and-drop interface that allows engineers to create tasks and send instructions to humans. Website http://www.gethumanoid.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “Humanoid Lands New Financing Round”
AGARI Lands $2,500,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=951e1259-1e8f-4532-b8ae-f2fc7125def7&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name AGARI Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Agari collects terabytes of email data from sources across the Internet to create a cloud-based solution to assess, visualize, and protect against email threats to brands, such as phishing and other fraud. Website http://www.agari.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “AGARI Lands $2,500,000 Series A Funding Round”
ATDynamics Works to Reduce Drag in the Slow-to-Change Trucking Industry
Semi-trailers suck. Literally. As these boxy shapes barrel down the freeway, they leave a vacuum in the air behind them, and this area of turbulence and low pressure generates suction that accounts for at least a quarter of all aerodynamic drag on a tractor-trailer rig. If you could do something to disrupt the vacuum and … Continue reading “ATDynamics Works to Reduce Drag in the Slow-to-Change Trucking Industry”
Steel in Their Eyes—Why VCs should be Startup CEOs
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. —Mark Twain Venture capitalists who are serious about turning their firms into more than one-fund wonders may want to have their associates actually start and run a company for a year. Running a company is distinctly different … Continue reading “Steel in Their Eyes—Why VCs should be Startup CEOs”
Biopharma Industry Meetings Could Use Some Fresh Voices
One or more notices of upcoming biopharma industry conferences arrive in my email every day. I give their agendas a quick glance before deleting them, as they’re seldom in areas I focus on. The vast majority of presenters are plucked from the ranks of top-tier Big Pharma; there’s a seminar from Pfizer, a speaker from … Continue reading “Biopharma Industry Meetings Could Use Some Fresh Voices”
Skybox Security Garners $6,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=de0112db-0701-4021-8cda-28207cfa18dd&Preview=1 Date 11/1/2011 Company Name Skybox Security Mailing Address 2099 Gateway Place San Jose, CA 95110 Company Description Skybox Security, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2002. The company is recognized as the pioneer in quantifying security risk and automating labor-intensive threat analysis and security control assessment processes. Website http://www.skyboxsecurity.com … Continue reading “Skybox Security Garners $6,000,000 New Funding Round”
Appcelerator Secures $15,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ca9c96dc-0923-4ea4-b587-848f13e9d4f5&Preview=1 Date 11/1/2011 Company Name Appcelerator Mailing Address 444 Castro Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Appcelerator is an open source platform for building rich web applications. Appcelerator, Inc. is a silicon valley venture funded company located in Mountain View, California. Appcelerator was started in 2006 by software veterans Jeff Haynie … Continue reading “Appcelerator Secures $15,000,000 Series C Financing”
Platfora Receives $1,483,332 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2cf0125c-e3a5-4dcc-9c23-921573f372c9&Preview=1 Date 11/1/2011 Company Name Platfora Mailing Address 540 University Ave Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Platfora is the first company to harness the potential of Hadoop so that any business user can explore, interact with, and derive insight from massive data sets, and all via an intuitive and dynamic interface. … Continue reading “Platfora Receives $1,483,332 New Financing Round”
Jivox Obtains $8,200,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e60f1371-6b5c-417d-8117-e8d1b638b454&Preview=1 Date 11/1/2011 Company Name Jivox Mailing Address 1400 Fashion Island Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Jivox online video advertising is a powerful new way to tell your customers about your business beyond the visual and geographic limitations of search engines and banners. With Jivox, you can easily create Free … Continue reading “Jivox Obtains $8,200,000 New Round”