Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4ee9d18b-4d01-4e2e-8df2-d4376a59cb4f Date 3/16/2016 Company Name Alvine Pharmaceuticals Mailing Address 75 Shoreway Rd San Carlos, CA 94070 USA Company Description Alvine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing therapeutics for the treatment of Celiac sprue. Website http://www.alvinepharma.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms … Continue reading “ImmunogenX Acquires Alvine Pharmaceuticals for Undisclosed Sum”
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I Think, Therefore I Am: Startup Experts Talk A.I. at SXSW
Even executives of companies that develop the world’s leading artificial intelligence software have time to catch a few movies. True to form, it seems the flicks they pick are typically about artificial intelligence. “‘Her’ was particularly interesting, because this machine, this operating system… She was able to empathize with him, able to get him out … Continue reading “I Think, Therefore I Am: Startup Experts Talk A.I. at SXSW”
Payoneer Acquires Armor Payments in Fintech Tie-Up
New York-based business-to-business online payments service Payoneer on Tuesday announced it acquired Armor Payments, a Silicon Valley-based, escrow-as-a-service payment company. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Armor’s software will be integrated into Payoneer’s platform to offer a service that lets business-to-business buyers and suppliers conduct escrow payments to accounts around the world. Under the combined service, … Continue reading “Payoneer Acquires Armor Payments in Fintech Tie-Up”
Racing Zika: For Every Short Cut, There’s An Open Question
[Updated 3/15/16, 7:16pm; corrected 3/16/16, 7:00pm. See below.] In the Luganda language, zika means “overgrown.” It’s also the name of the Ugandan forest where, in the mid-20th century, researchers discovered the now-notorious virus. Dense forest is an appropriate and vivid image for the latest global health threat. So much about the virus and its effects … Continue reading “Racing Zika: For Every Short Cut, There’s An Open Question”
Skyport Systems Obtains $30,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6bfa7dee-6815-43f4-af20-94b5c1758340 Date 3/15/2016 Company Name Skyport Systems Mailing Address 280 Hope St. Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description Skyport Systems is rethinking enterprise security. We believe that the enterprise requires a fundamentally new approach to security, which requires a fundamentally new approach to secure computing — Hyper-Secured Infrastructure. Website http://www.skyportsystems.com Transaction … Continue reading “Skyport Systems Obtains $30,000,000 Series C Funding”
Spirox Obtains $45,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=558b1e25-114c-4cee-ae64-df9fb6de7cfb Date 3/15/2016 Company Name Spirox Mailing Address 3475 Edison Way Menlo Park, CA 94015 USA Company Description Spirox is focused on developing minimally invasive technologies to improve the quality of life for patients with nasal obstruction. Website http://www.spiroxmed.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $45,000,000 Transaction Round Series C Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Spirox Obtains $45,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Couchbase Obtains $30,000,000 Series F Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f60a2981-53c6-45c0-935e-e23143cfc626 Date 3/15/2016 Company Name Couchbase Mailing Address 2440 West El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 USA Company Description Couchbase provides products and services that enable customers to dramatically lower costs while simultaneously improving the scalability and performance of their interactive applications. Couchbase is behind some of the world’s busiest Web … Continue reading “Couchbase Obtains $30,000,000 Series F Funding”
Alooma Receives $11,200,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=628a2518-ea29-4558-8232-f3c31565dd73 Date 3/15/2016 Company Name Alooma Mailing Address 444 Castro St. Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description Our mission: To build the best in class data infrastructure on the planet Engineers, designers, sales and marketing managers, and administrators – we all dream and breathe data pipelines, so you don’t have to. … Continue reading “Alooma Receives $11,200,000 Series A Round”
A Big Driver For Cybersecurity Spending? Wary Cyber Insurance Vendors
In 2014, insurance companies reaped $2 billion in policy premiums from U.S. companies seeking protection from potentially vast losses due to cyber attacks like those that have hit Target, Sony, and other big firms. By the end of the decade, the U.S. market for cyber insurance could burgeon to $7.5 million, analysts say. But insurers … Continue reading “A Big Driver For Cybersecurity Spending? Wary Cyber Insurance Vendors”
Arterys Garners $5,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0da50dc0-528a-4ef0-83db-c6236dc34275 Date 3/14/2016 Company Name Arterys Mailing Address 1700 4th St. San Francisco, CA 94158 USA Company Description Our mission is to radically transform the world of medical imaging via high performance cloud computation for the benefit of both patients and clinicians by creating an automated and intelligent diagnostic platform. Website http://www.arterys.com … Continue reading “Arterys Garners $5,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
Immersv Garners New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d1366477-046f-4e70-8a97-a66c37a547f7 Date 3/14/2016 Company Name Immersv Mailing Address 18314 Carlwyn Drive Castro Valley, CA 94546 USA Company Description Immersv is a virtual reality discovery and advertising platform, founded by the team that created the largest app distribution platform on Facebook and then again on iOS and Android. Website http://www.immersv.co Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Immersv Garners New Funding”
General Motors Acquires Cruise for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=324b6155-5874-4dff-bbab-572b6fc20d02 Date 3/14/2016 Company Name Cruise Mailing Address 548 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Cruise has built the first highway autopilot system that installs on your existing vehicle. It uses sensors and advanced machine vision technology to keep you in your lane and a safe distance from the … Continue reading “General Motors Acquires Cruise for Undisclosed Sum”
Smart Sleep Mask, On-Demand Doctor App Win ReleaseIt Pitch Event
Austin — For anyone who has trouble with jetlag, Inteliclinic has an answer: a sleep mask. Inteliclinic’s sleep mask, called the Neuroon, is not exactly traditional. It is a device with biometric sensors that uses its own software to connect to a mobile app via Bluetooth. On the lower end of its technological capabilities, the … Continue reading “Smart Sleep Mask, On-Demand Doctor App Win ReleaseIt Pitch Event”
West Coast Bio Roundup: Illumina, CRISPR, Orexigen, Ambry & More
El Niño-driven storms returned to California this week to fill up reservoirs and snarl commutes, although we’ve got nothing to compare with what’s happening down South. A few biotech parades were rained on out West. The two rival parties battling for CRISPR patent rights tried to undermine each other’s cases, filing documents to kick off … Continue reading “West Coast Bio Roundup: Illumina, CRISPR, Orexigen, Ambry & More”
Inmoji Raises $5M For “Branded Interactive Emojis”
Now that emojis have become a fundamental mode of communication in the mobile age, it’s no surprise that businesses are trying to capitalize. One such company, two-year-old advertising technology startup Inmoji, just grabbed $5 million to advance its business that connects consumers and companies via “branded interactive emojis” used in mobile messaging apps. The Series … Continue reading “Inmoji Raises $5M For “Branded Interactive Emojis””
GM Bets Big Bucks on Cruise Automation and a Driverless Future
According to reports in Fortune and other media outlets, GM has forked over more than $1 billion in cash and stock to acquire Bay Area startup Cruise Automation, a producer of “after-market” kits that can turn existing cars into autonomous vehicles. If the figure is correct, that makes company co-founder Kyle Vogt a “two-time unicorn … Continue reading “GM Bets Big Bucks on Cruise Automation and a Driverless Future”
Transition in Tech Transfer: Will MIT Ever Start a Venture Fund?
By the end of June, Lita Nelsen will retire from MIT’s Technology Licensing Office, where she has worked for 30 years. She has been director of the office since 1993 and has seen a lot of things. Nelsen recently sat down with Xconomy to talk about trends in tech transfer and entrepreneurship. One timely issue: … Continue reading “Transition in Tech Transfer: Will MIT Ever Start a Venture Fund?”
PropelPLM Obtains $4,200,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=72bb6d51-80d0-44eb-9dca-b6bb92436b4d Date 3/11/2016 Company Name PropelPLM Mailing Address 200 N Almaden Blvd. San Jose, CA 95110 USA Company Description Propel’s mission is to help companies, partners and customers propel innovation with the only product lifecycle management (PLM) solution built 100% on the Salesforce platform. Website http://www.propelplm.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “PropelPLM Obtains $4,200,000 New Funding Round”
Volley Labs Garners $2,300,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=84ee8c50-197a-4ad8-a286-c8d28b395801 Date 3/11/2016 Company Name Volley Labs Mailing Address 88 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Volley Labs, Inc. owns and develops an adaptive learning platform. The company was formerly known as Pilot Labs, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014. Website http://www.volley.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Volley Labs Garners $2,300,000 Seed Financing Round”
Nom Labs Receives $4,700,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a3f2f169-294b-4365-977e-df8a011a13b5 Date 3/11/2016 Company Name Nom Labs Mailing Address 65 Liberty Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Nom is a community for food lovers to create, share and watch their favorite stories in real-time. If you’ve ever posted a photo of a favorite dish, Nom is for you. If you’ve … Continue reading “Nom Labs Receives $4,700,000 Series A Financing Round”
Avametric Secures $10,500,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c5ab86cf-ee6f-4ff3-8710-ee38f3f5ad18 Date 3/11/2016 Company Name Avametric Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Avametric is a software company that fuses leading technology and talent from Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the fashion industry to recreate the fitting room experience virtually. It was conceived by academics, built by engineers, designed by … Continue reading “Avametric Secures $10,500,000 Series A Funding”
Chronicled Obtains $3,425,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3be59ff0-ceab-43ba-9cad-6150fe1dd4cf Date 3/10/2016 Company Name Chronicled Mailing Address 609 Mission San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Our network of sneaker experts, retail, and brand partners are adding tamper proof Smart Tags to every pair of authentic sneakers. Smart Tags give each sneaker a digital presence on the Internet. Now anyone can … Continue reading “Chronicled Obtains $3,425,000 Seed Round”
HealthTell Lands $26,098,829 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ff8980e7-a528-4725-8ed8-671f32ecb8df Date 3/10/2016 Company Name HealthTell Mailing Address 3130 Crow Canyon Place San Ramon, CA 94583 USA Company Description HealthTell is a biotechnology company that has developed an unprecedented platform for the early detection and classification of disease from just a simple drop of blood. Website http://www.healthtell.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “HealthTell Lands $26,098,829 New Financing Round”
Genability Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9ae761ed-9fec-4f66-b81d-c6c696884634 Date 3/10/2016 Company Name Genability Mailing Address 221 Main Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Genability was founded with a simple goal to enable New Energy Companies to include Smart Energy in their products and services. Our customers are some of the biggest names in solar, connected home and … Continue reading “Genability Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding Round”
MeWe Secures $3,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b9020d38-5d99-4638-a9ba-eab0405baa3a Date 3/10/2016 Company Name MeWe Mailing Address 156 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description MeWe is the visionary culmination of three years of determined efforts, research, and development to provide people around the world with a communication network they love and trust. Website http://www.mewe.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “MeWe Secures $3,000,000 Seed Financing”
Penrose Studios Garners $8,500,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8e8ab6d7-1117-4e0d-a5dd-f40e86bb3cdb Date 3/10/2016 Company Name Penrose Studios Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Penrose is focused on augmented and virtual reality storytelling. Through the process of creation with world class storytellers and technologists, Penrose is inventing and defining the language of real-time cinema for AR and VR. Website … Continue reading “Penrose Studios Garners $8,500,000 Seed Funding Round”
Celigo Garners $8,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=95aaa46e-73a4-4155-8bee-5b6629a9bd7a Date 3/9/2016 Company Name Celigo Mailing Address 1820 Gateway Drive San Mateo, CA 94404 USA Company Description Our core mission at Celigo is simple: to enable independent best-of-breed applications to work together as one. We believe that every independent department and every business end-user should always have choices when it comes … Continue reading “Celigo Garners $8,000,000 New Financing”
Cisco Acquires Synata for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9be14d71-6936-41d4-8a6f-3a44a70146da Date 3/9/2016 Company Name Synata Mailing Address 625 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description As a start-up, we’re not afraid to work hard and step into different roles as required. We’re team-oriented and encourage (and expect!) constructive input from everyone on all facets of the company. As far … Continue reading “Cisco Acquires Synata for Undisclosed Sum”
AlphaSense Lands $33,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=541472b2-8699-4c7d-b75e-06ab41b97a53 Date 3/8/2016 Company Name AlphaSense Mailing Address One Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description AlphaSense launched a unique search engine in 2010 that offers a new standard for information discovery for financial users. Website http://www.alpha-sense.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $33,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes AlphaSense … Continue reading “AlphaSense Lands $33,000,000 New Financing”
Tizona Therapeutics Obtains $43,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1311e6b0-303e-46e5-ba61-5001e8b149ec Date 3/8/2016 Company Name Tizona Therapeutics Mailing Address 601 Gateway Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA Company Description Tizona Therapeutics, Inc. is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that is developing multiple, innovative immuno-oncology therapies. Website http://www.tizonatx.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $43,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “Tizona Therapeutics Obtains $43,000,000 Series B Funding”
Staffjoy Receives New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=709872d3-bb1b-4d76-99ea-7c58aa14e4b2 Date 3/8/2016 Company Name Staffjoy Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94301 USA Company Description We automatically schedule your workforce so that people can work when they want and your business saves money. Website http://www.staffjoy.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Staffjoy Receives New Funding Round”
Evertoon Receives $1,700,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=584bc224-07ca-4648-a90e-9c0079e2cd42 Date 3/8/2016 Company Name Evertoon Mailing Address 480 2nd St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Evertoon lets users turn stories into 3D animated movies. The online video industry is growing explosively, but most user-generated content still consists of a person talking straight into the camera. Website http://www.evertoon.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Evertoon Receives $1,700,000 Seed Funding Round”
Tradeshift Secures $19,999,980 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5e50972f-4fe7-4847-81fb-a0d690d20fad Date 3/8/2016 Company Name Tradeshift Mailing Address 612 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Tradeshift is a platform for all your business interactions. Modern business is broken. On one hand, growing companies who want to focus on doing what they love are plagued by user-unfriendly and time-consuming solutions … Continue reading “Tradeshift Secures $19,999,980 New Funding”
Booker Acquires Frederick for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5b2d9e71-4cd0-4ac7-b200-6869d872c313 Date 3/8/2016 Company Name Frederick Mailing Address 535 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Frederick connects to the cloud services a business already uses (such as the appointment book, CRM, Adwords, and social networks) to automatically do the right marketing to the right customer at the right time. … Continue reading “Booker Acquires Frederick for Undisclosed Sum”
UserZoom Acquires YouEye for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d09867b-0d5b-44fa-8617-f2ddd23e4494 Date 3/8/2016 Company Name YouEye Mailing Address 278 Villa St. Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description YouEye is a usability testing service that uses a pool of screened candidates to help designers and developer get feedback for their sites, Website http://www.youeye.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds … Continue reading “UserZoom Acquires YouEye for Undisclosed Sum”
Zendrive is First Participant in U-M’s New TechLab Program at MCity
The University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Mobility Transformation Center are partnering on a new collaboration at MCity called TechLab, designed to help get connected and driverless car technologies to market faster. Meant to unite the efforts of university researchers, student innovators, and advanced transportation startups, TechLab is part startup incubator and part interactive … Continue reading “Zendrive is First Participant in U-M’s New TechLab Program at MCity”
Butterfleye Secures $1,045,890 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=afd58ef8-8968-48c7-8f60-70482e5f6fd5 Date 3/7/2016 Company Name Butterfleye Mailing Address Pier 26 North Bulkhead Office San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description We are Butterfleye, creators of beautiful, engaging experiences. We believe in freedom, love, and connection. That life’s precious memories are fleeting and they should be captured candidly. Website http://www.getbutterfleye.com Transaction Type Debt … Continue reading “Butterfleye Secures $1,045,890 New Funding”
Spy Dolls, Genius Machines: Cybersecurity Firms Look Ahead at RSA
Over the next five years, the number of connected devices will leap from five billion to 50 billion, Symantec CEO Michael Brown told cybersecurity professionals at a keynote address at the RSA Conference this week in San Francisco. The Internet of Things is one of the major trends that will define the security operations centers … Continue reading “Spy Dolls, Genius Machines: Cybersecurity Firms Look Ahead at RSA”
West Coast Bio Roundup: UCLA Cashes In, BioMarin Tries Again & More
The prostate cancer drug enzalutamide (Xtandi), from San Francisco’s Medivation, has had a long, legally tangled history. Its inventors can also call it lucrative: a New York finance group that specializes in drug sales royalties has bought royalty rights from the University of California, Los Angeles, and others for more than $1 billion. Reversals of … Continue reading “West Coast Bio Roundup: UCLA Cashes In, BioMarin Tries Again & More”
How Self-Driving Vehicles Could Take Root in Indiana
Imagine a tractor-trailer without anyone at the wheel that has driven across three states. It exits the interstate and drops its trailer at a truck yard. Soon, another truck—this one driven by a human—hooks to the trailer and hauls it to a factory in a nearby city. This is the future of trucking—if systems engineer … Continue reading “How Self-Driving Vehicles Could Take Root in Indiana”
InCube Labs Startup Fe3 Plans Iron-Delivering Patch For Anemia
San Antonio — Mir Imran, the founder and CEO of InCube Labs, has more than 200 patents to his name and has created more than 20 companies through InCube, a healthcare-focused research and development business that invents new technology with the goal of spinning them into separate businesses. Maybe, then, it’s not surprising that Imran … Continue reading “InCube Labs Startup Fe3 Plans Iron-Delivering Patch For Anemia”
Siva Power Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a218e785-f698-444d-8234-1d72ffbb9961 Date 3/4/2016 Company Name Siva Power Mailing Address 5102 Calle Del Sol Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description Siva Power is developing high efficiency low cost solar cells that can harvest energy from the entire solar spectrum. The efficiency of Silicon at the cost of Cadmium Telluride. Add high throughput. … Continue reading “Siva Power Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round”
Wrap Media Garners $4,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8657079b-5963-438f-8969-8594fc8d731e Date 3/4/2016 Company Name Wrap Media Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Eric Greenberg, Wrap is a mobile-first storytelling and commerce platform that delivers app-like user experiences in bite-sized pieces through the mobile web. Website http://www.wrap.co Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Wrap Media Garners $4,000,000 New Funding Round”
Roofstock Obtains $13,300,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a7f182f8-2fa6-41ea-92e7-a611e8f3d08b Date 3/4/2016 Company Name Roofstock Mailing Address 2303 Camino Ramon San Ramon, CA 94583 USA Company Description Roofstock, Inc. provides an online marketplace that allows investors to invest in leased investment homes from institutional sellers. It operates Roofstock, a technology-enabled cloud-delivered platform that brings together players from the single-family rental industry … Continue reading “Roofstock Obtains $13,300,000 Series A Financing”
StreetLight Data Lands $7,551,288 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=35571f84-49ca-45cb-9397-0952cfbb5b08 Date 3/4/2016 Company Name StreetLight Data Mailing Address 330 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Our mission is to transform the way information about transportation and mobility behavior is used across business, government, and research. We strive to make it easy, affordable and intuitive to incorporate transportation and … Continue reading “StreetLight Data Lands $7,551,288 New Round”
Butterfleye Obtains $1,090,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8da0682b-e109-431e-9ab4-c23349f1c2c1 Date 3/4/2016 Company Name Butterfleye Mailing Address Pier 26 North Bulkhead Office San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description We are Butterfleye, creators of beautiful, engaging experiences. We believe in freedom, love, and connection. That life’s precious memories are fleeting and they should be captured candidly. Website http://www.getbutterfleye.com Transaction Type Debt … Continue reading “Butterfleye Obtains $1,090,000 New Funding”
Spurned in Duchenne, BioMarin Will Seek Approval For Batten Drug
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, a developer of treatments for rare diseases, struck out in a recent attempt to have a drug approved for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Now it’s taking another swing with a drug for a different genetic disease, one that strikes children a couple years after birth, debilitates their bodies and minds, and proves deadly by … Continue reading “Spurned in Duchenne, BioMarin Will Seek Approval For Batten Drug”
Stealthy MIT Spinout Ribon, Led by a Sanofi Vet, Takes Aim at Cancer
Two years ago, AstraZeneca became the first company to win approval of a new type of cancer drug known as a “PARP” inhibitor. A lot of competition has followed suit, and now it looks as if a new startup from MIT called Ribon Therapeutics—headed by a former Sanofi executive and backed by three different venture … Continue reading “Stealthy MIT Spinout Ribon, Led by a Sanofi Vet, Takes Aim at Cancer”
Any.DO Receives $1,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0d61a199-c94f-45c8-b0e0-0c950d8aba43 Date 3/3/2016 Company Name Any.DO Mailing Address 840 Hayes Street San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Company Description Any.DO is a free to-do list that helps you get things done with your friends in a simple and elegant way. With Any.DO you can easily capture, organize and sync all the things you … Continue reading “Any.DO Receives $1,500,000 New Funding”
Mercari Obtains $75,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6e626a0b-b858-45b6-942f-3bb4d0127926 Date 3/3/2016 Company Name Mercari Mailing Address 225 Bush St. San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Mercari was founded in Japan by a team of serial entrepreneurs in the gaming industry with experience in leading gaming companies such as Zynga and RockYou. The team is driven by a desire to … Continue reading “Mercari Obtains $75,000,000 New Round”