Replicated Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3d28a87c-fc35-4587-b19f-5f9e56afd1de Date 6/24/2015 Company Name Replicated Mailing Address Undisclosed Los Angeles, CA 94107 USA Company Description Replicated wraps your containerized cloud application with enterprise-grade features and deploys it behind your customer’s firewall, into a corporate data center or into the private cloud. Website http://www.replicated.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Replicated Lands $1,500,000 Seed Financing Round”

HackerOne Garners $25,000,000 Series B Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5f07cadf-9b4f-49a9-84cc-a4ad8365081e Date 6/24/2015 Company Name HackerOne Mailing Address 2414 San Jose Ave. Alameda, CA 94501 USA Company Description All technology contains bugs. It is inevitable that a member of the public will discover a security bug in your software, and how you respond reflects the maturity of your security program. Maintaining positive … Continue reading “HackerOne Garners $25,000,000 Series B Funding Round”

AtScale Obtains $7,000,000 Series A Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d9143e19-6bd7-4580-8a96-ab01f2c06f66 Date 6/24/2015 Company Name AtScale Mailing Address 400 S El Camino Real San Mateo, CA 94402 USA Company Description Created by Hadoop and business intelligence veterans, AtScale bridges the gap between the business user (and their favorite visualization tools) and their underlying Hadoop data platform. Website http://www.atscale.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “AtScale Obtains $7,000,000 Series A Round”

PeerSpace Receives $6,144,763 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e468f45e-f11b-45f2-860c-d0a19eb14d31 Date 6/24/2015 Company Name PeerSpace Mailing Address 150 South Park St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description We exist to help companies and individuals find one-of-a-kind short-term space to inspire their best work. Studies show that access to inspiring spaces and changing your work surroundings regularly are key drivers of … Continue reading “PeerSpace Receives $6,144,763 New Funding”

Yotpo Receives $15,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c6a7b9a6-a22e-4882-b1da-a8864ad58ad8 Date 6/24/2015 Company Name Yotpo Mailing Address 27 W 24th Street New York, NY 10010 USA Company Description Yotpo is the smartest way to generate customer content, drive traffic and increase conversions. Website http://www.yotpo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $15,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The funding will provide resources … Continue reading “Yotpo Receives $15,000,000 New Financing”

Surefire Medical Receives $11,047,356 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a4eabfa9-021a-44ed-989a-075c03f74184 Date 6/24/2015 Company Name Surefire Medical Mailing Address 6272 W. 91st Avenue Westminster, CO 80031 USA Company Description The Surefire Infusion System is designed to precisely deliver embolic agents through the sophisticated expandable tip portion of its catheter. Website http://www.surefiremedical.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $11,047,356 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Surefire Medical Receives $11,047,356 New Financing”

Biodesix Receives $11,000,000 Series E Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8562ba6a-d0c6-4930-b85d-162f0484de75 Date 6/24/2015 Company Name Biodesix Mailing Address 2970 Wilderness Place Boulder, CO 80301 USA Company Description Biodesix was founded in 2005 to apply the principles of complex data analysis and mass spectrometry (MS) to the discovery and development of improved multivariate tests that give physicians better information to understand the patient … Continue reading “Biodesix Receives $11,000,000 Series E Round”

Circular Energy Lands $3,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=152d28b7-7026-4c0a-a720-03fbcd7a95b3 Date 6/24/2015 Company Name Circular Energy Mailing Address 11002-A Metric Blvd. Austin, TX 78758 USA Company Description Circular Energy is the leading, full-service solar design-installation company in Texas. Homeowners and commercial property owners trust the Circular Energy team to help reduce their energy bills and their dependence on the volatile electricity … Continue reading “Circular Energy Lands $3,000,000 New Financing Round”

U.S. IPO Activity Loses Steam to PE Deals in First Half of 2015

In the strange times category of today’s innovation news, a preview of IPO activity through the first half of 2015 suggests that market bubbles don’t always rise. In fact, the total number of IPO deals and proceeds actually sank through the first half of 2015, with 101 IPOs raising total proceeds of $19.7 billion, according … Continue reading “U.S. IPO Activity Loses Steam to PE Deals in First Half of 2015”

Starr Out, Tessier-Lavigne in as Agios Chairman

Third Rock Ventures partner Kevin Starr decided not to stand for re-election as the chairman of Cambridge, MA-based Agios Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AGIO]]), a company he helped found in 2007. At a shareholder meeting today, Rockefeller University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne was named Starr’s replacement. Tessier-Lavigne was already chairing Agios’s compensation committee. He’s also the chairman of … Continue reading “Starr Out, Tessier-Lavigne in as Agios Chairman”

Automation Alley Puts More Cash Into Civionics, Lighthouse Molding

Automation Alley, the Troy, MI-based technology business association and accelerator, announced today that it has put additional money into two of its incubator clients, Civionics and Lighthouse Molding, through its pre-seed fund. Each company received $25,000 earlier this year when they started in Automation Alley’s 7Cs program to help advanced manufacturing startups grow. Today, Civionics … Continue reading “Automation Alley Puts More Cash Into Civionics, Lighthouse Molding”

Cash Flow: Credit Karma Pulls Down Another $175 M

[Updated 6/24/15, 9:40 am. See below.] San Francisco-based Credit Karma, an online personal finance site that raised $75 million in September, followed up with a $175 million Series D financing round announced today. Observers had valued the company at about $1 billion after the September round, but are now estimating Credit Karma’s worth at $3 … Continue reading “Cash Flow: Credit Karma Pulls Down Another $175 M”

Accera Pivots From Medical Foods to Potential Drug for Alzheimer’s

The war against Alzheimer’s disease has been a brutal, losing fight. Those stricken with the disease, their loved ones, and their doctors are on the front lines every day, but the battles researchers and drug companies fight behind the scenes in labs also have led to virtually no victories. Accera, an early stage drug company … Continue reading “Accera Pivots From Medical Foods to Potential Drug for Alzheimer’s”

Formlabs Takes a Step in Making Tough, Durable 3D-Printed Pieces

Can 3D-printed parts be tough enough for load-bearing, hands-on stress? The folks from Formlabs say they are moving, just a bit, in that direction with new material for their desktop printers. The Somerville, MA-based company is visiting New York now for CE Week, an annual conference for consumer electronics. On Tuesday, Formlabs announced the debut … Continue reading “Formlabs Takes a Step in Making Tough, Durable 3D-Printed Pieces”

StartingBlock Madison Taps Resnick to Bring Project to Finish Line

StartingBlock Madison—the proposed co-working space and entrepreneurial center that supporters envision anchoring the tech community in Wisconsin’s capital—today announced $200,000 in new funding and named an executive director who will help bring the project to the finish line and oversee the center’s operations once it opens its doors. Scott Resnick, the 28-year-old former Madison city … Continue reading “StartingBlock Madison Taps Resnick to Bring Project to Finish Line”

Houston Dares to Challenge the Bicoastal Model of Biotech Growth

World-class universities, prominent medical institutions, a talented workforce, access to capital and favorable geography are critical factors required to stimulate and support a dynamic regional bioscience industry. Some might believe that these factors only converge along the coasts of New England and California, and many new and growing biotech companies may feel that they are … Continue reading “Houston Dares to Challenge the Bicoastal Model of Biotech Growth”

Austin Makes Strides in Building a Robust Biotech Innovation Community

Austin, TX, has made its mark as a tech hub but lately the city’s life sciences community is gaining some critical mass. One of the primary factors? The installation of the new Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. “I think the medical school is going to definitely drive momentum in our … Continue reading “Austin Makes Strides in Building a Robust Biotech Innovation Community”

Welcome To The Sharing Economy. Cancer Researchers Are Next.

We’re sharing everything these days. Rides. Spare rooms. Pictures of things wrapped in bacon. Our thoughts, 24 hours a day. Next up: Cancer data? It can’t come soon enough for Charles Sawyers. Sawyers is one of the world’s most decorated cancer researchers, and his long resumé includes crucial work that helped make imatinib (Gleevec) one … Continue reading “Welcome To The Sharing Economy. Cancer Researchers Are Next.”

The Extraordinary Vision of Larry Bock

When Larry Bock gave the commencement speech for the University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry in 2007, he was introduced as “a very unusual man” who had founded, co-founded, or provided early stage financing for more than 48 startups, mostly in the life sciences. What went unsaid in the moment was that Bock started … Continue reading “The Extraordinary Vision of Larry Bock”

Movik Networks Garners $3,000,000 Series E Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a33dc98b-6671-4c8b-adb9-073a8f81cbb3 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Movik Networks Mailing Address 5 Lyberty Way Westford, MA 01886 USA Company Description Movik Networks is headquartered near Boston, MA and has an R&D group in Bangalore, India. The company is focused on delivering purpose-built solutions that bring content and application awareness to the edge of the … Continue reading “Movik Networks Garners $3,000,000 Series E Round”

ecovent Obtains $6,903,217 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b502fb46-1cb3-40d2-96f5-94d3dd69f5e1 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name ecovent Mailing Address 24 Cambridge St. Boston, MA 02129 USA Company Description ecovent has developed and proven an integrated, owner-installed system that addresses homeowner frustrations of temperature imbalance between rooms and high energy costs related to heating and cooling homes. Website http://www.ecoventsystems.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “ecovent Obtains $6,903,217 New Financing Round”

Senet Receives $18,000,000 Series A Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=11987b5a-4163-4edd-9a54-c96b6932b1a0 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Senet Mailing Address 46 River Road Hudson, NH 03051 USA Company Description Senet is the leading IoT network services provider for low cost, long range IoT applications. Senet provides network services for application developers who are searching for an affordable IoT network to launch and scale their … Continue reading “Senet Receives $18,000,000 Series A Round”

Zettics Obtains $3,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8b444cf4-18c4-4e25-ba81-d42c4213745e Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Zettics Mailing Address 150 Baker Ave Extension Concord, MA 01742 USA Company Description Leverage the information generated by your data network with Zettics’ big data platform. You’ll gain precise, immediate, actionable insights that will allow you to measure, optimize and grow your business like never before. Website … Continue reading “Zettics Obtains $3,000,000 New Financing Round”

Coravin Secures $13,600,000 Series C Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=13b88e50-acc5-4a51-9a33-e837559e7966 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Coravin Mailing Address 3 Van de Graaff Drive Burlington, MA 01803 USA Company Description My dream was to magically pour wine from bottles without ever pulling the cork. The remaining wine could then go back in my cellar, so that I could enjoy it again, whenever I … Continue reading “Coravin Secures $13,600,000 Series C Financing Round”

Qliance Medical Management Lands $520,753 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=128c49f0-4dbb-4c6d-b805-141647d369a2 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Qliance Medical Management Mailing Address 2101 Fourth Avenue Seattle, WA 98121 USA Company Description Qliance’s unique approach to providing primary care has grown out of frustration with an unmanageable, expensive insurance system and a desire to put good, affordable, personalized primary healthcare back in the hands of … Continue reading “Qliance Medical Management Lands $520,753 New Round”

Kitchenbowl Garners $1,300,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5fb58653-54a2-471b-b4cf-b42f48575e75 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Kitchenbowl Mailing Address 500 Yale Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 USA Company Description Kitchenbowl is a place to showcase your kitchen creations and inspire one another. It’s a collaborative photo cookbook, authored by people you trust. As an early adopter, you’ll have the chance to be featured, … Continue reading “Kitchenbowl Garners $1,300,000 New Funding”

Appuri Secures $2,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4bea7566-3f62-4b33-9ce5-be57df201711 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Appuri Mailing Address 119 Pine St. Seattle, WA 98101 USA Company Description Transform your business by creating measurable goals, tracking and testing changes throughout your infrastructure, and continuous delivery of value to customers. Website http://www.appuri.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Appuri Secures $2,000,000 New Funding Round”

Heal Obtains $5,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=699f3c56-d953-4eda-a807-006ec0b313df Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Heal Mailing Address 528 Palisades Drive Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 USA Company Description The Heal app matches you with a great doctor nearby. No traffic. No waiting rooms. Get a doctor to your sofa in under an hour. No hidden charges. 100% satisfied or it’s free. Website … Continue reading “Heal Obtains $5,000,000 New Financing”

Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics Garners $8,500,000 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d3c7640c-d7f7-429a-b5b3-3ba041bb9e0c Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics Mailing Address Undisclosed La Jolla, CA 92037 USA Company Description Pharmaceutical preparations including reactivated stem cells for organ and tissue re-growth, tissue repair, and healing. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $8,500,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Ankasa intends to initially … Continue reading “Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics Garners $8,500,000 Series A Funding”

Batu Biologics Receives $1,000,000 Seed Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=802e348d-b1ff-4391-a6e4-d881611c6d05 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Batu Biologics Mailing Address 9255 Towne Centre Drive San Diego, CA 92121 USA Company Description Batu Biologics is an immunotherapy company dedicated to developing therapeutics that address the multi-factorial and multi-dimensional nature of cancer. Website http://www.batubiologics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds … Continue reading “Batu Biologics Receives $1,000,000 Seed Round”

Portworx Garners $8,500,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fc49a0cf-b0a1-4814-a270-027ebb9670f9 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Portworx Mailing Address 900 Veterans Boulevard Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description Portworx PWX enables the rapid deployment of stateful, distributed applications into production. With PWX, applications can be scaled rapidly without IT intervention. DevOps can provision storage to containers in an automated and container-centric way. … Continue reading “Portworx Garners $8,500,000 New Funding”

Folloze Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=59eedd75-15f1-43a1-b9c0-1820f018f694 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Folloze Mailing Address 950 Van-Auken Circle Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description folloze is on a mission to democratize content contribution and distribution in the enterprise. Website http://www.folloze.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory … Continue reading “Folloze Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding Round”

Sano Obtains $10,250,000 Seed Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dfe9e572-b8eb-47e4-9fdd-1a0e46a69a56 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Sano Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Sano is a biometric sensor and software company with a patented, breakthrough technology that will help people understand what’s happening inside their bodies through continuously monitoring important markers in their bodies’ chemistry. Website http://www.sano.co Transaction Type … Continue reading “Sano Obtains $10,250,000 Seed Funding Round”

CropX Garners $9,000,000 Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=15112800-525b-4cb5-b21b-2287f566c946 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name CropX Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description CropX is an ag-analytics company that has developed the world’s most advanced adaptive irrigation service, which automatically optimizes irrigation, thereby delivering dramatic crop yield increase and water and energy cost savings to farms. Website http://www.cropx.com Transaction … Continue reading “CropX Garners $9,000,000 Series A Funding Round”

Envoy Receives $15,000,000 Series A Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5cfb152d-bb16-44cc-942a-a12e792ee64a Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Envoy Mailing Address 488 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Envoy modernizes your front desk. From collecting names, emails and NDAs, to pre-registering visitors and texting their host when they arrive. Envoy makes visitor management simple – and it’s a joy to use. Website … Continue reading “Envoy Receives $15,000,000 Series A Round”

Jelli Lands $12,000,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=41723303-82ba-40c5-ab02-b1d9ddc0777e Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Jelli Mailing Address 703 South B Street 2nd Floor San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description Jelli is 100% user-controlled radio, enabling users to take over a radio station using their web browsers. Leveraging the power of the web to reinvent traditional broadcasting, Jelli empowers the community … Continue reading “Jelli Lands $12,000,000 Series B Financing”

Snowflake Computing Obtains $45,000,000 Series C Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a998c926-40d2-4856-9d99-b90f64cb56d8 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Snowflake Computing Mailing Address 101 S. Ellsworth San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description The Snowflake elastic data warehouse is a service designed from the ground up for the cloud. It combines cloud infrastructure with dynamic technology to eliminate the pains of administering and optimizing the data … Continue reading “Snowflake Computing Obtains $45,000,000 Series C Funding Round”

Frame Receives $7,958,745 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1583b5a4-2331-4576-bc13-e186a0253bd1 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Frame Mailing Address 318 South B St. San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description A pioneer in the visual cloud, Frame lets you run any software in a browser. Its end-to-end platform makes it easy to take even graphics intensive Windows apps and deliver them as a … Continue reading “Frame Receives $7,958,745 New Financing”

Casper Obtains $55,000,000 Series B Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d2b3c966-ddd0-49a5-8d03-008634a69a71 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Casper Mailing Address 45 Bond St. New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description Casper is rewriting the rules of the mattress industry by providing a universally comfortable sleep experience. With better sleep comes more productivity and creativity. Website http://www.caspersleep.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $55,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Casper Obtains $55,000,000 Series B Round”

Olapic Receives $15,000,000 Series B Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=18d6d974-6eb4-49e4-9504-0a0e5744e6da Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Olapic Mailing Address 151 West 25th St. 5th Floor New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description Olapic is the premier social photo crowdsourcing service providing brands and publishers with tools to engage their audience and support a strong community built on photo and video sharing. Website http://www.olapic.com … Continue reading “Olapic Receives $15,000,000 Series B Financing Round”

Enigma Obtains $28,200,000 Series B Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d0e24935-0dde-4f66-8870-1fe56cc7799e Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Enigma Mailing Address 520 Broadway New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description By harmonizing and indexing the world’s public data, Enigma empowers professionals to discover hidden facts and connections like never before. Website http://www.enigma.io Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $28,200,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Enigma Obtains $28,200,000 Series B Round”

DigitalGenius Obtains $3,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8722b4d9-6e58-474d-bb13-96880d16ac60 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name DigitalGenius Mailing Address 250 Greenwich Street New York, NY USA USA Company Description DigitalGenius helps the largest companies deploy conversation-automation solutions to engage with their customers on a highly personalized level. Website http://www.digitalgenius.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The company … Continue reading “DigitalGenius Obtains $3,000,000 New Round”

Open Road Integrated Media Secures $3,000,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5126b799-fc38-4f2a-9333-bc927b5b2813 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Open Road Integrated Media Mailing Address 345 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 USA Company Description Open Road Integrated Media is a content marketing company that places the e-book in the center of a multi-platform universe, which includes film, video and other forms of digital entertainment. Website … Continue reading “Open Road Integrated Media Secures $3,000,000 New Funding”

DIDiT Receives $2,000,000 Seed Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e179cc36-a4ed-4b4a-9626-d5688ec7573f Date 6/23/2015 Company Name DIDiT Mailing Address 335 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10017 USA Company Description DIDiT was created by and for experience enthusiasts; passionate people striving to find and collect more memorable moments. We care more about experiences than material goods and we call ourselves “Doers”. If you found … Continue reading “DIDiT Receives $2,000,000 Seed Funding”

Smart Vision Labs Secures $6,100,000 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1e20dabb-3e47-4c83-86a5-e3e45b74ebdb Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Smart Vision Labs Mailing Address 335 Madison Avenue 16th Floor New York, NY 10017 USA Company Description Smart Vision Labs was founded in 2013 by Yaopeng Zhou and Marc Albanese. Yaopeng and Marc met more than 10 years ago while developing a scanning laser ophthalmoscope in a … Continue reading “Smart Vision Labs Secures $6,100,000 Series A Funding”

Dropoff Secures $7,000,000 Series A Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c926dec-0ae8-4139-969c-c2c474743cb9 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Dropoff Mailing Address 800 Brazos St. Austin, TX 78701 USA Company Description Dropoff has continued to provide Central Market with expedited and reliable service, while exceeding our expectations in their timeliness. Their drivers are always courteous and go above and beyond the needs of our business. Website … Continue reading “Dropoff Secures $7,000,000 Series A Financing”

Arena Online Receives $750,000 Seed Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6cf38428-7c7e-4675-80b2-c6ca252efde0 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name Arena Online Mailing Address Undisclosed Houston, TX 77021 USA Company Description Arena Online’s mission is to bring tournament gaming to eSports players who ordinarily wouldn’t be able to compete for cash prizes. Their dedication to creating something original extends into their plans to always provide equal pairings, … Continue reading “Arena Online Receives $750,000 Seed Financing”

SoftNAS Lands $5,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bd7acb69-acff-4aa0-afe3-df0e00f11730 Date 6/23/2015 Company Name SoftNAS Mailing Address 9211 West Road Houston, TX 77064 USA Company Description SoftNAS offers an exciting new low cost storage software solution that combines cloud and on-premise data onto a unified storage operating system. It is fast, reliable, easy to access and use, and works with the … Continue reading “SoftNAS Lands $5,000,000 New Financing Round”

Video Chatting May Be the Future of Medicine, Just Not Yet

Doctors in the U.S. are more than willing to test out video chatting with their patients, even if very few do so today. Technology is rapidly developing that may help video and mobile devices replace or supplement traditional forms of care like phone calls or in-person visits. In a survey of 2,016 physicians by American Well, a Boston-based … Continue reading “Video Chatting May Be the Future of Medicine, Just Not Yet”

Roundup: MI Science Center, Phrixus, #hack4detroit, Quicken Loans

Here’s a look at news from around Michigan’s innovation hubs: —University of Michigan spin-out Phrixus Pharmaceuticals is taking another step toward clinical trials of its Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug, thanks to more support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s SMARTT program will provide services to produce … Continue reading “Roundup: MI Science Center, Phrixus, #hack4detroit, Quicken Loans”