You’re a film director whose last feature was a blockbuster, and now you’re funded to make a movie from a fabulous script of your own. It’s a dream job, but there’s just one hitch. Every day, a fan is released onto the set to point your cameras wherever he or she wants. When your stars … Continue reading “Baobab, Oculus, Penrose, Et Al: The Disneys Of Early VR Animation?”
Category: San Francisco
One Writer’s Strategy for Avoiding Information Overload
This week one of my favorite podcasts, WNYC’s Note to Self, is featuring a project called Infomagical. Every day the show is sharing new challenges designed to help listeners cope with information overload. We all know that feeling of being so far behind on the e-mails, texts, articles, and all the other stuff our digital … Continue reading “One Writer’s Strategy for Avoiding Information Overload”
PatternEx Lands $2,000,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=543761c2-5b97-4f14-9888-2801fab0ff60 Date 2/5/2016 Company Name PatternEx Mailing Address 4620 Fortran Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 USA Company Description When your goal is to bring Artificial Intelligence to InfoSec, you better have the chops to back it up. Knowing the scope of the problem we were attacking, we set about identifying and recruiting … Continue reading “PatternEx Lands $2,000,000 Seed Funding Round”
EpiBiome Obtains $6,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aec1407f-c46a-4777-b9d6-86a83e754d14 Date 2/5/2016 Company Name EpiBiome Mailing Address 329 Oyster Point Blvd. 3rd Floor South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA Company Description EpiBiome is a precision microbiome engineering company based in South San Francisco with the mission of developing effective and sustainable FDA-approved therapies to combat infectious disease in humans and in … Continue reading “EpiBiome Obtains $6,000,000 Series A Financing”
Fit Pay Receives $3,100,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ccd291e8-edb2-405e-8e90-c0d32eae5586 Date 2/5/2016 Company Name Fit Pay Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Based in San Francisco, California, FitPay is led by payment industry experts with more than 20 years of payment platform and identity authentication domain expertise. FitPay’s platform provides a phone-less and app-less experience, allowing consumers … Continue reading “Fit Pay Receives $3,100,000 Seed Financing Round”
Rockefeller’s Tessier-Lavigne Heads Back to the Bay to Run Stanford
[Updated, 2/5/16, 7:06 am ET] Marc Tessier-Lavigne spent much of his professional life on the West Coast before becoming president of Rockefeller University in 2011. From that perch, the neuroscientist was a ringleader in New York’s emerging life sciences community. After five years, however, he’s heading back to the San Francisco Bay Area to run … Continue reading “Rockefeller’s Tessier-Lavigne Heads Back to the Bay to Run Stanford”
Improving Odds for Women in Tech? Take Notes from Biotech
At our entrepreneurial support organization, the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), we often joke about adhering to the proper dress and catering code for our networking events: jeans and beer for tech; suits, wine and cocktails for life sciences. But there is more to these superficial differences between the two networks serving 1,200 entrepreneurial companies … Continue reading “Improving Odds for Women in Tech? Take Notes from Biotech”
Blood Simple? Grail’s Cancer Screening Quest Faces Tough Questions
[Corrected, 2/4/16, 2:05pm. See below.] Three weeks ago the world’s biggest genomic sequencing company, Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN]]), unveiled a spinout called Grail to make blood tests that could spot all kinds of cancer in seemingly healthy people, perhaps as soon as 2019. If you know anything about the history of screening healthy people for cancer, … Continue reading “Blood Simple? Grail’s Cancer Screening Quest Faces Tough Questions”
JASK Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4687293e-d974-42c2-bb4d-18447c0fc868 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name JASK Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description JASK is building the world’s first predictive security operations center to help large enterprises automate their security operations and find — and react to — dangerous threats faster. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “JASK Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round”
Gridtential Energy Lands $1,499,996 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ab7d1dae-e0d8-4670-bc1d-631c6f752de7 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Gridtential Energy Mailing Address 5941 Optical Court San Jose, CA 95138 USA Company Description Gridtential Energy is developing a low-cost, scalable battery architecture that significantly improves energy density, cycling performance and battery life. Gridtential has relationships with key suppliers to accelerate development of highly repeatable, high-volume battery … Continue reading “Gridtential Energy Lands $1,499,996 New Financing”
After School Garners $16,400,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=de8a57a9-a021-4775-a863-64e640d3a7f1 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name After School Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description The company has developed an anonymous messaging application. Website http://www.afterschoolapp.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $16,400,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Accomplice Venture Investor Cowboy … Continue reading “After School Garners $16,400,000 New Financing Round”
Siftery Obtains $4,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b30b7704-cf83-4994-8c8d-86bd26c5baa4 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Siftery Mailing Address 539 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Siftery’s services primarily help business professionals better discover, buy and use workplace-related software and services. Website http://www.siftery.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “Siftery Obtains $4,000,000 New Funding Round”
Future Motion Obtains $3,200,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8b21eee4-3a95-45ba-b1fd-a6a346b5afd0 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Future Motion Mailing Address 2881 Mission St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA Company Description Future Motion is committed to designing and developing inspiring vehicles that include both elegant form and unprecedented function. Website http://www.rideonewheel.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,200,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Future Motion Obtains $3,200,000 Series A Financing Round”
ZenDrive Lands $13,500,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=75219886-a1d8-4ddd-a425-bcf66ab863b6 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name ZenDrive Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Safer Drivers, Safer Roads. Smartphone-powered road safety for cities, fleets, and individuals. We offer a suite of products and services that will help you make your fleet safer and help get you lower insurance rates. Website … Continue reading “ZenDrive Lands $13,500,000 Series A Funding”
Salesfloor Garners $3,000,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b19c4b3c-2af1-4812-a3a0-ca7c91bb740e Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Salesfloor Mailing Address 2225 E. Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description Customers expect a high level of personalized service, especially when shopping for specialty products. Website http://www.salesfloor.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes The company intends to use … Continue reading “Salesfloor Garners $3,000,000 Seed Financing Round”
Unity Biotechnology Receives New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2ca98dd4-0253-444f-b2f8-e9880ad85742 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Unity Biotechnology Mailing Address 1700 Owens Street San Francisco, CA 94158 USA Company Description At UNITY, we design therapeutics that prevent, halt, or reverse numerous diseases of aging. Our medicines are designed to lengthen healthspan, the amount of time you live in good health. Website http://www.unitybiotechnology.com Transaction … Continue reading “Unity Biotechnology Receives New Financing”
Opendoor Garners $80,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bbc264b9-8709-45c4-995b-0107341ed70e Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Opendoor Mailing Address 116 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description We’re on a mission to simplify real estate. We work hard to understand what your home is worth, so you can sell with confidence the minute you’re ready. Website http://www.opendoor.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Opendoor Garners $80,000,000 Series C Financing”
Unity Bio Wants To “Lengthen Health Span,” But 1st Goals More Modest
Live longer? How about starting with healthier knees or clearer eyesight? That’s the proposal from Unity Biotechnology, unveiling itself today with drug programs based upon research into a biological process that, when left undisturbed, seems to hasten aging. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Unity wants to interrupt that process—not to tap into a … Continue reading “Unity Bio Wants To “Lengthen Health Span,” But 1st Goals More Modest”
How Scientific Social Work Helps People Flourish
Here’s a question for everyone who wants to change the world: Which of these innovations will have more impact on society—a first-of-its-kind experimental vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS that’s been developed by a venture-capital-backed biotechnology company, or a big-data research study from a social work scholar that identifies the role that alcohol consumption plays in the … Continue reading “How Scientific Social Work Helps People Flourish”
Misfit Vets Out to Debug Science Experiments With Elemental Machines
You’ve heard of the smart home. You probably haven’t heard of the smart lab. Until now, that is. The idea is analogous to a connected home: you hook up a science lab with sensors and software to track things like temperature, humidity, and which piece of equipment was used when. Why? If you’ve ever spent … Continue reading “Misfit Vets Out to Debug Science Experiments With Elemental Machines”
Time to Ease On Down the Road
It’s been a real pleasure writing my guest op-ed pieces for Xconomy for the past six years. I’ve enjoyed sharing my thoughts about a wide spectrum of biopharma topics, and appreciated the feedback I received whether you agreed with my views or not. However, it’s time for me to move on. I’ve already started posting … Continue reading “Time to Ease On Down the Road”
Skybox Security Obtains $96,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=227baf21-0d67-40b1-b3b7-56504a398c53 Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Skybox Security Mailing Address 2099 Gateway Place San Jose, CA 95110 USA 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 … Continue reading “Skybox Security Obtains $96,000,000 New Financing”
Pear Therapeutics Garners $20,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0f660e54-f13a-41b3-a947-662ab48ea62e Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Pear Therapeutics Mailing Address 200 Saginaw Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description Pear Therapeutics’ patented eFormulation approach combines mobile health apps with supplements, medical foods, and pharmaceuticals, to create more efficacious treatment solutions. eFormulations are simple to use. A software access code on the product … Continue reading “Pear Therapeutics Garners $20,000,000 New Financing”
Modsy Secures $8,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=62644f6e-b1c5-4e74-ad93-9001beb16d95 Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Modsy Mailing Address 599 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Modsy allows you to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of your own home. Sparked by a lifelong passion for the intersection of design and technology, the idea is being brought to … Continue reading “Modsy Secures $8,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Petcube Lands $2,600,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=678bcead-99c6-4ca3-adcc-9edb85288707 Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Petcube Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Petcube is a home gadget that lets you watch, talk and play laser games with your pet through mobile app anytime, anywhere. Petcube was funded with Kickstarter and became the most successful crowdfunded pet product in … Continue reading “Petcube Lands $2,600,000 New Funding Round”
Handshake Obtains $10,500,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=15b200e3-1fb1-460a-8468-9b0f67110ec3 Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Handshake Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Launched in 2014, Handshake is the ultimate career network and recruiting platform for college students and young alumni. Website http://www.joinhandshake.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $10,500,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Handshake will use … Continue reading “Handshake Obtains $10,500,000 Series A Funding Round”
Cisco Acquires Jasper Technologies for $1,400,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c1382b95-2dfd-4a23-aa6c-be9d14a8f52d Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Jasper Technologies Mailing Address 189 North Bernardo Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description Jasper Technologies is a one-stop shop for enterprises, OEMs, solution providers and operators who want to capitalize on a world of connected devices. Website http://www.jasper.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $1,400,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Cisco Acquires Jasper Technologies for $1,400,000,000”
CRISPR Hits Wall Street as Editas Bags $94M in IPO
After a few years of explosive hype and no shortage of controversy, the gene editing system known as CRISPR-Cas9 has finally made its way to the public markets. This evening, Editas Medicine, of Cambridge, MA, priced its IPO. When Editas debuts on the Nasdaq tomorrow, public investors will have their first chance to buy into … Continue reading “CRISPR Hits Wall Street as Editas Bags $94M in IPO”
Starry Not Looking for a Fight, but Broadband Vision Draws Skeptics
Starry probably won’t suffer the same fate as its founders’ previous venture, Aereo, which lost a high-stakes legal battle with broadcast television titans that ended at the highest court in the land. But in trying to change the way people access broadband Internet, Starry’s path to success is perhaps equally daunting. The startup, based in … Continue reading “Starry Not Looking for a Fight, but Broadband Vision Draws Skeptics”
Zumper Obtains $5,564,994 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4b06d907-a262-4b29-8abd-1dddd31825a8 Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Zumper Mailing Address 470 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description We are a small, fun and hard working team of engineers, product and business people who are passionate about building the best way to find a home or apartment for rent. We launched in … Continue reading “Zumper Obtains $5,564,994 New Funding”
Kraken Secures Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2340fe2a-3898-484c-8796-3d52a29a6f1f Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Kraken Mailing Address 548 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Fortune favors the bold — and fortune also favors robust technology, rock-solid security, and a proactive approach to regulatory compliance. Payward combines years of experience in the virtual goods and currency markets with a … Continue reading “Kraken Secures Series B Funding”
Wrapify Lands $1,500,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b6a66456-119a-42dc-9211-4b9b60e598ae Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Wrapify Mailing Address 535 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Wrapify is the easiest way to make money on the road short of finding it in the street. Website http://www.wrapify.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes The company … Continue reading “Wrapify Lands $1,500,000 Seed Funding Round”
EchoPixel Secures $1,749,998 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3399652d-ee9b-4270-acb9-6d517b1bff68 Date 2/2/2016 Company Name EchoPixel Mailing Address 13650 Paseo del Roble Ct. Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 USA Company Description EchoPixel, Inc. develops medical imaging devices. The company develops a non-invasive colon cancer screening solution that enables doctors and radiologists to use computed tomography (CT) images of a patient’s abdomen and … Continue reading “EchoPixel Secures $1,749,998 New Funding”
ThirdLove Secures $8,000,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ff151409-a84c-402a-b05d-c39e746f483c Date 2/2/2016 Company Name ThirdLove Mailing Address 485 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description ThirdLove is at the direct intersection of fashion and technology. The company is building a next generation e-commerce technology platform and a suite of vertically integrated apparel brands. Website http://www.thirdlove.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “ThirdLove Secures $8,000,000 Series A Funding”
Back to the Roots Obtains $5,000,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85c687db-4f51-4da6-876b-d34541c662e0 Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Back to the Roots Mailing Address 424 2nd Street Oakland, CA 94607 USA Company Description In a college class, we learned mushrooms could grow entirely on spent coffee grounds. After watching hours of how-to videos and turning our fraternity kitchen into a big science experiment, we eventually … Continue reading “Back to the Roots Obtains $5,000,000 Seed Funding”
Mattel Acquires Sproutling for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2e3f0da0-e487-47f8-af4c-5b22ff67dd8f Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Sproutling Mailing Address 85 Bluxome Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Sproutling makes parenting a little less scary and a lot more fun. We grow your parent IQ through tools that seamlessly fit your life, and provide real time, trustworthy insights about your child. By … Continue reading “Mattel Acquires Sproutling for Undisclosed Sum”
Smart Wires Receives $19,999,999 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=941088d7-3b44-4b28-878b-0e5f6338ec41 Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Smart Wires Mailing Address 201 Spear Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Smart Wires is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, producing innovative technology solutions for the electric utility industry. Our world-class team collaborates with utilities to help them create a dynamic grid. Website … Continue reading “Smart Wires Receives $19,999,999 New Financing Round”
Seeking A Fresh Start in Gene Therapy, Avalanche Merges With Annapurna
Avalanche Biotechnologies went public during a renaissance for gene therapy, but it’s been searching for a way forward ever since a disappointing trial led to an executive overhaul. The Menlo Park, CA, company has turned to a privately held startup with roots at Weill Cornell Medical College to turn things around. This morning, Avalanche (NASDAQ: … Continue reading “Seeking A Fresh Start in Gene Therapy, Avalanche Merges With Annapurna”
Machine Learning Advances Cybersecurity: Battery Ventures’ View
An office worker who usually spends time in programs like PowerPoint suddenly logs into the company expense records system. Data-sifting computers are on the alert for unusual behavior like this across the globe, and Dharmesh Thakker thinks they’ll help thwart criminal hackers who pose a growing threat to companies. Thakker, a general partner at Battery … Continue reading “Machine Learning Advances Cybersecurity: Battery Ventures’ View”
Skylock Secures $1,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=72f083e8-ca96-462a-a55a-56af0499afbd Date 2/1/2016 Company Name Skylock Mailing Address 3484 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Skylock is a smart bike lock that connects to your smartphone to provide keyless entry, theft detection, crash alerts and more. Website http://www.skylock.cc Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Skylock Secures $1,000,000 New Funding”
Roku Receives $45,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7c41bae8-2ee8-42f1-816c-69173e3f96ff Date 2/1/2016 Company Name Roku Mailing Address 150 Winchester Circle Los Gatos, CA 95032 USA Company Description Roku, Inc. is a company founded in 2002 by Anthony Wood, the inventor of the personal video recorder (PVR). Roku is a leading supplier of innovative and easy to use digital media products. Website … Continue reading “Roku Receives $45,500,000 New Funding”
Raw Shorts Obtains $1,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ed10f51f-825e-47f3-bb9b-a61a8c16aec4 Date 2/1/2016 Company Name Raw Shorts Mailing Address 225 Bush St. 12th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Raw Shorts gives you everything you need to make an explainer video animation, right at your fingertips. Website http://www.rawshorts.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds … Continue reading “Raw Shorts Obtains $1,000,000 Series A Round”
CRISPR: The Path to Clinical Trials
If you have read a newspaper lately, there is a good chance you have heard about CRISPR-Cas9, the versatile gene editing technology. Over the past several months, legal battles over intellectual property, ethical concerns over editing of the human germline, jaw-dropping partnerships with pharma, and talk of IPOs have crescendoed to a steady roar, reaching … Continue reading “CRISPR: The Path to Clinical Trials”
West Coast Biotech Roundup: Gilead, Adicet, Otonomy, Fate & More
The only major Republican presidential candidate who didn’t show up for last night’s debate was front-runner Donald Trump. He also made national news this week by announcing his intent to let Medicare negotiate drug prices—a distinctly un-GOP-like position. The drug-price debate reverberated on the West Coast, too, as the Massachusetts attorney general threatened California’s Gilead … Continue reading “West Coast Biotech Roundup: Gilead, Adicet, Otonomy, Fate & More”
BirdEye Secures $8,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7515a1fa-0733-4280-a6f4-d16f2b439291 Date 1/29/2016 Company Name BirdEye Mailing Address 440 N Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description BirdEye is the next-generation business reputation and customer experience platform that reimagines how customer feedback is used to acquire and retain connected customers. Website http://www.birdeye.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,000,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “BirdEye Secures $8,000,000 Series A Round”
BloomReach Receives $56,000,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3d03afe9-e0ac-46d3-96bf-e73ba1003774 Date 1/29/2016 Company Name BloomReach Mailing Address 82 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description BloomReach is the world’s first Web Relevance Engine exposing the best content to the right consumers seeking it on search engines and social platforms. Website http://www.bloomreach.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $56,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “BloomReach Receives $56,000,000 Series D Funding”
Apple Acquires LearnSprout for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=139dd2b8-f910-414f-95ca-9ba48633ff9d Date 1/29/2016 Company Name LearnSprout Mailing Address 630 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Having witnessed the revolution that data transparency has brought to the consumer software industry, we are driven to do the same for education. At LearnSprout our mission is to make education data universally accessible … Continue reading “Apple Acquires LearnSprout for Undisclosed Sum”
Nextech Adds San Diego’s Supramed to its Medical Practice Business
Nextech, a company in Palm Beach, FL, that develops software used to manage physicians’ medical practices, has acquired San Diego-based Supramed, which specializes in medical practice management software for plastic surgeons. Financial terms were not disclosed. Supramed CEO Bob Nascenzi was upbeat about the deal yesterday, saying Nextech plans to expand Supramed’s development team in … Continue reading “Nextech Adds San Diego’s Supramed to its Medical Practice Business”
Insurify Races Into Car Insurance Search With Online & Texting Tools
The process of booking a vacation looks a lot different today than it did 20 years ago. Since then, the traditional method of calling a travel agent to book a trip has been largely replaced by websites like Kayak, Expedia, and others that allow users to quickly compare prices and purchase flights, hotels, rental cars, … Continue reading “Insurify Races Into Car Insurance Search With Online & Texting Tools”
Three Things To Know About Doing Business in California
Since the 1849 gold rush, California has had a reputation as a great place to seek—and find—your fortune. The Golden State is home to the Golden Gate Bridge, the Golden State Warriors and, in Silicon Valley, golden opportunities. But, as you might suspect, California sometimes operates like its own country, with laws that aren’t like … Continue reading “Three Things To Know About Doing Business in California”