Every industry needs its anchors, the companies that everyone looks up to as models of success. Think Apple, GE, Boeing. Biotech is no different, as it has been defined by trailblazers like Genentech, Genzyme, and more. But if you look around, biotech is clearly losing its anchors. And this worrisome trend isn’t just happening in … Continue reading “U.S. Biotech Clusters Are Losing Their Anchor Tenants, and It Hurts”
Category: Boston
Nexage Secures $5,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=adbbb0c8-8764-42c0-9065-0635058b34ee&Preview=1 Date 8/6/2012 Company Name Nexage Mailing Address 400 Fifth Avenue Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description Nexage is a leading developer of Mobile Advertising solutions that enable companies to maximize Ad revenue from their mobile properties. Its leading product is the AdMax Gateway, a hosted Ad Optimization service that enables carriers and … Continue reading “Nexage Secures $5,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
OvaScience Garners $441,463 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=401ddf08-f318-492c-9eac-17c8a0835ae3&Preview=1 Date 8/6/2012 Company Name OvaScience Mailing Address 800 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02199 Company Description The company is applying innovative science to improve the quality of eggs (oocytes) and increase the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF). OvaScience’s proprietary technology, exclusively licensed from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, enables … Continue reading “OvaScience Garners $441,463 New Funding”
NanoSteel Company Garners Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f8491858-62c8-4ecd-ba63-011ba60c0f9a&Preview=1 Date 8/6/2012 Company Name NanoSteel Company Mailing Address 272 West Exchange Street Providence, RI 02903 Company Description The NanoSteel Company is an advanced materials company which has created a unique and proprietary portfolio of nanotechnology based and environmentally friendly steel alloys that greatly increase the value of steel in most of … Continue reading “NanoSteel Company Garners Series C Round”
Vedantra Pharmaceuticals Lands $3,300,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bc92d4f7-8990-4f2b-9e19-45f567f66b43&Preview=1 Date 8/4/2012 Company Name Vedantra Pharmaceuticals Mailing Address One Broadway 14th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Vedantra Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a startup working on a vaccine delivery platform. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,300,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. … Continue reading “Vedantra Pharmaceuticals Lands $3,300,000 New Financing”
Massachusetts Nabs $16.9M in Funding for “Health Information Exchange”
Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick’s administration announced today that the state has pulled in $16.9 million in federal funding for its so-called health information exchange, which will enable healthcare providers, hospitals, and the like exchange clinical data through a secure network. The money comes as a combination of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant funds and Medicaid … Continue reading “Massachusetts Nabs $16.9M in Funding for “Health Information Exchange””
Developers Are the New Decision-Making Elite of the Digital Economy
Ever since the birth of interactive Web applications in the mid 1990s, we’ve been on a path of convergence between content and software platforms. This evolution has continued for the past one and a half decades, giving birth to new labor markets centered in software development and overall raising the importance and role that developers … Continue reading “Developers Are the New Decision-Making Elite of the Digital Economy”
LevelUp Leads “Cambrian Explosion” of Mobile Payments & Rewards
Don’t bet against Boston-based SCVNGR. That’s what I’ve been hearing lately. You take that much talent and that much money and throw them at a big market, like mobile payments or rewards programs or local deals—call it what you want—something’s going to stick. That something seems to be LevelUp, the mobile app created by founder … Continue reading “LevelUp Leads “Cambrian Explosion” of Mobile Payments & Rewards”
SportStream’s App Bottles the Social Media Explosion in Sports
I don’t have much of a head for sports. If you said “ERA” my first thought would be Equal Rights Amendment, not Earned Run Average. And being a cable TV cord-cutter, I never watch televised games. But I do know about iPads, social media, and next-generation-TV technologies. So at the risk of sounding like a … Continue reading “SportStream’s App Bottles the Social Media Explosion in Sports”
Xconomist of the Week: John Reed on Sanford-Burnham’s Drug Pipeline
In the decade since John Reed stepped in as chief executive, San Diego’s Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute has basically doubled in size. The nonprofit research facility has added a campus in Orlando, FL, the full-time faculty has grown from 52 to 89, and the overall staff has increased from 520 to 1,200. Today the institute … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: John Reed on Sanford-Burnham’s Drug Pipeline”
Aveo, Mersana, Haemonetics, & More from the Boston Life Sciences Roundup
We’ve seen a mix of new life sciences players, funding announcements, acquisitions, and clinical trial updates this week in New England. —My colleague Arlene profiled Cambridge, MA-based Thrombolytic Science International and its effort to produce a drug that can dissolve clots after strokes without the time limit that comes with the existing clot dissolver on the market … Continue reading “Aveo, Mersana, Haemonetics, & More from the Boston Life Sciences Roundup”
Eco Power Solutions Receives $635,739 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dacc25be-65f8-4a46-ae6b-4bbab71b8b22&Preview=1 Date 8/3/2012 Company Name Eco Power Solutions Mailing Address 1266 Furnace Brook Parkway Quincy, MA 02169 Company Description Eco Power Solutions is a North American service provider offering customers the world’s most integrated energy recapture and emissions reduction solution. Website http://www.ecopowersolutions.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $635,739 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Eco Power Solutions Receives $635,739 New Funding”
eTouches Receives $2,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b7018b4-e4d9-44f8-81c0-d559b1518014&Preview=1 Date 8/3/2012 Company Name eTouches Mailing Address 13 Marshall Street Norwalk, CT 06854 Company Description eTouches is a web-based software as a service (SaaS) provider to the $3.0 billion global, meeting and event technology marketplace. Website http://www.etouches.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “eTouches Receives $2,500,000 New Financing”
eTouches Garners $7,750,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b7018b4-e4d9-44f8-81c0-d559b1518014&Preview=1 Date 8/3/2012 Company Name eTouches Mailing Address 13 Marshall Street Norwalk, CT 06854 Company Description eTouches is a web-based software as a service (SaaS) provider to the $3.0 billion global, meeting and event technology marketplace. Website http://www.etouches.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,750,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes Funds … Continue reading “eTouches Garners $7,750,000 Series B Round”
Aveo Shares Fall as FDA Questions Cancer Drug Survival Trend
Cambridge, MA-based Aveo Oncology was fired up early this year when it hit the main goal of its pivotal clinical trial with a kidney cancer drug. But today some new questions have emerged about how much benefit its drug is offering to patients, which sent the company’s stock down more than 25 percent. Aveo (NASDAQ: … Continue reading “Aveo Shares Fall as FDA Questions Cancer Drug Survival Trend”
EMC, Lenovo Going After Multibillion Dollar, Post-PC China Market
EMC is a bear of a company to get your arms around. So let’s throw in another big global company, plus the world’s most populous country, and see where that gets us. Yes, Hopkinton, MA-based data storage giant EMC (NYSE: [[ticker:EMC]]) announced yesterday a far-ranging partnership with personal-computer maker Lenovo (HKSE: [[ticker:LNVGY]]), which has dual … Continue reading “EMC, Lenovo Going After Multibillion Dollar, Post-PC China Market”
Enlight Bio’s Knode Advances Social Network for Pharma
Enlight Biosciences, a pharma industry-backed entrepreneurial venture, unveiled its newest portfolio company today, Knode. The Cambridge, MA-based startup, which is developing a LinkedIn-like social networking tool for drug companies, has formed strategic partnerships with AstraZeneca and other industry and academic partners, says David Steinberg, founding CEO of both Enlight and Knode. Enlight was co-founded in … Continue reading “Enlight Bio’s Knode Advances Social Network for Pharma”
SCVNGR Receives $9,000,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e5d2a76f-6baf-4aff-b63e-159bd33fb8a6&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2012 Company Name SCVNGR Mailing Address 175 Second Street Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description SCVNGR is a geo-gaming platform that enables anyone to quickly and easily build location-based mobile games, tours, and interactive experiences that can be enjoyed from any mobile device. Website http://www.scvngr.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “SCVNGR Receives $9,000,000 Series D Funding”
Ikonisys Garners $1,435,312 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fea63871-b0d0-4314-8c94-8fb87b7f0e7d&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2012 Company Name Ikonisys Mailing Address 5 Science Park New Haven, CT 06511 Company Description Ikonisys develops, commercializes and markets a robotic digital microscopy platform for cancer diagnosis and management, prenatal detection of genetic disorders, and fertility testing. We are headquartered at Yale’s Science Park in New Haven, Connecticut, with … Continue reading “Ikonisys Garners $1,435,312 New Funding Round”
Nuclea Biotechnologies Receives $5,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=be44b491-82b9-432f-bd94-e00dd742caa4&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2012 Company Name Nuclea Biotechnologies Mailing Address 105 South Street Pittsfield, MA 01201 Company Description Nuclea Biotechnologies’ primary mission is to conduct genomic research in the oncology field so as to discover biomarkers and gene or protein expression profiles that are unique to oncologic diseases. Website http://www.nucleabiomarkers.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Nuclea Biotechnologies Receives $5,000,000 Series C Funding”
Finding Your Optimal Investor—Due Diligence for Entrepreneurs
You thought due diligence was just for investors? Luke Burns of Ascent Venture Partners will be at this event to tell entrepreneurs what questions they should be asking in order to find the best investor for their company. Register here to get the scoop.
Crowdfunding Innovation
Three startups will share their experiences pulling in cash through crowdfunding methods at this Mass Innovation Nights event. They’ll talk about what’s relevant right now in crowdfunding and how things will change with the implementation of the JOBS Act. Register here to get their insights.
Gladstone, Sage Bionetworks Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List
A couple of small West Coast research centers, the J. David Gladstone Research Institutes in San Francisco, and Sage Bionetworks in Seattle, have gotten kudos as the “Best Places to Work” in academia by The Scientist magazine. The 10th annual survey by the magazine found that the Gladstone Institutes, composed of 27 researchers affiliated with … Continue reading “Gladstone, Sage Bionetworks Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List”
Tech Cocktail Sessions Boston
Tech Cocktail Sessions bring in experienced entrepreneurs to share their personal stories and inspire others to start businesses. This month’s featured guest is Care.com founder and CEO Sheila Marcelo. Sign up here to attend.
Top 3 Themes at Boston Mobile-Ad Firms: Timing, Targeting, & TV
Mobile advertising is one of those tech areas that the average guy on the street might find boring. But it is quietly crucial to the way most of us interact with digital information and content—now, and (especially) in the future. Think of it this way: If mobile advertising fails to take off as an industry, … Continue reading “Top 3 Themes at Boston Mobile-Ad Firms: Timing, Targeting, & TV”
Brightcove, Avalon, Bit9, & More from the Boston Deals Roundup
This last week’s New England deals spanned venture firms, biotechs, and mobile, social, and security software startups. —Boston-based Brightcove (NASDAQ: [[ticker:BCOV]]), which provides hosting technology for digital content, signed an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based Zencoder, a provider of cloud-based video encoding services, for $30 million. —EyeNetra, an MIT Media Lab developer of technology for … Continue reading “Brightcove, Avalon, Bit9, & More from the Boston Deals Roundup”
Coffee Meets Bagel Takes Flash Sales Approach to Online Dating in NY & Boston
New York startup Coffee Meets Bagel is built around some of the biggest themes in online shopping innovation over the last few years: content curation, limited-time events, social recommendations, and daily e-mail communications. But users of its site aren’t browsing the latest deal on a designer bag, vintage home goods, or a haircut. They’re opening … Continue reading “Coffee Meets Bagel Takes Flash Sales Approach to Online Dating in NY & Boston”
TribeHR Obtains $2,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1d4e4c20-df29-43f3-b498-be33e9b047f4&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name TribeHR Mailing Address 1000 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description TribeHR is an exciting development in the world of human resource management: our innovative features will allow your company to focus more on what you do best and less on things that get in the way … Continue reading “TribeHR Obtains $2,500,000 New Funding”
Gweepi Medica Obtains Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=604e15da-fd6f-4b87-b023-10e70349981e&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name Gweepi Medica Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center 5th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description The company has developed the Smart Brief system, which streamlines incontinence management by placing a sensor in the diaper, reducing direct and indirect costs for a skilled nursing facility. Website http://www.gweepi.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Gweepi Medica Obtains Seed Funding Round”
Aavya Health Receives Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5be19c33-e624-4c99-96f9-19dd37d3c529&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name Aavya Health Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02108 Company Description The company created a web-based tool that transforms laboratory tests into rich, dynamic tools to help patients achieve meaningful insight into their health and motivate healthy behaviors. Website http://www.dev.aavya.com Transaction Type Accelerator Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “Aavya Health Receives Seed Funding”
Healthy Delivery Garners Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=17238604-2704-4f39-9fac-1c4ed127e0c6&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name Healthy Delivery Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description The Mission of Health Delivery, Inc. is to provide excellent health care to individuals and groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties, especially those who are underserved, uninsured, or underinsured. The ser-vices provided are … Continue reading “Healthy Delivery Garners Seed Funding Round”
Abiogenix Obtains Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=21a75618-ed51-4d47-a4a2-7fbe346ef3e6&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name Abiogenix Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description The company developed the uBox, an intelligent pillbox that reminds, records and restricts when patients take their medication. The information is transmitted wirelessly to the cloud where it is analyzed for third parties including care circles, … Continue reading “Abiogenix Obtains Seed Financing”
Bon’App Secures Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8a119d17-8720-406d-86b3-a2b12c510124&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name Bon’App Mailing Address 380249 Mount Auburn Cambridge, MA 02138 Company Description With easy food entry through voice activation and a simple language of Calories, Sugar, Salt, and Bad Fat, Bon’App® will completely change the way you think about food. Enter individual food items or your own customized … Continue reading “Bon’App Secures Seed Financing”
GeckoCap Garners Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dc5aac52-b687-4128-b1a7-b26ab70d7fd2&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name GeckoCap Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description We have developed mobile, digital, and smart tools that empower children as well as their parents and doctors to better manage asthma medication. GeckoCap’s glowing reminder system helps children build healthy habits and motivates them to … Continue reading “GeckoCap Garners Seed Funding”
Smart Scheduling Garners Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=109a3a60-20c3-4ea1-bf40-c71885c78fa5&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name Smart Scheduling Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description The company applies data analytics to physician office records to enable administrators to optimize daily appointment scheduling, improving provider productivity. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Accelerator Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes The company … Continue reading “Smart Scheduling Garners Seed Financing Round”
iQuartic Secures Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=660b6e02-e571-44c9-be04-f855e7a21348&Preview=1 Date 8/1/2012 Company Name iQuartic Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Our Cambridge, MA company is building technology to network and mine healthcare (esp. EHR) data systems. Our tool is ideal for generating high end EHR analytics for risk profiling, disease management, and quality benchmarking. We use … Continue reading “iQuartic Secures Seed Financing”
Avalon Ventures, Coming Off Zynga Investment, Raising 10th Fund
Venture investing in the life sciences has been declining over the past year or so, along with a contraction in the number of VC firms that are actively investing. Yet San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, which also has a strong presence in Boston, seems to be running contrary to the industry’s overall trend. The venture firm—which … Continue reading “Avalon Ventures, Coming Off Zynga Investment, Raising 10th Fund”
Business of Software
Dubbed the “TED for software” and the “Woodstock for geeks,” the Business of Software aims to bring together a slew of software executives looking to build big businesses.The three-day conference will feature speakers like author and Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman, Newsweek journalist Dan Lyons, and Constant Contact CEO Gail Goodman. Xconomy is a … Continue reading “Business of Software”
Mersana Brings in $27M and New Investors NEA and Pfizer
Cambridge, MA-based Mersana Therapeutics announced today it has raised $27 million in a Series A-1 financing. The company brought in new investors Pfizer Venture Investments and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Existing investors Fidelity Biosciences, ProQuest Investments, Rho Ventures, and Harris and Harris Group also participated. Mersana had raised a total of more than $50 million in … Continue reading “Mersana Brings in $27M and New Investors NEA and Pfizer”
TSI Preps for Trials of New Clot-Busting Drug
Ever since Genentech’s clot dissolver known as tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, hit the market 15 years ago, the pharmaceutical industry has been laboring to come up with something to solve the drug’s main drawback: It has to be given within three hours of a stroke. The folks at Cambridge, MA-based Thrombolytic Science International (TSI) … Continue reading “TSI Preps for Trials of New Clot-Busting Drug”
The Case for Including Investors on Conference Calls
We are in the middle of a busy earnings season on Wall Street, which for an independent investor like me means listening to a lot of company conference calls. While that admittedly is not always the most exciting way to spend your days and evenings, I would like to relate a story about a novel … Continue reading “The Case for Including Investors on Conference Calls”
Lexalytics Looking Strong as Text Analytics Heats Up for Big Companies, Mobile
I wish I could say Lexalytics has analyzed the entirety of the world’s social-media and Web conversations, and deemed it all worthless. Alas. “That’s not our role,” says Jeff Catlin, the company’s CEO. Nevertheless it’s a good time to check in with Lexalytics, the Boston- and Amherst, MA-based text analysis company whose technology seeks to … Continue reading “Lexalytics Looking Strong as Text Analytics Heats Up for Big Companies, Mobile”
Mersana Therapeutics Secures $27,000,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a0656892-be26-469b-869e-73cea03bf5a9&Preview=1 Date 7/31/2012 Company Name Mersana Therapeutics Mailing Address 840 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly Nanopharma Corp.) is focused on developing novel oncology agents based on Fleximer, a stealth material that enhances the pharmacokinetics and safety of drugs. Website http://www.mersana.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Mersana Therapeutics Secures $27,000,000 Series A Funding”
Lucidux Obtains $250,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c1009954-cb9e-4399-ab35-d790ff0d2c72&Preview=1 Date 7/31/2012 Company Name Lucidux Mailing Address 3 Davol Square A340 Providence, RI 02903 Company Description Providence, R.I.-based Lucidux LLC, a startup that makes 3-D imaging technology for surgery and other medical applications. Lucidux, founded in 2011, is developing its technology with corporate partner, Photon-X Inc. of Huntsville, Ala. The real-time, … Continue reading “Lucidux Obtains $250,000 Seed Financing”
Tapjoy + Viximo = New Boston Social Mobile Studio
In an interesting deal today, San Francisco mobile firm Tapjoy has acquired the core team from Viximo, a social gaming tools startup in Cambridge, MA. Terms weren’t disclosed, and the companies’ announcement makes the deal sound like an expansion for Tapjoy (into the Boston area) rather than an acquisition per se. The companies share a … Continue reading “Tapjoy + Viximo = New Boston Social Mobile Studio”
The 4G Security Threat for Mobile Developers
We are accustomed to thinking that smartphone safety depends on the habits of the user, but that’s likely to change with the transition to Long-Term Evolution (LTE) architecture, popularly known as 4G. Even the most careful user who never loses a phone, installs security software, and never uses suspicious apps might be more vulnerable than … Continue reading “The 4G Security Threat for Mobile Developers”
TrueOffice Turns Boring Corporate Training Into a Game
It’s the memo every new employee dreads: “We need you to go to a drab, windowless conference room for a half-day session on compliance. During the meeting, we’ll bore you with details about our company’s policies on IT security, sexual harassment, confidentiality, and the like. If you don’t show up, you’ll be fired. Have a … Continue reading “TrueOffice Turns Boring Corporate Training Into a Game”
Bit9 Adds $34.5M, Led by Sequoia, for Trust-Based Security Software
Waltham, MA-based security software firm Bit9 is announcing today that it has brought in $34.5 million in Series D funding, led by new investor Sequoia Capital. Return backers Atlas Venture, Highland Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and .406 Ventures participated in the deal, which brings Bit9’s total raised to $82.5 million. In April … Continue reading “Bit9 Adds $34.5M, Led by Sequoia, for Trust-Based Security Software”
A Lonely Voice Asking Tough Questions on Cancer Cost-Effectiveness
If a new cancer drug comes out at a price of $100,000 per person, how many patients likely to benefit will actually get it? How many will drain their entire life savings just to make the insurance co-pays? How many people will go bankrupt to stay alive a few more months? How many people will … Continue reading “A Lonely Voice Asking Tough Questions on Cancer Cost-Effectiveness”
Bit9 Garners $34,500,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9aa090d1-c738-4ab9-a1c6-bed85ebe5607&Preview=1 Date 7/30/2012 Company Name Bit9 Mailing Address 266 Second Ave Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description Bit9 is the first company to solve the problem of unwanted software at the endpoint. Website http://www.bit9.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $34,500,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes Bit9 will use this capital to … Continue reading “Bit9 Garners $34,500,000 Series D Financing Round”