Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d7ad620d-8933-4cdd-87ca-3be7f1fe1b9b&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name K2 Global Consulting Mailing Address 599 Lexington Avenue, 12th Floor New York, NY 10022 Company Description K2 Global provides specialized risk services and solutions to corporations, sovereign nations and individuals. Website http://www.k2globalconsulting.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,815,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “K2 Global Consulting Obtains $1,815,000 New Round”
Kroll Bond Rating Agency Garners $16,335,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0dfbe1a1-face-416f-8925-3fbfc21f2ac5&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Kroll Bond Rating Agency Mailing Address 599 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022 Company Description Kroll Bond Ratings will provide the investment community with an authoritative and informed alternative by delivering ratings designed to meet the highest standards for accuracy and timeliness. Website http://www.krollbondratings.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Kroll Bond Rating Agency Garners $16,335,000 New Funding”
CollegeOnly Garners $1,150,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4ddd42aa-879f-4589-b68c-4752659b6f15&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name CollegeOnly Mailing Address Undisclosed New York , NY 10011 Company Description We are the CollegeOnly online and mobile social club. Membership is restricted to students with verified college e-mail addresses. CollegeOnly is connecting student bodies by allowing our members to see and share what’s going on on … Continue reading “CollegeOnly Garners $1,150,000 New Financing”
Widetronix Secures $586,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e0f399ab-5999-4802-becf-51ba7a0a8cac&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Widetronix Mailing Address 95 Brown Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 Company Description Widetronix designs and builds low power, long life batteries for microelectronics. Website http://www.widetronix.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $586,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Draper Fisher … Continue reading “Widetronix Secures $586,000 New Round”
Crystal IS Garners $2,499,900 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fbc2067c-306e-4251-888f-61eee393d465&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Crystal IS Mailing Address 70 Cohoes Avenue Green Island, NY 12183 Company Description Crystal IS, Inc. is the market leader in the commercialization of single-crystal aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates for the cost-effective production of high power, high temperature, and optoelectronic devices such as blue and ultraviolet lasers. … Continue reading “Crystal IS Garners $2,499,900 New Funding”
FiftyOne Receives $387,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0f348c2b-5cbb-4db2-8e6b-6923f65928bf&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name FiftyOne Mailing Address 8 W. 40th St. 5th Floor New York, NY 10018 Company Description The company introduced a patented technology that allowed ecommerce retailers to automatically present and settle transactions in the currencies its international visitors preferred, sheltering retailers and consumers transacting in different countries from … Continue reading “FiftyOne Receives $387,000 New Financing”
TraderTools Lands $2,250,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d0f1bb4c-639a-4a49-b65b-712f96e10a97&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name TraderTools Mailing Address 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 Company Description TraderTools LLC is a provider of business solutions, software and services to financial institutions trading FX. TraderTools’ Liquidity Management Platform is the only system to integrate the four disciplines of electronic FX trading: pricing, dealing, … Continue reading “TraderTools Lands $2,250,000 New Financing Round”
Varonis Lands $147,900 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ed880bb1-b2f6-4d54-8d7f-8a61876879b4&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Varonis Mailing Address 499 7th Avenue, 23rd Floor, South Tower New York, NY 10018 Company Description Today Varonis is the foremost innovator and solution provider of comprehensive, actionable data governance solutions for unstructured and semi-structured data with over 2000 installations span leading firms in financial services, government, … Continue reading “Varonis Lands $147,900 New Financing Round”
Worktopia Secures $1,283,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9067f53d-e2e2-464a-95bf-9cfd919a819b&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Worktopia Mailing Address 1311 Mamaroneck Avenue White Plains, NY 10605 Company Description Worktopia enables companies to procure meeting space and office space when they want it, where they want it… On Demand. Worktopia is the first and only global reservation system for short term workspace, including meeting … Continue reading “Worktopia Secures $1,283,000 New Funding Round”
ORTHOCON Secures $2,155,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dac4230b-28a8-4dc3-8614-a895d137b57d&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name ORTHOCON Mailing Address 1 Bridge Street Irvington, NY 10533 Company Description ORTHOCON is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company focused on the development of new and innovative products for the orthopaedic and spine surgery markets. Website http://www.orthocon.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,155,000 … Continue reading “ORTHOCON Secures $2,155,000 New Financing”
Fab.com Obtains $875,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3971a804-9261-4289-a572-bfa77d0d85b1&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Fab.com Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10000 Company Description Fab.com is a social net and lifestyle site aimed at gay men. Website http://www.fab.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $875,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Baroda Ventures … Continue reading “Fab.com Obtains $875,000 New Funding”
EnergyHub Garners $40,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5c7a61ee-cc7f-44ff-ab45-c12d04c4e2ef&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name EnergyHub Mailing Address 232 3rd Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 Company Description EnergyHub produces smart, simple, and cost-effective energy management tools that strengthen the relationship between consumers and utilities and solve the energy problems of today and tomorrow. Website http://www.energyhub.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $40,000 Transaction … Continue reading “EnergyHub Garners $40,000 New Funding”
OneWire Secures New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=78f04ddb-176b-4cfc-9680-d223fde6da96&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name OneWire Mailing Address 540 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor New York, NY 10022 Company Description We identified significant inefficiencies in the hiring marketplace and set out to create a career management tool that changes the way professionals advance their career and a hiring management tool that transforms the … Continue reading “OneWire Secures New Funding”
AppFirst Lands $1,080,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=32025684-6845-4529-b853-dcb1bcc9b56b&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name AppFirst Mailing Address 6 W. 14th Street New York City, NY 10011 Company Description AppFirst was founded in 2009 by industry veterans to solve the gap of operational excellence. There are just a few software companies that have achieved operational excellence but have done so at great … Continue reading “AppFirst Lands $1,080,000 New Round”
Anterios Lands $750,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f5ae48c1-07d7-4aa2-86c6-ffe4a02fed24&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Anterios Mailing Address 41 West 57th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10019 Company Description Anterios Inc. uses nanotechnology to provide a delivery system to administer drugs and cosmetics. Anterios Inc. was formerly known as Encapsion Inc. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in … Continue reading “Anterios Lands $750,000 New Round”
Aztek Networks Obtains $6,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2cd10216-6b04-494d-a07c-0d4d3656dd9a&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Aztek Networks Mailing Address 2477 55th Street Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description Aztek Networks (formerly Aztek Engineering) is the leading supplier of evolutionary telecommunications products that provide high availability true emergency stand alone (True ESA) switching and IP media gateway services. Website http://www.azteknetworks.net Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Aztek Networks Obtains $6,000,000 New Financing Round”
SomaLogic Obtains $5,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=32238a94-f5a3-4c14-9a5b-18eb48c5de5a&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name SomaLogic Mailing Address 2945 Wilderness Place Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description SomaLogic, Inc. is developing novel proteomics systems and applications based on its proprietary aptamer technology. Aptamers are single-stranded DNA and RNA molecules that, like antibodies, can bind to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. Website … Continue reading “SomaLogic Obtains $5,000,000 New Financing Round”
OneTrueFan Obtains New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=24e8bb49-c503-4eb9-b160-220c42fd16ae&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name OneTrueFan Mailing Address Undisclosed Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description The company provides rewards platforms for website publishers. Website http://www.onetruefan.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor First Round Capital
AirCell Garners $25,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=69fe9c89-aaaa-4409-b1a1-2a7e03829303&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name AirCell Mailing Address 303 South Technology Court Bldg. A Broomfield, CO 80021 Company Description AirCell, the leader in airborne telecommunications for business aviation, is now developing the first affordable, North America-wide airborne broadband solution. After winning the FCC’s recent air-to-ground spectrum licensing auction, AirCell is spearheading a … Continue reading “AirCell Garners $25,000,000 New Funding Round”
Aftama Secures $951,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c0810e20-4033-4414-87a0-2fd627e06d5b&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Aftama Mailing Address 422 White Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 Company Description The company provides a software-as-a-service solution for interactive publication. Website http://www.aftama.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $951,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor High Country Venture
Symplified Secures $9,079,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4e94b3df-23ef-41d3-8a74-6d910401fb7e&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Symplified Mailing Address 1600 Pearl St Boulder, CO 80302 Company Description The company has developed breakthrough technology that addresses the complexity and cost associated with monolithic software approaches to Web identity management. Website http://www.symplified.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $9,079,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “Symplified Secures $9,079,000 New Round”
Graphic.ly Garners $1,100,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=080a5058-e4c6-404e-9aab-9aa67de0167e&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Graphic.ly Mailing Address Undisclosed Boulder, CO 80501 Company Description Graphic.ly is a place for all people that, like us, love the art and story telling that lives within the pages of a comic book or graphic novel, and enjoy nothing more than sharing that enthusiasm with their … Continue reading “Graphic.ly Garners $1,100,000 New Funding Round”
NextIO Lands New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e15d568c-3aa5-4c3b-b9c7-077cb4fa6468&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name NextIO Mailing Address 8303 N MoPac Expressway Austin, TX 78759 Company Description NextIO is the industry leader in I/O Virtualization using PCI Express. NextIO’s solutions enable users to break the restrictions of physical I/O tied to a server. Systems become more flexible, lower cost, and easier to … Continue reading “NextIO Lands New Financing Round”
Andro Diagnostics Receives $1,307,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f96b0a64-b24f-425c-a277-0bdee43049cb&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Andro Diagnostics Mailing Address 101 14th Street Galveston, TX 77550 Company Description Andro Diagnostics is an early-stage company developing products to improve diagnosis and therapy in male genitourinary health. Our patented technology provides a new approach in reference laboratory diagnostic tests for prostate cancer that measurably improve … Continue reading “Andro Diagnostics Receives $1,307,000 New Funding Round”
Mirna Therapeutics Lands $25,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4e77c135-0b63-4b3e-b5e5-45b8d7fd62df&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Mirna Therapeutics Mailing Address 2150 Woodward St. Austin, TX 78744 Company Description Mirna Therapeutics, Inc., traces its lineage back to Ambion, Inc., a privately held company that offered research reagents for RNA analysis. It was at Ambion where Mirna’s miRNA therapeutic research and development program began in … Continue reading “Mirna Therapeutics Lands $25,000,000 New Financing Round”
OrthoAccel Secures $4,133,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fb5e61b9-ce6b-4c11-9bd4-56e213505542&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name OrthoAccel Mailing Address 6575 West Loop South Bellaire, TX 77401 Company Description The AcceleDent System is currently in a randomized controlled clinical trial at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. This trial was enrolled under an Investigational Device Exemption. FDA will be reviewing … Continue reading “OrthoAccel Secures $4,133,000 New Funding”
Kior Secures $70,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bf3cb81c-fc9f-4c71-9761-66938a63cd3e&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Kior Mailing Address 13001 Bay Park Road Pasadena, TX 77507 Company Description KiOR (NASDAQ: KIOR) is a next generation biofuels company which produces a renewable crude oil substitute. KiOR’s production process creates this Re-Crude from biomass by enhancing nature’s method of making oil, reducing the process from … Continue reading “Kior Secures $70,000,000 New Round”
PLx Pharma Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dedbbfac-1f00-4835-a521-84f8576b9b7e&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name PLx Pharma Mailing Address 8285 El Rio Houston, TX 77054 Company Description PLx Pharma is a pharmaceutical company developing the next generation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) that are safer on the gut. Website http://www.plxpharma.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “PLx Pharma Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round”
AstroWatt Garners $2,524,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=39ce8854-5b28-4883-a686-852c6b7ac90a&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name AstroWatt Mailing Address 10100 Burnet Rd Bldg 160 Austin, TX 78758 Company Description The company is developing solar cell technologies. Website http://www.astrowatt.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,524,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Austin Ventures Venture Investor … Continue reading “AstroWatt Garners $2,524,000 New Financing”
Imagnx Obtains New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=116ab943-2094-4f36-82a7-8894fc65377f&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Imagnx Mailing Address 1302 Waugh Drive Houston, TX 77019 Company Description Imagnx, Inc. is a next-generation, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) company focusing on disease-specific MR imaging for cancer, Alzheimer’s and other CNS degenerative diseases. The Company is in the process of commercializing major university and research center … Continue reading “Imagnx Obtains New Round”
Ingrain Obtains $3,500,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=025e4705-afde-4479-a534-989551ec10e1&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Ingrain Mailing Address 3733 Westheimer Road 2nd Floor Houston, TX 77027 Company Description Ingrain’s mission is to provide a fast and efficient flow of detailed and accurate information about the porosity, permeability, resistivity, and elastic properties of rock samples. Website http://www.ingrainrocks.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Ingrain Obtains $3,500,000 New Funding Round”
Oxane Materials Receives $3,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1e513f20-55a7-4665-9af3-aea541540224&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name Oxane Materials Mailing Address 467 West 38th Street Houston, TX 77018 Company Description Oxane Materials, Inc. is an energy-focused nanoproducts company. The principal product under development is an oil and gas recovery enhancer, OxFrac. Follow-on products include sour gas abatement technologies, high temperature stable PEM fuel cell … Continue reading “Oxane Materials Receives $3,000,000 New Funding”
FreightWatch International Secures $10,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e96883cf-7099-4bc1-975b-aee5676ca9f5&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name FreightWatch International Mailing Address 7501 N. Capital of Texas Hwy Austin, TX 78731 Company Description FreightWatch is the leader in logistics security solutions for Fortune 500 firms and offers the only end-to-end solution (people, processes and products) to ensure that the shipper, carrier, driver and distribution team … Continue reading “FreightWatch International Secures $10,000,000 New Financing”
National Billing Partners Garners New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=944997c8-77f2-42d5-ae74-b92288d77d47&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name National Billing Partners Mailing Address 4515 Seton Center Parkway Austin, TX 78759 Company Description The company provides billing and accounts receivable management services. Website http://www.mybillingpartner.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor OCA … Continue reading “National Billing Partners Garners New Funding”
IntegriCo Composites Garners $125,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=66e1f57a-0762-460d-ad90-d9cbefb0dce8&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2010 Company Name IntegriCo Composites Mailing Address 4310 Lucius McCelvey Drive Temple, TX 76504 Company Description IntegriCo Composites is a Texas-based manufacturer of composite plastic products made from landfill-bound plastic waste. The Company’s initial product is a composite plastic railroad tie, and the technology can be widely applied to a … Continue reading “IntegriCo Composites Garners $125,000 New Funding Round”
Sage Bionetworks: Washington Partners Program
Sage Bionetworks, the nonprofit seeking to spark an open source movement for biology, is organizing the launch event for its Washington Partners Program on Nov. 1. This event will feature talks from Sage president Stephen Friend, Jim Karkanias of Microsoft, Trey Ideker of UC San Diego, and Eric Schadt of Pacific Biosciences. The program, supported … Continue reading “Sage Bionetworks: Washington Partners Program”
Opthonix Raises $5.4M
Vista, CA-based Ophthonix, which has developed a laser-based diagnostic machine to precisely measure eyes for its proprietary iZon corrective lenses, has raised almost $5.4 million of a targeted $12.1 million financing round involving equity, rights, and securities, according to a regulatory filing. Ophthonix sells its diagnostic machine, the Z-View Aberrometer, to eye doctors. It also … Continue reading “Opthonix Raises $5.4M”
Evri Expands Mobile Offerings Beyond Tech News to Sports, Music, and Celebrity Gossip
Evri is going mobile in a big way. The Seattle- and San Francisco-based information discovery website backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital introduced an Android app called EvriThing Tech back in May, taking advantage of the startup’s semantic search technology to help on-the-go tech news addicts track the latest developments on subtopics from gadgets to … Continue reading “Evri Expands Mobile Offerings Beyond Tech News to Sports, Music, and Celebrity Gossip”
Hydrovolts Finalist in Bend Venture Conference
Seattle-based hydropower turbine developer Hydrovolts has been selected as one of five finalists up for $175,000 in venture funding at the 7th annual Bend Venture Conference. The company, founded in 2007, will pitch its concept and business idea in a shark-tank style competition at the conference on October 15. Earlier this month Hydrovolts scored a … Continue reading “Hydrovolts Finalist in Bend Venture Conference”
WiTricity, Delphi Partner on Developing Wireless Charging Station for Electric Vehicles
WiTricity, the Watertown, MA-based developer of technology for the wireless delivery of electricity, has signed an agreement with Delphi Automotive of Troy, MI, to work on wireless charging products for hybrid and electric vehicles, Delphi announced today. WiTricity will supply its wireless electricity technology and components to Delphi, a maker of electronics technologies for vehicles. … Continue reading “WiTricity, Delphi Partner on Developing Wireless Charging Station for Electric Vehicles”
FutureM
“The brainchild of MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) and a group of leading thinkers in marketing and media, FutureM is a collective effort in which the event hosts – companies, organizations, venture firms, university groups, and clubs – identify pressing issues, forecast and analyze trends, and initiate discussions designed to explore the future of … Continue reading “FutureM”
WEST: Marketing Your Ideas and Yourself In Business
“Success often requires presenting scientific and technical ideas (and yourself) to others. This can range from persuading a company of your work’s value, convincing potential funders to invest, or getting upper management to take you seriously. This panel discussion will address both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ issues to better articulate and market your ideas (and yourself) … Continue reading “WEST: Marketing Your Ideas and Yourself In Business”
Amazon’s Top Techie, Werner Vogels, on How Web Services Follows the Retail Playbook
Amazon.com doesn’t like being labeled simply as an e-retail company. To understand the trajectory it has taken over 15 years, and where it’s going in the future, one of the company’s senior executives says, you need to look at how it uses technology as a means to serve customers in retail and in business. “Amazon, … Continue reading “Amazon’s Top Techie, Werner Vogels, on How Web Services Follows the Retail Playbook”
Startup Story SLAM!
This event helps kick off BREW, the Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week. Select entrepreneurs will share their tales of getting their companies off the ground. Register here.
Amyris Raises $85 Million in IPO
Emeryville, CA-based Amyris Biotechnologies is unusual in several respects. One of the synthetic biology company’s first big projects, back in 2005, was a non-profit venture with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to engineer microbes to produce artemisinin, an anti-malarial drug. (It handed off that work to pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi-Aventis in 2008.) Then the company … Continue reading “Amyris Raises $85 Million in IPO”
San Diego’s Wildfire Experience Provides an Edge in Disaster-Tracking Tech
Octobers have been cruel to San Diego. The infamous Cedar Fire started on a Saturday evening, Oct. 25, 2003, and raced more than 30 miles from the Cleveland National Forest into the San Diego suburbs by the next morning. The firestorm destroyed 2,232 homes and killed 15 people before it was contained nine days later. … Continue reading “San Diego’s Wildfire Experience Provides an Edge in Disaster-Tracking Tech”
ZymoGenetics Melanoma Drug Shows Survival Data, Adding More Juice to Bristol’s Pipeline
ZymoGenetics has some shareholders out there wondering if the company has agreed to be acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb for too low of a price. Today there’s a small, but potentially important piece of data that might make a few more investors pause about whether now is really the time to sell. The Seattle-based biotech company … Continue reading “ZymoGenetics Melanoma Drug Shows Survival Data, Adding More Juice to Bristol’s Pipeline”
Rigel Nabs $25M From AstraZeneca
Rigel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:RIGL]]), the South San Francisco-based biotech company, said today it has received a $25 million milestone payment from its partner, AstraZeneca, in connection development of the experimental drug fostamatinib (R788) for rheumatoid arthritis. AstraZeneca has begun a pivotal clinical trial of the new drug, Rigel said. Data from a mid-stage study of … Continue reading “Rigel Nabs $25M From AstraZeneca”
Dana Farber Gets $33M from Sanofi, Astellas Backs DecImmune, Ironwood Sells Microbia, & More Boston-Area Deals News
The past week has kept us buzzing with news of funding rounds for startups in the cleantech, biotech, software, and Internet spaces. —Cambridge, MA-based Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IRWD]]) sold its biomanufacturing unit, Mircrobia, to Dutch chemical giant Royal DSM. The purchaser did not reveal how much it paid for Lexington, MA-based Microbia, which designs microbes … Continue reading “Dana Farber Gets $33M from Sanofi, Astellas Backs DecImmune, Ironwood Sells Microbia, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
Washington Startups Bring in $59M in August, Healthcare, Internet, and Software Sectors Dominate Deals
Every month we compile all of the deals at Washington tech and biotech companies into one story where we watch up and coming trends in local financing. Unlike our regular investment coverage and weekly deals roundups, these monthly features give us a chance to look at both the large investments that usually make news, alongside … Continue reading “Washington Startups Bring in $59M in August, Healthcare, Internet, and Software Sectors Dominate Deals”