Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ce2fbe7a-9184-4cd2-92c8-f9fd40cd6de1&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name 1stdibs Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10002 Company Description Welcome to 1stdibs.com, the world’s 1st market place where you can search for, and on most items, negotiate the purchase of decorative arts on-line. Website http://www.1stdibs.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “1stdibs Garners New Funding”
Iddiction Lands $3,500,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5a639203-a490-4ff8-8b33-4e1271190343&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Iddiction Mailing Address 230 S California Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Iddiction is named after a slang term to describe dependency on mobile devices — particularly iPhones and iPads. The company is looking to improve “the experience of discovering apps for the user” in a … Continue reading “Iddiction Lands $3,500,000 Seed Financing”
ShopSavvy Obtains $7,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c4e0ecb8-be3a-4b01-b2aa-4d855347cc40&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name ShopSavvy Mailing Address 8350 N. Central Expressway Dallas, TX 75206 Company Description ShopSavvy is a mobile app that allows you to scan in a barcode, do a product lookup and find comparable deals on products nearby or online. Website http://www.shopsavvy.mobi Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,000,000 … Continue reading “ShopSavvy Obtains $7,000,000 New Funding Round”
Marval Biosciences Obtains $1,516,515 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=da139e98-53fb-4f17-9163-dd6f2a9ed492&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Marval Biosciences Mailing Address 1302 Waugh Dr. Houston, TX 77019 Company Description Marval Biosciences is a developer of a less-toxic dye for computed tomography, or CT, scans. Website http://www.marvalbiosciences.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,516,515 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory … Continue reading “Marval Biosciences Obtains $1,516,515 New Financing Round”
Bing Chief Stefan Weitz on Facebook in Search: Humans Crave Other Humans
Updated 11:30 am 11/3 with slides Sorry, experts: Information consumers don’t particularly care about all your highfalutin’ degrees and special titles. For a surprisingly large swath of online queries, friends and other real-world users are the key sources of opinions, says Stefan Weitz, Microsoft’s director of search. “People don’t know who to trust. They don’t … Continue reading “Bing Chief Stefan Weitz on Facebook in Search: Humans Crave Other Humans”
Clearwire Adds Subscribers, Stems Losses in Third Quarter
Years ago, Bellevue, WA-based Clearwire (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CLWR]]) placed a big bet. It thought that an Intel-backed wireless technology called WiMax would become the foundation of the “4G” broadband data networks that will eventually take the place of today’s 3G networks. It bet wrong—a rival technology called long-term evolution (LTE), backed by Verizon, AT&T, and other … Continue reading “Clearwire Adds Subscribers, Stems Losses in Third Quarter”
Dendreon Edges Past Street Expectations With Third Quarter Provenge Sales, Shares Still Fall
[Update: 2:55 pm PT] Seattle-based Dendreon deeply disappointed investors with its last quarterly financial report, but today it reported sales of its prostate cancer drug continued to grow in the third quarter, slightly exceeding Wall Street forecasts. Shares fell about 20 percent in after-hours trading, though, as the company said it expects to see “modest” … Continue reading “Dendreon Edges Past Street Expectations With Third Quarter Provenge Sales, Shares Still Fall”
Zillow Acquires Real Estate Marketing Company, Registers Loss on HQ Move
Online real estate company Zillow, which announced a small quarterly loss related to its recent headquarters move, is acquiring Diverse Solutions, a company that provides online marketing tools for real estate agents. The stock-and-cash transaction is worth $7.8 million, Zillow (NASDAQ: [[ticker:Z]]) said Wednesday. Zillow said its net loss for the third quarter was $750,000, … Continue reading “Zillow Acquires Real Estate Marketing Company, Registers Loss on HQ Move”
Yahoo, Auditude, 100plus: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers
Time for our periodic data-driven roundup of funding news, acquisitions, and other developments in the Bay Area business and technology sphere. $270 million—The value of Yahoo’s acquisition of New York-based digital media company Interclick (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ICLK]]), announced yesterday. Interclick makes software that helps brands and agencies optimize their online advertising campaigns. Yahoo said the acquisition … Continue reading “Yahoo, Auditude, 100plus: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers”
Patience, Honesty, and The Strings of Free Money: Five Financing Themes from the Seventh Annual Conference on Clean Energy
The relationship between venture capitalists and cleantech startups sure seems pretty lukewarm these days, at least from what I saw yesterday at the seventh Conference on Clean Energy in Boston. The lunchtime “VC” panel on cleantech funding 2.0 actually focused more on why venture capital isn’t necessarily the best move for financing transformative energy technologies, and … Continue reading “Patience, Honesty, and The Strings of Free Money: Five Financing Themes from the Seventh Annual Conference on Clean Energy”
Yahoo Snatches Up Interclick for $270M to Enhance Its Ad Targeting
New York’s interclick (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ICLK]]), an advertising technology company, agreed to be acquired by Yahoo (NASDAQ: [[ticker:YHOO]]) for $270 million in cash, according to a press statement on Tuesday. Five-year-old interclick developed a platform to help advertisers process large volumes of data from multiple sources to better understand and target their audiences with online display … Continue reading “Yahoo Snatches Up Interclick for $270M to Enhance Its Ad Targeting”
Massive Health Builds an App for Healthy Eating; Think Foodspotting Meets FitnessKeeper
Do phones, food, photos, and fitness mix? Massive Health is hoping they do. The San Francisco mobile health startup, which debuted last spring with $2.25 million in seed funding from Felicis Ventures, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and Mohr Davidow Ventures, has come out with its first consumer app. It’s called The Eatery, and … Continue reading “Massive Health Builds an App for Healthy Eating; Think Foodspotting Meets FitnessKeeper”
Scouting San Diego, Battelle Chemist Seeks Catalyzing Role as Industrial Biotech Arises Here
Like a lot of big companies that offer contract R&D and specialized services, Columbus, OH-based Battelle has kept an office in San Diego for decades, mostly to manage technical programs and help clients like the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps on special projects. That started to change, though, just over a year ago when Bhima … Continue reading “Scouting San Diego, Battelle Chemist Seeks Catalyzing Role as Industrial Biotech Arises Here”
Seeding Entrepreneurship: How to Build a Venture-Finance Ecosystem
[Editor’s note: Cross-posted from The Economist, 11/2/11] New York Mayor-entrepreneur Michael Bloomberg, not known for shyness, recently proclaimed New York City as America’s new entrepreneurship capital, roaring past Boston in venture capital and soon to leave Silicon Valley in the dust as the “go to” destination for entrepreneurs. Indeed, the world media are awash with … Continue reading “Seeding Entrepreneurship: How to Build a Venture-Finance Ecosystem”
Bob Langer’s Latest Project: Fix Damaged Vocal Cords for Rock Stars, Cancer Patients
Bob Langer has probably been called a rock star a time or two, but now the famous MIT scientist’s work is being supported by actual rock stars. Langer, an Xconomist, is working on a project to create a vibrating gel which is thought to have potential to rejuvenate damaged vocal cords, according to a feature … Continue reading “Bob Langer’s Latest Project: Fix Damaged Vocal Cords for Rock Stars, Cancer Patients”
New York Genome Center to Open in February, Supported by $125M in Public and Private Funding
A few days after Xconomy New York debuted in April, famed biotech pioneer and Columbia University professor Tom Maniatis gave us a preview of the New York Genome Center, a proposed coalition of academic institutions coming together to support genomics research in the city. His vision is now reality: The Center officially launches tomorrow with … Continue reading “New York Genome Center to Open in February, Supported by $125M in Public and Private Funding”
GramercyOne, Profitably, and Erply Carve Out Territory in Cloud-Based Management Services; VCs Follow
A crop of New York startups is growing by providing other companies niche software via the Internet cloud. By leveraging the lower cost of offering Web-based software, these technology companies are out to attract new business customers and please their investors. In recent weeks, sales and marketing software firm GramercyOne closed $14.5 million in Series … Continue reading “GramercyOne, Profitably, and Erply Carve Out Territory in Cloud-Based Management Services; VCs Follow”
Join Us Thursday for a Twitter Chat with CEO Kabir Shahani of Marketing Tech Startup Appature
Twitter has already sucked away 20 percent of your life. What’s another 30 minutes? If you don’t know Kabir Shahani or his startup, Appature, here is your chance. I will be hosting a live Twitter chat with him tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 3). This open chat will start at 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific … Continue reading “Join Us Thursday for a Twitter Chat with CEO Kabir Shahani of Marketing Tech Startup Appature”
UW Spinoff Cardiac Insight Looks to Spot Common Cause of Stroke with Stick-On Device
Tom Clement spent more than a year poking around the University of Washington, looking for the next hot medical device idea to develop after his long run at Kirkland, WA-based Pathway Medical Technologies. And now he’s latched onto a new technology he says could become a low-cost, disposable, and accurate way to diagnose a leading … Continue reading “UW Spinoff Cardiac Insight Looks to Spot Common Cause of Stroke with Stick-On Device”
Repligen Buys Novozymes Unit, World Energy Acquires GSE Consulting, Alnylam Partners With GSK, & More Boston-Area Deals News
The last week’s deals headlines have been shared among New England cleantech, IT, and life sciences companies. —Russian Federation fund Rusnano pumped money into two Bay State biotechs: Cambridge, MA-based BIND Biosciences and Watertown, MA-based Selecta Biosciences. Each startup got $25 million from Rusnano, a fund focused on nanotechnology investments, as well as $22.25 million … Continue reading “Repligen Buys Novozymes Unit, World Energy Acquires GSE Consulting, Alnylam Partners With GSK, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
MX Orthopedics Garners $1,000,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b9b56fd2-6e27-40f1-9890-6bcc00220489&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name MX Orthopedics Mailing Address 12 Suburban Park Drive Billerica, MA 01821 Company Description Mx Orthopedics has created a next generation hip implant device that it says minimizes future movement of the device. Website http://www.mxortho.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,000,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “MX Orthopedics Garners $1,000,000 Seed Financing Round”
Ophthonix Lands $14,046,415 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6c9eda74-b8f3-45b5-8cf5-c1bbe3f5ee34&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Ophthonix Mailing Address 1491 Poinsettia Avenue Vista, CA 92081 Company Description Ophthonix Inc., a developer and marketer of advanced eyeglass lenses. The lenses aim to mimic the vision improvements rendered by the popular Lasik surgical procedure. Website http://www.izonlens.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $14,046,415 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Ophthonix Lands $14,046,415 New Financing Round”
Ubicom Receives $1,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ffc1b10e-059c-4162-bfc9-dc1441dc9ad3&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Ubicom Mailing Address 195 Baypointe Parkway San Jose, CA 95134 Company Description Ubicom develops communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time, interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. Website http://www.ubicom.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,000,000 … Continue reading “Ubicom Receives $1,000,000 New Funding Round”
SecondMarket Garners $15,000,000 Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ac4bdd4b-0054-4a54-8926-95cd8c7912df&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name SecondMarket Mailing Address 26 Broadway 12th Floor New York, NY 10004 Company Description SecondMarket is the largest centralized marketplace and auction platform for illiquid assets, such as auction-rate securities, bankruptcy claims, collateralized debt obligations, limited partnership interests, private company stock, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, restricted securities … Continue reading “SecondMarket Garners $15,000,000 Series C Round”
STELLAService Secures $5,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=501ab095-e359-4474-9435-f241ae2abba8&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name STELLAService Mailing Address 27 W. 20th St. New York, NY 10011 Company Description We operate with a simple mission: to enhance transparency around the customer service of online businesses. Our goal is to guide online consumers to the sites that maintain the highest quality customer care. We … Continue reading “STELLAService Secures $5,000,000 Series A Financing”
Gilt Groupe Acquires BuyWithMe for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=32a24351-43e8-4d34-97f3-5736b90c9e2b&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name BuyWithMe Mailing Address 345 Hudson St. 13th Floor New York, NY 10014 Company Description We, the BuyWithMe team, are the most avid fans of the businesses featuring deals on this site. We take pride in working to handpick and help curate the promotions, partnering with businesses of … Continue reading “Gilt Groupe Acquires BuyWithMe for Undisclosed Sum”
Powerhouse Dynamics Lands $3,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b409a0af-65ba-419b-86e5-53a304a23b79&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Powerhouse Dynamics Mailing Address One Bridge Street Newton, MA 02458 Company Description Powerhouse Dynamics provides new, cost-effective energy management solutions for small commercial operations. Website http://www.powerhousedynamics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The funding will fuel its expansion into the … Continue reading “Powerhouse Dynamics Lands $3,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
100Plus Obtains New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5fbd2f38-fd6b-44b8-be36-5d222f2e8e48&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name 100Plus Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description 100Plus is a personalized health prediction startup using data analytics and game mechanics to show how small changes in behavior can lead to a longer and better life. Website http://www.100plus.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed … Continue reading “100Plus Obtains New Financing Round”
Humanoid Lands New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d86f8f9c-14b7-44f5-9b1a-c31fda4a7b80&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Humanoid Mailing Address 1061 Market St San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Welcome to Humanoid, the world’s first brainpower API! Humanoid offers a drag-and-drop interface that allows engineers to create tasks and send instructions to humans. Website http://www.gethumanoid.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “Humanoid Lands New Financing Round”
AGARI Lands $2,500,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=951e1259-1e8f-4532-b8ae-f2fc7125def7&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name AGARI Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Agari collects terabytes of email data from sources across the Internet to create a cloud-based solution to assess, visualize, and protect against email threats to brands, such as phishing and other fraud. Website http://www.agari.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “AGARI Lands $2,500,000 Series A Funding Round”
Levo League Lands New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=da56c46b-ca63-4405-b53c-0e104eefcea7&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Levo League Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10001 Company Description As young founders, our main aim is to create a medium to help young professionals break through the glass ceiling without compromising their identities as women. Website http://www.levoleague.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction … Continue reading “Levo League Lands New Financing”
Digital Folio Receives $1,200,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cbf0acc4-2c71-4cb0-acfb-12510b45db03&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Digital Folio Mailing Address 1530 Blake Street Greenwood Village, CO 80202 Company Description Digital Folio, a cloud-based shopping tool powered by Windows Azure, offers the first seamless, multi-channel retail shopping experience that allows consumers to shop the entire web at home on a computer, anywhere on a … Continue reading “Digital Folio Receives $1,200,000 New Financing Round”
New RealNetworks CEO: Former Adobe Exec Thomas Nielsen
RealNetworks, the dot-com era digital media company that has gone through a major overhaul in the past couple of years, has appointed former Adobe VP Thomas Nielsen president and CEO effective Nov. 9. Nielsen, who worked at Microsoft earlier in his career, also will join the company’s board. Nielsen comes to RealNetworks (NASDAQ: [[ticker:RNWK]]) from … Continue reading “New RealNetworks CEO: Former Adobe Exec Thomas Nielsen”
Al Gore Was Almost a VIP Scientist, and More to Remember at the Immunex Impact Dec. 1
Legend has it that former vice president Al Gore was once supposed to visit Seattle-based Immunex. Somebody had the bright idea of making a white lab coat with Gore’s name and “VIP scientist” embroidered on it, which probably would have made for an amusing photo op for the evening news. Ah, but according to former … Continue reading “Al Gore Was Almost a VIP Scientist, and More to Remember at the Immunex Impact Dec. 1”
ATDynamics Works to Reduce Drag in the Slow-to-Change Trucking Industry
Semi-trailers suck. Literally. As these boxy shapes barrel down the freeway, they leave a vacuum in the air behind them, and this area of turbulence and low pressure generates suction that accounts for at least a quarter of all aerodynamic drag on a tractor-trailer rig. If you could do something to disrupt the vacuum and … Continue reading “ATDynamics Works to Reduce Drag in the Slow-to-Change Trucking Industry”
RetroSense Therapeutics Licenses Vision Restoration Technology From Wayne State
Ann Arbor, MI-based RetroSense Therapeutics recently inked a deal with Wayne State University to license a novel gene-therapy approach to treating blindness that was originally studied in the university’s School of Medicine. The treatment offers promise to people suffering with incurable blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP). AMD is the … Continue reading “RetroSense Therapeutics Licenses Vision Restoration Technology From Wayne State”
TechAmerica Names San Diego Tech Award Winners
It was 1993 when the San Diego chapter of the American Electronics Association organized its first high tech industry awards to recognize local companies for their business excellence, technology innovation, community involvement, and sometimes simply for persevering in the face of adversity. Since then, the nationwide organization that HP founder David Packard helped form in … Continue reading “TechAmerica Names San Diego Tech Award Winners”
Steel in Their Eyes—Why VCs should be Startup CEOs
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. —Mark Twain Venture capitalists who are serious about turning their firms into more than one-fund wonders may want to have their associates actually start and run a company for a year. Running a company is distinctly different … Continue reading “Steel in Their Eyes—Why VCs should be Startup CEOs”
Gates at UW, PopCap’s Mobile Guru, Redfin’s Millions: Wrapping up Seattle Tech Headlines
The past week in tech headlines was dominated by our leading alpha geek: Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates. Gates stopped by the University of Washington to give a short talk about the future of computing, and how he sees cheap, powerful storage and processing revolutionizing everything from robots to disease eradication (the part about … Continue reading “Gates at UW, PopCap’s Mobile Guru, Redfin’s Millions: Wrapping up Seattle Tech Headlines”
Web Innovators Group 32
Check out the November edition of WebInno, a demo field for the newest Web and mobile tech from area startups. Registration is free for entrepreneurs, students, and other “startup peeps,” so sign up here.
Achates Power Cites “Huge” Improvement in Diesel Fuel Savings, Emissions
San Diego’s Achates Power, a startup developing a radical new design for a diesel-powered truck engine, is blowing its own air horn today about its progress in demonstrating significant improvements in the efficiency and performance of its engine. Through a series of tests that began just over a year ago, Achates says its prototype has … Continue reading “Achates Power Cites “Huge” Improvement in Diesel Fuel Savings, Emissions”
Alnylam and Glaxo Partner on RNAi for Vaccine Production
Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ALNY]]) announced today that it has formed a collaboration deal with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: [[ticker:GSK]]) centered around an RNAi technology Alnylam developed to enhance vaccine production. The technology, called VaxiRNA, uses molecules called “small interfering RNAs” (siRNAs) to silent specific genes that limit the efficient growth of viruses in vaccine manufacturing … Continue reading “Alnylam and Glaxo Partner on RNAi for Vaccine Production”
World Energy Buys GSE for $8.6M, Gains Foothold in Texas
Some interesting news in cleantech today. Worcester, MA-based World Energy Solutions (NASDAQ: [[ticker:XWES]]) said it has acquired GSE Consulting, an energy management and procurement firm based in Dallas, TX, for $8.6 million plus a potential earn-out. World Energy said it will bring on more than 20 GSE employees across three offices in Texas. The move … Continue reading “World Energy Buys GSE for $8.6M, Gains Foothold in Texas”
Truveris Seeks the Truth in Pharmacy Benefit Claims
Anthony Loiacono was hunting around for startup ideas a couple of years back when he came across a statistic he had a hard time believing: Every two weeks, $12 billion worth of pharmacy claims flows through the health-insurance system, and not a single one of those claims is checked for accuracy before it’s paid. “People … Continue reading “Truveris Seeks the Truth in Pharmacy Benefit Claims”
Modo Labs Closes $4M Series A, Looks to Take Education and Enterprise Apps by Storm
Score one for open source startups. Modo Labs, a Cambridge, MA-based mobile software company, is announcing today it has closed a $4 million Series A round from Storm Ventures and New Magellan Ventures. The round includes $2 million that the startup raised last year; the new money ($2 million) comes from Silicon Valley-based Storm, led … Continue reading “Modo Labs Closes $4M Series A, Looks to Take Education and Enterprise Apps by Storm”
Biopharma Industry Meetings Could Use Some Fresh Voices
One or more notices of upcoming biopharma industry conferences arrive in my email every day. I give their agendas a quick glance before deleting them, as they’re seldom in areas I focus on. The vast majority of presenters are plucked from the ranks of top-tier Big Pharma; there’s a seminar from Pfizer, a speaker from … Continue reading “Biopharma Industry Meetings Could Use Some Fresh Voices”
Top 10 Highlights From UnConference: Boston’s Big Data Cluster, Content Vs. Commerce & More
This year’s MassTLC Innovation UnConference, in Boston on Friday, was as overwhelming—and inspiring—as ever. Apart from the “secrets of scaling startups” session, which I recapped in a separate story, there was a lot going on. Far too much for any one person to take in. There were sessions on picking the right startup accelerator; building … Continue reading “Top 10 Highlights From UnConference: Boston’s Big Data Cluster, Content Vs. Commerce & More”
PathoGenetiX Secures $7,500,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=308a5e21-30d2-4b06-b57b-de34540d70fb&Preview=1 Date 11/1/2011 Company Name PathoGenetiX Mailing Address 12 Gill Street Woburn, MA 01801 Company Description PathoGenetiX has pioneered commercial applications of single molecule DNA, RNA and protein analysis. The company’s innovative technologies address high value unmet needs in bio-security, human diagnostics, and food and drug contaminant monitoring. Addressable segments of these … Continue reading “PathoGenetiX Secures $7,500,000 Series B Financing”
Skybox Security Garners $6,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=de0112db-0701-4021-8cda-28207cfa18dd&Preview=1 Date 11/1/2011 Company Name Skybox Security Mailing Address 2099 Gateway Place San Jose, CA 95110 Company Description Skybox Security, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2002. The company is recognized as the pioneer in quantifying security risk and automating labor-intensive threat analysis and security control assessment processes. Website http://www.skyboxsecurity.com … Continue reading “Skybox Security Garners $6,000,000 New Funding Round”
Appcelerator Secures $15,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ca9c96dc-0923-4ea4-b587-848f13e9d4f5&Preview=1 Date 11/1/2011 Company Name Appcelerator Mailing Address 444 Castro Street Mountain View, CA 94041 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 Haynie … Continue reading “Appcelerator Secures $15,000,000 Series C Financing”