Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f7faa508-c8a2-4167-8e6f-e6f77e3dd4a2 Date 1/22/2016 Company Name Iterable Mailing Address 3638 19th St San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Iterable makes sure that your email looks great across all devices. Layouts, images, text, and buttons are automatically optimized for the end user’s device. Website http://www.iterable.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Iterable Lands $8,000,000 Series A Round”
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FiveStars Lands $50,000,000 Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ae822595-dac7-4160-b7c1-f99a09613519 Date 1/22/2016 Company Name FiveStars Mailing Address 321 11th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description FiveStars was created by a team of customer loyalty experts with a heart for local businesses. Like you, we loved the perks of great loyalty programs but got tired of carrying around (and losing) … Continue reading “FiveStars Lands $50,000,000 Series C Round”
Soundtrap Adapts Music App as Edtech Offering, With Google Tools
Most app and digital tool makers try to make their products as easy to use as possible for consumers who may lack technical savvy or the time to muddle through training manuals. Those developers who succeed might want to think about building a second life for their products in the educational technology market, as Stockholm-based … Continue reading “Soundtrap Adapts Music App as Edtech Offering, With Google Tools”
Computer Science for Every Student: Tapping Into Coding Bootcamps
Countries around the world are recognizing computer science education as a top national priority. In England, children are exposed to computer programming and coding fundamentals as early as age 5. Estonia, a small country with a population of 1.3 million people, is making waves in the tech world by launching a nationwide initiative to teach … Continue reading “Computer Science for Every Student: Tapping Into Coding Bootcamps”
RiverMeadow Software Lands $7,899,479 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=91c3ce07-ae44-4b89-8005-28e451ffd246 Date 1/21/2016 Company Name RiverMeadow Software Mailing Address 224 Airport Parkway San Jose, CA 95110 USA Company Description RiverMeadow’s Cloud Migration SaaS enables cloud service providers and enterprise customers to rapidly and reliably migrate applications and servers as-is. Website http://www.rivermeadow.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,899,479 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “RiverMeadow Software Lands $7,899,479 New Financing”
MariaDB Obtains $9,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5c4f008c-32ee-4b60-9491-3745b1c1a8d7 Date 1/21/2016 Company Name MariaDB Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description We are a database company that supports the adoption of MariaDB – the world’s fastest growing open source database. Website http://www.mariadb.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $9,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The company will … Continue reading “MariaDB Obtains $9,000,000 New Funding Round”
Malwarebytes Receives $50,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=576fe185-89b0-4d83-a71c-4f48b98ae4a1 Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Malwarebytes Mailing Address 10 Almaden Blvd. 10th Floor San Jose, CA 95113 USA Company Description In 2008, Malwarebytes was founded on the belief that you and everyone have a fundamental right to a malware-free existence. Every product we make is built on that premise.Your Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is … Continue reading “Malwarebytes Receives $50,000,000 Series B Financing”
RiverMeadow Software Lands $10,485,544 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ab5bee48-53d9-42aa-8ef5-a17ebb373eaa Date 1/21/2016 Company Name RiverMeadow Software Mailing Address 224 Airport Parkway San Jose, CA 95110 USA Company Description RiverMeadow’s Cloud Migration SaaS enables cloud service providers and enterprise customers to rapidly and reliably migrate applications and servers as-is. Website http://www.rivermeadow.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $10,485,544 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “RiverMeadow Software Lands $10,485,544 New Financing Round”
Glassbreakers Receives $1,980,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f4511d06-3027-4c3f-bd6e-ae927a7eacc6 Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Glassbreakers Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Using your profile details, our algorithm introduces you to women with common career goals. Website http://www.glassbreakers.co Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,980,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The new funding will enable Glassbreakers to further … Continue reading “Glassbreakers Receives $1,980,000 New Funding”
Qeexo Receives $4,500,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8b7bc61e-d3a6-451f-8c8b-b02cd80ba91b Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Qeexo Mailing Address 3003 North 1st Street San Jose, CA 95134 USA Company Description We at Qeexo believe we’re entering a new age of touch interaction called Rich-Touch, where touch devices will embrace the richness of the human hand. Our goal is to build innovative solutions to … Continue reading “Qeexo Receives $4,500,000 Series B Financing”
Qubole Garners $30,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=812b8132-b1a5-4dd8-b793-bc3276336383 Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Qubole Mailing Address 520 San Antonio Road Mountain View, CA 94040 USA Company Description At Qubole, we are busy building the next generation cloud data platform. We believe a new approach is needed – one that hides the complexity commonly associated with storing and managing data and … Continue reading “Qubole Garners $30,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
Opentest Receives New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7286db59-a3f9-4f0a-925b-d0b0839b7ddf Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Opentest Mailing Address 3014 Los Prados St. San Mateo, CA 94403 USA Company Description Opentest is building the easiest way for companies to quickly gather in-depth feedback from product experts in the form of usability tests. These Experts who have built products at companies such as Facebook, … Continue reading “Opentest Receives New Funding”
Arrayent Lands $4,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d9838fcb-e627-4914-aa41-d6b0aaa66e1a Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Arrayent Mailing Address 2317 Broadway St. Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description The Arrayent Connect Platform is a Cloud and Embedded Platform for Connected Products that enables manufacturers, retailers, and service providers to connect consumer products to web and smartphone applications. Website http://www.arrayent.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Arrayent Lands $4,000,000 Series C Funding”
Kii Secures New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d0f930fc-f8e9-4b98-a777-e2db023f04fe Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Kii Mailing Address 1900 S Norfolk St. San Mateo, CA 94403 USA Company Description Kii helps Smartphone users to share anything on their handsets, such as apps and music, with the people they choose. This creates new ways to discover content that their friends are using on … Continue reading “Kii Secures New Round”
IBM Acquires Ustream for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fcf17f8c-2370-4363-9284-957d5f4020bf Date 1/21/2016 Company Name Ustream Mailing Address 410 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Ustream is a platform for live online interactive video broadcasts that lets people everywhere connect, interact and engage with one another more deeply. Ustream.TV allows anyone with a camera, computer, and Internet connection to … Continue reading “IBM Acquires Ustream for Undisclosed Sum”
From California to New York, Fintech Finds Loans for Almost Anyone
From small business loan makers to algorithm-based lenders, the fintech arena is producing alternative lending options for practically every type of consumer and small ventures. Since small business and consumer lenders OnDeck and Lending Club opened up the flood gates with initial public offerings in late 2014, the world of online and tech-based lending has … Continue reading “From California to New York, Fintech Finds Loans for Almost Anyone”
Norwest Venture Partners Raises Third $1.2 B Venture Fund
Silicon Valley venture fund Norwest Venture Partners announced today it raised $1.2 billion for a new investment fund. The Palo Alto, CA-based firm raised the same amount for each of its two previous funds. Counting the new fund, Norwest’s total capital and commitments add up to more than $6 billion. Norwest, founded in April 1961, … Continue reading “Norwest Venture Partners Raises Third $1.2 B Venture Fund”
Wider Venture Funding Gap Raises Troubling Questions
This week, Oxfam released its annual study of inequality around the world, which showed that there are actually 62 people who possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion people in the bottom half of the world’s income scale. Five years ago, that number was 388 people. And all of this is against a backdrop … Continue reading “Wider Venture Funding Gap Raises Troubling Questions”
Instart Logic Receives $45,000,000 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bb98587c-58cd-4f0b-ae05-43248a55f1fd Date 1/20/2016 Company Name Instart Logic Mailing Address 450 Lambert Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Company Description We have built a solution that allows publishers to provide a great web experience to their users even over congested mobile and WiFi networks. We empower publishers to bring to life a new … Continue reading “Instart Logic Receives $45,000,000 Series D Round”
LendUp Secures $150,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=083e917d-b799-4450-a8ba-4d2aef3ed6e5 Date 1/20/2016 Company Name LendUp Mailing Address 225 Bush St. 11th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description The LendUp Ladder changes the dynamics of the small dollar loan: rather than being a dangerous first step into a cycle of debt, it becomes an opportunity to learn good financial behavior … Continue reading “LendUp Secures $150,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
Blend Labs Lands $40,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=30ca7096-2257-4ae5-ae8f-a0eee2601fe4 Date 1/20/2016 Company Name Blend Labs Mailing Address 100 Montgomery St. 25th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description The Blend platform deploys quickly and integrates with existing legacy enterprise systems and data sources. Increase efficiency with our core suite of applications and connect every aspect of your business in … Continue reading “Blend Labs Lands $40,000,000 Series C Funding”
BlueVine Garners $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a823906b-f51b-4896-85f5-a3b2749a4fdd Date 1/20/2016 Company Name BlueVine Mailing Address 2225 E. Bayshore Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description BlueVine allows small businesses to get paid immediately on their outstanding invoices. With BlueVine, companies can free up their cash for paying expenses and growing their business. The company is backed by leading … Continue reading “BlueVine Garners $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
LendUp Receives New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1e1fe2f2-bfb8-4571-9ecc-ddd22dedb2cc Date 1/20/2016 Company Name LendUp Mailing Address 225 Bush St. 11th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description The LendUp Ladder changes the dynamics of the small dollar loan: rather than being a dangerous first step into a cycle of debt, it becomes an opportunity to learn good financial behavior … Continue reading “LendUp Receives New Round”
Jfrog Secures $50,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=00cbd09f-50f3-49ab-9bd6-e918469c8238 Date 1/20/2016 Company Name Jfrog Mailing Address 3945 Freedom Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description Based in Israel and California and founded by longtime field-experts, JFrog’s mission is to provide better technologies and tools for software developers. JFrog has changed the way developers store and manage binaries and allows … Continue reading “Jfrog Secures $50,000,000 New Round”
Kumu Networks Garners $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b70fb443-4ebf-41f0-8a5f-ee22119e94b9 Date 1/20/2016 Company Name Kumu Networks Mailing Address 960 Hamlin Court Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Company Description Kumu Networks is revolutionizing the way wireless systems are built using its innovative full-duplex wireless design. Wireless full-duplex allows a radio to transmit and receive signals at the same time using a single frequency … Continue reading “Kumu Networks Garners $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
BlueVine Lands $15,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=348fa234-517d-4055-9b07-f76376d6eee6 Date 1/20/2016 Company Name BlueVine Mailing Address 2225 E. Bayshore Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description BlueVine allows small businesses to get paid immediately on their outstanding invoices. With BlueVine, companies can free up their cash for paying expenses and growing their business. The company is backed by leading … Continue reading “BlueVine Lands $15,000,000 New Financing Round”
Ensysce Biosciences Acquires Signature Therapeutics for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c8e88ba3-04d7-42cf-8469-5cd352f14cc8 Date 1/20/2016 Company Name Signature Therapeutics Mailing Address 1731 Embarcadero Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description Signature Therapeutics creates value through our ability to efficiently advance relatively low risk drug discovery and development programs, which address large markets with clearly defined unmet needs. Website http://www.signaturerx.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction … Continue reading “Ensysce Biosciences Acquires Signature Therapeutics for Undisclosed Sum”
Same Twist, New Funding: Gene Synthesizer Raises $61M Series D
Twist Bioscience is reeling in millions more in funding as the company, which has developed a process of manufacturing synthetic DNA, plans to expand in the U.S. and internationally. Based in San Francisco, Twist announced a $61 million Series D round of funding alongside a piece of debt financing for as much as $20 million. … Continue reading “Same Twist, New Funding: Gene Synthesizer Raises $61M Series D”
GM Acquires Sidecar’s “Essential” Ridesharing IP, Key Employees
Bay Area ridesharing pioneer Sidecar was back in the news this morning, when it was announced that General Motors has acquired the recently shuttered startup’s technology and assets. The value of the deal was not disclosed, but a source close to the situation told Bloomberg that “it was less than the roughly $39 million that … Continue reading “GM Acquires Sidecar’s “Essential” Ridesharing IP, Key Employees”
What Startups Need to Attract Talent: A Purposeful Mission
Success for startups is often elusive, but there are underlying characteristics that can give growing companies a leg up on the competition, especially when it comes to the most important factor—recruiting and retaining top-tier talent. At Norwest, I have found that companies that have a purposeful mission—one that hinges on giving back and making an impact … Continue reading “What Startups Need to Attract Talent: A Purposeful Mission”
Love ‘Em? Hate ‘Em? No Matter. The Drug Industry Gets What It Wants.
Anyone reading this column should be familiar with the fight over drug prices. Many of you would argue that drug makers are too easy a target in political debates and the media, getting little credit for developing lifesaving drugs. Others of you believe that prices have gotten out of hand, and that price gouger Martin … Continue reading “Love ‘Em? Hate ‘Em? No Matter. The Drug Industry Gets What It Wants.”
Cleantech Evolves, But Will Investors Follow?
Cleantech might be turning a corner. But one important question is whether the evolving sector, showing signs of resurgence, can recapture the attention of disillusioned investors. After vast sums of venture capital were poured into cleantech in the latter half of the 2000s—peaking at $4.3 billion in 2011—the flow of money slowed over the past … Continue reading “Cleantech Evolves, But Will Investors Follow?”
Big Switch Networks Lands $48,500,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ca0eb3fd-334a-4ca6-85c2-1ae63efe0451 Date 1/19/2016 Company Name Big Switch Networks Mailing Address 3965 Freedom Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description Big Switch Networks is commercializing network virtualization technologies based on OpenFlow. Every time you search on Google, friend on Facebook or start a VM on Amazon, you are using the world’s most … Continue reading “Big Switch Networks Lands $48,500,000 New Round”
Brightpearl Secures $11,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d13820c9-80b6-493a-bc0f-40327ec2c3fb Date 1/19/2016 Company Name Brightpearl Mailing Address 625 Market Street 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Brightpearl is a powerful-yet-simple retail and inventory management software that helps small- and medium-size retailers and wholesalers expand and compete with larger rivals by streamlining sales and supply chain functions across multiple … Continue reading “Brightpearl Secures $11,000,000 New Financing Round”
Captricity Garners $35,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ab7a0ebc-dcd6-47b8-b049-4af4725328a4 Date 1/19/2016 Company Name Captricity Mailing Address 360 22nd Street Oakland, CA 94612 USA Company Description The best way to turn paper forms into digital data. Captricity is the easiest, fastest, and most cost-effective way to capture data trapped on paper—such as thousands of hand-completed survey forms—and convert it into digital … Continue reading “Captricity Garners $35,000,000 Series C Financing”
ChatWork Lands $12,500,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a495bbd5-0209-48d9-811b-69c2d5685acb Date 1/19/2016 Company Name ChatWork Mailing Address 440 North Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description With our 10 years of experience in the software industry, we built a powerful, easy to use, and secured communication platform to help organizations build creative working cultures. We are on a mission to … Continue reading “ChatWork Lands $12,500,000 Series B Financing”
Twist Bioscience Garners $61,000,000 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c178fa9c-f1ed-4875-b152-75065b6ae80a Date 1/19/2016 Company Name Twist Bioscience Mailing Address 455 Mission Bay Blvd South San Francisco, CA 94158 USA Company Description At Twist Bioscience, our expertise is accelerating science and innovation by leveraging the power of scale. We have developed a proprietary semiconductor-based synthetic DNA manufacturing process featuring a 10,000-well silicon platform … Continue reading “Twist Bioscience Garners $61,000,000 Series D Financing”
ScaleArc Lands $20,000,000 Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5f42d5fd-9c7a-4784-9c48-a345e9bea21c Date 1/19/2016 Company Name ScaleArc Mailing Address 2901 Tasman Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description ScaleArc is the pioneer in a new category of database infrastructure software that simplifies the way database environments are deployed and managed, and lowers costs without any changes to applications or databases. Website http://www.scalearc.com … Continue reading “ScaleArc Lands $20,000,000 Series C Round”
Patreon Obtains $30,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=103793e2-afb0-4db5-b47b-d9a732f7b150 Date 1/19/2016 Company Name Patreon Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Patreon supports artists and content creators by letting fans fund each piece of created content. Website http://www.patreon.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $30,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes We are going be be focused … Continue reading “Patreon Obtains $30,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Twist Bioscience Lands $20,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=845cddf5-fdd7-4545-8df7-e46215f83740 Date 1/19/2016 Company Name Twist Bioscience Mailing Address 455 Mission Bay Blvd South San Francisco, CA 94158 USA Company Description At Twist Bioscience, our expertise is accelerating science and innovation by leveraging the power of scale. We have developed a proprietary semiconductor-based synthetic DNA manufacturing process featuring a 10,000-well silicon platform … Continue reading “Twist Bioscience Lands $20,000,000 New Financing”
West Coast Bio Roundup: Illumina, 10X Genomics, Juno, and More
[Corrected 1/19/16, 10:10 am. See below.] Last week’s annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference put the biotech industry’s biggest event on display, as some 9,000 life sciences executives and investors descended upon San Francisco. Unfortunately, as Bloomberg News pointed out, the industry’s lack of gender diversity also was on display—most egregiously at a LifeSci Advisors party … Continue reading “West Coast Bio Roundup: Illumina, 10X Genomics, Juno, and More”
Relativity Media Obtains New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5c506859-f4b2-4634-b3a0-49e29f0403a6 Date 1/18/2016 Company Name Relativity Media Mailing Address 580 Pacific Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133 USA Company Description Relativity productions include Safe Haven, directed by Lasse Hallström; Immortals, which grossed more than $225 million worldwide; Neil Burger’s thriller Limitless, starring Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper; David O. Website http://www.relativitymedia.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Relativity Media Obtains New Financing”
Neura Receives $11,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8b9bb6b8-5044-425c-aa2d-7db92b3f6dbd Date 1/18/2016 Company Name Neura Mailing Address 102 Persian Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Company Description Neura is a network of things people and places, enabling consolidation, automation and extrapolation with the plethora of connected devices in our life. Website http://www.theneura.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $11,000,000 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “Neura Receives $11,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Wish Secures $50,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f4ec19a9-268f-41ff-a0bb-80040f9c8dd0 Date 1/18/2016 Company Name Wish Mailing Address 1 Sansome St. 40th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Wish is a disruptive social platform to discover, collect, and share products with your friends. We are passionate about connecting relevant products to relevant people, and making shopping fun and seamless. Website … Continue reading “Wish Secures $50,000,000 New Financing Round”
OrphoMed Secures $2,816,012 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e06c3a22-0f7a-49f1-80f7-d3b060e3efe1 Date 1/18/2016 Company Name OrphoMed Mailing Address 806 Denise Court Mill Valley, CA 94941 USA Company Description OrphoMed is a San Francisco Bay Area pharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel first-in-class therapeutic dimer conjugates based on its proprietary DIMERx platform technology. Website http://www.orphomed.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $2,816,012 … Continue reading “OrphoMed Secures $2,816,012 New Funding Round”
Axway Acquires Appcelerator for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6b9683fa-1fd4-452e-b19b-80cca1f91726 Date 1/18/2016 Company Name Appcelerator Mailing Address 440 N. Bernardo Ave. Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description Appcelerator is an open source platform for building rich web applications. Appcelerator, Inc. is a silicon valley venture funded company located in Mountain View, California. Appcelerator was started in 2006 by software veterans … Continue reading “Axway Acquires Appcelerator for Undisclosed Sum”
Grail’s Discount, Pfizergan & Pricing Plans: Notes from the JPM Vortex
[Editor’s note: Deputy Biotechnology Editor Ben Fidler co-wrote this story] The week of the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco kicked off with a rousing, sleeves-rolled-up defense of the drug industry’s pricing policies by Ron Cohen, CEO of the multiple sclerosis drug maker Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ACOR]]) and new chair of the industry’s … Continue reading “Grail’s Discount, Pfizergan & Pricing Plans: Notes from the JPM Vortex”
Tech Startups Succeed With Top Talent, But Where Will They Park?
While companies are in the process of refining prototypes, hiring key employees, and nailing down investment, one overlooked area is where the business will be housed and, more specifically, where everyone will park. In Austin, it’s not just the new companies that are struggling with finding enough parking for their employees downtown. Established firms are … Continue reading “Tech Startups Succeed With Top Talent, But Where Will They Park?”
OurCrowd-Xconomy Study Documents Growth in Equity Crowdfunding
In a short few months, the number of people who can invest in equity crowdfunding will dramatically increase. In October, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a framework for allowing individual investors to participate in the new form of financing, which had previously been restricted to wealthy accredited investors. Those new rules go into … Continue reading “OurCrowd-Xconomy Study Documents Growth in Equity Crowdfunding”
New Capital For Anaplan, App Annie, Shape Security
Bay Area companies, back from the holidays, unveiled some substantial fundraising hauls this week. —Anaplan, a provider of Web-based planning software for businesses, announced a $90 million Series E financing round that pegs its valuation at more than $1 billion. The San Francisco-based company’s planning tools are designed to track numerical data from all aspects … Continue reading “New Capital For Anaplan, App Annie, Shape Security”