Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1e866538-20ab-43f0-8695-34fadcb70ced Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Moximed Mailing Address 26460 Corporate Ave Hayward, CA 94541 USA Company Description Moximed International. Dedicated to Improving the Standard of Care for Patients with Osteoarthritis. Website http://www.moximed.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $197,427,555 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. … Continue reading “Moximed Lands $197,427,555 New Funding”
Wonder Workshop Receives $6,900,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3340d3f6-3183-41b9-a556-b334c1c8464e Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Wonder Workshop Mailing Address 2121 S El Camino Real 11th Floor San Mateo, CA 94403 USA Company Description Check out projects from kids around the world! Get featured and inspire others with how you are playing and learning with Dash & Dot! Just post your project to … Continue reading “Wonder Workshop Receives $6,900,000 Series A Funding”
Inkling Secures $14,999,997 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c33c4c34-cd31-4e39-adc1-b5ffe3e69e17 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Inkling Mailing Address 153 Kearny Street 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Inkling was founded in late 2009 to tackle the challenges of interactive publishing. Inkling’s partnerships with major publishers like Cengage Learning, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, and Wolters Kluwer will yield next-generation … Continue reading “Inkling Secures $14,999,997 Series D Round”
Zenefits Receives $500,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=df82aaef-556d-460f-95f1-c945b376bb64 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Zenefits Mailing Address 303 2nd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Zenefits runs your benefits, so you can run your business. Get affordable benefits for your company in minutes. Then set-&-forget them. Website http://www.zenefits.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $500,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Zenefits Receives $500,000,000 New Financing Round”
Wrike Garners $15,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9bf12150-e63b-42c4-9015-d3058d3003dc Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Wrike Mailing Address 100 W Evelyn Ave. Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description Offering its services for more than 5 years, Wrike, Inc. is the leading provider of social project management software that helps thousands of companies efficiently get things done together in real time. Website … Continue reading “Wrike Garners $15,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
PureWow Garners $2,500,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=88d74aaa-a773-41ee-bce6-199bcee3c2c2 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name PureWow Mailing Address 568 Broadway New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description PureWow is a digital publication dedicated to finding ways to make your life more interesting, beautiful and manageable. Our motto, Elevate the Everyday, drives us to deliver irresistible discoveries to our readers every single day. … Continue reading “PureWow Garners $2,500,000 Seed Funding Round”
Chartbeat Secures $15,500,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9cc604c4-870e-469a-9fa0-1f0eaeb91fc3 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Chartbeat Mailing Address 826 Broadway 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 USA Company Description Chartbeat provides real-time data analytics and performance alerts for your website. Website http://www.chartbeat.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $15,500,000 Transaction Round Series C Proceeds Purposes Today we’re launching two new tools for … Continue reading “Chartbeat Secures $15,500,000 Series C Funding”
FileChat Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1dcb1e49-8758-4885-8b31-4ddc47e7972a Date 5/6/2015 Company Name FileChat Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description FileChat is a powerful new free mobile and web application that allows users to socially collaborate on files within their existing cloud storage platforms to improve productivity and efficiency. Website http://www.filechat.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “FileChat Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding”
ComplyGlobal Lands $2,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=38c34195-9980-486f-9eca-e49c8ef1e86d Date 5/6/2015 Company Name ComplyGlobal Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10018 USA Company Description ComplyGlobal is the cloud-based software platform that helps you govern and track your domestic and global regulatory requirements in real time to manage compliance risk. Your real-time compliance library and customized calendar – automatically created by … Continue reading “ComplyGlobal Lands $2,500,000 New Financing”
Quantico Energy Solutions Lands Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=27d28f72-d978-47c5-a712-ba42568e3e10 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Quantico Energy Solutions Mailing Address 5800 Ranchester Drive Houston, TX 77036 USA Company Description Formed in 2012, Quantico Energy Solutions is a data analytics company based in Houston, Texas. The company’s focus is on providing the oil and gas industry with data-driven solutions that address major challenges … Continue reading “Quantico Energy Solutions Lands Series A Round”
Dasheroo Garners $3,250,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3900c8e2-16db-4c2c-a286-c15f9a1c30c7 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Dasheroo Mailing Address 8920 Business Park Dr. Austin, TX 78759 USA Company Description Here’s the huge challenge we’ve seen develop over the years: most businesses use 15-20 3rd party apps to run their biz. Facebook, Twitter, Mail Chimp, Emma, AdWords, Google Analytics, Zendesk, Quickbooks, you name it. … Continue reading “Dasheroo Garners $3,250,000 Series A Round”
aTyr Pharma Lands $75,600,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cf23da5e-a0c1-455a-a7e5-303b9029aa03 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name aTyr Pharma Mailing Address 3565 General Atomics Court San Diego, CA 92121 USA Company Description aTyr Pharma (NASDAQ: LIFE) has developed proprietary methods for discovering Physiocrines, extracellular proteins that are derived from the tRNA synthetase family of enzymes, and which were predominantly overlooked by other genomic and … Continue reading “aTyr Pharma Lands $75,600,000 New Funding”
Banjo Garners $100,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9a53b84f-3ce2-4f0b-b4aa-d491da5c680e Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Banjo Mailing Address 806 Winslow Street Redwood City, CA 94063 USA Company Description Banjo instantly organizes the world’s social and digital signals by location, giving an unprecedented level of understanding of what’s happening anywhere in the world, in real time. Website http://www.ban.jo Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Banjo Garners $100,000,000 New Funding”
Sherpaa Receives $2,250,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8ae99652-0ce8-40a3-a3d0-c616ff74cb22 Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Sherpaa Mailing Address 10 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA Company Description Sherpaa is around the clock email and phone access to our friendly, NYC-based doctors (or Guides as we call them). Whenever you have a health question or concern, we’re here for you. And we play … Continue reading “Sherpaa Receives $2,250,000 New Funding”
Fuel3D Lands New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=de963540-58ab-47c6-ace3-9256d193929e Date 5/6/2015 Company Name Fuel3D Mailing Address 1800 North Greene Street Greenville, NC 27834 USA Company Description FUEL3D is an affordable handheld 3D scanning system that delivers extremely high quality 3D shape and color capture for a range of creative applications. The Fuel3D handheld scanner is a point-and-shoot 3D scanning system … Continue reading “Fuel3D Lands New Financing Round”
Bunker’s Veteran-Led Startups: Retail Tech, Crowdfunding, & More
The Bunker, an accelerator targeting military veteran entrepreneurs, will be moving into a new home at Austin, TX-based Capital Factory. The dozen startups in the Bunker’s first class had been working since the program’s beginning in January out of the offices of RideScout, a transport app company founded by Joseph Kopser. (Last year, the West … Continue reading “Bunker’s Veteran-Led Startups: Retail Tech, Crowdfunding, & More”
SessionM Banks $12M to Expand in Enterprise Mobile Marketing
SessionM, a mobile marketing startup based in Boston, is on a hot streak. The latest win came Tuesday, when the company announced it has raised a $12 million funding round. The round brings the total SessionM has raised to $38.5 million since it was founded in 2011. Causeway Media Partners led the round. The firm … Continue reading “SessionM Banks $12M to Expand in Enterprise Mobile Marketing”
MI Roundup: NextEnergy, Stratos, URC, Vectorform, Comcast
Here’s a look at news from around Michigan’s innovation hubs: —NextEnergy, the Detroit-based nonprofit accelerating advanced energy technologies, has awarded a total of $295,000 to three companies as part of the Michigan Accelerating Technology (MATch) Energy Grant program. Navitas Advanced Solutions Group, from Ann Arbor, received $20,000 to support research on new electrode coating and … Continue reading “MI Roundup: NextEnergy, Stratos, URC, Vectorform, Comcast”
Epic Systems: Madison Healthtech’s “Unwitting” Anchor Company
As healthcare technology grows increasingly important in our everyday lives—from the software that manages our medical records to the explosion of health and fitness-monitoring devices and apps—different cities around the country are trying to claim the mantle of “America’s healthtech capital.” Madison, WI, is among the places vying for that title. And while it can … Continue reading “Epic Systems: Madison Healthtech’s “Unwitting” Anchor Company”
Houston 2035 Preview: 3-D Printing Could Lower New Housing Costs
Urban revitalization is a priority for many American cities, and Houston is home to significant efforts to develop urban living as never before. Residents have returned to downtown, and some in-town neighborhoods are creating an urban lifestyle that for the first time is not necessarily built around the car. But other areas—former industrial quarters or … Continue reading “Houston 2035 Preview: 3-D Printing Could Lower New Housing Costs”
Nara Logics Gets New CEO, Recruits Renowned Neuroscientist
One of the leaders in computational neuroscience is taking a role with Nara Logics, a Cambridge, MA, spinout from MIT that marries advanced brain-science research with computer science to create enterprise software capable of making big data manageable. The company announced Tuesday that computational neuroscience researcher Sebastian Seung will join its board of advisers. Seung … Continue reading “Nara Logics Gets New CEO, Recruits Renowned Neuroscientist”
Big Apple Biotech “Bootstraps” Forward at NewYorkBio Meeting
Tom Cirrito was dining out at a Mexican restaurant in midtown Manhattan over a decade ago when he overheard something that piqued his interest. At a table next to him, someone was talking about biotech. Cirrito, then an analyst at Piper Jaffray, was intrigued. He butted in, and his life changed. His restaurant neighbor was … Continue reading “Big Apple Biotech “Bootstraps” Forward at NewYorkBio Meeting”
Even with Turmoil at Top, NuVasive Beat First-Quarter Expectations
San Diego spinal implant maker NuVasive (NASDAQ: [[ticker:NUVA]]) posted first-quarter financial results yesterday that exceeded analysts’ estimates for both revenue and earnings. But the first three months of 2015 also turned out to be an especially busy quarter for the company’s lawyers. During an afternoon conference call with investors and analysts Monday, NuVasive chairman and … Continue reading “Even with Turmoil at Top, NuVasive Beat First-Quarter Expectations”
Readying the Distributed Grid for the Big Energy Challenges of 2035
Predicting the future in the energy business is difficult for five years, let alone 20 years. That said, we feel the “better bet” is a future energy system that will be a lot more distributed as compared to the largely centralized grid of today. There will be much more generation and storage at the individual … Continue reading “Readying the Distributed Grid for the Big Energy Challenges of 2035”
SessionM Secures $12,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bf346b25-31ca-4c1f-999e-3de5869ffe7b Date 5/5/2015 Company Name SessionM Mailing Address 311 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210 USA Company Description SessionM is the next generation consumer loyalty and engagement platform. The company’s cloud-based solutions integrate loyalty marketing technology with ad serving and data management capabilities to drive personalized consumer relationships through the mobile device. Website … Continue reading “SessionM Secures $12,000,000 New Funding Round”
Silk Therapeutics Secures $3,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=141ff002-428b-4eec-abac-d55a9539b459 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Silk Therapeutics Mailing Address 196 Boston Ave. Medford, MA 02155 USA Company Description The founders of Silk Therapeutics are world-renowned for pioneering silk science to improve human health. Dr. Greg Altman (CEO) and Dr. Rebecca Horan (COO) have worked together for more than 15 years developing silk-based … Continue reading “Silk Therapeutics Secures $3,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
Outreach Lands $2,000,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1de752d8-6921-4307-b844-a6ee1b784851 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Outreach Mailing Address 3417 Fremont Ave N. Seattle, WA 98103 USA Company Description Outreach is the only system intelligent enough to know exactly who needs a follow-up and when they need it, helping you outperform your sales goals. Website http://www.outreach.io Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,000,000 … Continue reading “Outreach Lands $2,000,000 Seed Round”
Incentive Secures $1,700,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1db341a7-61b6-4af2-bd5b-a8aa53d62d5a Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Incentive Mailing Address 1600 Main Street Venice, CA 90291 USA Company Description Incentive is a social intranet for all formal and informal knowledge in an organization. All you know in one place. We help 1000’s of companies in 100’s of countries waste less time and work smarter. … Continue reading “Incentive Secures $1,700,000 Seed Round”
CBRITE Receives $12,729,982 Series E Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6a9cfede-999e-45f9-b1a2-d22322f95e70 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name CBRITE Mailing Address 421 Pine Ave. Goleta, CA 93117 USA Company Description The company develops and researches diode switches for display applications. Website http://www.cbriteinc.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,729,982 Transaction Round Series E Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. Contact technology … Continue reading “CBRITE Receives $12,729,982 Series E Round”
Twilio Receives $100,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=67939880-2c3f-42cc-9381-0ba25a637513 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Twilio Mailing Address 645 Harrison St 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Twilio provides an in-cloud API for voice communications that leverages existing web development skills, resources and infrastructure. Twilio’s simple programming interface opens the field of voice applications to millions of web developers, … Continue reading “Twilio Receives $100,000,000 New Round”
NatureBox Obtains $30,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=22c23a78-64d6-4c60-9645-59b9f9198abc Date 5/5/2015 Company Name NatureBox Mailing Address 1056 Commercial St. San Carlos, CA 94070 USA Company Description NatureBox helps you eat healthier without needing to change your eating habits. We focus on snacks because that’s the easiest habit to change. Do you know that the average American eats almost 25% of … Continue reading “NatureBox Obtains $30,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
Kiana Analytics Receives $1,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ff1031eb-be1e-423d-b523-6a9d95f69482 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Kiana Analytics Mailing Address 440 N. Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description Our founding team’s experience in Big Data analytics has driven our technology goals towards providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Website http://www.kianaanalytics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Kiana Analytics Receives $1,000,000 New Financing”
CloudGenix Secures $25,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=51d8563c-fd71-4ae0-9357-6d428d3e8e08 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name CloudGenix Mailing Address 2933 Bunker Hill Lane Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description CloudGenix is a new breed of networking company that is redefining and simplifying how companies connect people anywhere in the enterprise with applications across public, private and hybrid clouds. Website http://www.cloudgenix.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “CloudGenix Secures $25,000,000 Series B Financing”
Digit Garners $11,300,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=133ad710-957a-455e-9760-8821f9e2197f Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Digit Mailing Address 220 Montgomery St. San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Digit is a journey aimed at refreshing the interactions between humans and their money. Bad financial habits create unnecessary hardship that derail us from living our life to the fullest. We believe we can … Continue reading “Digit Garners $11,300,000 Series A Financing Round”
Culinary Agents Obtains $3,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=20e83326-2d6e-44bb-a8bf-46e486c7ad15 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Culinary Agents Mailing Address 320 East 54th Street New York, NY 10022 USA Company Description Culinary Agents Inc. operates a professional networking and job matching site for food, beverage, and hospitality industries. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. Website … Continue reading “Culinary Agents Obtains $3,000,000 Series A Financing”
BlueLine Grid Secures New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b5907803-72db-4833-a7ee-575484a820b9 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name BlueLine Grid Mailing Address 261 Madison Avenue 9th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description BlueLine Grid connects law enforcement, fire, EMT, first responders and security teams with the simplest, most comprehensive, and affordable mobile solutions available. Website http://www.bluelinegrid.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed … Continue reading “BlueLine Grid Secures New Financing”
Artivest Receives $15,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=56a5fe00-26ca-48ea-8d28-be042c4b8621 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Artivest Mailing Address 1140 Broadway New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description We now routinely find employment and romance online and purchase luxury items like cars and jewelry on our favorite websites, yet the alternative investment ecosystem still operates the same way it did 20 years ago. … Continue reading “Artivest Receives $15,000,000 New Financing Round”
Forte Research Systems Lands New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=42eea67b-14db-4ebb-b7b3-261f7e7033d7 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name Forte Research Systems Mailing Address 1200 John Q Hammons Dr. Madison, WI 53717 USA Company Description Forte Research Systems, Inc. has been developing specialized software for clinical research since 2000. The product family includes OnCore® Enterprise Research, Allegro® CTMS, and Overture® EDC. Forte provides complimentary blog articles, … Continue reading “Forte Research Systems Lands New Funding”
ResiModel Secures $885,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=056c18c5-40b4-4f67-989b-9f67c0b89509 Date 5/5/2015 Company Name ResiModel Mailing Address 1120 Avenue of the Americas 4th Floor New York, NY 10036 USA Company Description ResiModel is the only deal management, analytics & valuation platform specifically designed for multifamily transactions. Website http://www.resimodel.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $885,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “ResiModel Secures $885,000 New Financing Round”
Denver “Smart Parking” Startup Parkifi Raises $2M, Readies Rollout
Anyone who has tried to park his or her car on a busy day has thought there must be a better way to find a spot. Parkifi, a Denver-based startup, thinks it has found a way, and a group of Colorado investors agree. Parkifi announced Monday it has raised a $2 million round that is … Continue reading “Denver “Smart Parking” Startup Parkifi Raises $2M, Readies Rollout”
Factom Q&A: Secure Record-Keeping a Chip Off the Old Blockchain
In 1994, Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel wondered “What is the Internet?”—something immortalized in a comical clip that was recently revived in a set of commercials. Yet there are other technologies today that might be just as perplexing to laypeople: take blockchains and cryptocurrencies, for example. Factom, based in Austin, TX, deals in both. But … Continue reading “Factom Q&A: Secure Record-Keeping a Chip Off the Old Blockchain”
Cloud Host Atlantic.Net Opens Data Center Aimed at NY Startup Scene
Switching on a data center near New York, Atlantic.Net is chasing the growing developer community here. This is the fifth data center for the company, which is based in Orlando, FL, says CEO Marty Puranik. He is already setting the bar high for its outlook. “We’re expecting it to become our biggest site,” he says. … Continue reading “Cloud Host Atlantic.Net Opens Data Center Aimed at NY Startup Scene”
French Chefs & Pirates: Houston’s Biotech Community Bonds Over Chili
[Updated 5/4/15 5:08 pm. See below.] The sky threatened thunderstorms but the only jolt came from the spices at BioHouston’s latest annual chili cookoff. Houston’s biotech and life sciences community gathered for the 12th time not only to make chili and share drinks but show off their creative sides, with booths and costumes that included Parisian chefs, pirates, flaming (devil) … Continue reading “French Chefs & Pirates: Houston’s Biotech Community Bonds Over Chili”
AirMap: App Helps Drone Flyers Navigate Airspace Restrictions
When a government worker was investigated by the Secret Service for crashing a small drone on the White House lawn in January, most people probably thought, “How dumb could the guy be?” After all, he could have avoided any hassle just by flying the small recreational quadcopter in a park or an open field somewhere. … Continue reading “AirMap: App Helps Drone Flyers Navigate Airspace Restrictions”
Using Telecom Tech, eCurv Looks to Lower Energy Bills, Raise Money
The year eCurv spent pitching its energy management software to potential customers has taught its founder a few lessons. “The opportunity is much bigger than we thought,” said Edison Almeida, founder and chief executive of the Cambridge, MA, startup, which raised $2.5 million last June and has its eyes on another round of financing by … Continue reading “Using Telecom Tech, eCurv Looks to Lower Energy Bills, Raise Money”
CyPhy Promises “Better Way to Fly” With New Consumer Drone
CyPhy Works’ co-founder and CEO Helen Greiner knows what it takes to get robots into the hands of consumers. As a co-founder of iRobot, she helped create the Roomba vacuum, which brought affordable and user-friendly robots into the home. Now she and CyPhy Works are trying to repeat that accomplishment with drones, and they think … Continue reading “CyPhy Promises “Better Way to Fly” With New Consumer Drone”
NetSuite’s Bronto Buy Signals Coming Changes to Online Commerce
Bronto Software’s bread-and-butter business is helping companies understand what their customers browse and buy online—information that can then be used to nudge consumers to buy even more. This type of “marketing automation”—the ability to analyze consumer behavior in order to form targeted and personalized e-mail messages—primarily serves retailers. But the Durham, NC-based company has its … Continue reading “NetSuite’s Bronto Buy Signals Coming Changes to Online Commerce”
New Investment Fund Forming in Seattle to Back Cleantech Innovation
A new cleantech-focused investment fund is forming in Seattle. The Element 8 Fund is emerging from the Element 8 angel investing group (formerly the Northwest Energy Angels) as a way to give individual accredited investors a chance to broaden their portfolios in the sector. The Element 8 Fund will be a separate legal entity from … Continue reading “New Investment Fund Forming in Seattle to Back Cleantech Innovation”
Game-Changing Clean Technology Essential to the Energy Economy of 2035
Our energy portfolio in 2035 will come from a wide variety of sources. The core of the energy mix will be much more diverse than oil, gas, and coal. Renewables will comprise a significant portion of supply. And, over the next 20 years, improvements to batteries and other energy storage technology, and scale, will drive … Continue reading “Game-Changing Clean Technology Essential to the Energy Economy of 2035”
The Innovation Challenge: Assessing BioPharma Startups
Developing new medicines is really difficult and very expensive. A recent report, “Decline In Economic Returns From New Drugs Raises Questions About Sustaining Innovations,” suggests that the newest medicines are generating a negative rate of return across the industry. A viewpoint commonly found on the Web opines that Big Pharma has lost the ability to … Continue reading “The Innovation Challenge: Assessing BioPharma Startups”