Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8d36dffa-b266-45b4-ba8a-c5e9560002ce&Preview=1 Date 6/15/2010 Company Name eASIC Corporation Mailing Address 2585 Augustine Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description eASIC offers breakthrough Programmable ASIC products including Configurable Logic and Structured ASIC, aimed at dramatically reducing the overall fabrication cost and time of customized high-performance semiconductor chips. Website http://www.easic.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “eASIC Corporation Receives $10,700,000 New Funding Round”
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GC Holdings Receives $8,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6b99c788-aca4-491a-a3eb-cb6c7769a680&Preview=1 Date 6/15/2010 Company Name GC Holdings Mailing Address 1220 Page Ave. Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description GC Holdings is an umbrella company committed to take advantage of leading edge materials technologies and the inherent advantages that they bring to Photonics applications. Website http://www.gc-holdings.com Transaction Type Debt, Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,500,000 … Continue reading “GC Holdings Receives $8,500,000 New Financing Round”
Zynga Game Network Receives $147,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e5da3b86-ad40-428f-a8ed-fbc1d12481de&Preview=1 Date 6/15/2010 Company Name Zynga Game Network Mailing Address 365 Vermont St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Zynga Game Network is the #1 social gaming company on the web. Zynga was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games because we love games, and we love them … Continue reading “Zynga Game Network Receives $147,000,000 New Financing Round”
IBM Acquires Coremetrics for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8c3d752a-82c4-4359-829c-31511bde8cf8&Preview=1 Date 6/15/2010 Company Name Coremetrics Mailing Address 1840 Gateway Drive San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Coremetrics is the leading provider of on-demand web analytics and precision marketing solutions, offering the industry’s only web analytics platform that captures and stores all customer and visitor clickstream activity to build LIVE (Lifetime Individual … Continue reading “IBM Acquires Coremetrics for Undisclosed Sum”
TerraPower, Gates and Myhrvold’s Nuclear Play, Nabs $35M from Charles River, Khosla Ventures
What were we just saying about cross-pollinating ideas between Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco? As if to hammer home the point, Bellevue, WA-based nuclear reactor startup TerraPower announced today it has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Charles River Ventures, based in Waltham, MA. Silicon Valley-based Khosla Ventures also participated in the … Continue reading “TerraPower, Gates and Myhrvold’s Nuclear Play, Nabs $35M from Charles River, Khosla Ventures”
Why the Cloud is the Cloud’s Silver Lining
Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA, hosts an event on Amazon Web Services and SAP, featuring a panel of venture capital partners discussing the business advantages of cloud computing. The panel moderator is Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes, and the panelists include Arif Janmohamed, Lightspeed Venture Partners; Mitchell Kertzman, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; Saad … Continue reading “Why the Cloud is the Cloud’s Silver Lining”
Hulu’s Feng Joins KPCB
Eric Feng, the founding CTO of online video site Hulu, will leave the company next month to join Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced in a post on the company blog that included Feng’s goodbye letter to the Hulu staff. Previously the founder and CEO of Beijing-based … Continue reading “Hulu’s Feng Joins KPCB”
A Video Introduction to Xconomy and Its New San Francisco Editor
Today Xconomy hits a milestone that we’ve all been working toward for several months—well, for several years, really. We’re finally introducing Xconomy San Francisco, our eye on high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship in the Bay Area. I couldn’t be more excited to be coordinating this effort as the company’s new San Francisco editor. There’s just one … Continue reading “A Video Introduction to Xconomy and Its New San Francisco Editor”
Polaris Venture Partners Captures $233M of $400M Fund
Polaris Venture Partners, a $3 billion-plus venture firm, has found more capital to back technology and life sciences firms. The Waltham, MA-based venture firm has closed on $233.8 million of a planned $400 million for its Polaris Venture Partners VI LP fund, according to an SEC filing. When people talk about the leading venture funds, … Continue reading “Polaris Venture Partners Captures $233M of $400M Fund”
Genentech’s Souped-Up Herceptin: The Odyssey Toward a More Powerful Breast Cancer Drug
Scientists have been dreaming for decades about drugs that go after cancer cells like heat-seeking missiles. The idea is to destroy the enemy and spare other cells from the collateral damage that so many cancer drugs cause. Now after more than 10 years of sustained effort by one of largest teams ever assembled at Genentech, … Continue reading “Genentech’s Souped-Up Herceptin: The Odyssey Toward a More Powerful Breast Cancer Drug”
Onyx Lung Cancer Trial Fails
Onyx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ONXX]]), the Emeryville, CA-based cancer drug developer, said today that sorafenib (Nexavar) failed to reach its main goal of helping people live longer with non-small cell lung cancer in a study of about 900 patients. The drug is currently marketed to treat kidney cancer, and a type of liver cancer known as … Continue reading “Onyx Lung Cancer Trial Fails”
BrightEdge Seeks Order, and Profits, in the Wild West of Search Engine Optimization
There’s not much distance, in the minds of many Web merchants and publishers, between the terms “search engine optimization consultant” and “snake oil salesman.” That’s partly because SEO—the attempt to bring more traffic to a website by improving its ranking in the unpaid section of a search results list—is a messy art with many complex … Continue reading “BrightEdge Seeks Order, and Profits, in the Wild West of Search Engine Optimization”
Castlight Collects $60M
Castlight Health, a stealth-mode San Francisco startup building software that lets its customers’ employees compare the costs of medical treatments and procedures, has raised $60 million in Series C venture funding, according to a report in Venture Wire. Existing investor Maverick Capital organized the round, which was joined by previous investors Venrock and Oak Investment … Continue reading “Castlight Collects $60M”
Xconomy Arrives in San Francisco Bay Area, Telling Stories of Innovation in the Global Capital of Technology and Entrepreneurship
MIT’s Robert Solow won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics for showing that long-term growth in advanced economies like the United States is not driven so much by capital investment, the pillar of classic economics, as by technological progress. Nearly three years ago, on June 27, 2007, Xconomy began publishing online from Kendall Square, Cambridge, … Continue reading “Xconomy Arrives in San Francisco Bay Area, Telling Stories of Innovation in the Global Capital of Technology and Entrepreneurship”
Three Ways To Make the Bay Area a More Stable Place for Innovation
1. Focus on real innovation to solve hard problems in needy markets. True innovation is all that matters. Unique products and ideas will always be able to find funding and are less likely to fall victim to boom/bust cycles. Too often, the “incremental, downside protection” or “me too” mentality takes over and you see features … Continue reading “Three Ways To Make the Bay Area a More Stable Place for Innovation”
The Story of Siri, from Birth at SRI to Acquisition by Apple—Virtual Personal Assistants Go Mobile
A couple of years ago, a $999 iPhone app called “I Am Rich” made headlines for being the most expensive item in Apple’s iTunes App Store. (It was the ultimate symbol of conspicuous consumption, doing nothing but displaying a glowing red icon.) But compared to Siri—the “virtual personal assistant” app that can make restaurant reservations, … Continue reading “The Story of Siri, from Birth at SRI to Acquisition by Apple—Virtual Personal Assistants Go Mobile”
Genetic Testing Companies in San Diego, Boston, & San Francisco Studying FDA Letters
Five companies that provide genetic testing services—including San Diego’s Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN]]), 23andMe and Navigenics in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Knome in Cambridge, MA—no doubt spent the weekend parsing letters issued Friday by the FDA. The letters, which were posted on the FDA website and signed by Alberto Gutierrez of the FDA’s office … Continue reading “Genetic Testing Companies in San Diego, Boston, & San Francisco Studying FDA Letters”
gogobot Secures $4,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e7676436-8462-455d-8aaa-e2ae05630917&Preview=1 Date 6/14/2010 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 Secures $4,000,000 New Financing”
TerraPower Lands $35,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f67c1f2f-c101-4f3e-9c36-198de07acdda&Preview=1 Date 6/14/2010 Company Name TerraPower Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description TerraPower is working to develop so-called traveling-wave reactors, which would use depleted uranium as fuel and have the potential to run up to 100 years without refueling. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $35,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “TerraPower Lands $35,000,000 New Financing Round”
Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit Partnering Day: BayBio Event
BayBio is gathering tax experts from Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and RoseRyan to offer 30-minute consultations on how to pursue federal tax credits being made available through the recently passed healthcare legislation. This event is free, but limited to BayBio members only. For more information on how to register, click here.
Mission Bay Open House: QB3 & BayBio Event
QB3 and BayBio are working together on a big event on June 29 that combines tours of the Mission Bay facility, a panel discussion, and networking reception. The panel will feature Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, UCSF chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, QB3 director Regis Kelly, BayBio CEO Gail Maderis, and Uwe Schoenbeck of … Continue reading “Mission Bay Open House: QB3 & BayBio Event”
UCSF Creates $6.2B Economic Output
UC San Francisco generates about $6.2 billion of industrial output in the nine-county Bay Area, according to a new economic impact report. The institution has 21,900 employees, making it the second-largest employer in San Francisco behind the city itself, according to the report by Economic & Planning Systems of Berkeley. The data came from the … Continue reading “UCSF Creates $6.2B Economic Output”
Open Science Summit 2010
Are you “a rapid, radical reboot of the global innovation system for a truly free and open 21st century knowledge economy?” That’s the aim of the first Open Science Summit, which will convene people “who want to liberate our scientific and technological commons to enable an new era of decentralized, distributed innovation to solve humanity’s … Continue reading “Open Science Summit 2010”
Angels Put $1.2M into Thumbtack
Thumbtack.com, a San Francisco-based startup building an online directory of vetted service professionals, announced June 10 that it has collected $1.2 million in funding from what it called an “all-star cast” of Silicon Valley angel investors. Mark Britto of Amazon, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Mark Goines of Intuit and Mint, and Joshua Schachter of Delicious … Continue reading “Angels Put $1.2M into Thumbtack”
Thumbtack Receives $1,200,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1055b877-bfc7-4c23-81d5-0222a04adb6e&Preview=1 Date 6/11/2010 Company Name Thumbtack Mailing Address 1001 Page Street San Francisco, CA 94117 Company Description Why can you go online right now and buy any product you want but you can’t do the same for tutors, handymen, dog walkers, or other local services? Thumbtack is changing that. Website http://www.thumbtack.com Transaction … Continue reading “Thumbtack Receives $1,200,000 New Round”
RoboteX Lands $3,600,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=47324184-098a-4bec-89b6-28033786906f&Preview=1 Date 6/11/2010 Company Name RoboteX Mailing Address P.O. Box 20556 Stanford, CA 94309 Company Description The company designs robotic platforms and avatars that can also be used for academic, personal and industrial applications. Website http://www.robotex.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,600,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “RoboteX Lands $3,600,000 New Funding”
Castlight Health Receives $60,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a9e10174-5cff-48a8-9b56-5c1967d31da2&Preview=1 Date 6/11/2010 Company Name Castlight Health Mailing Address 685 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Castlight Health (formerly Ventana Health Services) was founded in 2008 to empower consumers with the knowledge to make informed health care shopping decisions. The rising cost of health care has put an increased burden … Continue reading “Castlight Health Receives $60,000,000 Series C Financing”
Igenica Lands $24,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=84013dd3-3c76-44aa-863a-8a70c5361ff1&Preview=1 Date 6/11/2010 Company Name Igenica Mailing Address 1700 Owens St San Francisco, CA 94158 Company Description The company operates as a drug development company for cancer treatment. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $24,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes This financing will allow us to expand and accelerate … Continue reading “Igenica Lands $24,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Kaazing Obtains $4,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5cd53743-5142-47ea-a4b7-f2890305c221&Preview=1 Date 6/11/2010 Company Name Kaazing Mailing Address 888 Villa Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Kaazing Corporation, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, is founded for the purpose of delivering the best possible real-time experience for the Internet. We provide real-time software solutions to customers who really care about their end-user … Continue reading “Kaazing Obtains $4,000,000 New Funding Round”
Xconomy Welcomes Susan Hunt Stevens to Our Board
A lot of great things have been happening here at Xconomy lately. We have done syndication deals with the Boston Globe and Motley Fool, launched our new Health IT channel, and expanded to Detroit—with another geographic expansion coming up very soon (stay tuned). Today, though, I am extremely pleased to announce that we have expanded … Continue reading “Xconomy Welcomes Susan Hunt Stevens to Our Board”
Quick Hit Cracks Into EA’s NFL Market (But Winning Over Tom Brady Will Take Longer)
Imagine if Tony Hawk owned the rights to all of skateboarding, and he forced everyone who wanted to make a video game about it to call it “rollersmashing” to avoid infringing his trademark. Well, that’s the kind of stranglehold that the National Football League and Electronic Arts have exercised over football since 2004, when the … Continue reading “Quick Hit Cracks Into EA’s NFL Market (But Winning Over Tom Brady Will Take Longer)”
The Genomics Comeback
One of the things that fascinates me most about the slow-paced business of biotech is how utterly mismatched it is against the demands of Wall Street. Asking for quarterly earnings reports from companies that are in the red, and likely to remain so for years, while they test drug candidates in early-stage clinical trials (which … Continue reading “The Genomics Comeback”
Quark Pharmaceuticals Secures $10,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=216c10cc-9393-46fd-9fac-25fad8ae4be1&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name Quark Pharmaceuticals Mailing Address 6501 Dumbarton Circle Fremont, CA 94555 Company Description Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a development-stage pharmaceutical company engaged in discovering and developing novel therapeutic RNAi drug candidates. Quark has a fully integrated drug development platform that spans therapeutic target identification to drug development. Quark’s … Continue reading “Quark Pharmaceuticals Secures $10,000,000 New Financing Round”
Crowdcast Lands $6,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=13d2c0dc-be4c-472c-b720-60209d846249&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name Crowdcast Mailing Address 717 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Crowdcast leads the Social BI market, bridging the gap between traditional business intelligence and enterprise social network applications. Crowdcast provides a new outlet that aligns people and purpose, where insight, plans and experience come together, … Continue reading “Crowdcast Lands $6,000,000 Series A Round”
CoolSystems Garners $2,250,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0f3363db-85ac-455f-ac58-76ae4d1919d2&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name CoolSystems Mailing Address 1201 Marina Village Pkwy. Alameda, CA 94501 Company Description Game Ready was the first to introduce a system that simultaneously delivers intermittent compression and adjustable cold therapy. Website http://www.gameready.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $2,250,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “CoolSystems Garners $2,250,000 New Funding Round”
VeraCyte Obtains $28,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6a862e28-195f-4de0-93af-7be7f7f7a518&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name VeraCyte Mailing Address Undisclosed South San Francisco, CA 94080 Company Description Operates as an early stage cancer diagnostics company. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $28,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes This investment will be used to bring our advanced testing service in thyroid … Continue reading “VeraCyte Obtains $28,000,000 Series B Round”
SoonR Lands $4,500,000 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5c49decd-cc00-4af7-8ae7-a4f4776a49de&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name SoonR Mailing Address 1999 S. Bascom Avenue Campbell, CA 95008 Company Description The founders of SoonR worked together on many products that helped business users in the pc and internet eras to reach new levels of productivity. Website http://www.soonr.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,500,000 Transaction … Continue reading “SoonR Lands $4,500,000 Series D Round”
Avantis Medical Systems Receives $2,100,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e41f0a48-3c82-4c54-84d4-a8fdecd93cee&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name Avantis Medical Systems Mailing Address 263 Santa Ana Court Sunnyvale, CA 94085-4511 Company Description Avantis Medical Systems, Inc. is a California-based medical device company founded to develop and manufacture catheter-based endoscopic devices. Its initial focus is on devices for use in both detecting and treating cancers of … Continue reading “Avantis Medical Systems Receives $2,100,000 New Funding”
Blazent Receives $10,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f9c45ba0-3bdf-4b2e-974d-c30cf0e9ce0f&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name Blazent Mailing Address 1820 Gateway Drive San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Organizations are repeatedly being tasked with identifying and improving their internal business practices and achieve greater organizational maturity. Blazent can be the business-oriented analysis platform for IT. Website http://www.blazent.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Blazent Receives $10,000,000 New Financing”
Attributor Receives $3,200,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fa12450b-08e0-439f-96d7-cf883c6e5708&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name Attributor Mailing Address 1775 Woodside Road Redwood City, CA 94061 Company Description Attributor is a technology company creating a platform that provides transparency and accountability in online content use and licensing for the rapidly growing content economy. Attributor customers will include publishers of all kinds seeking a … Continue reading “Attributor Receives $3,200,000 Series D Funding”
Synopsys Acquires Virage Logic Corp for $289,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=df94bd14-5388-419d-8330-cf3d5e776eb6&Preview=1 Date 6/10/2010 Company Name Virage Logic Corp Mailing Address 47100 Bayside Parkway Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description Virage Logic Corporation (Nasdaq: VIRL) provides semiconductor intellectual property (IP) platforms based on memory, logic, and input/output interface components (I/Os) primarily in the United States. Website http://www.viragelogic.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $289,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Synopsys Acquires Virage Logic Corp for $289,000,000”
Footbalistic Obtains $500,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=64840cb4-693f-4f3e-a916-41abfa01a4cc&Preview=1 Date 6/9/2010 Company Name Footbalistic Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The company operates a website that aims to become the definitive source of statistics and media for soccer fans worldwide. Website http://www.footbalistic.com/en Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “Footbalistic Obtains $500,000 New Round”
Tigo Energy Lands $10,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b9b12748-2607-4532-b602-796f1f738ed8&Preview=1 Date 6/9/2010 Company Name Tigo Energy Mailing Address 170 Knowles Drive Los Gatos, CA 95032 Company Description Tigo Energy increases output power, up-time, and reliability on existing and new solar installations, resulting in a faster return on investment and lower cost of ownership. Working with energy service providers, panel manufacturers and … Continue reading “Tigo Energy Lands $10,000,000 New Funding Round”
Panaya Receives $7,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=193b13ff-153e-4ad3-b41c-c3f4236af7b7&Preview=1 Date 6/9/2010 Company Name Panaya Mailing Address 2480 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Panaya is a solution for SAP business analysts and implementers, which significantly reduces the time, costs and risks involved in SAP implementation, maintenance and upgrade. Website http://www.panayainc.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,000,000 … Continue reading “Panaya Receives $7,000,000 Series C Financing”
Utility Scale Solar Receives $1,100,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b95bcfb0-4bb9-4d27-9a80-ed73b328616a&Preview=1 Date 6/9/2010 Company Name Utility Scale Solar Mailing Address 228 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description We supply advanced, low-cost, large scale, utility-grade heliostats and sun tracking systems to the worldwide solar industry. Website http://www.utilityscalesolar.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,100,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “Utility Scale Solar Receives $1,100,000 New Financing”
Solar Day 2010
Spawned in San Francisco, Solar Day is a nationwide day of recognition of the importance of solar energy in fostering a new mix of renewable energy options for consumers and businesses. Highlights in San Francisco will include a guided tour of restaurants and businesses using solar hot water heating technology. Some 25 other cities will … Continue reading “Solar Day 2010”
TrustE Garners $12,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=03becbde-114f-41be-b3cb-683152874312&Preview=1 Date 6/8/2010 Company Name TrustE Mailing Address 55 2nd Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description TRUSTe’s® services support online business growth by allowing companies to communicate their commitment to privacy, and letting consumers know which businesses they can trust. Website http://www.truste.org Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,000,000 … Continue reading “TrustE Garners $12,000,000 Series B Financing”
Trazzler Secures $750,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c719c6d6-cea2-453b-a739-c9e1155d0760&Preview=1 Date 6/8/2010 Company Name Trazzler Mailing Address 616 Arkansas Stree San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Trazzler places you emotionally into specific moments and locales all over the planet and helps you explore the limitless travel opportunities our world has to offer. Trazzler developer Adam Weller builds the technology that makes … Continue reading “Trazzler Secures $750,000 New Round”
Martini Media Network Receives $6,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=64e64935-be55-4dbe-b0b7-ca5605eaebea&Preview=1 Date 6/8/2010 Company Name Martini Media Network Mailing Address 880 Harrison St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Martini Media Network Lets You Reach the Affluent Online Martini connects premium advertisers with high net-worth individuals online. We host a flagship site at MartiniLife.com that anchors our network. Here we feature content … Continue reading “Martini Media Network Receives $6,000,000 Series B Funding”
uCirrus Garners $1,660,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=645734cd-7522-495a-90f4-ff7364b98f5a&Preview=1 Date 6/8/2010 Company Name uCirrus Mailing Address 1500 Fashion Island Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description The company is developing massively parallel processing technology for real-time search, Web acceleration and cloud computing applications. Website http://www.uCirrus.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,660,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “uCirrus Garners $1,660,000 New Funding”