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Marqeta Obtains $25,000,000 Series C Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=764f17ba-a54e-45d2-8dd8-917be6f1ac3d Date 10/28/2015 Company Name Marqeta Mailing Address 6160 Buena Vista Avenue Oakland, CA 94618 USA Company Description Marqeta operates an online network that allows users to get more for the money you spend with your favorite retailers. Website http://www.marqeta.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round Series C Proceeds … Continue reading “Marqeta Obtains $25,000,000 Series C Financing”

Cengage Snaps Up ePortfolio Tool from SF Startup Pathbrite

In a continuing drive to assemble a comprehensive suite of online learning tools for schools, Boston-based edtech company Cengage Learning is adding San Francisco-based startup Pathbrite’s student portfolio feature to its repertoire of acquisitions. Pathbrite’s product, the Portfolio Learning Platform, allows students to store their completed course assignments, such as essays, artwork, and videos, in … Continue reading “Cengage Snaps Up ePortfolio Tool from SF Startup Pathbrite”

Enlitic CEO: Deep-Learning Software Could Soon Help Diagnose Patients

“Take two aspirin and call me in the morning” is the punch line to decades’ worth of doctor-diagnosis jokes, but San Francisco software company Enlitic doesn’t see the humor in it. Enlitic is building a computer system to help doctors make faster, more accurate diagnoses, and it’s gotten its first major customer in the Australian … Continue reading “Enlitic CEO: Deep-Learning Software Could Soon Help Diagnose Patients”

Why Passion and Preparedness Matter to Urban-Focused Investors

Detroit is considered by many to be the ultimate proving ground for social entrepreneurs, a place where they can test solutions to homelessness, lack of functioning public transit, and other major problems. Capitalizing on that reputation, the Urban Entrepreneurship Symposium—held Friday at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies and co-hosted by Michigan State University, Wayne State … Continue reading “Why Passion and Preparedness Matter to Urban-Focused Investors”

Taris 2.0: A Year After Buyout, VCs Bet $32M More on a Second Strike

It’s hard enough to successfully create and sell a biotech company, let alone strike gold twice or more on the same group of assets. But that’s the type of thing Taris Biomedical and its venture backers are shooting for, a year after selling one of the company’s programs to Irvine, CA-based Allergan (NYSE: [[ticker:AGN]]). In … Continue reading “Taris 2.0: A Year After Buyout, VCs Bet $32M More on a Second Strike”

Spigit Receives $13,000,000 New Financing Round

[Corrected 10/28/15, 9:53 am. See below.] Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8ee3f8c-2e16-401c-bfb9-370144ccbf91 Date 10/27/2015 Company Name Spigit Mailing Address 1160 Battery St East 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description Spigit is a purpose built social networking tool used by leading companies to connect their employees, customers and business partners for idea and innovation discovery. … Continue reading “Spigit Receives $13,000,000 New Financing Round”

Flex Logix Secures $7,400,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b681a112-29f8-477f-ba78-5025728aa1cc Date 10/27/2015 Company Name Flex Logix Mailing Address 2570 W El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 USA Company Description You do not need to be an FPGA expert to use our EFLX FPGA cores in your SoC to allow you or your system customers to reconfigure RTL when needed. Now … Continue reading “Flex Logix Secures $7,400,000 New Funding”

Fieldwire Obtains $6,600,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2bb36e6b-52d8-4aad-8e41-90f155eba598 Date 10/27/2015 Company Name Fieldwire Mailing Address 645 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Fieldwire is a mobile first, geo-tagged task management platform for the field. It allows teams to collaborate by recording, tracking and sharing critical information. Website http://www.fieldwire.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $6,600,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Fieldwire Obtains $6,600,000 New Financing”

Alpaca Garners $1,000,000 Seed Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b7e520c8-9573-4286-b4d8-a5982d46d126 Date 10/27/2015 Company Name Alpaca Mailing Address 55 East Third Avenue San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description At Alpaca, we truly believe that technology can greatly enhance people’s capabilities and daily lives. We want to use technology to help create a productive and harmonious society where we all can afford … Continue reading “Alpaca Garners $1,000,000 Seed Financing”

SourceClear Lands $10,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=23eaeaf7-bd12-4ef3-8b8d-e52b2fd55446 Date 10/27/2015 Company Name SourceClear Mailing Address 375 Alabama Street San Francisco, WA 94110 USA Company Description Today’s developers use today’s web. They work in the cloud, use social platforms like Facebook and GitHub, work with open-source and use frameworks and libraries. They are the API economy and masters of the … Continue reading “SourceClear Lands $10,000,000 New Funding Round”

Adesto Technologies Obtains $25,000,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=62a3f14f-2c92-405e-bbb5-f773a2591661 Date 10/27/2015 Company Name Adesto Technologies Mailing Address 1250 Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Company Description Adesto Technologies (NASDAQ: IOTS) was founded in 2006 by a team of experienced semiconductor memory developers. The company’s mission is to turn CBRAM technology into a platform of memory solutions that spans from the … Continue reading “Adesto Technologies Obtains $25,000,000 New Funding”

McGuire, Bosley, Watson, & More at Our Health Summit—Register Today

We have just over three weeks to go before our third annual Healthcare Summit here in Boston. And if you act quickly, you can take advantage of our Procrastinator’s Special and save $100 off regular registration…if you don’t put it off, that is. The agenda is live—and you can see for yourself the fantastic afternoon … Continue reading “McGuire, Bosley, Watson, & More at Our Health Summit—Register Today”

Vertex, CRISPR Tx Team up on Gene Editing Drugs in $105M Pact

There’s still got a long way to go before we know if the landmark gene editing system known as CRISPR-Cas9 can really change how diseases are treated. But big biotech companies are now starting to dabble in it. The latest example: Vertex Pharmaceuticals has cut a deal with one of the field’s startups to try … Continue reading “Vertex, CRISPR Tx Team up on Gene Editing Drugs in $105M Pact”

Poynt Receives $28,000,000 Series B Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bc14489d-411a-46d0-813c-0960961a6ef9 Date 10/26/2015 Company Name Poynt Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Company Description Poynt was founded on the belief that all merchants should have access to innovative technology without compromising on security or user experience. We set out to fix broken commerce infrastructure by bringing developers, distributors and merchants … Continue reading “Poynt Receives $28,000,000 Series B Funding Round”

ConnectSolutions Lands $2,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=58f90cc8-3c5d-40ae-adaf-b187e1ec1b13 Date 10/26/2015 Company Name ConnectSolutions Mailing Address 731 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Connectsolutions is a leading private-cloud service provider of unified communications solutions for enterprise and government organizations. We deliver and provide our customers a scalable, best-of-breed UC product and service with industry-leading security and reliability. … Continue reading “ConnectSolutions Lands $2,000,000 New Financing”

West Coast Bio Roundup: Theranos, 23andMe, Invitae, Gritstone, Etc.

Biotech executives and investors gathered in San Francisco this week to size one another up, schmooze, and eat rubber chicken lunches—although the vegetarian ravioli option wasn’t bad. It was the best-attended of the 14 BioInvestor Forums (Fora?) so far, according to its organizers. It certainly beat the 2011 version, which featured creative room-remodeling to hide … Continue reading “West Coast Bio Roundup: Theranos, 23andMe, Invitae, Gritstone, Etc.”

Gigsky Secures $7,102,400 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1a712117-1e5c-431a-b5c3-66e0f821196f Date 10/23/2015 Company Name Gigsky Mailing Address 2390 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Company Description GigSky is the first global mobile network designed for travelers. Connectivity is critical to our lives no matter where we are. Traditional carriers focus on their domestic markets and treat international service as … Continue reading “Gigsky Secures $7,102,400 New Financing Round”

SurveyMonkey Ups Cred As Pollster, Hires Election Czar

Technological changes have knocked the election polling industry off the rails—but now tech companies are trying to get it back on track. SurveyMonkey just announced it is amping up its commitment to capturing public opinion during political contests, starting with the 2016 presidential election. This week, the company announced the hiring of its first head … Continue reading “SurveyMonkey Ups Cred As Pollster, Hires Election Czar”

Dev Bootcamp Adds San Diego Program as Coding Schools Multiply

Dev Bootcamp, a San Francisco-based training program for Web developers, has arrived in San Diego. The three-year-old company is accepting applications for its first 19-week course in downtown San Diego, which begins November 9. The company describes itself as a pioneer of the software coding bootcamp model, intensive programs that teach students the fundamentals of … Continue reading “Dev Bootcamp Adds San Diego Program as Coding Schools Multiply”

Amino Health Receives $19,400,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=15b34485-0080-4a64-92a2-3bb95ead8007 Date 10/22/2015 Company Name Amino Health Mailing Address 394 Pacific Ave. San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description Our mission is to create the clearest picture of American health care and connect everyone with the best care possible. We’re making health care simple and intuitive using data, design, and a whole … Continue reading “Amino Health Receives $19,400,000 New Round”

iMerit Secures $3,500,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=68dd857b-ae32-4b21-805a-3c0712e78c32 Date 10/22/2015 Company Name iMerit Mailing Address 14435C Big Basin Way Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Company Description iMerit was founded to help underprivileged youth escape the poverty trap by providing livelihoods through the creation of digital jobs. Website http://www.imerit.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “iMerit Secures $3,500,000 New Financing Round”

Artillery Receives Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5d41621e-00cb-4e32-91ca-9bae9403c403 Date 10/22/2015 Company Name Artillery Mailing Address 395 Page Mill Road 3rd Floor Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Artillery is bringing console quality gaming experiences to modern browsers using the latest HTML5 technology. Website http://www.artillery.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes We’ve … Continue reading “Artillery Receives Series A Financing”

Numerify Garners $37,500,000 Series C Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=51b0216a-ddf3-41b8-a005-b10341d8bcdd Date 10/22/2015 Company Name Numerify Mailing Address 20823 Stevens Creek Boulevard Cupertino, CA 95014 USA Company Description Numerify is re-imagining business analytics by allowing decision makers to rapidly get to the meaningful numbers they need to reliably measure and effectively manage their businesses in the age of the cloud. Website http://www.numerify.com … Continue reading “Numerify Garners $37,500,000 Series C Funding”

LeanTaaS Lands $3,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b24e4440-28c6-4495-9bc7-b708351b9988 Date 10/22/2015 Company Name LeanTaaS Mailing Address 469 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95050 USA Company Description LeanTaaS iQueue looks at the big picture – your resource availability, staff schedules, operating hours, appointment history and hundreds of other parameters, and uses machine learning combined with patented mathematical models to ensure … Continue reading “LeanTaaS Lands $3,000,000 New Round”

Solinea Lands $4,000,000 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cb42805b-bc11-43d8-8ab8-b9ff8afff2ca Date 10/22/2015 Company Name Solinea Mailing Address 404 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Solinea is the software and services company purpose-built to deliver cloud strategy, architecture and integration services to enterprises, service providers and SaaS providers. We solve the major cloud computing infrastructure challenges with a specific … Continue reading “Solinea Lands $4,000,000 Series A Funding”

Allay Receives $3,400,000 Seed Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=28596ea3-a6e8-4069-91b3-bd63c0a6860d Date 10/22/2015 Company Name Allay Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Allay enables companies to work with the broker of their choice to do online, paperless health insurance purchasing, and full HR and benefits administration. Website http://www.allay.io Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,400,000 Transaction Round Seed … Continue reading “Allay Receives $3,400,000 Seed Round”

NerdWallet Garners $5,000,000 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7d7b8405-79b2-4a88-abca-c5588f8c3424 Date 10/22/2015 Company Name NerdWallet Mailing Address 901 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description NerdWallet is focused on helping people lead better lives through financial education and empowerment. Website http://www.nerdwallet.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “NerdWallet Garners $5,000,000 Series A Funding”

Periscope Data Obtains $9,500,000 Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=52a89b8b-ff7c-4f90-85c8-e82e1a572b7f Date 10/22/2015 Company Name Periscope Data Mailing Address 461 2nd St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Periscope Data merges business data from many data sources — ads, databases, billing, email, etc. — automatically and instantaneously. Customers use it to answer questions like: how do email and SMS. Website http://www.periscope.io … Continue reading “Periscope Data Obtains $9,500,000 Series A Funding Round”

Gene Therapy Startup Dimension Cuts Price But Bags $72M in IPO

The sentiment for biotechs trying to go public these days continues to be lukewarm. Witness Dimension Therapeutics, which couldn’t hit its IPO pricing goal despite a cadre of big name investors and ties to one of gene therapy’s scientific pioneers. Cambridge, MA-based Dimension sold 5.5 million shares at $13 apiece on Wednesday and will make … Continue reading “Gene Therapy Startup Dimension Cuts Price But Bags $72M in IPO”

LabCentral Backers Planning $150M Venture Fund For Biotech Startups

[Corrected 10/29/15, 12:52 am. See below.] Boom or not, there’s always a need for startup capital in biotech. A new source is about to emerge. The founders of LabCentral and Cambridge BioLabs, well-known biotech incubators in Cambridge, MA, are on the verge of closing what they hope to be a $150 million early-stage fund for … Continue reading “LabCentral Backers Planning $150M Venture Fund For Biotech Startups”

Verizon’s MapQuest Goes Mobile to Compete With Google, Apple Maps

MapQuest is still a thing? MapQuest is still a thing. The company that first introduced the world to turn-by-turn directions in the late ‘90s and early aughts is still around and getting people where they need to go, despite maintaining a quiet presence, well, just about everywhere. “’Is MapQuest still around?’ We hear that quite … Continue reading “Verizon’s MapQuest Goes Mobile to Compete With Google, Apple Maps”

Betabrand Obtains $15,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5d31fec1-a4ea-4088-ae44-17023bca3a88 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Betabrand Mailing Address 3435 Cesar Chavez San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Betabrand is an online-only clothing company based in San Francisco. We design, manufacture, and release new inventions every week, thanks to collaborations with all sorts of local designers as well as our growing global … Continue reading “Betabrand Obtains $15,000,000 New Funding Round”

Capnia Secures $1,434,194 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d842b1b5-a521-434e-89e5-3e1d105b7528 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Capnia Mailing Address 3 Twin Dolphin Drive Redwood City, CA 94065 USA Company Description CAPNIA is a private company developing novel therapeutic products using its proprietary medical gas delivery system. Website http://www.capnia.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,434,194 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “Capnia Secures $1,434,194 New Funding Round”

Adjust Garners $17,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c9782fe9-0fb9-45cd-8538-4ff30cb6aa6b Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Adjust Mailing Address 25 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94102 USA Company Description For too long the mobile industry has, at best, provided rubbish in rubbish out data feedback to advertisers. We got fed up with this because we knew there was a better way. So we … Continue reading “Adjust Garners $17,000,000 New Financing Round”

Haiku Deck Obtains $550,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=de5b4a44-5cc4-46ad-a8f3-57de45e1bc29 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Haiku Deck Mailing Address 1341 N. Northlake Way Seattle, WA 94103 USA Company Description Haiku Deck is rooted in a few simple principles. We know everyone has great stories and ideas ready to be set free. We believe crafting a compelling story should be a joyful creative … Continue reading “Haiku Deck Obtains $550,000 New Funding Round”

Attune Receives $10,000,000 Series B Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d673685-c86c-426a-8650-58dd3cc178b5 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Attune Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description By reading, evaluating and responding in real-time to information from both products and customers, we elevate the products each customer is most likely to buy within each collection. We also optimize within product options so that … Continue reading “Attune Receives $10,000,000 Series B Funding”

Imply Lands $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ee7f6733-4024-4b59-bcec-93a388764ee5 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Imply Mailing Address 211 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Druid is an open source, distributed analytics data store that powers user-facing data applications, provides fast queries on data in Hadoop, and helps you glean insights from streaming data. The architecture unifies historical and … Continue reading “Imply Lands $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round”

Silk Road Medical Obtains $57,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6e6b89d7-b6d5-44c4-9482-a60cbb0b36d4 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Silk Road Medical Mailing Address 735 N. Pastoria Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description Silk Road Medical, Inc. is a company that develops and manufactures less-invasive medical devices intended to improve the treatment of carotid artery disease through proprietary transcarotid therapies. Website http://www.silkroadmed.com Transaction Type Debt … Continue reading “Silk Road Medical Obtains $57,000,000 New Round”

Squad Garners $1,700,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7e58dc47-3cd7-4da8-ab24-bffeee7ffe9d Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Squad Mailing Address 300 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Our team at Squad is super passionate about sports, and we’re creating a sports social network to experience sports through the perspective of athletes and fans, not traditional media. Website http://www.squad.life Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Squad Garners $1,700,000 Seed Financing Round”

Citus Data Receives $9,500,000 Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=812f7068-28ff-48e0-b85b-dd48ace15c7d Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Citus Data Mailing Address 450 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Citus Data offers CitusDB, a full featured database solution built on PostgreSQL. CitusDB is a hybrid operational/analytics database which scales out across commodity servers and parallel processes queries across the cluster nodes to … Continue reading “Citus Data Receives $9,500,000 Series A Financing”

Reflektion Receives $3,022,889 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1958a0b9-4b2e-4309-b6ef-6d0b7cd2e8be Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Reflektion Mailing Address 777 Mariners Island Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94404 USA Company Description Reflektion drives millions of incremental conversion events as well as more qualified traffic for leading retailers of all sizes, including The Walt Disney Company, Converse, Uniqlo, and O’Neill Clothing. The company’s core technology … Continue reading “Reflektion Receives $3,022,889 New Round”

Palantir Technologies Garners $104,830,011 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=57247c97-357b-4124-84f1-a019ffe3796d Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Palantir Technologies Mailing Address 100 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Palantir’s analytical platform is revolutionizing information analysis and management, providing superior human-driven systems needed to explore and analyze the subtle connections that exist within vast networks of heterogeneous information. Website http://www.palantir.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Palantir Technologies Garners $104,830,011 New Financing Round”

This New England Company Runs the Internet—And Now You Can, Too

Steve Case, the AOL co-founder and venture capitalist, had high praise for a tech company based in the fair city of Manchester, NH. Your staff is basically running the Internet from New Hampshire, he told a crowd at a recent event at Dyn’s headquarters (I’m paraphrasing). Dyn is an Internet infrastructure firm born just after … Continue reading “This New England Company Runs the Internet—And Now You Can, Too”

Cancer Vaccines Back in Vogue as VCs Put $102M Into Gritstone Oncology

Not long ago making an effective cancer vaccine seemed like a dead-end proposition, but that sentiment is changing. The latest evidence: Gritstone Oncology, which makes its debut today with a massive Series A financing. Gritstone has raised a $102 million Series A round led by Versant Ventures and The Column Group. Others pitching in include … Continue reading “Cancer Vaccines Back in Vogue as VCs Put $102M Into Gritstone Oncology”

What’s Your DNA Worth? The Scramble To Cash In On the Genome

The consumer genome. You’ll hear that phrase enough the next couple years that it will gain both the weight and lightness of inevitability. It will feel inevitable because, as we’ve been hearing for years now, DNA is just another long string of crunchable, malleable, transportable code, so it’s just the next destination for the digital … Continue reading “What’s Your DNA Worth? The Scramble To Cash In On the Genome”

ZeroStack Obtains $16,000,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=31e692ca-7665-4768-a75c-131817623d6f Date 10/20/2015 Company Name ZeroStack Mailing Address 201 Ravendale Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description ZeroStack delivers the industry’s first complete, scale-out private cloud that converges compute, storage, networking and management services. With ZeroStack, customers can drastically reduce time to value for IT, and lower software, hardware and operational … Continue reading “ZeroStack Obtains $16,000,000 Series B Financing”

Collective Health Receives $81,000,000 Series C Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9c60c727-4f5c-4db3-8888-42b6ecff5138 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Collective Health Mailing Address 60 E 3rd Ave. San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description Great minds working together to raise your expectations of what a health plan can do. Collective Health is creating the health insurance experience we all want and deserve. We’re starting by fixing … Continue reading “Collective Health Receives $81,000,000 Series C Funding Round”

Naia Garners $5,300,000 Series A Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a1487fcb-a281-457c-948f-67b8fcc4147c Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Naia Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Naia Limited is a privately-held, international drug development company that employs an innovative global strategy to clinically advance drug candidates. Website http://www.naiapharma.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,300,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Naia Garners $5,300,000 Series A Round”

Zignal Labs Obtains $15,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8d0b4ee-3d60-419e-9a78-7808fee7b224 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Zignal Labs Mailing Address 244 Jackson St. 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description Zignal Labs was founded by industry experts who realized there was a need for innovation in gathering and analyzing massive amounts of information. This commitment to forward thinking and seamless solutions … Continue reading “Zignal Labs Obtains $15,000,000 New Round”