Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cfc7c29f-3c48-4856-a7d2-bf4fe20d1760&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name Zetta Mailing Address 1362 Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Company Description Zetta delivers storage solutions to enterprises that increase productivity, data availability and data protection while reducing the costs, complexities and risks of traditional storage hardware and software solutions. Website http://www.zetta.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Zetta Obtains $9,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Turntable.fm Lands $7,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=197efa21-39ce-4975-9008-cac00db91c60&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name Turntable.fm Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10463 Company Description The new iPhone app should maintain Turntable’s momentum. The app brings over all the features and limitations of the online service and makes it available on an iPhone. Website http://www.turntable.fm Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,000,000 … Continue reading “Turntable.fm Lands $7,000,000 Series A Financing”
Pixim Secures $5,232,109 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=904f980c-dcb0-422b-96a1-91e494cbf2c3&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name Pixim Mailing Address 1395 Charleston Rd. Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Pixim Inc. has developed an imaging platform that produces substantially higher-quality moving and still images than those available through any other existing technology. Website http://www.pixim.com Transaction Type Debt, Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,232,109 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Pixim Secures $5,232,109 New Financing”
Simple Energy Lands $900,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cbf2a673-e090-43a9-a195-478a80836074&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name Simple Energy Mailing Address 5733 Central Ave Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description At Simple Energy we’re changing how millions of people save energy by revolutionizing how utilities engage their customers. We bring a deep understanding of the energy industry and leading behavioral science and game mechanics. Website … Continue reading “Simple Energy Lands $900,000 Seed Financing Round”
FlexTrip Garners $50,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c6fa32b-90a8-4a23-aa9d-f22a22abff62&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name FlexTrip Mailing Address 1909 Broadway Boulder, CO 80302 Company Description Flextrip is a Techstars Boulder graduate. We provide various APIs to online travel companies to help them sell destination tours & activities, the 3rd largest segment of the travel industry after flights & hotels. Website http://www.flextrip.com Transaction … Continue reading “FlexTrip Garners $50,000 New Financing Round”
TelaDoc Medical Services Garners $18,600,000 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4e836f0f-9654-486e-90db-5738102a713d&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name TelaDoc Medical Services Mailing Address 4100 Spring Valley Dallas, TX 75244 Company Description TelaDoc, Inc. is a Texas corporation that performs several tasks as a business associate of the TelaDoc Physician Association (PA). TelaDoc, Inc. is not licensed to practice medicine and must contract with one or … Continue reading “TelaDoc Medical Services Garners $18,600,000 Series D Round”
WSU Program Nurtures Budding Research Scientists
At Wayne State University, labs aren’t just a sterile space for solemn experiments. For students in the school’s Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD), it’s a chance to work directly with their instructors, get a taste of the scientific life, and gather some up-close career advice in the process. “The laboratory setting is almost like … Continue reading “WSU Program Nurtures Budding Research Scientists”
Intuit Is Looking for the Next Mint.com
If you’re a startup working on mobile, cloud, data analytics, or social technologies and you want to get noticed by consumer-financial-tools giant Intuit, you’ve got three days to apply to join a day of “speed dating” sessions coming up at Intuit headquarters in Mountain View, CA, on October 6. Intuit says its annual Entrepreneur Day … Continue reading “Intuit Is Looking for the Next Mint.com”
TeraDiode, Laser Spinout from MIT Lincoln Lab, Beams Up New CEO
Some big changes are afoot at an interesting Boston-area laser startup. TeraDiode, a Littleton, MA-based maker of laser systems for cutting, welding, and defense applications, said today it has named Parviz Tayebati the company’s new CEO and board member. Tayebati, the former chief executive of telecom laser company Azna and photonics firm CoreTek, succeeds TeraDiode’s … Continue reading “TeraDiode, Laser Spinout from MIT Lincoln Lab, Beams Up New CEO”
Monday Deals Roundup: 10gen, Mindjet, Ebates
Time for the daily roundup of Bay Area financing and M&A news. —10gen, the San Francisco- and New York-based provider of consulting, support, and training for users of the MongoDB open source “NoSQL” database, announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding. New investor Sequoia Capital led the round, which was joined … Continue reading “Monday Deals Roundup: 10gen, Mindjet, Ebates”
GM, Pier 38, TechCrunch: The 1-Minute Version of Last Week’s Bay Area BizTech News
Though last week was a short post-holiday week, Bay Area entrepreneurs managed to pack in a lot of action. —More than 90 companies met with investors and journalists at a new demo event called Pitch San Francisco ’11 at AT&T Park. We captured seven of them on video. —Our biggest feature of the week was a … Continue reading “GM, Pier 38, TechCrunch: The 1-Minute Version of Last Week’s Bay Area BizTech News”
Don’t Ask for Introductions to Investors
Raising money is hard, and there’s no way to screw it up faster than going around asking, “Hey, could you introduce me to some investors?” It’s sort of like when, on the second day of school, a goofy freshman asked me if I could introduce him to any girls. Reason 1: Not every investor is … Continue reading “Don’t Ask for Introductions to Investors”
Epigenetic Drug Startup Tensha Therapeutics Snags $15M Series A
Cambridge, MA-based drug developer Tensha Therapeutics announced today that it has snapped up $15 million in Series A funding from HealthCare Ventures. The funding will go to developing Tensha’s small molecule drug candidates, which are designed to treat cancer and other diseases by regulating the expression of disease-associated genes. Tensha’s drugs are inhibitors of so-called bromodomains, … Continue reading “Epigenetic Drug Startup Tensha Therapeutics Snags $15M Series A”
Genentech Seeks FDA Clearance for Next Skin Cancer Drug
Genentech is shipping off its latest application to the FDA to start selling a new cancer drug. This morning, the South San Francisco-based unit of Roche said it has filed paperwork for U.S. approval of vismodegib, a new drug for people with a deadly type of skin cancer that can’t be surgically removed. The drug, … Continue reading “Genentech Seeks FDA Clearance for Next Skin Cancer Drug”
Adtech Is Harmful to Consumers
If the ads on the websites and in the apps you frequent disappeared tomorrow, would you miss them? Can you think of any specific sites or apps, other than search, where introducing ads improved user experience? I happened upon these questions a few days ago while preparing the opening remarks for a FutureM event my … Continue reading “Adtech Is Harmful to Consumers”
VideoIQ Announces $7.5M, New CEO
Bedford, MA-based VideoIQ, a maker of video surveillance technology, announced today that it has pinned down $7.5 million in Series C funding, from Atlas Venture, Cisco, Matrix Partners and Tenaya Capital. The company reported $6 million in funding earlier this year in an SEC filing. It said today that the new funding will go to fueling … Continue reading “VideoIQ Announces $7.5M, New CEO”
10gen Raises $20M, Plans New Overseas Offices
New York’s 10gen said in a press release Monday it raised $20 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Prior investors participating in the round include Union Square Ventures and Flybridge Capital. 10gen developed and maintains MongoDB, an open source database used by such companies as Viacom, Foursquare, and Disney. So far 10gen … Continue reading “10gen Raises $20M, Plans New Overseas Offices”
Qualcomm Acquires Video Technologies, State Senate Blocks Brown’s Job Package, Wildcat Expands Funding Round, & More San Diego BizTech News
The Labor Day holiday made for a short week of technology news, but we’ve labored to pull it all together for you here. —Underscoring the growing importance of mobile video, San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: [[ticker:QCOM]]) said it’s acquiring video processing technologies and other assets from Integrated Device Technology (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IDTI]]) of San Jose, CA, for … Continue reading “Qualcomm Acquires Video Technologies, State Senate Blocks Brown’s Job Package, Wildcat Expands Funding Round, & More San Diego BizTech News”
Bluefin Labs, Named After a Sushi Bar, Tracks Social Media Around “Every Show on TV”
Deb Roy doesn’t strike me as a Jersey Shore kind of guy. Yet he can tell me exactly what viewers are saying about the estimable Deena Cortese during any episode, or how many people are annoyed by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and are tweeting about him (no, I haven’t been—too busy getting my GTL). I’ll … Continue reading “Bluefin Labs, Named After a Sushi Bar, Tracks Social Media Around “Every Show on TV””
Jeffrey Carr of NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship Talks About Need for Mentors in NY Startup Scene
Let’s be honest; the rush to grab funding in the New York startup community has brought out committed entrepreneurs as well as the ne’er-do-wells looking to make a quick buck. Not everyone is born with the savvy to create a killer idea, but Jeffrey Carr works to help those who—with the right mentors—can produce solid … Continue reading “Jeffrey Carr of NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship Talks About Need for Mentors in NY Startup Scene”
What Most Biotechies Are Missing on Twitter: A Huge Networking Opportunity
Twitter is coming to biotech, it’s only a matter of time. And this is a truly wonderful thing. This thought occurred to me as I sat in my Seattle office, watching a video from a panel discussion of eight people in Boston—journalists, executives, venture capitalists, a PR person—who were talking about how biotechies can get … Continue reading “What Most Biotechies Are Missing on Twitter: A Huge Networking Opportunity”
Xconomy and WGBH Team Up to Cover the Boston Innovation Economy
Boston area radio listeners may have noticed something pretty cool on Friday morning: Xconomy’s on-air debut, during “Morning Edition” on WGBH’s 89.7. The Xconomy Report segment, which will be a regular feature Fridays at 7:49 am, is the product of a new partnership between us and WGBH Radio. It should come as no surprise that several … Continue reading “Xconomy and WGBH Team Up to Cover the Boston Innovation Economy”
3Tier Garners $2,500,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0a93295d-184c-452f-b383-b100eed1a6db&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name 3Tier Mailing Address 2001 Sixth Avenue Seattle, WA 98121 Company Description 3TIER is an energy efficiency company: we provide the core data and knowledge for clients to make the best decisions regarding their investment in a renewable energy generation technology. 3TIER is unique in that we cover … Continue reading “3Tier Garners $2,500,000 New Funding Round”
SoMoLend Lands $310,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f5916938-a63f-459f-9d91-504510ae5de1&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name SoMoLend Mailing Address 1660 West 2nd Street Cleveland, OH 44113 Company Description SoMoLend LLC, a company developing a peer-to-peer lending platform for small businesses. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $310,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. The company has yet … Continue reading “SoMoLend Lands $310,000 Seed Financing Round”
Parse Secures $1,100,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a196918e-7773-4de8-85a6-ab6d43b8433c&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name Parse Mailing Address 1 Mongtomery St. 28th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple, but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all the server-side functionality developers need … Continue reading “Parse Secures $1,100,000 New Financing”
10gen Lands $20,000,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7b8bd050-9f18-44b0-8275-825196ed3437&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name 10gen Mailing Address 134 5th Ave. Third Floor New York, NY 10011 Company Description 10gen is a new platform-as-a-service technology designed to help developers quickly and easily build dynamic, scalable, mission critical web sites and applications. Website http://www.10gen.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $20,000,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “10gen Lands $20,000,000 Series D Financing Round”
Qstream Obtains $376,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dd4370ba-7b04-45c2-8edb-f9e503ceae9f&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name Qstream Mailing Address 15 New England Executive Park Burlington, MA 01803 Company Description Qstream is on a mission to change the face of learning for everyone. By bringing together an engaging, fun way to learn with a proven pedagogy developed at Harvard, Qstream is learning the way … Continue reading “Qstream Obtains $376,000 New Financing”
Ebates Acquires FatWallet.com for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f3fcf00a-b120-45a9-8b50-b9d174b63bb7&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name FatWallet.com Mailing Address 100 East Grand Avenue Beloit, WI 53511 Company Description We take the best deals and make them better by offering easy-to-use shopping solutions that help you search and find the right things at the right price, right now. Website http://www.fatwallet.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction … Continue reading “Ebates Acquires FatWallet.com for Undisclosed Sum”
Pixel Qi Obtains $3,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=71c7cf1f-e053-4397-9838-12e7c3611bfd&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name Pixel Qi Mailing Address 1001 Bayhill Drive San Bruno, CA 94066 Company Description The publishing industry is in major transition – magazines and newspapers have become too expensive to distribute via paper. But words and reading will survive: We are on the cusp of “cloud computing”. 3G … Continue reading “Pixel Qi Obtains $3,000,000 Series B Round”
Mindjet Acquires Cohuman for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a7c2651b-f8e4-48a9-b5fb-f4b7d835397e&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name Cohuman Mailing Address 632 Commercial St. Third Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description The company provides a cloud-based task management service. Website http://www.cohuman.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.
Arrien Pharmaceuticals Receives $2,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cc0e5581-d525-4d92-b266-f4809d104510&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name Arrien Pharmaceuticals Mailing Address 121 Wakelee Avenue Ansonia, CT 06401 Company Description Arrien Pharmaceuticals is a small molecule targeted therapeutics drug discovery and development company working towards targeting cell signaling pathways – A target class in treating neurodegenerative, Cancer, Inflammatory and Metabolic diseases. Website http://www.arrienpharma.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Arrien Pharmaceuticals Receives $2,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Acquires Ascension Orthopedics for $65,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2bcdc921-2355-4ecc-9aeb-dc88b18e7d4c&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name Ascension Orthopedics Mailing Address 8700 Cameron Road Austin, TX 78754 Company Description Ascension Orthopedics is dedicated to the research, development, manufacture and distribution of small joint implants for the treatment of osteo-arthritis, post-traumatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis. The company focuses on providing hand surgeons and their patients … Continue reading “Integra LifeSciences Holdings Acquires Ascension Orthopedics for $65,000,000”
SABPA Medical Device and Diagnostics Forum
As China surpasses Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, and while China’s central government invests $193 billion to modernize China’s healthcare system, a tremendous market is emerging for medical devices and diagnostics. Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, and other industry behemoths from the U.S. and Europe are stepping up their presence in China to capitalize on … Continue reading “SABPA Medical Device and Diagnostics Forum”
Cleantech Corridor Legislative Conference
The CleanTech Corridor has organized this half-day event for San Diego’s cleantech leaders, elected officials, and others interested in encouraging the development of new sustainable technology companies and jobs in the region. Sessions are focused in three general areas: cleantech success and opportunites; best practices of other cleantech clusters, including infrastructure and resources; identifying legislative … Continue reading “Cleantech Corridor Legislative Conference”
Frontiers in Science and Technology: Using Alternative Splicing to Make Neurons from Stem Cells
UC San Diego Assistant Professor Gene Yeo will explain how new genomic tools his lab in UCSD’s Cellular and Molecular Medicine Department are being used to better understand neurodegenerative disease, and to help advance stem cell research. Yeo’s work has focused on how genes produce copies of pre-mRNA, which then undergo a modification process called … Continue reading “Frontiers in Science and Technology: Using Alternative Splicing to Make Neurons from Stem Cells”
Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa
The sixth annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa is a two-day conference aimed at bringing together the scientific, research, and business development communities in regenerative medicine to advance stem cell science into cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. The meeting features a nationally recognized scientific symposium attended by leading scientists and researchers. More information … Continue reading “Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa”
Connect with Connect in the Life Sciences
Entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers, investors, and professional service providers from San Diego’s most innovative industries are invited for a special “Connect with Connect” to be held at the UC San Diego Health System’s new Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center. This event will feature all things bio—mobile health, medical devices, diagnostics, genomics, pharmaceuticals, biofuels, biomimicry, and more. Online registration … Continue reading “Connect with Connect in the Life Sciences”
VideoIQ Obtains $7,500,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=186576ae-b237-43de-aa67-89013b47643f&Preview=1 Date 9/10/2011 Company Name VideoIQ Mailing Address 213 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Company Description VideoIQ acts as digital guard that transforms video surveillance into a dynamic, real-time, intelligent system for guarding against intruders, and gaining early warning of security breaches. It delivers the industry’s best detection accuracy and far fewer … Continue reading “VideoIQ Obtains $7,500,000 Series C Funding Round”
Box.net Boxworks
It’s Box.net’s first annual customer conference: BoxWorks ’11, designed to help users with best practices and hands-on training through 1:1 engagement with Box experts, the Box team, and other customers. The event will feature keynote talks from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler, and “Crossing the Chasm” author Geoffrey Moore, as well … Continue reading “Box.net Boxworks”
Kal Raman Resigns from GlobalScholar
Entrepreneur Kal Raman has resigned as CEO of education imprint GlobalScholar, the company that was acquired for up to $160 million late last year by Scantron. GlobalScholar spokeswoman Jodie Cadieux confirms a report in GeekWire, saying that Raman left the CEO’s job “to pursue other interests but does continue in a consulting role.” Scantron, a … Continue reading “Kal Raman Resigns from GlobalScholar”
Lars Rasmussen—Creator of Google Maps and Google Wave
Founder Community is a Silicon Valley event series by founders, for founders. We aim to inspire, educate and connect entrepreneurs of all levels. This is one you won’t want to miss! Lars Rasmussen earned a PhD in theoretical computer science from UC Berkley. In early 2003 Lars co-founded with his brother Jens a mapping related … Continue reading “Lars Rasmussen—Creator of Google Maps and Google Wave”
Defining Moments: SVB Accelerator CEO Summit
From the event announcement: Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to technology and life science companies of all sizes worldwide, will host a day-long educational event for entrepreneurs in which they can learn from the successes and mistakes of other startup founders and CEOs. “Defining Moments: Inflection Points in the Life of a Startup” is Silicon … Continue reading “Defining Moments: SVB Accelerator CEO Summit”
Women Powering Technology Summit
From the event announcement: WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading global trade association for professional, tech-savvy women, returns to Silicon Valley October 2-4, 2011, for the Annual Women Powering Technology Summit at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in San Jose, California. The 3-day Summit will feature keynote presentations from Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Google; … Continue reading “Women Powering Technology Summit”
Silicon Valley Open Doors
From the event website: American Business Association of Russian Professionals is proud to announce 7th annual Technology Investment Conference. SVOD 2011 will take place in Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) on November 29-30, 2011. This year, SVOD will take place under the auspices of the Russian Innovation Center, which was recently founded by Rusnano, … Continue reading “Silicon Valley Open Doors”
DITA Fest 2011
From the event announcement: The momentum towards adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) continues unabated. As new companies adopt the standard, and as existing DITA deployments mature, many organizations are now starting to ponder… What comes next? That’s why SDL and The Content Wrangler invite you attend DITA Fest 2011, an annual educational … Continue reading “DITA Fest 2011”
Open Mobile Summit
From the event website: The Open Mobile Summit San Francisco 2011, Nov 2-4, will be the single most significant event in converging mobile, Internet, media and electronics this year. Now in its 4th year the Open Mobile Summit connects 850+ of the most powerful people in converging mobile, Internet and media. Two days of thought-leading … Continue reading “Open Mobile Summit”
App Conference and Hackathon
From the Engage Digital Media event website: App Conference and Hackathon – October 26-27, 2011 in Santa Clara – addresses key components of App development, marketing and revenue. Join us for: – Programming and design strategies from visionary developers – Best methods for marketing and revenue. – Case studies from top app developers. – Latest … Continue reading “App Conference and Hackathon”
Corporate Cash for Cleantech
As cleantech VC investing takes a plunge, large corporate investment arms are jumping in. Join us for an industry panel event focused on large corporations looking to cleantech for new business opportunities. This interactive debate will feature corporate players that are getting into cleantech and will highlight companies receiving funding from investment arms, those directly … Continue reading “Corporate Cash for Cleantech”
CrowdConf2011
CrowdConf is the first and leading conference on crowdsourcing and the future of distributed work, bringing together an international audience of scholars, executives, policy makers, artists, and technologists for a day of learning, conversation, and networking. Use Discount code: XCONSF for 20 percent off conference tickets. Early-bird pricing until September 16th! Website: www.crowdconf.com.
Play Ball! Video from the Pitch San Francisco Startup Fest at AT&T Park
Funny, I thought there were already enough startup events around the Bay Area to keep any investor or tech journalist busy eight days a week. But now there’s one more—it’s called Pitch, and it’s the result of “the challenges many startups have in getting new users, media, attention, and investors,” writes Duane Nason of Launchabl.es, … Continue reading “Play Ball! Video from the Pitch San Francisco Startup Fest at AT&T Park”