Romulus Revs Up $75M Fund: Drones, VR Startups Need Not Apply

If you want to know what’s hot in the startup world, talk to venture capitalist Krishna Gupta. But odds are, he’s not investing in those types of companies. And for good reason: they’re overhyped. Gupta (pictured) is the founder and general partner at Romulus Capital, a Boston-area venture firm that is announcing a new $75 … Continue reading “Romulus Revs Up $75M Fund: Drones, VR Startups Need Not Apply”

Spine Wave Secures $4,400,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f31e6c1b-fbce-422c-9e2c-174bdc04a3e3 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Spine Wave Mailing Address Three Enterprise Drive Shelton, CT 06484 USA Company Description Spine Wave is a medical device company focused on the development and marketing of clinical solutions for three of the largest and fastest growing spinal market segments: nuclear replacement and augmentation, vertebral compression fracture … Continue reading “Spine Wave Secures $4,400,000 New Round”

Robin Lands $7,000,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=620764f5-6669-4c89-9e68-6551dc2ab6aa Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Robin Mailing Address 87 Summer St 2nd Floor Boston, MA 02110 USA Company Description Robin helps people and organizations spend more time on things they value and less on process. Let’s make the work day delightful, one room at a time. Website http://www.robinpowered.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Robin Lands $7,000,000 New Funding”

Qumulo Receives $30,565,178 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1bf5202b-a1f5-4579-bc18-afe42347cfe8 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Qumulo Mailing Address 1501 4th Ave. Seattle, WA 98101 USA Company Description Qumulo is a Seattle-based enterprise data storage startup. We believe that storage should be simple, scalable, and efficient. Formed in 2012 by leaders from Isilon Systems, Adobe, and Wily Technology, Qumulo is reimagining enterprise storage. … Continue reading “Qumulo Receives $30,565,178 New Funding Round”

Sonendo Receives $33,266,395 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9daea60b-11b6-419c-9ed4-335d2888a181 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Sonendo Mailing Address 26061 Merit Circle Laguna Hills, CA 92653 USA Company Description Founded in 2006 as Dentatek Corporation by life science-focused accelerator Fjord Ventures, LLC, Sonendo is a privately-held company developing innovative technologies to transform endodontic therapy. Website http://www.sonendo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $33,266,395 … Continue reading “Sonendo Receives $33,266,395 New Financing”

AristaMD Receives $4,604,219 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=013f48bd-e0e2-4dde-9c1a-62db344b313a Date 6/1/2016 Company Name AristaMD Mailing Address 11099 North Torrey Pines Road Encinitas, CA 92037 USA Company Description AristaMD offers simple-to-use software and eConsult solutions for better specialty referral decisions, reduced cost-of-care, and improved patient outcomes. Website http://www.aristamd.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,604,219 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Total … Continue reading “AristaMD Receives $4,604,219 New Round”

Whill Garners $17,500,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aa8bf259-bfba-4cd7-8713-493d6683e111 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Whill Mailing Address 345 Shoreway Rd. San Carlos, CA 94070 USA Company Description WHILL Type-A is a next generation personal mobility device to expand your horizon with functionality and style that everyone including wheelchair users can use. Website http://www.whill.jp Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $17,500,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Whill Garners $17,500,000 Series B Financing”

Simility Lands $1,500,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fedb9fdb-b964-4b04-86ba-71981075b300 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Simility Mailing Address 430 Sherman Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Company Description Transform your fraud detection with Simility’s intelligent platform,. which combines the best of human analysis and machine learning. Website http://www.simility.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “Simility Lands $1,500,000 New Round”

WinView Obtains $3,400,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f9c6a120-134f-4817-b57b-cf12ccefe6ea Date 6/1/2016 Company Name WinView Mailing Address 50 Woodside Plaza Redwood City, CA 94061 USA Company Description The WinView Games app alerts users when a new proposition is presented. It’s as simple as: Yes or No? WinView is a free and legal mobile app for your smartphone that rewards you with … Continue reading “WinView Obtains $3,400,000 New Funding”

Innovium Obtains $50,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f1cc7bd9-15fe-4125-9f76-ed845e992f8e Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Innovium Mailing Address 6001 America Center Drive San Jose, CA 95002 USA Company Description Innovium was founded with a focus on developing and deploying advanced technology that successfully addresses the most challenging issues facing data centers. Website http://www.innovium.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $50,000,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Innovium Obtains $50,000,000 New Financing Round”

Zibby Lands $12,500,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0cd950d1-21fb-4945-8cf1-55561b79351f Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Zibby Mailing Address 31 West 26th Street New York, NY 10010 USA Company Description Zibby’s lease-to-own option lets you pay monthly for the items you want today. Website http://www.zibby.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed by … Continue reading “Zibby Lands $12,500,000 New Round”

Verto Analytics Secures $16,100,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2164272d-ec47-4a33-8646-8b4ee8b9c452 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Verto Analytics Mailing Address 79 Madison Ave 2nd Floor New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description Verto Analytics is a pioneer in digital media measurements with a focus on syndicated research and analytics. The company provides a complete portfolio of measurement services covering the digital and hardware … Continue reading “Verto Analytics Secures $16,100,000 Series B Financing”

HOOCH Obtains $950,000 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ece2cee2-6ad8-4695-9914-eabf82976f1d Date 6/1/2016 Company Name HOOCH Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10022 USA Company Description HOOCH launched exclusively in New York in November 2015 on both iOS and Android. The HOOCH app is available for free download in the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Website http://www.hooch.co Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “HOOCH Obtains $950,000 Series A Funding”

Spredfast Garners $50,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e0a71b00-acc0-49e2-a23e-c4234dcbdb34 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Spredfast Mailing Address 200 W Cesar Chavez Austin, TX 78701 USA Company Description As the first comprehensive social media dashboard, social media engagement through Spredfast offers the opportunity to shape conversation, increase traffic, create relationships, and ultimately build sales. Website http://www.spredfast.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Spredfast Garners $50,000,000 New Funding Round”

Vista Equity Partners Acquires Ping Identity for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4ca7cc0e-3fdf-4aa5-96c7-ee208e3775d5 Date 6/1/2016 Company Name Ping Identity Mailing Address 1001 17th Street Denver, CO 80202 USA Company Description Ping Identity Corporation’s market-leading sign-on management technology establishes a benchmark in the Identity Management Industry. Website http://www.pingidentity.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms With Vista, we can now … Continue reading “Vista Equity Partners Acquires Ping Identity for Undisclosed Sum”

Two Years After Paying $680M, BioMarin Shelves Duchenne Drug

BioMarin Pharmaceutical took a $680 million gamble when it bought Prosensa in 2014 for its experimental Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment. Drisapersen (Kydrisa) had already failed a Phase 3 trial, but BioMarin bet it could dig through the data and win FDA approval. It lost that bet, and now BioMarin (NASDAQ: [[ticker:BMRN]]) is pulling the plug … Continue reading “Two Years After Paying $680M, BioMarin Shelves Duchenne Drug”

With One Trial Shelved And Another Failed, StemCells To Shut Down

StemCells (NASDAQ: [[ticker:STEM]]) has decided to close up shop after its most advanced therapy didn’t do enough in a Phase 2 trial to improve people with spinal cord injuries. The one-time stem cell pioneer will wind down operations with $5.5 million in the bank, as of May 31, it said in a statement this morning. … Continue reading “With One Trial Shelved And Another Failed, StemCells To Shut Down”

U-M Student Fund Invests in Conversa Health’s Patient Engagement Tech

The University of Michigan’s student-run Social Venture Fund has contributed to a $3 million seed round for Conversa Health, a Bay Area heathtech company aiming to improve patient engagement. The amount of U-M’s investment was not disclosed. Conversa CEO West Shell said he started the company to try to fix the “monstrous gap” in the … Continue reading “U-M Student Fund Invests in Conversa Health’s Patient Engagement Tech”

Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. If that sounds familiar, … Continue reading “Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation”

SciQuest Set to go Private in $509M Deal with Accel-KKR

Software firm SciQuest is set to go private again in a cash deal that values the company at about $509 million. Private equity firm Accel-KKR is paying $17.75 per share to acquire all of the common stock of Morrisville, NC-based SciQuest (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SQI]]). The offer represents a 33.7 percent premium over Friday’s closing stock price. … Continue reading “SciQuest Set to go Private in $509M Deal with Accel-KKR”

CoachUp Founder Backs New Startup to Connect Veterans and Sports

Coming off the Memorial Day holiday, here’s an interesting new company in town. It’s called Athletes of Valor, and it’s trying to provide support for U.S. servicemen and women who are transitioning back to civilian life and want to play college sports. It may sound like a niche market. But over the next four years, … Continue reading “CoachUp Founder Backs New Startup to Connect Veterans and Sports”

Flu Research, Propeller, & Stem Cells: This Week’s WI Watchlist

Catch up on some of the latest happenings in Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines: —Writing in the journal Nature Microbiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka and colleagues describe what they believe to be a better way of predicting the evolution of seasonal influenza strains, the university said. Their approach … Continue reading “Flu Research, Propeller, & Stem Cells: This Week’s WI Watchlist”

Amicus Nabs First Approval as EU Gives Green Light to Fabry Drug

Amicus Therapeutics is as familiar with the ups and downs of the drugmaking business as anyone. It has dealt with clinical failures, regulatory setbacks, restructurings, and more over a roughly 15-year history. But now the Cranbury, NJ-based company’s big day has finally arrived: Regulators in Europe have approved migalastat (Galafold), the first Amicus drug to … Continue reading “Amicus Nabs First Approval as EU Gives Green Light to Fabry Drug”

Texas Roundup: Tech Wildcatters, Funds for eyeQ & EquipmentShare, VR

Happy unofficial start to summer! Let’s ease back into the workweek by catching up with the latest innovation headlines from Xconomy Texas. —Dallas’s Tech Wildcatters accelerator held its first pitch day since launching its new “Gauntlet” program earlier this year. Instead of a traditional accelerator model, in which startups get access to tens of thousands … Continue reading “Texas Roundup: Tech Wildcatters, Funds for eyeQ & EquipmentShare, VR”

Celator Parlays Leukemia Drug Data into $1.5B Buyout From Jazz Pharma

All it takes to become an acquisition target in biotech is some promising data. Take Ewing, NJ, and Vancouver-based Celator Pharmaceuticals, which Jazz Pharmaceuticals just agreed to buy this morning for $1.5 billion. Celator (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CPXX]]) was formed in 1999 by a team led by Lawrence Mayer and Marcel Bally, both veterans of the British … Continue reading “Celator Parlays Leukemia Drug Data into $1.5B Buyout From Jazz Pharma”

Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture

[Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories examining entrepreneurship on MIT’s campus and beyond.] MIT’s approach to nurturing entrepreneurship has changed a lot over the past 50 years. Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in … Continue reading “Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture”

WISErg Obtains $16,440,300 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=472f245c-5349-499e-a6ab-fd2a90a89fba Date 5/31/2016 Company Name WISErg Mailing Address 15443 NE 95th St. Redmond, WA 98052 USA Company Description WISErg Corporation is a Pacific Northwest bio resource company. Founded in 2010, WISErg’s primary focus is on deriving valuable renewable resources from compostable feedstock. Website http://www.wiserg.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $16,440,300 Transaction … Continue reading “WISErg Obtains $16,440,300 New Financing Round”

Chef’d Lands $12,278,534 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=46fe1db2-c77b-4526-8c9c-d8e32c2fd9b9 Date 5/31/2016 Company Name Chef’d Mailing Address 2301 Rosecrans Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 USA Company Description Get Chef’d! Famous recipes and premium ingredients. Delivered to your kitchen and home-cooked by you. Website http://www.chefd.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,278,534 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “Chef’d Lands $12,278,534 New Funding”

Knotch Obtains $14,278,189 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ffbf39f1-62ec-4695-a6dc-45ca0cf0e7f9 Date 5/31/2016 Company Name Knotch Mailing Address 334 Kearny Street San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Knotch is the Twitter for the 99%: it gives everyone a stage to express their opinions/thoughts in front of all those who care about the topic in discussion. Website http://www.knotch.it Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Knotch Obtains $14,278,189 New Financing Round”

WalkMe Receives $50,000,000 Series E Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f4f48eb5-e192-4a9e-a751-6d671a8c5c2a Date 5/31/2016 Company Name WalkMe Mailing Address 131 Steuart St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description WalkMe provides a cloud-based service designed to help professionals – customer service managers, user experience managers, training professionals, SaaS providers and sales managers – to guide and engage prospects, customers, employees and partners through … Continue reading “WalkMe Receives $50,000,000 Series E Financing”

Engage3 Lands Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9a944c75-ebf1-41a7-8563-8d20e4e0b31e Date 5/31/2016 Company Name Engage3 Mailing Address 213 E Street 2nd Floor Davis, CA 95616 USA Company Description Engage3 combines data science, deep domain expertise, and innovative technology to be a leading competitive intelligence provider and consumer science company. Website http://www.engage3.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “Engage3 Lands Series B Financing”

Tynker Receives $7,100,000 Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f842b1c1-1421-4998-8220-f73e8023e782 Date 5/31/2016 Company Name Tynker Mailing Address 480 San Antonio Road Mountain View, CA 94040 USA Company Description Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational learning and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker is inspired by Scratch from MIT. It is a completely … Continue reading “Tynker Receives $7,100,000 Series A Financing”

Intercept’s Liver Drug Wins FDA Approval To Treat Rare Disease

[Updated, 5/31/16, see below] The FDA ended a busy week by giving a thumbs-up late Friday to obeticholic acid as a treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis, a rare disease in which a patient’s own immune system attacks the liver. Obeticholic acid, to be marketed under the brand Ocaliva, is being developed by Intercept Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: … Continue reading “Intercept’s Liver Drug Wins FDA Approval To Treat Rare Disease”

Busy FDA Week Ends With Two Drug Approvals: Another Might Be on Way

The new FDA commissioner Robert Califf told a conference audience this week that he expected “a flood” of new treatments in the near future. Perhaps he meant the following few days. His agency approved two drugs to close out the week, and another decision is due by Sunday. The FDA announced late Friday afternoon that … Continue reading “Busy FDA Week Ends With Two Drug Approvals: Another Might Be on Way”

Seattle Week in Review: Asteroids, Clouds, Secrets, Donuts

Xconomy Seattle did its civic duty, showing up for jury duty at Seattle Municipal Court this week (the picture above is the view from the rooftop terrace of the courthouse). I was dismissed just in time for the big power outage that struck downtown Seattle on Wednesday. We’re reviewing funding for Planetary Resources, IT layoffs … Continue reading “Seattle Week in Review: Asteroids, Clouds, Secrets, Donuts”

Planetary Resources Raises $21M for Near-Term Market: Earth Observation

The same satellite-based sensors Planetary Resources is developing to prospect for asteroids in deep space can be pointed back at Earth to help global agribusinesses and commodities traders monitor crops, and enable oil and gas drillers to find new targets. The Bellevue, WA-based space company announced a $21.1 million funding round to support work toward … Continue reading “Planetary Resources Raises $21M for Near-Term Market: Earth Observation”

With Recruits Coming, Precision Med Effort Pledges $142M For Biobank

The Obama administration’s ambitious long-term health study, dubbed the Precision Medicine Initiative, has tapped the Mayo Clinic to build a repository for biological samples collected from the study’s participants. Through the National Institutes of Health, the administration has awarded $142 million over five years to the Rochester, MN-based Mayo Clinic for the so-called “biobank,” which … Continue reading “With Recruits Coming, Precision Med Effort Pledges $142M For Biobank”

San Diego Uses Hackathon to Generate Ideas for Climate Action Plan

“Can government really help drive innovation?” That might not be the sort of question you’d want to ask the crowd at a Donald Trump rally. But it was received with more optimism than sneers when a City of San Diego official posed the question Wednesday evening at the outset of an awards dinner for the … Continue reading “San Diego Uses Hackathon to Generate Ideas for Climate Action Plan”

UW Health Surgeon’s Startup Expanding Software to Monitor Patients

[Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories on physicians at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics who have become full- or part-time entrepreneurs.] Though he now works as a neurosurgeon, there’s always been a little bit of computer geek inside Josh Medow. While growing up in Illinois during the 1980s, Medow … Continue reading “UW Health Surgeon’s Startup Expanding Software to Monitor Patients”

117M LinkedIn Passwords for Sale: What You Should Do Now

Last week, a hack many of us had forgotten about shot right back into the headlines. First, the background: in 2012, LinkedIn acknowledged it had suffered a data breach that exposed the passwords of 6.5 million of its customers. What we discovered last week, however, was that the breach was actually much bigger than anyone … Continue reading “117M LinkedIn Passwords for Sale: What You Should Do Now”

TransEnterix Names Duke Doc Pappas to Surgical Officer Post

TransEnterix (NYSE MKT [[ticker:TRXC]]) has appointed Duke University surgeon Theodore Pappas to serve as the company’s senior surgical officer. After TransEnterix failed to secure FDA clearance for its surgical robot earlier this spring, CEO Todd Pope said the Research Triangle Park, NC-based medical device developer would hire a surgeon to help with clinical and regulatory … Continue reading “TransEnterix Names Duke Doc Pappas to Surgical Officer Post”

Biotech Roundup: Duchenne Delay, Forum’s Fate, Califf, Ionis & More

Memorial Day weekend may be fast approaching, but don’t fire up those grills yet: there’s plenty of headlines to dig into first in our biotech trip around the Xconomy network. In New York, the nation’s most prestigious science competition changed sponsors for just the second time in its 74-year history. In Boston, one company’s controversial … Continue reading “Biotech Roundup: Duchenne Delay, Forum’s Fate, Califf, Ionis & More”

Pro:Up Aims to Connect Kids to Life-Changing Career Opportunities

When Pro:Up CEO Justine Sheu and her co-founders were working as college guidance counselors in the troubled Detroit Public School system, they noticed how crippling the perceived lack of opportunities could be to the students they worked with. Kids from low-income families or ones that hadn’t yet sent a member to college seemed especially underexposed … Continue reading “Pro:Up Aims to Connect Kids to Life-Changing Career Opportunities”

Veering Off Topic With OwnerIQ CEO Jay Habegger

Next up in my series of offbeat chats with local tech leaders is Jay Habegger, co-founder and CEO of OwnerIQ. Habegger’s company started a decade ago as a network of websites allowing people to download free user manuals for consumer products, from digital cameras to snow blowers. OwnerIQ still offers that service, but it now … Continue reading “Veering Off Topic With OwnerIQ CEO Jay Habegger”

Boston Tech Watch: iRobot, MIT, Xura, Locus Robotics

Before everyone gets out of town for Memorial Day weekend, let’s catch up on a few recent announcements in Boston-area tech: —Xura (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MESG]]), a Wakefield, MA-based provider of digital communications products and services for businesses, is being acquired for $643 million by affiliates of Siris Capital Group, a New York private equity firm. —Locus … Continue reading “Boston Tech Watch: iRobot, MIT, Xura, Locus Robotics”

LeaveLogic Garners $900,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=53d67093-7905-42b4-9e0b-2bd8ba99a2b8 Date 5/27/2016 Company Name LeaveLogic Mailing Address 2008A California Ave SW Seattle, WA 98116 USA Company Description LeaveLogic sends email-based training to the manager just in time. We deliver content educating the manager on employee rights and resources available. With LeaveLogic the family leave experience is standardized across organizations, locations, and … Continue reading “LeaveLogic Garners $900,000 New Funding Round”

Planetary Resources Receives $21,100,000 Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3888ed9d-edf8-47d4-a059-72bd212a3897 Date 5/27/2016 Company Name Planetary Resources Mailing Address 6742 185th Street Redmond, WA 98052 USA Company Description Planetary Resources is establishing a new paradigm for resource discovery and utilization that will bring the solar system into humanity’s sphere of influence. Our technical principals boast extensive experience in all phases of robotic … Continue reading “Planetary Resources Receives $21,100,000 Series A Financing”

NarrativeWave Receives $2,002,005 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4f9bd6b2-dfd6-4c5e-ac46-244a2527628e Date 5/27/2016 Company Name NarrativeWave Mailing Address 31910 Del Obispo San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 USA Company Description NarrativeWave is the Situational Intelligence System for the Industrial Internet. Understand, interpret, and get real-time Situational status, and Intelligence everywhere, (on-site, off-site) in easy-to-understand Narration of your Industrial Assets. Website http://www.narrativewave.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “NarrativeWave Receives $2,002,005 New Financing”

7shifts Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=465d9121-1d5a-4d8c-86b4-3ffa695142ef Date 5/27/2016 Company Name 7shifts Mailing Address 55 E 3rd Ave. San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description Our mission is to help restaurant managers schedule & evaluate their workforce. Website http://www.7shifts.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes The company intends to use the funds … Continue reading “7shifts Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Financing”