It’s always good to catch up with Mike Baker. It’s not always good to wait a year or more between catch-ups, though. Baker is the CEO of Boston-based DataXu. And if you don’t watch closely, suddenly you realize his company has grown to 220 people, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Brazil, … Continue reading “DataXu Scoops Up $27M More, Turns Corner on Big-Data Ad Software”
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CallMiner Secures $9,610,889 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=875c49a2-a06d-4796-a124-290e60821785&Preview=1 Date 2/7/2013 Company Name CallMiner Mailing Address 230 Third Ave Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description CallMiner is the leading provider of speech analytics solutions that deliver near real-time customer intelligence from Call Center recordings. CallMiner’s advanced suite of applications enables managers and executives to gain insight into why customers call, what … Continue reading “CallMiner Secures $9,610,889 New Funding”
Dataxu Garners $27,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=eebe56c1-0148-4bb6-ae6c-f10a9f7b5cd8&Preview=1 Date 2/7/2013 Company Name Dataxu Mailing Address 281 Summer St. 4th Floor Boston, MA 02210 Company Description DataXu is a cutting-edge Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company formed by MIT alums and professionals. Our proprietary technology is a high-performance real-time, automated, self-learning decision-support system that matches advertisers, publishers, and web users at a rate … Continue reading “Dataxu Garners $27,000,000 New Financing”
Washington Governor Woos, But AMSC Has No Imminent Plans to Move
Washington Governor Jay Inslee dashed off a hand-written note to the chief executive of clean energy company AMSC minutes after being sworn in last month, inviting the Massachusetts company to move to the Evergreen State. It was at least a symbolic gesture, underscoring Inslee’s commitment to building the state’s clean technology sector, a point he … Continue reading “Washington Governor Woos, But AMSC Has No Imminent Plans to Move”
The Series A Crunch: Don’t Get Discouraged
Much is being said on a daily basis about the “Series A crunch.” Supposedly, there aren’t enough venture investors to support all the startups winning seed funding these days. I will give you my thoughts on how to deal with the issue. Please note that this advice is entirely for entrepreneurs, not investors. First and … Continue reading “The Series A Crunch: Don’t Get Discouraged”
Boston Roundup: Biogen Idec, Cloudant, NEA, eClinicalWorks, & More
A big biotech drug buy leads off this collection of deal news from around the Boston region: —Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: [[ticker:BIIB]]) is buying out partner Elan Corp.’s interest in natalizumab (Tysabri), a drug for people who have relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. Weston-based Biogen is paying $3.25 billion up front to Ireland-based Elan, plus future … Continue reading “Boston Roundup: Biogen Idec, Cloudant, NEA, eClinicalWorks, & More”
Ironwood Bucks the Trends, Makes Big Bet on Drug For Millions
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is a bit of throwback in biotech. And this is the year the Cambridge, MA-based company (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IRWD]]) will find out if some old-school sensibility, combined with new technology, can still pay off. While many of today’s biotechs aspire to become bite-size entities that are easily absorbed by Big Pharma acquirers, Ironwood has … Continue reading “Ironwood Bucks the Trends, Makes Big Bet on Drug For Millions”
Cloudant Obtains New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b92e7a1b-657d-481d-a078-3297a5eedf26&Preview=1 Date 2/6/2013 Company Name Cloudant Mailing Address 129 South St. Boston, MA 02111 Company Description Cloudant offers an integrated database, analytics, and search, providing businesses with an easy to use, highly-scalable data platform based on Apache CouchDB. Website http://www.cloudant.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Cloudant Obtains New Funding”
Upstream Commerce Receives $3,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b20fa1e0-42a3-4ecc-b0a9-bc4d3474beaa&Preview=1 Date 2/6/2013 Company Name Upstream Commerce Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02108 Company Description Upstream Commerce was founded in 2010 by seasoned retail technology experts, Amos Peleg and Shai Geva on the premise that automated Retail Intelligence capability should simplify and streamline the highly-complicated data-gathering process inherent in competitive retail intelligence … Continue reading “Upstream Commerce Receives $3,000,000 New Funding Round”
Zynga, East Coast Publishers Talk Strategies at Mobile Gaming USA East
Zynga Mobile New York, GSN Digital, The Tap Lab, and other mobile game publishers gave a glimpse inside their playbooks on getting more revenue from freemium titles at last week’s Mobile Gaming USA East conference. Chieh Huang, a director with Zynga Mobile NY, said during a panel that game makers can let money slip through … Continue reading “Zynga, East Coast Publishers Talk Strategies at Mobile Gaming USA East”
Twitter’s Boston Acquisitions: Crashlytics Tops $100M, Bluefin Labs Close Behind
People are talking about Twitter’s Boston-area acquisitions today. Some more than others. Unsubstantiated rumors and prices are flying around like so many careless tweets. Whom should you believe? Answer: Xconomy (and me). Hey, I’m sticking my neck out here. Independent of other media reports, I have it on good authority that Twitter is acquiring Bluefin … Continue reading “Twitter’s Boston Acquisitions: Crashlytics Tops $100M, Bluefin Labs Close Behind”
NXT-ID Garners $150,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c2374b0a-3136-4024-a03a-18a1070e2664&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name NXT-ID Mailing Address 4 Research Drive Shelton, CT 06484 Company Description The founders of NXT-ID were an integral part of the senior management teams at Technest Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiary Genex Technologies. Genex Technologies was founded in 1995 to develop and commercialize the unique Rainbow method … Continue reading “NXT-ID Garners $150,000 New Funding”
kWhOURS Receives $1,539,057 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4fde7ba4-1cc7-40c9-9fcb-459b41363bf1&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name kWhOURS Mailing Address 38 Chauncy Street Boston, MA 02111 Company Description kWhOURS, Inc. is leading the charge to transform the commercial and industrial energy auditing industries. We were founded because the status quo of energy auditing was too cumbersome of a process and did not properly leverage … Continue reading “kWhOURS Receives $1,539,057 Series A Financing”
iCreate to Educate Garners New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e7cd95d8-c500-4d26-94c9-5f28767f4511&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name iCreate to Educate Mailing Address 100 Trade Center Woburn, MA 01801 Company Description iCreate was founded in 2010 by Melissa Pickering, former Walt Disney Imagineer, a job title often referred to as “roller coaster engineer” or the “dream job.” However, she pursued her dream of enabling K12 … Continue reading “iCreate to Educate Garners New Financing Round”
eBrevia Obtains $150,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4e41a4cb-a764-4ebc-8251-8666aa83f12f&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name eBrevia Mailing Address Undisclosed Stamford , CT 06901 Company Description eBrevia is commercializing natural language processing technology developed at Columbia University to assist corporate attorneys, in-house counsel, and business executives in performing a variety of tasks more efficiently, accurately, and cost effectively. Using machine learning techniques, the … Continue reading “eBrevia Obtains $150,000 New Funding Round”
Ellevation Education Lands $1,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=456668e9-a342-4a8b-a6a3-915ddd54aca5&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name Ellevation Education Mailing Address 24 School Street 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02108 Company Description Ellevation is a mission-driven software company exclusively focused on the needs of English Language Learners and the professionals that serve them. Website http://www.ellevationeducation.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Ellevation Education Lands $1,500,000 New Funding”
MediaCrossing Secures $150,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=204a5dd1-8c41-432a-8a21-ba6fe3a3637a&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name MediaCrossing Mailing Address Undisclosed Stamford, CT 06901 Company Description MediaCrossing Inc. is building an important new company in an exciting new category–independent media trading and market making–in the fast-growing multi-billion dollar global digital ad market. Website http://www.mediacrossing.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $150,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “MediaCrossing Secures $150,000 New Round”
Twitter Acquires Bluefin Labs for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5de3bfb5-481c-439c-9858-4a955d5e18d0&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name Bluefin Labs Mailing Address One Kendall Square Bldg 1700 Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Bluefin’s technology platform watches everything that’s on TV and recognizes all social media conversations that are about TV – both shows and commercials. Bluefin has developed semantic analysis and video fingerprinting technology at … Continue reading “Twitter Acquires Bluefin Labs for Undisclosed Sum”
Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program—Lessons Learned
I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is part 2 of … Continue reading “Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program—Lessons Learned”
Acme Packet Sold to Oracle for $2B; Cue Silicon Valley Envy
Oracle owns the Boston tech scene. That’s all I can think of now. The Larry Ellison machine from Silicon Valley has spent increasing amounts of money to acquire Boston-area icons, including Phase Forward ($685 million), Endeca (about $1 billion), and now Acme Packet—the latter to the tune of $2.1 billion, a 22 percent premium on … Continue reading “Acme Packet Sold to Oracle for $2B; Cue Silicon Valley Envy”
Alnylam Gets $25M From Medicines Co. for Cholesterol Drug
Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has found a partner willing to help it go up against against some formidable competitors with a new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Alnylam (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ALNY]]) said today that The Medicines Company of Parsippany, NJ, has agreed to take an exclusive global license to Alnylam’s RNA interference drug candidates that block PCSK9, … Continue reading “Alnylam Gets $25M From Medicines Co. for Cholesterol Drug”
What’s in a Name? A Lot, When It Comes to ‘Precision Medicine’
Personalized medicine was supposed to be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It was going to be the payoff our society would see after investing in the Human Genome Project and so much other biomedical research. While most people on the street can’t say what it means, anybody can understand the … Continue reading “What’s in a Name? A Lot, When It Comes to ‘Precision Medicine’”
MedAdherence Receives $200,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=18e41998-6f8d-4a7e-bbac-86cde2b36f75&Preview=1 Date 2/4/2013 Company Name MedAdherence Mailing Address 30 Oakwood Avenue Norwalk, CT 06850 Company Description MedAdherence LLC was founded on the belief that serious medical complications and costs associated with people failing to follow their prescribed care plans can be avoided with the use of information and communication technologies, as well … Continue reading “MedAdherence Receives $200,000 New Financing”
CyVek Receives $5,500,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d14e0301-93f9-425b-b513-b4cbbeeb06d8&Preview=1 Date 2/4/2013 Company Name CyVek Mailing Address 2 Barnes Industrial Road South Wallingford, CT 06492 Company Description The objective of the CyVek technology is to provide a robust platform for multiplexed proteomics, particularly to serve the market needs of biomarker validation. Website http://www.cyvek.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,500,000 Transaction … Continue reading “CyVek Receives $5,500,000 Series D Funding”
Data Tamer Obtains Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6ead09f1-64ac-46f9-94cf-32495a11278d&Preview=1 Date 2/2/2013 Company Name Data Tamer Mailing Address 1430 Massachusetts Ave. 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 Company Description The company is focused on cloud-based tools for what’s called “ETL”—extracting, transforming, and loading data. Website http://www.data-tamer.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Data Tamer Obtains Seed Financing Round”
Cyber Attacks: A Growing Threat to the U.S. Economy
The cost of ubiquitous cyber attacks and cyber probes in the United States and the rest of the world is a staggering, ever-growing challenge. Antivirus firm Symantec estimated the 2011 global price tag of direct financial loss and the cost of remediating attacks at $338 billion, excluding the theft of intellectual property and damage from … Continue reading “Cyber Attacks: A Growing Threat to the U.S. Economy”
How Lytro is Shifting Our Perspective on Photography
The first time I got to play with a Lytro light-field camera was in March, 2012. If I had to sum up my reaction in eight words, it would be: “Concept: Mind-blowing. Execution: Not quite there yet.” It was clear that the technology inside the camera—which makes it possible to refocus a picture after it’s … Continue reading “How Lytro is Shifting Our Perspective on Photography”
New Accelerator LearnLaunchX Looks to Make Boston Ed-Tech Capital of the World
There’s a new startup accelerator in town. OK, there are a few—but this one specializes in technology and innovation in the field of education. LearnLaunchX, led by angel investor Jean Hammond and her team, is gearing up for its first group of startups this summer. Hammond spoke with me in conjunction with her nonprofit LearnLaunch’s … Continue reading “New Accelerator LearnLaunchX Looks to Make Boston Ed-Tech Capital of the World”
East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Sarepta, Vertex, Celsion, More
It was a roller coaster week for news on the East Coast, with two clinical trials ending with diametrically opposite results, Vertex explaining lackluster earnings, and Sarepta dealing with a weird Twitter hoax. —Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:VRTX]]) reported its third quarterly loss in a row on Tuesday, all because sales of its once high-flying hepatitis … Continue reading “East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Sarepta, Vertex, Celsion, More”
Allaire Out as Brightcove CEO
Jeremy Allaire, a founder of the Boston online media hosting company Brightcove, is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by the company’s head of operations. Brightcove announced the change today in its quarterly earnings report, albeit buried beneath the usual recitations about its financial performance. Allaire will remain as chairman of the publicly … Continue reading “Allaire Out as Brightcove CEO”
1366 Shakes Off Solar Industry Woes, Opens New Wafer Plant
Is this the only U.S. solar startup that’s actually doing well? That might be an overstatement. But after the much-publicized failings of Solyndra and Evergreen Solar, one might wonder what’s keeping Bedford, MA-based 1366 Technologies afloat. And, more to the point, what’s to keep 1366 from suffering a similar fate down the road? The answers … Continue reading “1366 Shakes Off Solar Industry Woes, Opens New Wafer Plant”
Former Battery Ventures VC Dhaliwal Launches New IT Fund
A longtime Boston venture capitalist is striking out on his own, with a new fund that aims to capitalize on big changes in the IT industry and early stage private investing. Sunil Dhaliwal, formerly of Battery Ventures, is formally unveiling Amplify Partners. The new fund has raised more than $16 million from about 25 investors, … Continue reading “Former Battery Ventures VC Dhaliwal Launches New IT Fund”
Companion Diagnostics for Cancer Drugs Advancing Personalized Medicine
The medical world took little notice earlier this month when Qiagen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:QGEN]]), a German maker of diagnostics equipment, asked the Food & Drug Administration to approve its test for a certain gene mutation associated with lung cancer. The mutation, involving the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) found on the surface of cells, plays an … Continue reading “Companion Diagnostics for Cancer Drugs Advancing Personalized Medicine”
Internet Time Machine Project Secures $1,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f6f234ab-8b8b-41d1-a231-2dfcc598809a&Preview=1 Date 1/31/2013 Company Name Internet Time Machine Project Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02108 Company Description The ITM’s cutting edge technology is able to identify micro niche segments with millions of high-demand prospects that are appearing on the social web (blogs,Facebook, twitter and elsewhere) that traditional market research methods cannot possibly … Continue reading “Internet Time Machine Project Secures $1,000,000 New Financing”
Boston Tech Tidbits: Apptopia, Linkwell, uTest, Travis McCready, & More
Too much going on in the Boston tech scene to keep track of at the moment—and much more coming soon. Here are just a few items that are swirling around my desk today. —Fast-growing mobile-app marketplace Apptopia says it has brokered a $200,000 acquisition of Bluecloud Solutions’ app portfolio by the fund AppBin. The deal … Continue reading “Boston Tech Tidbits: Apptopia, Linkwell, uTest, Travis McCready, & More”
The Post-Kickstarter Conundrum: Delivering Companies DOA?
Picture this: two guys in a garage coding The Next Big Thing. It’s an iconic and familiar image. Now imagine their ubiquitous computer keyboards being overtaken by a colony of 3-D foam models or CAD drawings. Now your mind’s eye sees these same guys (or gals) hacking away at something entirely different. This shift in … Continue reading “The Post-Kickstarter Conundrum: Delivering Companies DOA?”
Tech M&A: Report Finds Most Startups Didn’t Raise Outside Cash
Investors have been in a rush to finance early stage companies in the past few years, leading to angst among startup founders confronting a tougher time making it to the next stage of investment. But for companies that get successfully acquired, it turns out that outside financing isn’t a necessity. In fact, it’s a rarity. … Continue reading “Tech M&A: Report Finds Most Startups Didn’t Raise Outside Cash”
Aponia Laboratories Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=14c64b92-004b-4e30-9ce5-02194f7fb037&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Aponia Laboratories Mailing Address 67 Orchard Place Greenwich, CT 06830 Company Description Aponia Laboratories, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that produces a series of clinically proven prescription pain relief products. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “Aponia Laboratories Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding Round”
Jibo Lands New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6b7d03b0-006d-4bd5-8217-69a4655b025a&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Jibo Mailing Address Undisclosed Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Jibo’s trademark application gives a bit of insight into what the company may be up to: it discusses “personal robots, namely, interactive social and emotive robots that provide information, entertainment, education, and communications capabilities.” And among the patents … Continue reading “Jibo Lands New Funding Round”
Linkwell Health Secures Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=32107f07-1930-4116-8c1a-875085d87792&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Linkwell Health Mailing Address 10 Kearney Road Needham, MA 02492 Company Description Linkwell Health is the leading provider of lifestyle-driven nutrition programs. We work with organizations across the health care and food industries to design and implement couponing and nutritional incentive programs for individuals with chronic health … Continue reading “Linkwell Health Secures Series C Funding”
Quantopian Receives $2,100,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b4559e0d-6ac5-4d9d-88e2-8db2cd8f7aa4&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Quantopian Mailing Address 77 Summer St. 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02110 Company Description Quantopian is a platform for you to build, test, and execute trading algorithms. Website http://www.quantopian.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,100,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms … Continue reading “Quantopian Receives $2,100,000 New Financing Round”
FDA OKs First-in-Class Drug From Isis for Rare Cholesterol Disorder
The FDA today approved the cholesterol-lowering drug mipomersen (Kynamro)—the first major RNA therapeutic developed by Carlsbad, CA-based Isis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ISIS]]). Isis has been developing its lead drug candidate under a 2008 partnership with Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme, now part of the French drug giant Sanofi (NYSE: [[ticker:SNY]]). In a statement released late today, the FDA … Continue reading “FDA OKs First-in-Class Drug From Isis for Rare Cholesterol Disorder”
Boston Scientific Announces Job Cuts, Stock Buyback, Lower Earnings
Boston Scientific (NYSE: [[ticker:BSX]]) announced today that it plans to cut as many as 1,000 jobs this year, on top of the 1,250 to 1,400 job cuts it announced in 2011, as the troubled medical device maker continues to try and turn its fortunes around. The Natick, MA-based company also said it will buy back … Continue reading “Boston Scientific Announces Job Cuts, Stock Buyback, Lower Earnings”
Defense Secretary Gates: Underfund Basic Research at America’s Peril
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates distills a critical challenge to America’s continued prosperity and global leadership: Deliver to his generation all promised entitlements, or invest in research and education—the foundations of the country’s success. “I think it’s fair to say America’s economic pre-eminence—and I would argue our national security, and national influence as well—is largely … Continue reading “Defense Secretary Gates: Underfund Basic Research at America’s Peril”
DataGravity Pulls In $30M More to Go Big in Business Analytics
Gravity is at the core of the universe’s greatest mysteries. How Einstein’s general theory of relativity jibes with the Big Bang. How quantum theory might explain all forces at the smallest scales. And now: how a young company just might find the Holy Grail of “big data” analytics, by helping businesses extract insights from piles … Continue reading “DataGravity Pulls In $30M More to Go Big in Business Analytics”
Practically Green Lands $1,200,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c567517-f6d5-40ca-8bc7-36611183c240&Preview=1 Date 1/29/2013 Company Name Practically Green Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center 6th floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description The company operates a website aimed at helping consumers lead eco-friendly lifestyles. Website http://www.practicallygreen.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory … Continue reading “Practically Green Lands $1,200,000 New Funding”
DataGravity Receives $30,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8fd3a0d3-5756-491e-af81-dc16489ed7b3&Preview=1 Date 1/29/2013 Company Name DataGravity Mailing Address 10 Tara Blvd Nashua, NH 03062 Company Description DataGravity is an emerging startup being led by one of the founders of EqualLogic, Paula Long. Paula, along with John Joseph, her co-founder and former VP of Marketing and Product Management at EqualLogic are out to … Continue reading “DataGravity Receives $30,000,000 Series B Financing”
Samsung Electronics Acquires NeuroLogica for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=99c6a9f3-aab3-4917-aacf-573559151ce8&Preview=1 Date 1/29/2013 Company Name NeuroLogica Mailing Address 14 Electronics Ave Danvers, MA 01923 Company Description NeuroLogica Corporation, located in the Boston metro area, conceives, designs, engineers, manufactures and markets innovative medical imaging equipment for healthcare facilities and private practices worldwide. Website http://www.neurologica.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds … Continue reading “Samsung Electronics Acquires NeuroLogica for Undisclosed Sum”
Twitter Acquires Crashlytics for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=64dc1e7c-0ce0-4ca5-b146-e6bde670d268&Preview=1 Date 1/29/2013 Company Name Crashlytics Mailing Address 719 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 Company Description On its minimal website, Crashlytics states it is developing an amazingly simple way to locate and fix crashes in your apps (and more). Website http://www.crashlytics.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A … Continue reading “Twitter Acquires Crashlytics for Undisclosed Sum”
Twitter Buys Crashlytics, Getting Crash-Report Chops
Here’s an intriguing bit of tech acquisition news: Twitter is buying Crashlytics, the Cambridge, MA-based startup that helps software developers track down the bugs and errors that make their apps crash. It’s no surprise that Twitter, one of the big dogs of the social media era, is out shopping for smaller companies. And it’s not … Continue reading “Twitter Buys Crashlytics, Getting Crash-Report Chops”