QB3 VIP Symposium on Digital Health: Towards Social and Collaborative Medicine

From the event description: “The Venture Innovation Program (VIP) in Life Sciences is hosting a Digital Health Symposium on June 14th. UCSF physicians and digital health experts will be discussing the challenges and opportunities in the field, as well as their experience in starting and commercializing digital health technologies. Also, come meet exciting mobile startups … Continue reading “QB3 VIP Symposium on Digital Health: Towards Social and Collaborative Medicine”

PolyRemedy, Pivoted from Med Device to IT-based Healthcare Service Company, Raises $20M Series C Round

PolyRemedy, a Concord, MA- and Mountain View, CA-based healthcare startup, has secured $20 million in a new Series C funding to fuel what president and CEO Mark Carbeau calls its “Netflix of wound care” business. The deal was led by new investor Delphi Ventures of Menlo Park, CA. Previous PolyRemedy backers—MedVenture Associates, Advanced Technology Ventures … Continue reading “PolyRemedy, Pivoted from Med Device to IT-based Healthcare Service Company, Raises $20M Series C Round”

FRX Polymers Garners $15,700,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3bf49c99-f46f-4d5c-a015-a911c2b0a23b&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name FRX Polymers Mailing Address 200 Turnpike Road Chelmsford, MA 01824 Company Description Welcome to FRX Polymers (FRX), the clear choice for Flame Retardancy. Our polymers are fully transparent, high flowing and due to their high phosphorus content, are inherently non-burning. FRX Polymers is developing Homopolymers and Copolymers … Continue reading “FRX Polymers Garners $15,700,000 Series B Financing”

Cavendish Kinetics Secures $10,000,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ca520206-c265-4fc1-bba7-0b87272a1716&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Cavendish Kinetics Mailing Address 3833 North 1st Street San Jose, CA 95134 Company Description Cavendish Kinetics is a fabless semiconductor IP company developing embedded Non-Volatile Memory technology for standard CMOS processes. Website http://www.cavendish-kinetics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $10,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Cavendish Kinetics, … Continue reading “Cavendish Kinetics Secures $10,000,000 New Funding”

PolyRemedy Lands $20,000,000 Series C Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=00330e34-6e0a-4c1e-a33f-1aa57465e3dc&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name PolyRemedy Mailing Address 2637 Marine Way Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description The company develops and designs medical devices for the treatment of chronic wounds. Website http://www.polyremedy.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $20,000,000 Transaction Round Series C Proceeds Purposes This capital will fund commercialization of PolyRemedy’s … Continue reading “PolyRemedy Lands $20,000,000 Series C Funding Round”

Liquid Robotics Lands $22,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3e2b0e0e-f9b2-43c1-9f10-3d87b72ca5fe&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Liquid Robotics Mailing Address 1329 Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Company Description Initially a joint venture between Jupiter Research Foundation and Roger Hine to develop an unmoored, station-keeping data buoy for monitoring humpback whales, Liquid Robotics was incorporated in January of 2007 to continue development of … Continue reading “Liquid Robotics Lands $22,000,000 New Round”

WayIn Obtains $6,390,461 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e10d2b71-d95f-497c-887b-7b7b7c3fdc30&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name WayIn Mailing Address 1534 Plaza Ln. Burlingame, CA 94010 Company Description The company is currently in stealth mode. Website http://www.WayIn.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $6,390,461 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. $4,999,899.65 sold as cash purchase; additional $1,390,560.92 sold in conjunction … Continue reading “WayIn Obtains $6,390,461 New Financing”

Prosper Marketplace Garners $17,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=be606ed7-862c-4921-b099-973e846f5f9b&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Prosper Marketplace Mailing Address 111 Sutter Street 22nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Prosper, America’s first people-to-people lending marketplace, was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone. Website http://www.prosper.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $17,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Prosper Marketplace Garners $17,000,000 New Financing”

Violin Memory Receives $40,000,000 Series C Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=38a04996-33e2-45fd-902c-9bac37235c03&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Violin Memory Mailing Address 2700 Garcia Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description Violin Memory is the ultimate solution for the company who is looking to accelerate their business critical applications and virtualize their Data Center storage with a scalable flash memory array that delivers unprecedented sustainability … Continue reading “Violin Memory Receives $40,000,000 Series C Round”

Silver Tail Systems Obtains $20,000,000 Series B Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8186e07a-1edd-495a-846b-e946d98073c3&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Silver Tail Systems Mailing Address 230 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Silver Tail was founded by a team of fraud prevention experts who built anti-fraud and anti-phishing tools at eBay and PayPal. Through their experience and proprietary algorithms, they have built a system … Continue reading “Silver Tail Systems Obtains $20,000,000 Series B Funding Round”

Assay Depot Garners $1,700,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ac2a0c4b-3ad8-4b1f-bfc2-e42b23b8005b&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Assay Depot Mailing Address 11180 Roselle St. San Diego, CA 92121 Company Description By serving as a large repository of on-demand drug discovery services, the Assay Depot marketplace levels the scientific playing field, enabling drug researchers from around the world and in laboratories large and small to … Continue reading “Assay Depot Garners $1,700,000 New Financing Round”

Lattice Engines Lands New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7da94e99-6995-41f1-b3f5-03d37d112423&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Lattice Engines Mailing Address 1825 South Grant Avenue San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Lattice Engines provides analytic solutions that help customers maximize their return on sales and marketing investments. Our solutions combine advanced optimization techniques, and predictive analytics built on a very flexible data integration platform. … Continue reading “Lattice Engines Lands New Funding Round”

Kaiam Obtains $5,000,000 Series B Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0ca7eace-3c4d-4cdb-b77c-24a7cbe7e1b6&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Kaiam Mailing Address 39655 Eureka Dr. Newark, CA 94560 Company Description Kaiam Corporation is a private company funded to develop products based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Founded by leading technologists from the optical networking industry, the team has a record of delivering breakthrough approaches that change … Continue reading “Kaiam Obtains $5,000,000 Series B Financing Round”

YapStone Receives $50,000,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dc20c2bd-84a3-4dc1-930d-71d730f345f6&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name YapStone Mailing Address 505 Sansome Eighth Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description The company provides a variety of payment technologies for the real estate industry. Website http://www.yapstone.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $50,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The company will use the financing to … Continue reading “YapStone Receives $50,000,000 New Financing”

Rally Software Receives $20,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3168fa7b-3458-42b8-a293-239c89ef84a1&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name Rally Software Mailing Address 3333 Walnut St Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description One way to describe Rally is to say we are absolutely dedicated to making your development organization faster, leaner and more agile. In fact, we think helping you be “on time and on budget” is … Continue reading “Rally Software Receives $20,000,000 New Round”

eWise Systems USA Secures $14,000,000 New Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7b3784cb-0964-4db8-886b-9720e43c3b5c&Preview=1 Date 6/7/2011 Company Name eWise Systems USA Mailing Address 4600 South Syracuse St. Denver, CO 80237 Company Description eWise has built on the early success achieved with its account aggregation solutions to deliver a comprehensive solution portfolio that addresses the growth and importance of online security and payments for online service … Continue reading “eWise Systems USA Secures $14,000,000 New Round”

PATH Partners With GSK on Malaria Vaccine

PATH, the Seattle-based global health nonprofit, said it has formed a collaboration with Netherlands-based Crucell and London-based GlaxoSmithKline to develop a next-generation malaria vaccine. The effort will bring together two vaccine approaches in an attempt to improve upon Glaxo’s RTS,S, a vaccine that has shown an ability to protect about half of people who get … Continue reading “PATH Partners With GSK on Malaria Vaccine”

PCI In the Cloud

ExoIS and Rapid 7 sponsor a panel discussion on the growing overlap between payment card infrastructure technology and cloud computing. From the event description: “In this interesting panel discussion the panelists and moderator will discuss the following items: – Who is responsible for PCI compliance in the cloud? The provider or the customer? – How … Continue reading “PCI In the Cloud”

Scenes from the Uplinq Conference: How Qualcomm’s Strategy is Playing Out

If there was a single moment during Qualcomm’s mobile developer conference last week that showed just how much the San Diego wireless giant has changed over the past decade, it would have to be when Qualcomm chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs introduced Nokia CEO Stephen Elop as a keynote speaker. “Up next is somebody that … Continue reading “Scenes from the Uplinq Conference: How Qualcomm’s Strategy is Playing Out”

Salesforce.com Shows Off Designs for Mission Bay Campus

The Mission Bay area of San Francisco really was a bay once, before it was filled in during the 19th and early 20th centuries to make room for railyards and slaughterhouses. It’s still one of the lowest-lying areas in the city—and barring the construction of huge levees or dikes, it will likely be inundated once … Continue reading “Salesforce.com Shows Off Designs for Mission Bay Campus”

Beyond Sakti3: Researchers in Boston, London Explore Electric-Car Battery Technologies

Sakti3 is one of Michigan’s most high-profile startups, whose solid state, lithium ion batteries have won funding from General Motors and Khosla Ventures and plaudits by MIT’s Technology Review. Such technology could revolutionize electric cars by packing more energy into a battery that occupies much less space under the hood than existing batteries. With less … Continue reading “Beyond Sakti3: Researchers in Boston, London Explore Electric-Car Battery Technologies”

API Hack Day NYC @Internet Week

This all-day coding fest is focused on building apps and mashups with APIs and is open to developers of all experience levels. At the end of the day, you’ll get a chance to present your work to a panel of judges. Register here.

12 Hours of Tech

This day-long event will present tips, tools, and practical strategies you can implement to save time, operate more effectively, boost revenue,Speakers include John Engates, chief technology officer at Rackspace Hosting, Steve Jarvis v.p. of marketing for Concur, and Stacy Robin, managing partner of The Degania Group. and more. Register here.

UTest Brings Crowdsourced QA Testing to Early Stage Web Startups (We Have Discount Codes Too)

Southborough, MA-based uTest hit the market with its crowdsourced quality assurance testing service in a slightly unconventional order. UTest first introduced its “full strength” software-as-a-service for more mature, enterprise-level Web companies in 2008, and has nabbed big customers like Google, Microsoft, Intuit, Myspace, and Thomson Reuters. Clients indicate the type of testing they want, uTest … Continue reading “UTest Brings Crowdsourced QA Testing to Early Stage Web Startups (We Have Discount Codes Too)”

Exelixis Zeroes in on Lead Drug, Sees Activity in the Bones of Prostate Cancer Patients

Exelixis gambled a little more than a year ago, deciding to go “all-in” on its lead drug candidate for cancer after many investors lost interest in its strategy of building a broad pipeline with lots of different drugs. It was risky thing to do in a business where most drugs fail in clinical trials, but … Continue reading “Exelixis Zeroes in on Lead Drug, Sees Activity in the Bones of Prostate Cancer Patients”

Ariad and Merck Say Sarcoma Drug Improves Survival

Whitehouse Station, NJ-based Merck and Cambridge-based Ariad announced positive results from a Phase 3 study of their sarcoma drug, ridaforolimus, at the conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today. Ridaforolimus blocks the mTOR protein, a master biological switch that allows tumors to grow and thrive. The study showed a 28 percent reduction in … Continue reading “Ariad and Merck Say Sarcoma Drug Improves Survival”

New York Senator Chuck Schumer Tells Local Entrepreneurs the City Can Surpass Silicon Valley as the High-Tech Capital of America

Senator Charles “Chuck” Schumer, the publicity-loving Democrat from New York, has his share of critics—but none seemed to be in attendance this morning at Internet Week New York, where he gave the kickoff keynote speech. The audience of journalists and Internet entrepreneurs ate up Schumer’s message: New York, he said, can and should surpass Silicon … Continue reading “New York Senator Chuck Schumer Tells Local Entrepreneurs the City Can Surpass Silicon Valley as the High-Tech Capital of America”

Rock Health, Say Media, Food Frenzy: The 1-Minute Version of Last Week’s Bay Area BizTech News

Memorial Day observances made last week shorter than usual, but there was enough news from the local information technology sector for any week twice its length. —San Francisco-based Rock Health, a new incubator for companies focused on using digital technologies to fix inefficiencies in the healthcare system, unveiled its first class of startups. They range … Continue reading “Rock Health, Say Media, Food Frenzy: The 1-Minute Version of Last Week’s Bay Area BizTech News”

$26M for Minerva Surgical

Cupertino, CA-based Minerva Surgical, which is developing a medical device for treating abnormal uterine bleeding in women, has raised $26.2 million in an offering of equity, options, and securities, according to a June 2 regulatory filing. Minerva’s investors are not identified in the filing, but board directors include Ali Behbahani and John Nehra of New … Continue reading “$26M for Minerva Surgical”

Infineta Collects $15M

Infineta Systems of San Jose, CA, said today it has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by new investor Rembrandt Venture Partners. Existing investors Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners also took part. Infineta makes switches that facilitate the movement of data within and between data centers; it has now raised … Continue reading “Infineta Collects $15M”

Accelerate Michigan Open For Business

Accelerate Michigan Innovation, the state’s top competition for high tech entrepreneurs, is now accepting applications. The contest will award $1 million in cash prizes plus business services to winners in November. Deadline for applications is August 10, for students September 21. To apply, click here.

Beringea Finds Exit For Steak Group

Beringea, a venture capital/private equity firm in Farmington Hills, said it has sold Steak Group to Dentsu for an undisclosed amount. Steak, a digital medial firm, employs 94 people in New York, London, and Melbourne, Australia.

Tioga Drug Gets Fast Track Status

San Diego’s Tioga Pharmaceuticals, a virtual biotech with the equivalent of three full-time employees, said the FDA has granted “fast track” designation to asimadoline, a compound Tioga is investigating for treating patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome. Tioga is in a late-stage clinical trial of the drug, which is being conducted under a special protocol … Continue reading “Tioga Drug Gets Fast Track Status”

Constellation Pharma Raises $15M for Epigenetic Drugs

Cambridge, MA-based Constellation Pharmaceuticals said today it has raised $15 million in a Series B extension from its existing investors, including Third Rock Ventures, The Column Group, Venrock Associates, SR One, and Altitude Life Science Ventures. Constellation, whose Series B now totals $37 million (after a $32 million A round in 2008-09) is working to … Continue reading “Constellation Pharma Raises $15M for Epigenetic Drugs”

TechStars Seattle, on the Prowl for Talented Coders, Adopts HackStars Program

Last year, the organizers of TechStars in Boulder, CO, decided to try a little experiment. Already stocked with 10 teams of entrepreneurs working on their proto-companies, the startup boot-camp saw a niche for extra hands to help knock out some of the startups’ technical projects. So David Cohen, TechStars’ founder and CEO, brought in a … Continue reading “TechStars Seattle, on the Prowl for Talented Coders, Adopts HackStars Program”

Qualcomm Cuts Deal With Creative Artists; PowerGenix Targets Micro-Hybrid Market, Ferruolo Moves to USD Law School, & More San Diego BizTech News

The Memorial Day holiday made it a short week for high-tech news in San Diego. Here’s what you need to know from last week. —About 2,000 mobile app developers and others attended the two-day Uplinq conference hosted by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: [[ticker:QCOM]]), the world’s largest wireless chipmaker. A new partnership with Hollywood’s Creative Artists … Continue reading “Qualcomm Cuts Deal With Creative Artists; PowerGenix Targets Micro-Hybrid Market, Ferruolo Moves to USD Law School, & More San Diego BizTech News”

ACT Biotech, Scooping Up Bayer’s Cast-Off, Shows Promise With Stomach Cancer Drug

You know saying about one man’s loss being another man’s gain? That looks like the storyline that’s playing out at San Francisco-based ACT Biotech, which presented some promising results over the weekend with a new cancer drug it picked up off the scrap heap a few years ago from Germany-based Bayer (NYSE: [[ticker:BAY]]). ACT Biotech, … Continue reading “ACT Biotech, Scooping Up Bayer’s Cast-Off, Shows Promise With Stomach Cancer Drug”

Adaptive TCR, a Fred Hutch Spinoff, Snags $5.8M to Take Immune System Profiling Up a Notch

Seattle-based Adaptive TCR, a startup that grew out of immune-system profiling work at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has raised $5.8 million in an equity investment round that could be worth as much as $7.5 million over time. Adaptive TCR, profiled in these pages back in December, has secured the new financing from a … Continue reading “Adaptive TCR, a Fred Hutch Spinoff, Snags $5.8M to Take Immune System Profiling Up a Notch”

The Quest For Biotech Independence: Maybe It Isn’t So Quixotic After All

Conventional wisdom a couple years ago said that the era of the independent biotech giant was over. Nobody would ever again build a multi-billion dollar, fully integrated independent biopharma company on the scale of an Amgen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AMGN]]), or even a Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GILD]]). Drug development is too risky, time-consuming, and expensive. Investors, tired … Continue reading “The Quest For Biotech Independence: Maybe It Isn’t So Quixotic After All”

Constellation Pharmaceuticals Garners $15,000,000 Series B Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e96ad44f-d236-4879-88b1-b8256b123c79&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name Constellation Pharmaceuticals Mailing Address 148 Sidney Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Constellation Pharmaceuticals is the first biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of novel therapeutics in the emerging field of Epigenetics, a new field of science which is focused on selective regulators of epigenetic function, which … Continue reading “Constellation Pharmaceuticals Garners $15,000,000 Series B Funding”

Adaptive TCR Secures $5,821,524 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=efb7d74c-4ce9-4a88-898d-4f19a2eadc19&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name Adaptive TCR Mailing Address 307 Westlake Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 Company Description Adaptive TCR Corporation’s platform technology breaks open the field of genomics immunology. T-cell receptor profiling using Adaptive’s proprietary technology and software allows scientists to study the adaptive immune system to an unprecedented depth via … Continue reading “Adaptive TCR Secures $5,821,524 New Funding”

PixelFish Lands $500,000 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=904a6624-52c8-458b-8974-93116bf78533&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name PixelFish Mailing Address 21250 Hawthorne Blvd. Torrance, CA 90503 Company Description We make producing high-impact, broadcast-quality video easy and affordable. Website http://www.PixelFish.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed

Socialwise Secures $7,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fe55cc56-fa29-4614-99b1-d5c51662461c&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name Socialwise Mailing Address 6440 Lusk Blvd. San Diego, CA 92121 Company Description We develop platforms that integrate into traditional eCommerce products and services. Our flagship product offering is an online payment solution for young people, BillMyParents. Website http://www.socialwise.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,000,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Socialwise Secures $7,000,000 New Financing Round”

Mu Sigma Lands $25,000,000 Series C Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0f99768a-d88d-47d4-b444-38de5290fe6e&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name Mu Sigma Mailing Address 3400 Dundee Rd Northbrook, IL 60062 Company Description Mu Sigma is a knowledge process outsourcing firm that provides high quality analytical decision support services to its clients in a cost effective manner. Website http://www.mu-sigma.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Mu Sigma Lands $25,000,000 Series C Funding Round”

Infineta Systems Secures $15,000,000 Series B Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7b665509-f6de-43b3-b75d-87a8d6db589c&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name Infineta Systems Mailing Address 2870 Zanker Road San Mateo, CA 95134 Company Description Infineta Systems is leading the charge to revolutionize the way enterprises leverage network resources by delivering a highly accelerated inter-data center fabric. Website http://www.infineta.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $15,000,000 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “Infineta Systems Secures $15,000,000 Series B Funding Round”

Aquantia Garners $21,000,000 Series E Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8b9c0932-fc1e-46b5-b5ca-b836cd8b7ab1&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name Aquantia Mailing Address 700 Tasman Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description Aquantia is focused on delivering 10GBASE-T physical layer silicon to drive the expansion of 10GE in the data center. Aquantia possesses a unique depth of experience in communications with solid backing from the venture capital community. … Continue reading “Aquantia Garners $21,000,000 Series E Round”

Arstasis Lands $25,500,000 Series E Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b9ccd0b3-bade-4f76-bbb0-ff4f8c1c076f&Preview=1 Date 6/6/2011 Company Name Arstasis Mailing Address 740 Bay Rd. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Arstasis develops innovative vascular access devices designed to provide better solutions for arterial closure in catheterization procedures. The company has pioneered a unique approach to safely maximize patient comfort and hospital resource efficiencies by revolutionizing … Continue reading “Arstasis Lands $25,500,000 Series E Funding”

Dear Apple: Go Big with Siri and Nuance in iOS 5

As someone who served on the boards of Siri and Nuance—two companies whose technologies are rumored to be deeply integrated into Apple’s upcoming iOS 5—I might have a unique take on what’s possible at the upcoming Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC ) in San Francisco June 6-10. I throw my speculations into the ring … Continue reading “Dear Apple: Go Big with Siri and Nuance in iOS 5”