Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c9782fe9-0fb9-45cd-8538-4ff30cb6aa6b Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Adjust Mailing Address 25 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94102 USA Company Description For too long the mobile industry has, at best, provided rubbish in rubbish out data feedback to advertisers. We got fed up with this because we knew there was a better way. So we … Continue reading “Adjust Garners $17,000,000 New Financing Round”
Haiku Deck Obtains $550,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=de5b4a44-5cc4-46ad-a8f3-57de45e1bc29 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Haiku Deck Mailing Address 1341 N. Northlake Way Seattle, WA 94103 USA Company Description Haiku Deck is rooted in a few simple principles. We know everyone has great stories and ideas ready to be set free. We believe crafting a compelling story should be a joyful creative … Continue reading “Haiku Deck Obtains $550,000 New Funding Round”
Attune Receives $10,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d673685-c86c-426a-8650-58dd3cc178b5 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Attune Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description By reading, evaluating and responding in real-time to information from both products and customers, we elevate the products each customer is most likely to buy within each collection. We also optimize within product options so that … Continue reading “Attune Receives $10,000,000 Series B Funding”
Imply Lands $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ee7f6733-4024-4b59-bcec-93a388764ee5 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Imply Mailing Address 211 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Druid is an open source, distributed analytics data store that powers user-facing data applications, provides fast queries on data in Hadoop, and helps you glean insights from streaming data. The architecture unifies historical and … Continue reading “Imply Lands $2,000,000 Seed Financing Round”
Silk Road Medical Obtains $57,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6e6b89d7-b6d5-44c4-9482-a60cbb0b36d4 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Silk Road Medical Mailing Address 735 N. Pastoria Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description Silk Road Medical, Inc. is a company that develops and manufactures less-invasive medical devices intended to improve the treatment of carotid artery disease through proprietary transcarotid therapies. Website http://www.silkroadmed.com Transaction Type Debt … Continue reading “Silk Road Medical Obtains $57,000,000 New Round”
Squad Garners $1,700,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7e58dc47-3cd7-4da8-ab24-bffeee7ffe9d Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Squad Mailing Address 300 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Our team at Squad is super passionate about sports, and we’re creating a sports social network to experience sports through the perspective of athletes and fans, not traditional media. Website http://www.squad.life Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Squad Garners $1,700,000 Seed Financing Round”
Citus Data Receives $9,500,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=812f7068-28ff-48e0-b85b-dd48ace15c7d Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Citus Data Mailing Address 450 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Citus Data offers CitusDB, a full featured database solution built on PostgreSQL. CitusDB is a hybrid operational/analytics database which scales out across commodity servers and parallel processes queries across the cluster nodes to … Continue reading “Citus Data Receives $9,500,000 Series A Financing”
Curacity Obtains $1,425,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=82c241f7-bcd3-4c44-8d2d-491d6238a9ec Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Curacity Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10027 USA Company Description Curacity, Inc. is a next generation online travel media and booking company that partners with leading media brands to extend and leverage their travel coverage into travel booking platforms. SurfaceHotels.com—a partnership with Surface magazine, the 23-year-old … Continue reading “Curacity Obtains $1,425,000 Seed Financing”
Conversocial Garners New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=252351f5-a3a8-4287-aebb-771d7786aea8 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Conversocial Mailing Address 79 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description Social media is rapidly changing customer service.We’re here to help you stay on top. We’re the leader in social customer service.We know what your customers need, and we know what you need. Website http://www.conversocial.com … Continue reading “Conversocial Garners New Funding Round”
Mouth Foods Garners $5,500,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c4cf157-247c-4725-808f-f824dde66d41 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Mouth Foods Mailing Address 68 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA Company Description Our goal is to help you discover and get the best, most delicious and most interesting indie food products and to help indie makers grow their business. Website http://www.mouth.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Mouth Foods Garners $5,500,000 New Round”
Sweeten Secures $3,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=16db46e9-e746-4086-ae95-f87f948b3c2b Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Sweeten Mailing Address 195 Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002 USA Company Description Sweeten is a fast growing, award-winning tech company that connects homeowners with renovation projects to the best local professionals in design and construction. Website http://www.sweeten.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,500,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Sweeten Secures $3,500,000 New Financing”
Frontline Aerospace Obtains $2,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c3532eda-7574-4aa5-8bbf-d55889970f0c Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Frontline Aerospace Mailing Address 14004 Quail Ridge Dr. Broomfield, CO 80020 USA Company Description Frontline Aerospace, Inc. is in the Cleantech and Defense markets, with a primary focus on our commercial gas turbine efficiency products. Our technology is poised to revolutionize the helicopter industry by dramatically improving … Continue reading “Frontline Aerospace Obtains $2,000,000 New Round”
Redox Obtains $3,500,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a57c9477-e2bd-4ddc-8a60-cd206ad08589 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Redox Mailing Address 111 N Fairchild St. Madison, WI 53703 USA Company Description The Redox Gallery is the largest ecosystem of enterprise health tech applications. Health systems plugged into Redox can light up these apps with little integration effort. Website http://www.redoxengine.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Redox Obtains $3,500,000 Series A Funding”
Visible Measures Receives $1,722,443 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=db884e1a-fd60-4795-b5c1-ed6ff49b02d3 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Visible Measures Mailing Address 143 South Street 5th Floor Boston, MA 02111 USA Company Description Visible Measures Corp. (VMC) is helping to revolutionize the way publishers, advertisers, and audiences engage with Internet delivered video. Website http://www.visiblemeasures.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,722,443 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Visible Measures Receives $1,722,443 New Funding”
Reflektion Receives $3,022,889 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1958a0b9-4b2e-4309-b6ef-6d0b7cd2e8be Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Reflektion Mailing Address 777 Mariners Island Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94404 USA Company Description Reflektion drives millions of incremental conversion events as well as more qualified traffic for leading retailers of all sizes, including The Walt Disney Company, Converse, Uniqlo, and O’Neill Clothing. The company’s core technology … Continue reading “Reflektion Receives $3,022,889 New Round”
Palantir Technologies Garners $104,830,011 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=57247c97-357b-4124-84f1-a019ffe3796d Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Palantir Technologies Mailing Address 100 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Palantir’s analytical platform is revolutionizing information analysis and management, providing superior human-driven systems needed to explore and analyze the subtle connections that exist within vast networks of heterogeneous information. Website http://www.palantir.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Palantir Technologies Garners $104,830,011 New Financing Round”
Vennli Garners $450,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5d09942f-4fae-4081-9596-cb7828030972 Date 10/21/2015 Company Name Vennli Mailing Address 112 W. Jefferson Blvd. South Bend, IN 46601 USA Company Description At the heart of Vennli is the vLens – a dynamic Venn diagram where your customers’ Choice Factors (the attributes customers weigh when deciding what to purchase) are visualized using our patent pending … Continue reading “Vennli Garners $450,000 New Financing”
Seattle 2035: Startups Share your Predictions for Free Admission
Thanks to our generous sponsors, Xconomy is able to provide complimentary tickets to a number of startups for the Seattle 2035 conference on October 30 at Northeastern University-Seattle. In exchange for these tickets, we’re asking entrepreneurs to share their predictions for how Seattle might look in decades to come. We still have a few of these … Continue reading “Seattle 2035: Startups Share your Predictions for Free Admission”
Redox Nabs East Coast Money to Develop Plug-and-play Healthcare API
Redox, a Madison, WI-based healthtech startup whose software helps other developers integrate with patient record-keeping systems used at hospitals and clinics, has raised $3.5 million in a Series A funding round from East Coast and local investors, the company announced Tuesday. The new financing brings the total amount Redox has raised to about $4 million. … Continue reading “Redox Nabs East Coast Money to Develop Plug-and-play Healthcare API”
This New England Company Runs the Internet—And Now You Can, Too
Steve Case, the AOL co-founder and venture capitalist, had high praise for a tech company based in the fair city of Manchester, NH. Your staff is basically running the Internet from New Hampshire, he told a crowd at a recent event at Dyn’s headquarters (I’m paraphrasing). Dyn is an Internet infrastructure firm born just after … Continue reading “This New England Company Runs the Internet—And Now You Can, Too”
Humacyte Lands $150M Series B for Phase 3 Study of Lab-Grown Veins
Regenerative medicine company Humacyte has nabbed $150 million in financing to take its lab-grown blood vessels into late-stage testing. The funding for the Research Triangle Park, NC-based company comes from a group of new and existing investors including Access Industries, Bangkok Bank Public Company Ltd., Pacific Eagle Asset Management, Reignwood Group, and individual investors Brady … Continue reading “Humacyte Lands $150M Series B for Phase 3 Study of Lab-Grown Veins”
Welltok Buys Children’s Health Tool Zamzee From HopeLab
Welltok has acquired a health tool for children and their families called Zamzee that it plans to incorporate into its health optimization software called CaféWell. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Zamzee attempts to engage children through games, allowing them to use an activity tracker as they attempt to complete challenges that require physical activity. … Continue reading “Welltok Buys Children’s Health Tool Zamzee From HopeLab”
Denver’s ReadyTalk Launches Mobile Video Conferencing Tool
The list of video chatting options just got longer. ReadyTalk, a Denver-based audio- and Web-conferencing service provider, is launching a new mobile-focused product that targets small businesses and millennials. The move is an attempt to land customers who might otherwise use competing services, like Google Hangouts. ReadyTalk announced today that it has opened a public … Continue reading “Denver’s ReadyTalk Launches Mobile Video Conferencing Tool”
Cancer Vaccines Back in Vogue as VCs Put $102M Into Gritstone Oncology
Not long ago making an effective cancer vaccine seemed like a dead-end proposition, but that sentiment is changing. The latest evidence: Gritstone Oncology, which makes its debut today with a massive Series A financing. Gritstone has raised a $102 million Series A round led by Versant Ventures and The Column Group. Others pitching in include … Continue reading “Cancer Vaccines Back in Vogue as VCs Put $102M Into Gritstone Oncology”
What’s Your DNA Worth? The Scramble To Cash In On the Genome
The consumer genome. You’ll hear that phrase enough the next couple years that it will gain both the weight and lightness of inevitability. It will feel inevitable because, as we’ve been hearing for years now, DNA is just another long string of crunchable, malleable, transportable code, so it’s just the next destination for the digital … Continue reading “What’s Your DNA Worth? The Scramble To Cash In On the Genome”
Mimecast Adds to (Slight) Tech IPO Momentum in Down Year
The tech IPO pipeline has a pulse after all. Last week, a burst of tech companies going public, or announcing plans to do so, brought a bit of excitement in a slow year for tech IPOs. The headline grabbers were Square filing for a $275 million initial public offering and First Data raising $2.6 billion … Continue reading “Mimecast Adds to (Slight) Tech IPO Momentum in Down Year”
Vittamed Lands $10,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=71b8ef89-62f2-4e53-b7e5-083bc14db804 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Vittamed Mailing Address 1776 Massachusetts Avenue Lexington, MA 02420 USA Company Description Vittamed non-invasive two-depth Doppler ultrasound innovative technology is designed to measure the absolute value of ICP without the need for periodic calibration to the individual patient. It is the only solution for elimination of the … Continue reading “Vittamed Lands $10,000,000 Series A Round”
Vee24 Garners $8,883,389 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=edeeb9e9-11e7-4f9d-a001-8140ead15d10 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Vee24 Mailing Address 700 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description The evolution of eBusiness to VeeBusiness. Video Engaging Enterprise is fundamentally altering the way we search, navigate, present and transact information on the web. Website http://www.vee24.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,883,389 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Vee24 Garners $8,883,389 New Funding”
Portal Instruments Secures $25,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e7607708-cb5f-4090-a921-8ecb965ab9ab Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Portal Instruments Mailing Address 148 Sidney Street Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description Portal Instruments is a development stage, venture-backed company that is developing a unique platform technology to transform the delivery of modern medicines and improve the patient experience. Website http://www.portalinstruments.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Portal Instruments Secures $25,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
ROOY Obtains $3,400,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=09a2d5b9-ddcb-46c7-9b45-b775e1401c43 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name ROOY Mailing Address 500 Yale Ave North Seattle, WA 98109 USA Company Description Partner with Rooy to bring shoe designs to life. The perfect shoe concept becomes a reality. Gain insight from the Rooy design team and valuable community feedback from Rooy’s community. Rooy provides full logistics … Continue reading “ROOY Obtains $3,400,000 Seed Financing Round”
ZeroStack Obtains $16,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=31e692ca-7665-4768-a75c-131817623d6f Date 10/20/2015 Company Name ZeroStack Mailing Address 201 Ravendale Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description ZeroStack delivers the industry’s first complete, scale-out private cloud that converges compute, storage, networking and management services. With ZeroStack, customers can drastically reduce time to value for IT, and lower software, hardware and operational … Continue reading “ZeroStack Obtains $16,000,000 Series B Financing”
Collective Health Receives $81,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9c60c727-4f5c-4db3-8888-42b6ecff5138 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Collective Health Mailing Address 60 E 3rd Ave. San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description Great minds working together to raise your expectations of what a health plan can do. Collective Health is creating the health insurance experience we all want and deserve. We’re starting by fixing … Continue reading “Collective Health Receives $81,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
Naia Garners $5,300,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a1487fcb-a281-457c-948f-67b8fcc4147c Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Naia Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Naia Limited is a privately-held, international drug development company that employs an innovative global strategy to clinically advance drug candidates. Website http://www.naiapharma.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,300,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Naia Garners $5,300,000 Series A Round”
Zignal Labs Obtains $15,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8d0b4ee-3d60-419e-9a78-7808fee7b224 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Zignal Labs Mailing Address 244 Jackson St. 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description Zignal Labs was founded by industry experts who realized there was a need for innovation in gathering and analyzing massive amounts of information. This commitment to forward thinking and seamless solutions … Continue reading “Zignal Labs Obtains $15,000,000 New Round”
Stitch Labs Receives $15,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=88f204fb-d84a-45b1-a1cc-fd45cc2891c1 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Stitch Labs Mailing Address 1663 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Together we will continue to develop the most intuitive, perfectly designed business solutions on the market. It may interest you to know that Brandon was once like you… a spunky, mildly awkward owner … Continue reading “Stitch Labs Receives $15,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
illusive networks Receives $22,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4939c357-7203-4e8f-83df-1376bd7276e5 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name illusive networks Mailing Address 590 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10022 USA Company Description We are a team of cyber experts and entrepreneurs with over 50 years of collective experience in cyber warfare and cybersecurity. We built illusive to challenge the biggest cyber threat facing organizations today … Continue reading “illusive networks Receives $22,000,000 Series B Funding”
Humacyte Secures $150,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fde22cf5-50de-4485-a2ae-2ce919adb28d Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Humacyte Mailing Address 7020 Kit Creek Rd. Morrisville, NC 27560 USA Company Description Humacyte’s core technology is the engineering of human-based tissue scaffolds that can be shaped into tubes, sheets, or particulate conformations and can be applied to many specific applications. Website http://www.humacyte.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Humacyte Secures $150,000,000 Series B Funding”
interlinkONE Acquires AwarenessHUB for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=46d3b991-b4a1-46d9-a684-070e8df0cd25 Date 10/20/2015 Company Name AwarenessHUB Mailing Address 25 Corporate Drive Burlington, MA 01803 USA Company Description Awareness provides an on-demand social media platform where enterprises deploy Web 2.0 technologies to achieve real business benefits. Awareness leverages the power of user-generated content – blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, photos, videos, forums, … Continue reading “interlinkONE Acquires AwarenessHUB for Undisclosed Sum”
Ampush Obtains $15,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=272791d9-b83e-4fc1-8e33-8bc44ad7aeea Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Ampush Mailing Address 450 9th Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description We offer the simplest way to reach people and grow revenue with in-feed advertising on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. Our fully-managed advertising solutions combine powerful software with human insights and execution … Continue reading “Ampush Obtains $15,000,000 New Round”
Firelayers Obtains New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dcd37d0a-e9f7-4c9f-88cc-dd8cc5bcf3ad Date 10/20/2015 Company Name Firelayers Mailing Address 1521 California Cir 2nd Floor Milpitas, CA 95035 USA Company Description FireLayers creates solutions that empower CIOs and CISOs to control and protect cloud application usage and data in a strategic way. Website http://www.firelayers.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Firelayers Obtains New Funding”
Wisconsin Roundup: Promega, Protein Foundry, Orbitec, & More
Here are some of the past week’s major headlines from Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community: —Representatives of an investment bank told Promega shareholders that the offer from activist shareholders to purchase the Madison-area biotech, first reported in August, is lower than similar industry transactions, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The $625-a-share bid is about 12 … Continue reading “Wisconsin Roundup: Promega, Protein Foundry, Orbitec, & More”
Ag-Tech Incubator Lures Sponsors, Startups With Unusual Model
A West Michigan incubator that helps farmers and entrepreneurs turn their ag-tech ideas into businesses is trying to get the word out about the program’s first year in hopes of attracting more sponsors. In the past year, the Great Lakes Ag-Tech Business Incubator launched a handful of startups and hammered out an unusual financing model … Continue reading “Ag-Tech Incubator Lures Sponsors, Startups With Unusual Model”
Broadband Health Tech Forum
TechTown and the FCC’s Connect2Health Task Force host this forum that aims to bring together policymakers, healthcare providers, academia, entrepreneurs, and investors to discuss broadband- and wireless-enabled healthcare technologies. For more information, click here.
Tax Symposium
Walsh College hosts its third annual tax symposium, which will examine five topics as they relate to taxes: crowdfunding, immigration, death, the Internet, and troubled entities. Click here for details and registration.
As SEC Mulls Equity Crowdfunding, CA Entrepreneurs Test Other Options
California is one of the dominant U.S. producers of fruits, nuts, vegetables—and tech startups. In the Silicon Valley, the startups sprouting up each season are nurtured by a host of accelerators and incubators as well as VCs and angel investors providing seed funding. That still leaves some startups hungry for cash, but California is not … Continue reading “As SEC Mulls Equity Crowdfunding, CA Entrepreneurs Test Other Options”
Y Combinator, AngelList, Techstars Shake Up VC World With Big Funds
[Updated 10/19/15, 2:26 pm, with comments from Y Combinator.] Y Combinator, the 10-year-old pioneer of the now-ubiquitous startup seed accelerator model, is evolving to invest in later-stage companies that have graduated its program. The question is what happens when early-stage accelerators enter the space normally occupied by traditional venture capital firms. Clearly, it opens up … Continue reading “Y Combinator, AngelList, Techstars Shake Up VC World With Big Funds”
Stocktoberfest Moves Fintech Guru Howard Lindzon to Center Stage
[Corrected 10/20/15, 11:20 am. See below.] A short version of Howard Lindzon’s bio on Angel’s List says he is the CEO and co-founder of StockTwits (a platform for tweeting stock market ideas and insights) and a general partner of Social Leverage, an angel investment fund that has invested in at least 30 startups (according to … Continue reading “Stocktoberfest Moves Fintech Guru Howard Lindzon to Center Stage”
Dining Payment App Reserve Tries to Book a Spot on More Phones
It is getting more crowded at the table for apps used to pay restaurant checks via mobile devices, but New York-based Reserve believes it provides a broader range of services than its rivals. I met up with Reserve’s CEO Greg Hong (pictured above) on Friday before he spoke at the tail end of the Techweek New … Continue reading “Dining Payment App Reserve Tries to Book a Spot on More Phones”
Genocea Ditches Pneumococcus Vaccine After Phase 2 Flop, Shares Fall
Genocea Biosciences may develop a successful vaccine someday, but given results the Cambridge, MA-based company revealed this morning, it will likely be for something other than pneumococcus. Genocea’s (NASDAQ: [[GNCA]]) experimental vaccine for pneumococcus, a treatment called GEN-004, failed a mid-stage trial. Though Genocea claimed the vaccine reduced the “rate and density” of the colonization … Continue reading “Genocea Ditches Pneumococcus Vaccine After Phase 2 Flop, Shares Fall”
Could North Carolina’s Next Wave of Innovation Come From the Sea?
Diabetics may someday be able to ditch daily needle sticks and opt instead for a less frequent injection of tiny insulin-bearing particles to manage their blood sugar. Key to this experimental drug delivery method is the source material: shrimp shells and seaweed. This nanoparticle technology, developed in labs at the joint biomedical engineering program at … Continue reading “Could North Carolina’s Next Wave of Innovation Come From the Sea?”