Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=043b1cfe-cd08-40ad-bb12-db1b580d4c57&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2010 Company Name Get Satisfaction Mailing Address 400 2nd St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Satisfaction is people-powered customer service for absolutely everything. More specifically, though, it’s a place where communities of customers come together to answer each others questions, share ideas with each other or with an organization, … Continue reading “Get Satisfaction Obtains $6,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
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Thump Games Obtains $690,041 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=45302275-9a95-40f5-9b12-26a2dcaad7b2&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2010 Company Name Thump Games Mailing Address 1102 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Thump Games has developed an online sports game called Thump Football. Website http://www.ThumpGames.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $690,041 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A … Continue reading “Thump Games Obtains $690,041 New Round”
ShopWell Solutions Secures $1,050,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ae7c63cf-b15e-4477-87d0-53ed3cf353f1&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2010 Company Name ShopWell Solutions Mailing Address 100 Forest Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description ShopWell is a free food information site that scores products on how well they meet your unique needs. With easy-to-understand nutrition information and customized product scores, ShopWell gives you easy tools to find better … Continue reading “ShopWell Solutions Secures $1,050,000 New Financing Round”
supyo Lands $200,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e5b7aaea-89b4-4b02-93b2-8f86751c9b2a&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2010 Company Name supyo Mailing Address 338 Spear Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The company is developing unspecified Internet technologies. Website http://www.supyo.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $200,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
Ciranova Garners New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a8cf90a6-5bc9-4d3d-9dd8-9fdc8a2130d7&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2010 Company Name Ciranova Mailing Address 100 N. Winchester Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95050 Company Description Ciranova™ is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) startup company, focused on building language-based cell generator technology for custom analog and mixed signal (AMS) integrated circuit design. The complexity of deep submicron processes has grown … Continue reading “Ciranova Garners New Financing”
Informifi Receives Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f35e9982-c74f-49de-88e0-b9a44ec20dbb&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2010 Company Name Informifi Mailing Address 2030 Harrison St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Company Description So whether you’re a celebrity gossip hound, a sports nut, a political junkie or anything at all really, Informifi is the one-stop-shop for all your real-time news needs. Website http://www.Informifi.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Informifi Receives Series A Funding Round”
UTest Raises its Largest Round Yet, $13 Million, to Scale Up Crowdsourced Software Testing Community
UTest, which helps big companies crowdsource their software quality assurance (QA) testing to a community of 30,000 freelance testers, said today that it has raised $13 million in Series C financing. It’s one of the largest venture funding rounds ever collected by a crowdsourcing company, and from the size of the round, “you should take … Continue reading “UTest Raises its Largest Round Yet, $13 Million, to Scale Up Crowdsourced Software Testing Community”
HP to Pay $1.5B for ArcSight
Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: [[ticker:HPQ]]) said today that it has agreed to purchase Cupertino, CA-based ArcSight (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ARST]]) for $43.50 per share or about $1.5 billion. ArcSight makes software that helps large companies guard against online theft, fraud, espionage, and other cyberattacks. “The combination of HP and ArcSight will improve security, reduce risk and … Continue reading “HP to Pay $1.5B for ArcSight”
Relypsa Snags $70M Venture Round to Get Rid of Excess Potassium in Blood
The people who made a bundle off a company called Ilypsa may just have found a hit in their second act. Santa Clara, CA-based Relypsa said today it has nailed down $70 million in a Series B round of venture financing to pursue a new drug that tamps down excessive potassium in the blood. OrbiMed … Continue reading “Relypsa Snags $70M Venture Round to Get Rid of Excess Potassium in Blood”
Third Rock Ventures Secures $426M Second Fund, Makes Changes to Partner Ranks
Third Rock Ventures, a healthcare-focused venture firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco, says today it has raised $426 million for its second fund. The fund represents a vote of support for the firm’s model of investing in and starting life sciences ventures that have the potential to transform healthcare. The Boston-based firm, which … Continue reading “Third Rock Ventures Secures $426M Second Fund, Makes Changes to Partner Ranks”
AppNation
Subtitled “Show Me the Money,” the AppNation conference is an in-depth look at the new economy of mobile applications. Information and registration here.
How the B-School Dropouts at Bump Are Filling a Big Gap in Mobile Communications
During his first week at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in 2008, David Lieb found himself meeting dozens of new classmates and typing their names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses into his phone’s address book, one by one. “There is this little loop running in my mind that’s always going, ‘Why are … Continue reading “How the B-School Dropouts at Bump Are Filling a Big Gap in Mobile Communications”
It’s True: Using More FDA ‘Wheels’ Under Cancer Drugs Can Speed Approval
Despite cancer’s complex nature, biotech firms have cranked out approvable therapies for the disease at an impressive pace, from blockbusters such as Genentech/Roche’s bevacizumab (Avastin) and trastuzumab (Herceptin) to smaller-selling but vital compounds targeting tumors that previously were treated inadequately or not at all. Clinical blowups abound, but the gains have been real. How do … Continue reading “It’s True: Using More FDA ‘Wheels’ Under Cancer Drugs Can Speed Approval”
Google Gets Instant Results, Investors Write Livescribe a Big Check, Willow Garage Unleashes a $400,000 Robot, & More Bay Area Biztech News
Last week was a short but eventful one, with Google’s announcement about a revamped search interface dominating the news. Here were the highlights. —Google introduced “Google Instant,” a new version of its core search engine that guesses what you’re searching for and flashes pages of search results before you’ve finished entering your query. The company … Continue reading “Google Gets Instant Results, Investors Write Livescribe a Big Check, Willow Garage Unleashes a $400,000 Robot, & More Bay Area Biztech News”
Transparency
Transparency is viewed by many as the solution to many of the world’s problems, and perhaps a solution to failed collaborations. Indeed, a common explanation for disputes is that they result from an imbalance of information between the two sides. If we could have more transparency, some say, then we would all have the same … Continue reading “Transparency”
Relypsa Obtains $70,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85cd9eb8-1139-4df2-9957-272cdbefa9d8&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name Relypsa Mailing Address 5301 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Relypsa, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery and development of new non-absorbed polymeric drugs for important applications in renal and cardiovascular disease. The company’s most advanced therapeutic programs include a novel potassium … Continue reading “Relypsa Obtains $70,000,000 Series B Funding”
TRIA Beauty Receives $15,600,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f735e450-38e2-40fa-b21f-5fe87ca08d4c&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name TRIA Beauty Mailing Address 4160 Dublin Blvd. Dublin, CA 94568 Company Description The TRIA Skin Clarifying System, a 3-step system clinically proven to clear acne breakouts faster than any other leading acne treatment and featuring professional-strength blue light therapy, is launched in the U.S. Website http://www.triabeauty.com Transaction … Continue reading “TRIA Beauty Receives $15,600,000 New Funding Round”
Sonatype Receives $11,600,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=333c97e9-8609-42d4-97ca-b14e178d2527&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name Sonatype Mailing Address 800 West El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Nexus is a powerful and robust Maven repository manager, created to provide reliable access to artifacts required for development and provisioning. Nexus can control access to, and deployment of, every artifact in your … Continue reading “Sonatype Receives $11,600,000 New Funding Round”
HP Acquires ArcSight for $1,500,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b4a4c8d-7216-48f1-a382-716b29b7ea22&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name ArcSight Mailing Address 5 Results Way Cupertino, CA 95014 Company Description ArcSight is a leader in Security and Network Information Management with a Blue Chip customer base of over 350 enterprises, government agencies and managed security service providers (MSSPs). Website http://www.arcsight.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $1,500,000,000 … Continue reading “HP Acquires ArcSight for $1,500,000,000”
DotBlu Secures $25,492 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5cd28058-60ac-468d-a594-07f681efd199&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name DotBlu Mailing Address 343 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Our members compete in a variety of different online games, like prediction questions, quizzes and online flash games. They compete against friends in a fun and friendly atmosphere for BluBucks, our virtual currency, and use … Continue reading “DotBlu Secures $25,492 New Round”
MBA Polymers Lands $6,623,301 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dd7d654d-fe74-414b-8faa-240c321ad1c7&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name MBA Polymers Mailing Address 500 West Ohio Avenue Richmond, CA 94804 Company Description Welcome to the web site of MBA Polymers, a recognized leader at recycling engineering plastics from complex waste streams and end-of-life durable goods such as appliances, computer and business equipment, automobiles, and even sporting … Continue reading “MBA Polymers Lands $6,623,301 New Financing”
StorSimple Secures $13,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e5795432-42a0-4aac-8a43-361639be2c6d&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name StorSimple Mailing Address 2350 Mission College Blvd Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description StorSimple is a venture-backed company based in Santa Clara, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley. StorSimple’s vision is to solve application-specific challenges that are directly related to storage, and provide customers with the … Continue reading “StorSimple Secures $13,000,000 Series B Financing”
Magnum Semiconductor Garners $15,413,607 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f53f4d81-7ed8-4555-adc1-ed1342f358f4&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2010 Company Name Magnum Semiconductor Mailing Address 591 Yosemite Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description Magnum Semiconductor is a leading provider of chips, software, and platforms for consumer entertainment systems. Magnum provides the tools and technologies for recording, storing, managing, viewing, and exchanging audio and video throughout the home, and … Continue reading “Magnum Semiconductor Garners $15,413,607 New Financing Round”
Fitbit Lands $7,981,342 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ba526330-867a-4b58-85bc-2bec41f33bb0&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2010 Company Name Fitbit Mailing Address 870 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94000 Company Description Fitbit is devoted to helping people of any fitness level achieve health and wellness. Fitbit provides a complete wellness solution focused on behavior change via awareness and motivation. Website http://www.fitbit.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Fitbit Lands $7,981,342 New Round”
Pixim Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=80d0230c-1d23-4f22-ae27-36324a3f81ff&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2010 Company Name Pixim Mailing Address 1395 Charleston Rd. Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Pixim Inc. has developed an imaging platform that produces substantially higher-quality moving and still images than those available through any other existing technology. Website http://www.pixim.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $2,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Pixim Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing”
Ayasdi Obtains $1,530,020 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b864f57e-e840-4e72-8136-735b25e34db4&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2010 Company Name Ayasdi Mailing Address 330 Waverley St Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Ayasdi is a well funded, early stage, exploratory analytics startup founded by entrepreneurs from Stanford and Oracle. Website http://www.ayasdi.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,530,020 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Ayasdi Obtains $1,530,020 New Funding”
Zynga Gets Zinged, Evernote Gets A Memory Button, Google TV Gets Accelerated, & Other Web News You Might Have Missed
While I was preoccupied this short week covering stuff like open source robots, smart pens, custom e-mail signatures, and Google Instant, quite a few interesting tech stories were popping up elsewhere on the Web. A few quick pointers: —I’ve only been in San Francisco since July, and I’ve already heard plenty of whispers about Zynga … Continue reading “Zynga Gets Zinged, Evernote Gets A Memory Button, Google TV Gets Accelerated, & Other Web News You Might Have Missed”
Ooyala Tunes Into $22M
Mountain View, CA-based Ooyala, the three-year-old maker of an Internet video platform that enables large media companies to share their video content online, said yesterday that it has raised $22 million in a Series D funding round led by new investors The CID Group and Itochu Technology Ventures. Existing investors Rembrandt Venture Partners and Sierra … Continue reading “Ooyala Tunes Into $22M”
Google’s Street View “Trike” at Faneuil Hall Today: Q&A with Digital Imaging Mastermind Luc Vincent
If you’re in the Faneuil Hall area of Boston today, look out for the trike. That would be the Google Street View Trike, a pedicab-like contraption mounted with a camera and computer equipment. It’s meant to capture 360-degree, street-level images of places where Google’s fleet of Street View cars can’t go—pedestrian malls, university campuses, parks, … Continue reading “Google’s Street View “Trike” at Faneuil Hall Today: Q&A with Digital Imaging Mastermind Luc Vincent”
Google Instant Is Anything But a Time-Saver
At a press event in San Francisco this week, Google introduced Google Instant, an overhaul of its core search engine that brings up location- and history-sensitive search results even before you’ve finished typing your query. If you live in San Francisco and you type “s-a-u,” for example, Google Instant will make an educated guess that … Continue reading “Google Instant Is Anything But a Time-Saver”
iPierian Entices Corporate VCs, Plexxikon’s One-Two Punch, Jennerex’s Road Less Traveled, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News
We had news from the world of cancer drugs, genomics, stem cells, and an interesting little piece on a strategy for potentially preventing chronic fatigue syndrome. Get caught up here. —Emeryville, CA-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ONXX]]) said it has struck a partnership with Japan-based Ono Pharmaceuticals. The deal provides about $59 million in upfront cash … Continue reading “iPierian Entices Corporate VCs, Plexxikon’s One-Two Punch, Jennerex’s Road Less Traveled, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News”
The Personalized Medicine Opportunity–Shifting the Business to Regulated Markets
Life science tool companies have traditionally operated in the “research use only” market—selling equipment and reagents to academic labs, research centers and biopharmaceutical R&D. By selling into the research-only market, these companies have been able to avoid the burdens of controls placed on regulated products. However, the line between research and clinical activities is increasingly … Continue reading “The Personalized Medicine Opportunity–Shifting the Business to Regulated Markets”
inDinero Receives $1,200,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=07ee2128-a873-445d-9f2f-9e77b9eb1785&Preview=1 Date 9/10/2010 Company Name inDinero Mailing Address Undisclosed Undisclosed, CA 94300 Company Description inDinero helps business owners monitor the financial health of their companies. Most small business owners hate the idea of learning accounting software, so we’ve created a solution that’s easy for anyone to use. Website http://www.inDinero.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “inDinero Receives $1,200,000 New Round”
Expensify Reimbursed for $5.7M
San Francisco-based Expensify, which has developed a Web-based system for submitting business expense reports, said yesterday that it has raised $5.7 million in a Series A venture round. The round was led by new investor Redpoint Ventures, and included returning seed-stage investors Hillsven Capital, Baseline Capital, and Travis Kalanick. The company also announced that it … Continue reading “Expensify Reimbursed for $5.7M”
WiseStamp Puts a More Personal Signature on E-mail
In ancient times, before the dawn of e-mail, there were people who would grab any old blank sheet of paper to write or type on, and there were people who would only use fancy letterhead paper embossed with their names or logos. People in the first group probably cared more about getting their message across … Continue reading “WiseStamp Puts a More Personal Signature on E-mail”
Jennerex, Charging Ahead With Tumor-Killing Virus, Follows Biotech Road Less Traveled
Sometimes the innovation community can be a tough insider’s club. If you’re a biotech startup, you’re only real when Merck/Pfizer/Novartis/Glaxo/Roche or some big VC like Kleiner Perkins bets cash that says you might be real. So sometimes a potentially groundbreaking idea has to find some other way to get critical support. That’s what San Francisco-based … Continue reading “Jennerex, Charging Ahead With Tumor-Killing Virus, Follows Biotech Road Less Traveled”
Livescribe Gets $39 Million to Prove the Power of the Smart Pen
Smart pens, which can record handwritten notes and drawings and transfer them to a computer for storage, searching, and sharing, have never exactly written their own ticket. The technology behind the devices was first developed in the late 1990s by Swedish firm Anoto Group, and has since been licensed to more than 250 companies around … Continue reading “Livescribe Gets $39 Million to Prove the Power of the Smart Pen”
Livescribe Obtains $39,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6514e570-81a0-47f7-a0c3-1364c0ab41b1&Preview=1 Date 9/9/2010 Company Name Livescribe Mailing Address 7677 Oakport St. 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94621 Company Description Livescribe has developed a new low-cost mobile computing platform that enhances productivity, learning, communication and self expression for anyone that uses pen and paper. The Pulse smartpen revolutionizes the act of writing by recording … Continue reading “Livescribe Obtains $39,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Ooyala Garners $22,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=adefe36b-35fb-4070-90fb-5c7b2d96427c&Preview=1 Date 9/9/2010 Company Name Ooyala Mailing Address 800 W El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Ooyala is a technology-driven company dedicated to delivering an interactive, high-quality video experience. The company is also developing content management systems and video ad serving technologies. Website http://www.ooyala.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Ooyala Garners $22,000,000 New Financing”
Ventiva Lands $1,963,708 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a3bbec71-a09c-4970-ba60-afe7b41d8ea7&Preview=1 Date 9/9/2010 Company Name Ventiva Mailing Address 1505 Wyatt Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Founded in 2008, Ventiva is a privately held company with strong financial backing from top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Ventiva has a world-class team with unique combination of expertise in thermal management, new product … Continue reading “Ventiva Lands $1,963,708 New Funding”
SynapSense Obtains $5,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2fb7d7cf-1df2-4b6c-a48c-ca900bee9562&Preview=1 Date 9/9/2010 Company Name SynapSense Mailing Address 2365 Iron Point Rd Folsom, CA 95630 Company Description SynapSense Corporation is a developer of a configurable, scalable wireless sensor networking platform. Website http://www.synapsense.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. … Continue reading “SynapSense Obtains $5,000,000 New Financing Round”
BayBio Summer Blowout Open House
BayBio, the trade group for Northern California’s biotech industry, is organizing an end of summer blowout mixer and open house. The event will be from 4 pm to 7 pm on Oct. 6 at the Pacific Research Center in Newark, CA. For more information on how to register, click here.
Oodle Aggregates $1.5M
San Mateo, CA-based Oodle, which aggregates online classified ads in categories such as cars, homes, apartments, and pets, has raised $1.5 million in an equity financing round that could total as much as $3 million, according to a regulatory filing. A group of nine unnamed investors contributed to the round.
$46M for Kno’s Digital Textbooks
Santa Clara, CA-based Kno, which is developing a two-panel tablet computer specialized for education, said today that it has raised $46 million in debt and equity financing from Andreesen Horowitz, Silicon Valley Bank, and TriplePoint Capital. “Kno is gearing up to launch the first digital device that we believe will fundamentally improve the way students … Continue reading “$46M for Kno’s Digital Textbooks”
iPierian Nabs $28M, With New Backing From Glaxo and Biogen Idec, To Use Stem Cells for Drug Discovery
One of the Bay Area’s promising stem cell startups just got a big shot of cash from a couple of major pharmaceutical players in Boston. South San Francisco-based iPierian is announcing today it has secured a full $28 million in its Series B venture round, which includes GlaxoSmithKline’s SR One venture arm, along with Biogen … Continue reading “iPierian Nabs $28M, With New Backing From Glaxo and Biogen Idec, To Use Stem Cells for Drug Discovery”
Onyx Pockets $59M Upfront From Japanese Partner, to Market Myeloma Drugs
Onyx Pharmaceuticals has found a new partner to help sell its lead drug candidate for multiple myeloma in Japan, less than two months after it unveiled some promising clinical trial results. The Emeryville, CA-based developer of cancer drugs (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ONXX]]) is announcing today that it has struck a new partnership with Japan-based Ono Pharmaceutical, in … Continue reading “Onyx Pockets $59M Upfront From Japanese Partner, to Market Myeloma Drugs”
Jennerex Snags $116M Deal With Transgene
Jennerex, a San Francisco-based developer of cancer treatments, is announcing today it has struck a deal with France-based Transgene. Under the deal, Transgene has made an undisclosed equity investment, agreed to pay milestone payments worth as much as $116 million, and provide Jennerex with a double digit percentage royalty on sales of JX-594. In return, … Continue reading “Jennerex Snags $116M Deal With Transgene”
Take Home an Open Source Robot from Willow Garage for $400,000
Menlo Park, CA-based Willow Garage is one of a growing number of companies producing robots meant to navigate everyday human environments rather than factory floors or the surfaces of distant planets. As the New York Times described in an article last week, for example, early testers at the Mozilla Corporation are using the company’s Texai robot, which … Continue reading “Take Home an Open Source Robot from Willow Garage for $400,000”
iPierian Receives $6,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=29e760b4-2b9c-4026-a70c-591f08825c44&Preview=1 Date 9/8/2010 Company Name iPierian Mailing Address 951 Gateway Blvd South San Francisco, CA 94080 Company Description iPierian is a pioneering biopharmaceutical company that is taking the cutting-edge technologies of cellular reprogramming and directed differentiation to an entirely new level to harness the power of induced pluripotent stem cells to advance … Continue reading “iPierian Receives $6,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Kno Obtains $46,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0f311d3f-bc56-4eb5-8981-651a1640217d&Preview=1 Date 9/8/2010 Company Name Kno Mailing Address 5155 Old Ironsides Dr. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Kno is a transformative two-panel tablet that artfully blends the intuitive experience of the conventional textbook with a rich digital world of video, note-taking, sharing and more. Its open platform encourages publishers and developers … Continue reading “Kno Obtains $46,000,000 New Financing”