Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85033d4a-1953-4fa2-a699-52b452aeaffd&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Courseload Mailing Address 351 West Tenth Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 Company Description Courseload formulated a simple vision – use emerging digital technology to cut the cost of textbooks, eliminate the heavy backpack, and enhance teaching and learning with digital tools that support interactivity, multi-media, and collaboration through … Continue reading “Courseload Garners $6,861,001 New Round”
Courseload Garners $6,861,001 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85033d4a-1953-4fa2-a699-52b452aeaffd&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Courseload Mailing Address 351 West Tenth Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 Company Description Courseload formulated a simple vision – use emerging digital technology to cut the cost of textbooks, eliminate the heavy backpack, and enhance teaching and learning with digital tools that support interactivity, multi-media, and collaboration through … Continue reading “Courseload Garners $6,861,001 New Funding Round”
Tolera Therapeutics Receives $1,465,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4e55e655-929f-470b-9e29-6e41255a1653&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Tolera Therapeutics Mailing Address 350 E. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 Company Description Building upon research done at the University of Kentucky and the Cleveland Clinic, Tolera Therapeutics is developing and commercializing therapies for the immune suppression / modulation market with the goal of addressing unmet medical … Continue reading “Tolera Therapeutics Receives $1,465,000 New Funding”
Utopia Obtains $50,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9cd212cb-83f1-49af-8f2c-c814da08ef22&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Utopia Mailing Address 405 Washington Blvd Mundelein, IL 60060 Company Description To be the unparalleled global leader in Enterprise Data Solutions, enabling our customers to harness the power of data and unleash the full potential of their enterprise. Website http://www.utopiainc.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $50,000,000 … Continue reading “Utopia Obtains $50,000,000 New Round”
Quora Lands $50,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3fbab514-8afc-4115-82dc-1734a546c69d&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Quora Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94300 Company Description Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who … Continue reading “Quora Lands $50,000,000 New Financing Round”
Solexel Obtains $24,999,994 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=31537863-255a-457e-b991-1cc727e79b45&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Solexel Mailing Address 1530 McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description SOLEXEL, INC. is developing high-efficiency, low-cost, crystalline silicon solar cell and module products for grid-tied residential, commercial, and industrial photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation applications. Website http://www.solexel.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $24,999,994 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Solexel Obtains $24,999,994 New Round”
Centric Software Garners $4,999,999 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=59f0d428-c70b-4efa-8582-4b366407f53f&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Centric Software Mailing Address 655 Campbell Technology Parkway San Jose, CA 95008 Company Description Centric Software has provided innovative Product Intelligence and Project Intelligence enterprise applications. With roots in collaborative project, product, program and portfolio development, Centric combines unique data aggregation with powerful analytics, PDM, and workflow. … Continue reading “Centric Software Garners $4,999,999 New Financing Round”
Sonitus Medical Obtains $25,000,000 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=685c1f6b-3807-4df3-976d-5c86ead0acb6&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Sonitus Medical Mailing Address 1825 S. Grant Street San Mateo, CA 94402 Company Description Sonitus Medical, Inc. is committed to innovating novel hearing solutions. Our mission is to serve the Otolaryngology and Audiology professional community by providing therapeutic solutions to address the unmet clinical needs of their … Continue reading “Sonitus Medical Obtains $25,000,000 Series D Financing”
Appcelerator Garners $2,999,999 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=decf8cb6-67c1-4592-b10e-eba1681bd638&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Appcelerator Mailing Address 440 N. Bernardo Ave Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Appcelerator is an open source platform for building rich web applications. Appcelerator, Inc. is a silicon valley venture funded company located in Mountain View, California. Appcelerator was started in 2006 by software veterans Jeff … Continue reading “Appcelerator Garners $2,999,999 New Round”
EyeTrackShop Secures $3,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=94c774c0-c4bc-4468-9280-68495a3dcbde&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name EyeTrackShop Mailing Address 330 Madison Avenue 6th Floor New York, NY 10017 Company Description EyeTrackShop is the World’s First Online Eye Tracking Solution for Large Scale Online Panels. Our concept has become very popular with our many clients and we are now rapidly scaling up our capacity … Continue reading “EyeTrackShop Secures $3,000,000 Series A Financing”
Behance Secures $6,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=407f8c54-f493-4f00-b064-f2bc24c7fe00&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Behance Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10002 Company Description The leading online platform to showcase & discover creative work. Creative professionals update their work in one place to broadcast it widely and efficiently. Companies explore the work and acess talent on a global scale. Website http://www.behance.net … Continue reading “Behance Secures $6,500,000 New Funding”
Alliance Health Networks Acquires Medify for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=906e67f5-700d-4415-90bd-00d5c3fdb642&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Medify Mailing Address 100 West Harrison North Tower Seattle, WA 98119 Company Description The company is developing data-driven care management for consumers. Website http://www.mymedify.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the parties.
Power Tagging Technologies Receives $510,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dce7d852-e279-420d-bbe1-afe39539d867&Preview=1 Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Power Tagging Technologies Mailing Address 5425 Airport Boulevard Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description Power Tagging is a privately held energy technology company dedicated to improving the overall efficiency between energy providers and their end users. Website http://www.powertagging.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $510,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Power Tagging Technologies Receives $510,000 New Financing Round”
Courseload Lands $6,861,001 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85033d4a-1953-4fa2-a699-52b452aeaffd Date 5/15/2012 Company Name Courseload Mailing Address 351 West Tenth Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA Company Description Courseload formulated a simple vision – use emerging digital technology to cut the cost of textbooks, eliminate the heavy backpack, and enhance teaching and learning with digital tools that support interactivity, multi-media, and collaboration … Continue reading “Courseload Lands $6,861,001 New Financing Round”
N Reduce Opens Up As Alternative to Ultra-Elite Startup Incubators
Maybe getting rejected by Y Combinator isn’t such a bad thing. For Jacques Crocker, Ash Bhoopathy, and Rich Lengsavath it turned into the beginning of a new adventure: alongside their own startup, called Lizi, they’re introducing a new, more open startup accelerator called N Reduce. Announced on May 10 and known for less than a week as N … Continue reading “N Reduce Opens Up As Alternative to Ultra-Elite Startup Incubators”
JumpStart, NEI Plan New High Tech Accelerator in Detroit
JumpStart Inc., a Cleveland-based nonprofit focused on entrepreneurship and economic development, will team with the New Economy Initiative (NEI) to open a new high-tech accelerator in Detroit, says NEI executive director David Egner. Egner (an Xconomist) says a variety of state and regional investors will fund the accelerator and he expects it to have an … Continue reading “JumpStart, NEI Plan New High Tech Accelerator in Detroit”
Xconomy Editor Luke Timmerman a Finalist for Loeb Award
Anyone in business journalism knows full well the power of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Loeb was a founding partner of E.F. Hutton and a noted author and columnist, and the awards he created in 1957 to promote and recognize great writing and reporting for individual investors have become something … Continue reading “Xconomy Editor Luke Timmerman a Finalist for Loeb Award”
Looking to the Future of A New Kind of Science
[This is the third in a series of posts about A New Kind of Science. Previous posts have covered the original reaction to the book and what’s happened since it was published. This post first appeared on Wolfram’s blog—Eds.] Today ten years have passed since A New Kind of Science (”the NKS book”) was published. But in many … Continue reading “Looking to the Future of A New Kind of Science”
Dead Reckoning: No Smooth Sailing for Startups
Prior to the mid 1700s (and long before the advent of GPS receivers in every smartphone), mariners at sea calculated their position by Dead Reckoning, a process in which you simply assume that whatever course and speed you are on can be straight-lined ahead with a ruler and pencil, day after day, regardless of wind, … Continue reading “Dead Reckoning: No Smooth Sailing for Startups”
InsightSquared Scores $4.5M, Looks to Bring Business Intelligence to the Masses
Finally, a tech company that’s not all about big data. In fact, this one is about lots of little bits of “idiosyncratic, messy data,” says its founder. And it puts those bits together to help small businesses make better decisions and, ultimately, more money. InsightSquared, based in Cambridge, MA, has been fairly quiet in the … Continue reading “InsightSquared Scores $4.5M, Looks to Bring Business Intelligence to the Masses”
ASCO Preview: Eight Cancer Drugs to Watch at the Big Show
The pistons of the biggest publicity engine in cancer R&D will start firing this week. It’s time to behold the annual rite of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, the biggest event for showing off what’s new and interesting in the treatment of cancer. This conference, officially held June 1-5 at McCormick Place … Continue reading “ASCO Preview: Eight Cancer Drugs to Watch at the Big Show”
Vanu Coverage Garners $3,200,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=280070d7-c4c5-4fc1-8016-831ce2cecce9&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Vanu Coverage Mailing Address 150 Cambridgepark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 Company Description Vanu Inc.’s wireless technology grew out of research in radio software at MIT which led to the development of the company’s Anywave software radio, designed to scale up or down to deliver radio frequency coverage … Continue reading “Vanu Coverage Garners $3,200,000 New Financing Round”
Drumbi Garners $2,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85dca53e-3fb1-463a-a71f-80a611d5e17b&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Drumbi Mailing Address 9541 Irvine Center Drive Irvine, CA 92618 Company Description Drumbi is a collective of business, design and technology focused people working to transform the way we communicate. At our core, we believe that mobile devices, smartphones, mobile web, social media and location-based interactions have … Continue reading “Drumbi Garners $2,000,000 New Funding Round”
Bloc Receives $250,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0ff72f29-bacc-4df5-9705-2a132d4aa76a&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Bloc Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description You weren’t meant to learn alone, that’s part of why learning how to program is so difficult. We’ll place you in a cohort with 14 other students, assign you to a dedicated mentor, and work with you … Continue reading “Bloc Receives $250,000 Seed Funding Round”
Farmeron Garners $1,400,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6f9a4550-8541-49f1-adec-5421fa80b80f&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Farmeron Mailing Address 444 Castro streer Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Farmeron brings all your scattered farming production records together and helps you meet ag production plans with advanced statistics and reports. Website http://www.farmeron.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,400,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Farmeron Garners $1,400,000 New Round”
Frenzoo Secures $1,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3d675190-c985-4071-bc87-b46cc0f02536&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Frenzoo Mailing Address 540 Howard St. San Fancisco, CA 94105 Company Description Frenzoo is a startup creating a new class of 3D lifestyle and fashion games for women. Our apps, including the popular Me Girl series of mobile games (www.megirl.com), are based on our flexible and innovative … Continue reading “Frenzoo Secures $1,000,000 New Financing Round”
NeoVista Receives $5,185,055 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8a167eb1-7152-4fcf-8ea2-e77e8b83d37e&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name NeoVista Mailing Address 38875 Cherry St. Newark, CA 94560 Company Description NeoVista, Inc. is developing a novel therapy to treat wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) utilizing a Strontium-90 isotope. The delivery is made through a minimally invasive surgical procedure. The NeoVista, Inc. Website http://www.neovista-inc.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “NeoVista Receives $5,185,055 New Round”
Zynga Game Network Acquires Wild Needle for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f11c943c-99fc-40e3-9ad0-9b6c35302b93&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Wild Needle Mailing Address 201 San Antonio Cir. Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description We’re working on some great ideas for the next generation of social games for mobile devices. Website http://www.wildneedle.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of … Continue reading “Zynga Game Network Acquires Wild Needle for Undisclosed Sum”
Coalfire Systems Receives $750,003 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c6ba87c5-8326-4145-b7ea-98170e0c7908&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Coalfire Systems Mailing Address 361 Centennial Pkwy. Louisville, CO 80027 Company Description Coalfire is a leading IT audit and compliance firm that provides audit, security, and compliance solutions for over 1,000 customers throughout North America. Website http://www.CoalfireSystems.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $750,003 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Coalfire Systems Receives $750,003 New Funding”
Calxeda Garners $12,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2da3b23c-830d-4a5b-8716-f2d615417dd5&Preview=1 Date 5/14/2012 Company Name Calxeda Mailing Address 7000 North Mopac Expressway Austin, TX 78731 Company Description Calxeda is bringing revolutionary computational efficiency to the data center, leveraging ultra-low power ARM processors as the foundation for next generation server designs. Calxeda’s platform will consume a fraction of the power and space of … Continue reading “Calxeda Garners $12,000,000 New Funding Round”
Livio Connect Wins Frost & Sullivan Product Development Award
Ferndale, MI-based Livio Radio announced this week that it has won the Frost & Sullivan 2012 New Product Innovation Award for its Livio Connect API. The technology connects mobile apps on drivers’ phones to their cars, allowing the apps to show up on the stereo’s dashboard touchscreen. Frost & Sullivan is a trusted auto analyst, says Livio’s … Continue reading “Livio Connect Wins Frost & Sullivan Product Development Award”
SmartPlanet Features Xconomy’s Future of Robotics Event [Video]
“The tiniest bit of bot news will attract a swarm of journos,” comments SmartPlanet chief correspondent Sumi Das. And she’s right: our May 3 forum on the Future of Robotics in Silicon Valley and Beyond brought in one of the biggest contingents of reporters ever to attend an Xconomy event. Das herself came away with … Continue reading “SmartPlanet Features Xconomy’s Future of Robotics Event [Video]”
Verizon Connected Technology Tour
The Mobile Technology Association of Michigan hosts this interactive seminar that will show businesses how to leverage mobile technology for better efficiency, higher revenues, and happier customers. For details and to RSVP, click here.
EMC’s Acquisition of XtremIO Is Flashpoint in New Storage Wars
Why did one of Massachusetts’ biggest companies just spend more than $400 million on an Israeli tech firm with no products and no revenue? It’s all about the flash. EMC, the Hopkinton, MA-based data storage giant (NYSE:[[ticker:EMC]]), confirmed it has acquired Israeli flash-storage startup XtremIO in an all-cash transaction. Media reports put the price of … Continue reading “EMC’s Acquisition of XtremIO Is Flashpoint in New Storage Wars”
Boston Life Sciences News From Vertex, Eleven, RXi, & More
News of financings, clinical developments, hires, and IPO moves came out of New England life sciences companies this week. —Cambridge, MA-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals revealed promising data showing it could potentially reach more cystic fibrosis patients by combining its treatment ivacaftor (Kalydeco) with an experimental drug called VX-809. The company plans to advance the combination regimen into … Continue reading “Boston Life Sciences News From Vertex, Eleven, RXi, & More”
Touch Press, the iPad, and the New Golden Age of Multimedia
Back in 2008 (exactly 180 columns ago, in fact) I wrote an elegy for the CD-ROM. If you’re under the age of 30, you probably won’t know what I’m talking about, but there was a brief span of time in the mid-1990s—after the emergence of personal computers powerful enough to handle multimedia content, but before … Continue reading “Touch Press, the iPad, and the New Golden Age of Multimedia”
Verdezyne Raises $10.6M to Advance Sustainable Chemicals Technology
Verdezyne, the Carlsbad, CA-based company developing industrial biotechnology processes for making adipic acid and other sustainable chemicals and fuels, has raised more than $10.6 million, according to a recent regulatory filing. A spokesman for the company confirmed the financing, but would not comment beyond the filing, which shows the financing consisted of debt and rights … Continue reading “Verdezyne Raises $10.6M to Advance Sustainable Chemicals Technology”
New Tech City: Has NYC Passed Boston in Mobile and Web Innovation?
On Wednesday, New York-based Center for an Urban Future, a policy think tank, released a report surveying the city’s digital startup scene, and its conclusion was rather dramatic: New York has surpassed Boston in tech leadership, the center says. “In 2006, I wouldn’t have put New York anywhere on the map [of leading tech hubs],” … Continue reading “New Tech City: Has NYC Passed Boston in Mobile and Web Innovation?”
Amara Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8bfe64bb-49af-42a6-b818-2889ab687f44&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name Amara Mailing Address Undisclosed Providence, RI 02804 Company Description Amara gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. The tools are free and open source and make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, … Continue reading “Amara Obtains $1,000,000 New Funding”
Cellceutix Garners $1,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a8e919e5-0566-42ca-a7cc-8af87f2d01f1&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name Cellceutix Mailing Address 100 Cumming Center Beverly, MA 01915 Company Description Cellceutix Corporation is an emerging bio-pharmaceutical company in the business of developing small molecule therapies in areas of unmet medical need. Our primary efforts are in cancer and inflammatory disease. We intend to spend most of … Continue reading “Cellceutix Garners $1,000,000 New Financing”
M9 Defense Garners $329,945 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2950caab-e55f-4c1b-bbf7-e4d489a3bf8a&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name M9 Defense Mailing Address 13110 NE. 177th Pl. Woodinville, WA 98072 Company Description In addition to M9’s innovative Boroclave (Advanced Hydroforming) and press technologies, M9 is an industry leader in advance composite processing and material science. Website http://www.m9defense.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $329,945 Transaction Round … Continue reading “M9 Defense Garners $329,945 New Funding”
Axonia Medical Obtains $2,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8dbd84c7-2d04-4c05-84a5-30e2b619c35b&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name Axonia Medical Mailing Address 4321 Roxbury Lane Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Company Description The concept of Axonia’s technology, which is spun out of the University of Pennsylvania, hinges on the production of axons, the long thin parts of nerve cells that carry signals to distant target cells. Unlike … Continue reading “Axonia Medical Obtains $2,000,000 Seed Financing”
Drawbridge Receives $6,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=06dbb50d-426d-48f3-ad20-a098e33482e5&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name Drawbridge Mailing Address 2121 S El Camino Real 7th Floor San Mateo, CA 94403 Company Description Drawbridge’s self-learning algorithm takes a mountain of consumer behavior data from both online and mobile ad requests and then tries to determine through an inference model if two users from a … Continue reading “Drawbridge Receives $6,500,000 New Financing”
Stipple Obtains $5,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b19574a8-a332-4257-af68-a78ef162d375&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name Stipple Mailing Address 360 Ritch St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description The company has created a website that lets people label, share and monetize pictures on the web. Website http://www.stippleit.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Proceeds will be … Continue reading “Stipple Obtains $5,000,000 Series A Round”
VitaPath Genetics Receives $4,710,428 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=336fdfcb-5d35-4a4d-b33a-f4f1bdcbff94&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name VitaPath Genetics Mailing Address 348 Hatch Drive Foster City, CA 94404 Company Description The company is a developer of molecular diagnostics designed to help patients and their doctors correct genetic mutations that can result in diseases. Website http://www.vpgenetics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,710,428 Transaction Round … Continue reading “VitaPath Genetics Receives $4,710,428 Series C Funding”
BetterCloud Obtains $2,200,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e3b77e8c-37ae-4461-986d-1ff72893bd77&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name BetterCloud Mailing Address 86 Chambers St New York, NY 10007 Company Description BetterCloud is a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service solutions for organizations of all sizes operating on the Google Apps platform. Website http://www.bettercloud.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,200,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes BetterCloud will … Continue reading “BetterCloud Obtains $2,200,000 Seed Funding Round”
Fancy Hands Secures $1,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=23feba44-97c8-49f0-9084-926cb38a40de&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name Fancy Hands Mailing Address 200 East 10th Street New York, NY 10003 Company Description Fancy Hands is personal assistant service. For a flat fee, Fancy Hands provides an assistant to work on various projects. Website http://www.fancyhands.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Fancy Hands Secures $1,000,000 New Funding”
Ensequence Lands $25,994,279 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cc6815ef-02b7-4ee1-965d-ae864529ec28&Preview=1 Date 5/11/2012 Company Name Ensequence Mailing Address 420 Lexington Ave. New York, NY 10170 Company Description Ensequence offers industry-leading software and services that enable advertisers, programmers and operators to quickly take interactive TV from concept to reality, and engage today’s elusive viewers. Website http://www.ensequence.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,994,279 … Continue reading “Ensequence Lands $25,994,279 New Financing Round”
Seattle Angel Conference Names Six Finalists
With just a few weeks left until its big demo day, organizers of the Seattle Angel Conference are announcing the finalists competing for an investment of about $100,000. And it’s a pretty wide range of startups, from tools for software developers to outdoor clothing and even neighborhood grocery stores. I wrote about the Seattle Angel … Continue reading “Seattle Angel Conference Names Six Finalists”
Microsoft’s Bing: Favorite Ally for Social Networks Scared of Google
With its latest attempt to make a dent in Web search market, Microsoft is once again showing its true value in the social networking age: a safe place to turn for other tech companies wary of Google. On Thursday, Microsoft (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MSFT]]) detailed upcoming changes to its Bing search engine, which holds a small slice of … Continue reading “Microsoft’s Bing: Favorite Ally for Social Networks Scared of Google”