Intela Garners $7,250,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=61f6fe8f-cb73-422d-a0cc-08895b886e19&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name Intela Mailing Address 1881 9th St. Boulder, CO 80302 Company Description Intela is a performance-based lead generation and email marketing company based in London with its operational center at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado. A leading International digital marketing agency specializing in generating … Continue reading “Intela Garners $7,250,000 New Funding Round”

Rebit Receives $3,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4323628e-fc81-4ac1-b28a-0c21270b4c48&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name Rebit Mailing Address 2420 Trade Centre Ave Longmont, CO 80503 Company Description Rebit is an innovative new company all about relieving the burden of backup technology from the PC user. They just plug Rebit into a PC to get fully automated and continuous backup protection – no … Continue reading “Rebit Receives $3,000,000 New Round”

GlobeImmune Receives $17,508,500 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d007f757-4e25-4c56-bf71-ae604c36ef16&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name GlobeImmune Mailing Address 1450 Infinite Drive Louisville, CO 80027 Company Description GlobeImmune, Inc., is a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery, development and manufacturing of potent, targeted molecular immunotherapy products called Tarmogens for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Website http://www.globeimmune.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “GlobeImmune Receives $17,508,500 New Round”

SkyFuel Receives $3,500,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fa1f1f27-200b-4e76-8da4-e6f36f02308e&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name SkyFuel Mailing Address 18300 W. Hwy 72 Arvada, CO 80007 Company Description SkyFuel delivers solar-power that is cost competitive in many applications. We deliver turn-key, large-scale solar plants that use Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) to produce steam for power generation, desalination, waste water treatment, and other industrial … Continue reading “SkyFuel Receives $3,500,000 New Financing Round”

Collective Intellect Receives $1,688,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=52463d79-9ab4-450e-ac26-f54971fc65dc&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name Collective Intellect Mailing Address 2040 14th St. Boulder, CO 80302 Company Description Business Intelligence expertise transferred to Media IntelligenceCollective Intellect, Inc. specializes in comprehensively tracking, filtering and ranking media content for the Fortune 500. The founders have worked in Business Intelligence for years, creating tools to solve … Continue reading “Collective Intellect Receives $1,688,000 New Funding”

Pyxis Technology Garners $400,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4647f5ca-4770-493b-b770-00f39db31157&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name Pyxis Technology Mailing Address 9020 Capital of Texas Hwy. N. Building 1 Austin, TX 78759 Company Description Pyxis Technology develops and markets EDA software for chip design and analysis, primarily focused on design closure, manufacturability, and time-to-market issues for sub-100nm process technologies. Website http://www.pyxistech.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Pyxis Technology Garners $400,000 New Financing Round”

VidaCare Garners $137,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0727dd83-e028-4c88-8e3d-62fbdb857747&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name VidaCare Mailing Address 4350 Lockhill Selma Rd Shavano Park, TX 78249 Company Description The company develops technology for the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. As such, the Health Science Center will share in the profits that result from eventual sales of the device. … Continue reading “VidaCare Garners $137,000 New Funding”

Spinal Restoration Garners $12,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8e84f915-bac3-4ce8-b70f-664bdae00309&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name Spinal Restoration Mailing Address 9737 Great Hills Trail Austin, TX 78759 Company Description Spinal Restoration, Inc. was formed through a strategic partnership between Austin Ventures, recognized as one of the top venture capital firms in the nation, and Path4 Ventures, a management centric venture capital firm focused … Continue reading “Spinal Restoration Garners $12,000,000 New Round”

MicroSeismic Receives New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f2776a96-b26d-4e61-9664-746ccd54d8d6&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name MicroSeismic Mailing Address 10777 Westheimer Houston, TX 77042 Company Description MicroSeismic, Inc. is a world leader in microseismic monitoring and passive seismic imaging. Microseismic monitoring is the practice of listening to the seismic noise emitted from a reservoir so as to directly detect such things as patterns … Continue reading “MicroSeismic Receives New Financing”

Innography Secures $3,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=43ed4390-3394-4345-9f90-7e600e9ee051&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name Innography Mailing Address 1221 S. MoPac Expy. Austin, TX 78746 Company Description Innography launched its intellectual property business intelligence software as a service (SaaS) platform in 2007. Headquartered in Austin, TX and privately held, Innography has quickly captured the attention of several prominent global companies that actively … Continue reading “Innography Secures $3,000,000 New Financing Round”

SensorTran Lands New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0afd209d-d5cf-4b77-8808-d4988827d190&Preview=1 Date 3/31/2010 Company Name SensorTran Mailing Address 10110-C West Sam Houston Parkway North Houston, TX 77064 Company Description SensorTran has been helping customers reduce operating costs and improve performance of their critical assets with Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing. Website http://www.sensortran.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “SensorTran Lands New Financing Round”

A Who’s Who of Breakthrough Ideas: Photos from the Xconomy Forum

More than 200 people gathered yesterday at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington to talk about changing the world. We had a stunning lineup of speakers across different disciplines—including Nick Hanauer of Second Avenue Partners, Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures, and Lee Hood from the Institute … Continue reading “A Who’s Who of Breakthrough Ideas: Photos from the Xconomy Forum”

$3.6M for Biocept

Biocept, a San Diego biotech company working on cell separation technology, has raised $3.6 million of a planned $4.05 million equity offering, according to an SEC filing. Four investors participated in the round for Biocept, which is developing diagnostic assays for detecting and monitoring cancer.

What’s Your Take on the iPad? An Xconomy Survey

With the Apple iPad set to hit stores at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, you can probably guess what my digital media column, World Wide Wade, is going to be about this Friday. But this time I want to leaven the punditry with some populism—so I’ve put together a quick, 9-question survey at SurveyMonkey. Please head … Continue reading “What’s Your Take on the iPad? An Xconomy Survey”

iRxHelper: Refill Alerts and More

This iPhone app aims to do the thinking for you when it comes to prescriptions. iRxHelper, produced by Mountain View, CA-based JAZ Software Solutions, gathers data on yours and your family’s medication histories, and streamlines communication on the subject with your healthcare provider or pharmacy. The $1.99 app tracks your pill count estimates, gauges your … Continue reading “iRxHelper: Refill Alerts and More”

Treat Ear Ringing with iTinnitus

Treating and diagnosing the annoying ringing in your ears—there’s an app for that. Produced by Inner Ear Solutions, a Nova Scotia, Canada-based group of inner ear professionals, iTinnitus Solutions is a mobile sound therapy package that characterizes the pitch and volume for those who experience ringing in their ears, known as tinnitus, graphs it, and … Continue reading “Treat Ear Ringing with iTinnitus”

eCBT Trauma Tracks PTSD Symptoms

Think of it as iCounseling. eCBT Trauma enables users with PTSD to categorize their thoughts and feelings, graph them over time, and e-mail the information to a caregiver. This app is built around cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an approach that involves systematically documenting thought patterns and emotions as a way of targeting ailments such as … Continue reading “eCBT Trauma Tracks PTSD Symptoms”

Ascent Changes to Anchor

Ascent Therapeutics, a Cambridge, MA-based pre-clinical stage drug development company, announced today that it has changed its name to Anchor Therapeutics to better reflect its technology. The company is developing drugs based on “pepducins,” which anchor in cell membranes to target molecules called G protein coupled receptors that are involved in ailments such as cancers, … Continue reading “Ascent Changes to Anchor”

$1M for CardStar Loyalty App

Canton, CT-based CardStar, which makes an application that consolidates consumer reward and loyalty card numbers on mobile phones, announced March 28 that it has raised $1 million in Series A venture funding. The lead funder was Mclean, VA-based Amplifier Ventures, with participation by Acta Wireless and LaunchCapital. CardStar received seed funding from Amplifier Ventures in … Continue reading “$1M for CardStar Loyalty App”

Sage Bionetworks Snags Deal with Merck, Second Major Pharma Partner

Stephen Friend has, you might say, a mutually beneficial relationship with his former employer. Friend, the former senior vice president of Merck’s cancer research division, has secured another round of support for his fledgling open-source biology movement from Merck. Sage Bionetworks, the nonprofit collaborative Friend co-founded a year ago in Seattle, has formed a multi-year … Continue reading “Sage Bionetworks Snags Deal with Merck, Second Major Pharma Partner”

NextImage Medical of San Diego Aims to Lower Workers Comp Costs

Insurers spend $30 billion annually on workers compensation claims; lost productivity saps another $60 billion from the economy. San Diego-based NextImage Medical is focused on changing this picture by taking aim at a key bottleneck that adds to costs: delays associated with radiology exams. CEO Liz Griggs says injured workers face waits of two to … Continue reading “NextImage Medical of San Diego Aims to Lower Workers Comp Costs”

FIRST Robotics Regionals Bring Sports Fervor to Engineering

I’m a Boston University alum, so Saturday wasn’t the first time I’ve witnessed two teams battling it out on Agganis Arena’s court, shooting with finesse and aggressively blocking, as fans cheered loudly from the stands. Well, it was a little different than what I had previously witnessed, to be completely honest. The members of said … Continue reading “FIRST Robotics Regionals Bring Sports Fervor to Engineering”

No Time for the Academic Entrepreneur

The recurring question I hear from so many people in business is: “Why aren’t more startups generated by the university system?” It’s not an easy question, certainly not one to be solved in a single blog post. As I considered the many facets of academia that influence the actions of its researchers such as government … Continue reading “No Time for the Academic Entrepreneur”

QD Vision’s Quantum Dots Warm Up the Market for LED Lighting

Everyone knows that traditional incandescent lamps are inefficient and energy-wasting. But LEDs, one of the technologies vying to take their place, produce light that feels harsh and cold by comparison, leading many customers to shy away from them. Watertown, MA-based QD Vision thinks it can use its “quantum dot” technology to solve both problems—energy waste … Continue reading “QD Vision’s Quantum Dots Warm Up the Market for LED Lighting”

Nick Hanauer, a “High-Functioning Contrarian,” on How to Think About Breakthroughs in Business and Society (Part 2)

Yesterday, we ran the first part of a sit-down interview with Nick Hanauer, a noted entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Seattle-based Second Avenue Partners. Hanauer, who has been involved in the early stages of such prominent companies as Amazon, aQuantive, and Insitu, spoke about the importance of new metaphors in recognizing and understanding breakthrough ideas; … Continue reading “Nick Hanauer, a “High-Functioning Contrarian,” on How to Think About Breakthroughs in Business and Society (Part 2)”

Dicerna Inks Deal With Ipsen, Second RNAi Partnership of 2010

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals kicked off the New Year with a splashy partnership, and it didn’t have to wait long for an encore. The Watertown, MA-based developer of RNA interference drugs is announcing today it has formed a new alliance with Paris-based Ipsen. Financial terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, although it ends up being “net-neutral” … Continue reading “Dicerna Inks Deal With Ipsen, Second RNAi Partnership of 2010”

CardStar Garners $1,000,000 Series A Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d22b9f8d-67df-4fd7-9455-80106020003a&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name CardStar Mailing Address 220 Albany Turnpike Canton, CT 06019 Company Description CardStar lets you easily store and quickly retrieve loyalty, reward and club membership cards, where they can be scanned directly from your screen at most merchants. Website http://www.mycardstar.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “CardStar Garners $1,000,000 Series A Financing Round”

NexPlanar Lands $3,500,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d3629f88-0ece-48ac-85a8-bc062a9b2d42&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name NexPlanar Mailing Address 7425 NW Evergreen Parkway Hillsboro, OR 97124 Company Description NexPlanar builds the next generation of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pads for the semiconductor device industry. Our propriety nano-domain technology coupled with patented molded grooves and the unique ability to tune the pads results in … Continue reading “NexPlanar Lands $3,500,000 New Funding”

Coda Automotive Garners $394,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a8eb413b-e715-4f5d-a4f3-0d8334dc09af&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name Coda Automotive Mailing Address 1601 Wilshire Blvd Santa Monica, CA 90403 Company Description We were formed by a group of innovators, experts in their fields, motivated to solve some of today’s most pressing problems to leave a better world for their children. Our business model is unique. … Continue reading “Coda Automotive Garners $394,000,000 New Financing Round”

Biocept Obtains $3,600,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=58d3ac41-64a6-4e2d-9091-a38a93e3a8eb&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name Biocept Mailing Address 5810 Nancy Ridge Drive San Diego, CA 92121 Company Description Biocept is an emerging leader in genetic testing. The company’s proprietary CEE Cell Enrichment and Extraction technology is designed to isolate and extract rare cells for highly accurate genetic analysis. CEE will be used … Continue reading “Biocept Obtains $3,600,000 New Financing Round”

Reverse Medical Lands $14,000,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3a5dd07e-61ea-4d90-a473-eb9ce3eff09e&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name Reverse Medical Mailing Address 13900 Alton Parkway Irvine, CA 92618 Company Description The company is developing an embolic protection system. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $14,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes This financing will allow Reverse to continue our rapid progress toward worldwide … Continue reading “Reverse Medical Lands $14,000,000 Series B Financing”

Glacier Bay Receives $5,000,000 Series C Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=03b95789-3793-4805-9b0e-3eaa3ff64874&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name Glacier Bay Mailing Address 2930 Faber Street Union City, CA 94587 Company Description Glacier Bay is an internationally recognized leader in advanced thermal control, sound reduction, and DC power management technologies. Website http://www.glacierbay.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Series C Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Glacier Bay Receives $5,000,000 Series C Round”

Enphase Energy Receives $40,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7a7046cd-6585-40a8-a6c3-47bf3aa4b691&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name Enphase Energy Mailing Address 201 1st Street Petaluma, CA 94952 Company Description At Enphase Energy we believe that by combining the power of solar energy and the proven advantages of communications technology, we can change the green energy landscape. Website http://www.enphaseenergy.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Enphase Energy Receives $40,000,000 New Financing”

Integrated Photovoltaics Garners $8,500,000 Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ffab4f60-fbfd-4eb6-b93c-6b9f746f96e8&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name Integrated Photovoltaics Mailing Address 155 Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Company Description The company is developing photovoltaic-based technologies. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,500,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The funds will be used to continue development of IPV’s 3rd-generation photovoltaic solution, … Continue reading “Integrated Photovoltaics Garners $8,500,000 Series A Funding Round”

MuleSoft Receives $12,000,000 Series C Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=31e6bf70-4fdd-4fb9-976e-9e07683e9036&Preview=1 Date 3/30/2010 Company Name MuleSoft Mailing Address 201 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description MuleSoft is the Web Middleware company, providing enterprise-class software based on the world’s most popular open source application infrastructure products, Mule ESB and Apache Tomcat. Website http://www.mulesoft.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “MuleSoft Receives $12,000,000 Series C Funding”

$25M for Holyoke Computing Center

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced today that the state will provide up to $25 million to further construction of the Holyoke High Performance Computing Center, a project designed to advance green computing and boost business in western Massachusetts. Patrick also designated the Holyoke area as an innovation district, and said that the computing center, which … Continue reading “$25M for Holyoke Computing Center”

Rocket to Acquire CCA

Rocket Software, a Newton, MA-headquartered enterprise software maker, announced it will acquire data management company Computer Corporation of America. Financial details of the deal between Rocket and Waltham, MA-based CCA were not disclosed.  Rocket pulled in $91.9 million in an equity offering in October and acquired Folio and NXT, two publishing products from Microsoft, in … Continue reading “Rocket to Acquire CCA”

Lexalytics Moves to Boston to Exploit New Market for Sentiment Analysis

Lexalytics, whose text-analytics software can measure, among other things, whether a digital document is full of praise or insults, did not get off to a superlative start back in 2003. To begin with, its investors almost closed the company down. Lexalytics got started when the venture funders behind a Woburn, MA-based content management startup called … Continue reading “Lexalytics Moves to Boston to Exploit New Market for Sentiment Analysis”

San Diego’s Somaxon Readies to Wake Up Market for New Sleeping Pill

Somaxon Pharmaceuticals overcame two regulatory delays to win FDA approval to market its insomnia drug doxepin (Silenor). Now comes the hard part. San Diego-based Somaxon (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SOMX]]) is entering a prescription sleeping pill market in which name-brand products have been steadily losing ground to the lower-cost generics preferred by managed care plans. So right out … Continue reading “San Diego’s Somaxon Readies to Wake Up Market for New Sleeping Pill”

Nuance Sees Opportunity in Health IT Reform, New Frontiers With iPhone Software

Count Nuance Communications among the Massachusetts-based providers of software for doctors that could benefit hugely from healthcare reforms and technology initiatives emerging from Washington. Healthcare customers are the biggest market for the Burlington, MA-based company’s (NASDAQ:[[ticker:NUAN]]) speech-recognition and phone-based products, accounting for about 40 percent of the firm’s $950.4 million in revenue for fiscal 2009. … Continue reading “Nuance Sees Opportunity in Health IT Reform, New Frontiers With iPhone Software”

Lee Hood’s Startup for Personalized Medicine, Integrated Diagnostics, Hires First CEO

Integrated Diagnostics, the Seattle-based company seeking to carry out biotech pioneer Leroy Hood’s vision for personalized medicine, has hired its first CEO. The company’s new leader is Albert Luderer, a veteran diagnostics executive who ran Woburn, MA-based BioTrove until that company was acquired last November by Carlsbad, CA-based Life Technologies (NASDAQ: [[ticker:LIFE]]) for an undisclosed … Continue reading “Lee Hood’s Startup for Personalized Medicine, Integrated Diagnostics, Hires First CEO”

MaxLinear Scores Successful IPO, $321M V-Vehicle Loan Request Rejected, Genomatica Raises $15M in VC Funding, & More San Diego BizTech News

It’s been a while since San Diego’s high-tech community saw this much deal news in one week—and most of it was good news, too. We gathered it all in one place for you here. —Investor demand helped boost Carlsbad, CA-based MaxLinear’s shares (NYSE:[[ticker:MXL]]) by 33 percent on their first day of trading, with volume of … Continue reading “MaxLinear Scores Successful IPO, $321M V-Vehicle Loan Request Rejected, Genomatica Raises $15M in VC Funding, & More San Diego BizTech News”

Cowboys Like Us: Investor Nick Hanauer on How to Think About Breakthroughs in Business and Society (Part 1)

Last week was a pretty good one for Nick Hanauer. When I visited his office, he was basking in the glow of the mid-afternoon sun—and the afterglow of President Obama’s signing of the much-ballyhooed healthcare reform bill. (Yes, he’s a staunch Democrat.) But I wasn’t there to talk politics. Hanauer is one of the Seattle … Continue reading “Cowboys Like Us: Investor Nick Hanauer on How to Think About Breakthroughs in Business and Society (Part 1)”

Brightcove Sidestepping Lack of Flash Support on Apple iPad

Back in February I interviewed Jeff Whatcott, senior vice president of marketing at Cambridge, MA-based Brightcove, about the online video hosting company’s attempts to help its customers deliver video to as many Internet-connected devices as possible. At the time, the company was announcing software that will allow its customers to serve videos stored on its … Continue reading “Brightcove Sidestepping Lack of Flash Support on Apple iPad”

Rocket Software Acquires Computer Corporation of America for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1501ff1b-2e78-4b4e-a267-06bf7a82cf61&Preview=1 Date 3/29/2010 Company Name Computer Corporation of America Mailing Address 200 West St 3rd Floor West Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description Over the past four decades, Computer Corporation of America has revolutionized large-scale, high-performance, high-capacity data management with one breakthrough after another. Invention of hashing and bitmapped indexing technologies. First online … Continue reading “Rocket Software Acquires Computer Corporation of America for Undisclosed Sum”

Smish Lands $2,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aa8abaf4-04c8-4937-9a8f-4bec941c66d4&Preview=1 Date 3/29/2010 Company Name Smish Mailing Address 65 Enterprise Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 Company Description Smish is a verb that means to compress, simplify or squeeze many things into one. To experience compact bliss. Smish is a free download that takes the gazillion apps that are coming to your computer, along … Continue reading “Smish Lands $2,000,000 New Funding Round”