Houston — The University of Houston has announced the first director for its new Advanced Superconductor Manufacturing Institute. Syed Ahmed, a 20-year veteran of Southern California Edison who worked on projects such as the U.S. Department of Energy’s High Temperature Superconductivity Initiative, has taken on the Houston role. The institute, which received a $500,000 planning … Continue reading “Houston University Names Director for New Superconductor Institute”
ArthroMeda Lands $1,924,094 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b76f4bdb-2505-407a-a00b-ab0768ee7586 Date 3/25/2016 Company Name ArthroMeda Mailing Address 75 Sandy Pond Road Ayer, MA 01432 USA Company Description ArthroMeda Inc., an Ayer, Massachusetts based developer of medical devices. Co-founded by PJ Anand, Chairman, Mehran Aghazadeh, inventor of the technology, ArthroCAD focuses on developing solutions to improve surgical outcomes for patients undergoing joint … Continue reading “ArthroMeda Lands $1,924,094 New Funding Round”
DimensionalMechanics Obtains $4,700,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e95b2aa3-681e-4cfd-8066-3f392fa52c15 Date 3/25/2016 Company Name DimensionalMechanics Mailing Address 13217 174th Ave NE Redmond, NE 98052 USA Company Description DimensionalMechanics Inc. is making artificial intelligence scalable, enabling users to solve enterprise challenges by incorporating the power of human intelligence into existing systems. Website http://www.dimensionalmechanics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,700,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “DimensionalMechanics Obtains $4,700,000 Series A Round”
Visionary VR Garners $6,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8d526d3a-b0e8-4a12-8777-fd69f5e76a0a Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Visionary VR Mailing Address 333 S Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90071 USA Company Description Visionary VR continues to use virtual reality to push beyond the language of conventional storytelling. They are one of the first companies to demonstrate the viability of creating VR content from within … Continue reading “Visionary VR Garners $6,000,000 New Round”
Bromium Receives $40,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=152546da-8f2c-49ad-963a-155edcd8bec5 Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Bromium Mailing Address 20813 Stevens Creek Boulevard Cupertino, CA 95014 USA Company Description Bromium redefines endpoint protection and endpoint security with a new approach focused on isolation rather than detection. Eliminate compromises, false positives and costly remediation. Website http://www.bromium.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $40,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Bromium Receives $40,000,000 New Round”
FOVE Garners $11,000,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7c7a24c8-6609-4a57-9ed7-2df9e1092574 Date 3/25/2016 Company Name FOVE Mailing Address 1062 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description FOVE is an eye tracking head mount display. Dive into virtual worlds that know where you are looking, what you are looking at and react to it. Think Iron Man meets Oculus. By tracking … Continue reading “FOVE Garners $11,000,000 Series A Funding”
Retrotope Garners $4,576,956 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c2fab00-b5ae-442f-b427-524e5783e381 Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Retrotope Mailing Address 4300 El Camino Real Los Altos, CA 94022 USA Company Description Retrotrope is striving to change aging as we know it, so that people do not have to suffer the ravages of many degenerative diseases. Website http://www.retrotope.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,576,956 … Continue reading “Retrotope Garners $4,576,956 New Financing Round”
Cloudera Acquires Sense for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9e2a98ef-03d3-4845-be55-56bb3935803d Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Sense Mailing Address 251 Kearny St. 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description We’re building the right way for teams and enterprise to do data science — a radically better data science platform that supports the most powerful tools available and is delivered at a … Continue reading “Cloudera Acquires Sense for Undisclosed Sum”
Esports Hero Receives $1,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c18f0c4d-74a4-4236-a80b-042c7b7eed4c Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Esports Hero Mailing Address 119 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 USA Company Description eSportsHero.com brings the excitement of live eSports tournaments online where players of all skill levels can compete for cash prizes, glory, and to the enjoyment of viewers globally. Website http://www.esportshero.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Esports Hero Receives $1,000,000 New Funding”
Bijou Commerce Lands $2,800,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4f365d40-bc07-41d1-84d8-eab109b30449 Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Bijou Commerce Mailing Address 55 Broad Street New York, NY 10005 USA Company Description Following a year of research, development and architectural design, 2015 saw the creation of Bijou Commerce and the defining and implementation of a native mCommerce platform and full service proposition for retailers. Website … Continue reading “Bijou Commerce Lands $2,800,000 New Financing”
Open Lending Secures $40,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a40ae8e8-ffd5-4adc-a1a9-29b4cce2ef7b Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Open Lending Mailing Address 901 S. Mo-Pac Expwy Austin, TX 78746 USA Company Description Open Lending provides automated lending services to financial institutions. The company specializes in loan analytics, risk-based pricing, risk modeling and automated decision technology for automotive lenders throughout the United States. The company was … Continue reading “Open Lending Secures $40,000,000 New Round”
RevUp Obtains $5,000,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3711a733-84bc-41c9-969c-60d0ef432eea Date 3/25/2016 Company Name RevUp Mailing Address 805 Veterans Blvd. Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description RevUp Software is a Silicon Valley-based SaaS start-up that designs tools to help non-profits, academic institutions, and political organizations leverage data analytics and social media to meet and exceed their fundraising goals. Website http://www.revup.com … Continue reading “RevUp Obtains $5,000,000 Seed Round”
Soasta Receives $30,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e0a59579-fc7b-4101-a050-a74598b5dbca Date 3/25/2016 Company Name Soasta Mailing Address 444 Castro St. 4th Floor Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description SOASTA is a leader in cloud and mobile testing. Its web and mobile test automation solution, CloudTest and TouchTest enables developers, QA professionals and IT operations teams to test with unprecedented speed, … Continue reading “Soasta Receives $30,000,000 New Financing Round”
FLYR Receives New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7c6ba401-f095-4cdc-9032-e9d9ddf4dda2 Date 3/25/2016 Company Name FLYR Mailing Address 22 Rausch St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Today’s airfares, tomorrow’s bargain. Guaranteed for 7 days. No commitment. Website http://www.getflyr.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes With this investment by JetBlue Technology Ventures and other recent … Continue reading “FLYR Receives New Funding”
June Oven Garners $22,500,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8d776424-5899-4278-a8c0-f7a03260c22d Date 3/25/2016 Company Name June Oven Mailing Address 1625 N. Market Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95834 USA Company Description June is a modern appliance company dedicated to bringing intelligence to the tools you use in the kitchen. We’re a team of 38 engineers and designers who work, cook, and eat in our … Continue reading “June Oven Garners $22,500,000 Series A Funding Round”
Google Grows, Will Join Amazon in Seattle’s South Lake Union
Google plans to move and expand its Seattle offices from the Fremont neighborhood to South Lake Union, best known today for Amazon’s ever-growing corporate headquarters. Vulcan, the business empire of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and developer of most of the South Lake Union neighborhood over the last decade, is planning four buildings with some 607,000 … Continue reading “Google Grows, Will Join Amazon in Seattle’s South Lake Union”
Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence at High-Flying 3D Robotics
3D Robotics, the drone maker that began life in Tijuana and San Diego, has been consolidating its operations after stumbling in its bid to go head-to-head against China’s DJI, the world’s biggest maker of consumer drones. In an interview yesterday afternoon with Xconomy, CEO Chris Anderson confirmed that 3DR has been reorganizing to focus its … Continue reading “Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence at High-Flying 3D Robotics”
Restructuring Looms for Forum as Neuro Drug Fails Key Clinical Test
Forum Pharmaceuticals has been pursuing a more than decade-long quest to develop a drug that might help people with a variety of neurological disorders to think more clearly. Unfortunately, however, it’s come up short in its biggest test to date—two large Phase 3 clinical trials in patients with schizophrenia. Waltham, MA-based Forum revealed the topline … Continue reading “Restructuring Looms for Forum as Neuro Drug Fails Key Clinical Test”
San Antonio’s Merge VR Talks Consumer Interest in Virtual Reality
San Antonio — There’s been chatter for a few years about when virtual reality will go mainstream. That day may already be here or, at the very least, near. VR was one of a few technologies to capture much of the attention at 2016’s South by Southwest. It’s growing increasingly common for personal use, with … Continue reading “San Antonio’s Merge VR Talks Consumer Interest in Virtual Reality”
Former Gates Foundation Lawyer Tapped As WARF’s New Managing Director
Erik Iverson, an attorney whose career stops include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been named the next managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which manages patents and licensing of intellectual property for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Iverson, 47, currently serves as president of business and operations for the Infectious Disease Research … Continue reading “Former Gates Foundation Lawyer Tapped As WARF’s New Managing Director”
Roundup: U-M “Me-Search,” Zoetis, Rockwell Medical in China & More
Here’s a look at startup and innovation news from around Michigan: —Multiple departments across the University of Michigan and its medical school are participating in the Michigan Microbiome Project, with a mission to study the structure, functions, and dynamics of the human microbiome, as well as how the microbiome can be managed to improve a … Continue reading “Roundup: U-M “Me-Search,” Zoetis, Rockwell Medical in China & More”
AppDirect Buys Xendo, Adds Search Option Across Users’ Cloud Apps
In a move aimed at making life simpler for Web-based software subscribers, AppDirect is buying San Francisco startup Xendo, which allows app users to search through all their online programs at once for the files or facts they need. With a Xendo search, users who have forgotten whether they stored a document in Box or … Continue reading “AppDirect Buys Xendo, Adds Search Option Across Users’ Cloud Apps”
Gerngross, Singer Join “What’s Hot in Boston Biotech” on April 6
We’re now less than two weeks away from our annual biotech bash in Boston, but we’ve got a few new tidbits to share—two new speakers have come aboard to round out the program. The first new name is Tillman Gerngross, the Dartmouth College professor, founder of antibody shop Adimab, and scientist-turned-scientific businessman, as we wrote … Continue reading “Gerngross, Singer Join “What’s Hot in Boston Biotech” on April 6”
East Coast Biotech Roundup: Harvard’s Haul, Patent Fights, Padlock & More
Biotech news on the East Coast runs the gamut this week, from financings to buyouts, a record licensing deal, a new startup, and some high-stakes patent fights. Let’s get right to it. —Merck (NYSE: [[ticker:MRK]]) this week paid Harvard University $20 million up front to license a group of potential cancer drugs from the labs … Continue reading “East Coast Biotech Roundup: Harvard’s Haul, Patent Fights, Padlock & More”
LogicSource Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e6e3e62f-ab49-43cd-84fd-926c2e16bd9f Date 3/24/2016 Company Name LogicSource Mailing Address 20 Marshall Street South Norwalk, CT 06854 USA Company Description LogicSource is a sourcing solutions firm serving a broad range of industries, including but not limited to, retail, consumer packaged goods, finance, insurance, travel & leisure and healthcare. Website http://www.logicsource.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “LogicSource Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing Round”
HG Data Garners $12,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=37c0de59-0ea2-40a1-80ac-3ec7d0cba2d0 Date 3/24/2016 Company Name HG Data Mailing Address 1 N Calle Cesar Chavez Santa Barbara, CA 93103 USA Company Description At HG Data’s lab in California, our data scientists are pioneering surprising new ways to procure, extract and apply data. We love the astounded look on our customer’s face upon first … Continue reading “HG Data Garners $12,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
AristaMD Receives $1,375,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f6b50853-be90-4f3e-a89d-493beb1c5000 Date 3/24/2016 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 Debt Transaction Amount $1,375,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “AristaMD Receives $1,375,000 New Financing”
TaskUs Lands $14,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c896ca1-4f67-4146-9842-98148d504ab0 Date 3/24/2016 Company Name TaskUs Mailing Address 3233 Donald Douglas Loop South Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA Company Description Today, many of the biggest and most exciting companies in the world trust TaskUs with their vital business processes so that they can focus on true innovation. As a result the little … Continue reading “TaskUs Lands $14,000,000 New Financing Round”
OneRent Obtains $4,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=beea17a7-cd62-4f6e-924f-3974dbd58878 Date 3/24/2016 Company Name OneRent Mailing Address 75 E Santa Clara St. San Jose, CA 95113 USA Company Description OneRent was founded in March of 2014 after we went through a painful, fragemented rental experience as first-time renters. With our first product, we spent countless hours with owners and renters to … Continue reading “OneRent Obtains $4,000,000 New Financing”
Mesosphere Lands $73,500,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ebf12984-4061-4d89-9bf6-597357f1856f Date 3/24/2016 Company Name Mesosphere Mailing Address 88 Stevenson Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Mesosphere is dedicated to helping enterprises unlock the next generation of datacenter scale, efficiency and automation with the power of Apache Mesos. Mesos is an open source, server-side technology that pools datacenter resources and … Continue reading “Mesosphere Lands $73,500,000 Series C Financing”
ZenPayroll Secures $44,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5cb83938-fca2-4f99-88ce-bc174f06f8b4 Date 3/24/2016 Company Name ZenPayroll Mailing Address 425 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description ZenPayroll is on a long-term mission to modernize the payroll industry and connect companies with their employees in a more meaningful way. Today people think of payroll as a painful, tedious chore that forces … Continue reading “ZenPayroll Secures $44,500,000 New Financing Round”
Ebates Acquires Shopular for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cbe57e00-070e-40c7-b1c7-84d1216b9a28 Date 3/24/2016 Company Name Shopular Mailing Address 2120 Middlefield Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Shopular is your best shopping buddy – always looking out for you and making sure you know all the coupons every time you go shopping. Website http://www.shopular.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction … Continue reading “Ebates Acquires Shopular for Undisclosed Sum”
LendKey Garners $5,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=63e30edd-080b-410c-aa39-416cefdfa99b Date 3/24/2016 Company Name LendKey Mailing Address 104 W. 27th St. 4th Floor New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description LendKey offers cloud-based technology to provide the essential infrastructure for financial institutions or any party to quickly, securely, efficiently, and profitably lend to anyone else – from those offering loans directly … Continue reading “LendKey Garners $5,000,000 New Round”
eChalk Obtains $1,750,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3f3ea4f3-d056-4968-87e3-cdc946a78cd4 Date 3/24/2016 Company Name eChalk Mailing Address 25 Broadway 9th Floor New York, NY 10038 USA Company Description eChalk is the leading provider of customized, Web-based communication networks for K-12 schools and districts. Website http://www.echalk.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,750,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “eChalk Obtains $1,750,000 New Funding”
Deep Imaging Technologies Lands $1,555,730 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=812a6932-1325-46d9-a4b6-9b6402d1561b Date 3/24/2016 Company Name Deep Imaging Technologies Mailing Address 990 Village Square Dr. Tomball, TX 77375 USA Company Description Using new developments in electromagnetic technologies, we founded Deep Imaging Technologies with the goal of greatly improving the ability to detect onshore geological features of potential value. Our focus is to advance … Continue reading “Deep Imaging Technologies Lands $1,555,730 New Financing”
Olapic Acquires Piqora for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8e5ad426-7038-4f88-81aa-da75e08990e8 Date 3/24/2016 Company Name Piqora Mailing Address 181 2nd Ave. San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description Piqora is a newly launched startup offering an analytics solution for the up-and-coming social network Pinterest. Website http://www.piqora.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms The plan is to … Continue reading “Olapic Acquires Piqora for Undisclosed Sum”
CRISPR And Beyond: UCSD-Doudna Work Attracts Paul Allen’s Millions
CRISPR-Cas9 is well known, by people who follow science and some who don’t, as the new DNA editing tool that one day might cure genetic diseases or lead to designer babies. Or both. Whether those headline-grabbing scenarios come true, or CRISPR-Cas9 just remains a useful tool for all kinds of biological research, one thing is … Continue reading “CRISPR And Beyond: UCSD-Doudna Work Attracts Paul Allen’s Millions”
Envisia Gets $16.5M More to Back Extended-Release Eye Drugs
Investors in Envisia Therapeutics are pumping $16.5 million more into the eye drug developer to carry the company’s lead candidate, a potential glaucoma treatment, through mid-stage clinical trials. Envisia’s new financing adds to the $25 million Series A round the Research Triangle Park, NC-based company initially raised in 2013. At that time, Envisia was spun … Continue reading “Envisia Gets $16.5M More to Back Extended-Release Eye Drugs”
AT&T Aims to Apply Foundry Model to Health IT in Houston
Plano, TX — Innovation in health IT can be as simple as a connected first-aid kit. The kit would sense when an item, say, Band-Aids, are low and wirelessly connect to the Internet to place an order and have it delivered. The idea of a medicine cabinet staple, souped up for the information age, is … Continue reading “AT&T Aims to Apply Foundry Model to Health IT in Houston”
Latest MA-NY Deals: GreatHorn, Tinkergarten, Greentown Labs, NYC ACRE
Massachusetts and New York are bitter sports rivals, but when it comes to business, the exchanges often end in handshakes, not heckling. Here are some of the latest examples of partnerships happening along the Northeast corridor: —GreatHorn, a Belmont, MA-based provider of security software for cloud communications (think Google apps and Microsoft Office 365), snagged … Continue reading “Latest MA-NY Deals: GreatHorn, Tinkergarten, Greentown Labs, NYC ACRE”
Quanterix Expands in Diagnostics With $46M in New Cash
A quick update on a life sciences company we’ve been watching for years. Lexington, MA-based Quanterix has secured $46 million in Series D financing, led by new investors Arch Overage Fund, Cormorant Asset Management, and Trinitas Capital. Some of the company’s previous investors—Arch Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Tufts University, and co-founder David Walt (a … Continue reading “Quanterix Expands in Diagnostics With $46M in New Cash”
As Pharma Deals Progress, Propeller Health Sharpens Its Strategy
By teaming up with larger, more established companies, startups can avoid having to reinvent the wheel—or, in the case of Propeller Health, the inhaler. Madison, WI-based Propeller Health says that it and Boehringer Ingelheim, a German pharmaceutical giant whose products include the Respimat inhaler, have taken a key step forward in their joint effort to … Continue reading “As Pharma Deals Progress, Propeller Health Sharpens Its Strategy”
Tarveda Formally Spins Out Placon to Advance Platinum Cancer Drugs
Blend Therapeutics rebranded at “Tarveda Therapeutics” a few months ago to reflect the strategic change the company underwent in 2015. A prospective cancer drug was spun into a new startup as part of that undertaking, and today, that company—Placon Therapeutics—has formally launched. Placon, based in Cambridge, MA, is advancing what had been Tarveda’s lead drug, … Continue reading “Tarveda Formally Spins Out Placon to Advance Platinum Cancer Drugs”
With $25M, Science Exchange’s Marketplace Is No Longer An Experiment
Internet companies like Airbnb, Uber, and TaskRabbit have helped people turn the extra capacity in their homes, cars, and personal downtime into a revenue stream, then taken their cut of it. Palo Alto, CA-based Science Exchange has brought the sharing economy to biomedical labs, letting scientists in academia, government, and all sizes of companies shop … Continue reading “With $25M, Science Exchange’s Marketplace Is No Longer An Experiment”
Gilman Scores for Atlas Again as Bristol Buys Padlock for up to $600M
For the second time in just over four years, former Biogen research executive Michael Gilman has steered a startup towards a buyout. This time, it’s Padlock Therapeutics, a fledgling developer of autoimmune disease drugs that’s about to join Bristol-Myers Squibb’s portfolio. Bristol (NYSE: [[ticker:BMY]]) has agreed to acquire Padlock in a deal that could be … Continue reading “Gilman Scores for Atlas Again as Bristol Buys Padlock for up to $600M”
Duo Security and GTRI Partner on International STEM Talent Event
Dozens of international students finishing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields were on hand at Duo Security’s Ann Arbor, MI, office last week for a tech talent matchmaking event sponsored by the Michigan Global Talent Retention Initiative (GTRI) and Global Detroit. The event was the first in a series designed to connect … Continue reading “Duo Security and GTRI Partner on International STEM Talent Event”
Dear Biopharma: Give Us Better Therapies for Pain
The CDC released on March 15th new guidelines that advise strict limits on the prescription of opioids for pain. These guidelines respond to a stunning increase in deaths and addiction related to the prescription of opioids like OxyContin and Percocet. The CDC recommended against providing patients more than a seven-day supply of opioids for acute … Continue reading “Dear Biopharma: Give Us Better Therapies for Pain”
Mylestoned Receives $1,500,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=47cecb56-02c3-47a3-9d6b-280e6fe2ded8 Date 3/23/2016 Company Name Mylestoned Mailing Address 500 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118 USA Company Description Mylestoned provides a beta product that enables memory submission via a conversational text-messaging interface and delivers back a collection of memories for contributors to view and share. New memories can be added at any time. … Continue reading “Mylestoned Receives $1,500,000 Seed Funding”
Quanterix Receives $46,000,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=071acc2f-9010-41e7-af4b-a8f914b5be8c Date 3/23/2016 Company Name Quanterix Mailing Address 113 Hartwell Avenue Lexington, MA 02421 USA Company Description At Quanterix, our principal focus is to improve human health by providing physicians, drug developers, and researchers with the ability to detect and analyze important biomolecules within complex biological samples at the level of single … Continue reading “Quanterix Receives $46,000,000 Series D Funding”
Propel Marketing Acquires ThriveHive for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b7c50ff9-ade6-44fb-bd73-63c683cf8e98 Date 3/23/2016 Company Name ThriveHive Mailing Address 1 Main St Cambridge, MA 02142 USA Company Description ThriveHive is an all-in-one marketing platform that gives local businesses a custom marketing plan and provides the tools and expertise to do it all in one place. Website http://www.thrivehive.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed … Continue reading “Propel Marketing Acquires ThriveHive for Undisclosed Sum”