It’s a big day for Aileron Therapeutics. The Cambridge, MA-based biotech firm announced this morning it has formed a partnership with Swiss drug and diagnostics giant Roche to discover, develop, and commercialize a new class of drugs known as “stapled peptides.” Under the terms of the deal, Roche (OTCQX: [[ticker:RHHBY]]) will provide at least $25 … Continue reading “Aileron Inks Deal with Roche, Worth Up to $1.1B, to Develop Stapled Peptide Drugs”
Qualcomm Then and Now—Will the Next 25 Be as Innovative as the Last 25?
It has been 25 years since seven former Linkabit employees met at Irwin Jacobs’ La Jolla home and founded a startup company to provide digital communications services. They saw their venture at the time in terms of QUALity COMMunications, and agreed to call the new company Qualcomm. Since its beginnings in July 1985, Qualcomm has … Continue reading “Qualcomm Then and Now—Will the Next 25 Be as Innovative as the Last 25?”
NoaNet Nabs $54.5M for Broadband Expansion, Tyfone Brings in $5M, AP Backs Out of I Can Has Cheezburger Deal, & More NW Deals News
Another week has passed, and with it, more Seattle-area technology deals. This week we’ve seen a hefty amount of federal dollars get poured into developing the state’s broadband infrastructure, a handful of local financings, and a deal that fell apart between a global wire service and a local online humor company. Take a look at … Continue reading “NoaNet Nabs $54.5M for Broadband Expansion, Tyfone Brings in $5M, AP Backs Out of I Can Has Cheezburger Deal, & More NW Deals News”
Free Widgets from ViralHeat Let Web Publishers Track Social Media Buzz
No, “ViralHeat” is not the fever you get from a rhinovirus infection. It’s a San Jose, CA-based startup launched last year that’s disrupting the social media monitoring business by showing corporations what people are saying about them on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, YouTube, and the Web at prices far below those charged by most competitors. … Continue reading “Free Widgets from ViralHeat Let Web Publishers Track Social Media Buzz”
SCVNGR, Battling Foursquare and Others, Looks to Stay “On Top of the World” After Facebook Fallout
“I’m the only person in location who’s happy today.” That was Seth Priebatsch last Thursday. It was the morning after Facebook announced its new feature, Facebook Places, that lets people “check in” using their iPhone or iPad (or location-aware laptop) and share their location with their social network. The general consensus among tech observers is … Continue reading “SCVNGR, Battling Foursquare and Others, Looks to Stay “On Top of the World” After Facebook Fallout”
Photo Diagnostic Systems Secures $5,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6a86c6c1-bbc1-4412-86fe-951842d50eaf&Preview=1 Date 8/24/2010 Company Name Photo Diagnostic Systems Mailing Address 14 Electronics Ave. Danvers, MA 01923 Company Description The company is developing a portable version of a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC … Continue reading “Photo Diagnostic Systems Secures $5,000,000 New Round”
Brand Affinity Technologies Obtains $20,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c3bf7c60-f519-4f56-bb54-93761253ab11&Preview=1 Date 8/24/2010 Company Name Brand Affinity Technologies Mailing Address 101 Academy Irvine, CA 90 617 Company Description BAT unlocks the marketing power of celebrity through research, endorsements, and interactive experiences. BAT’s research engine provides daily analysis of more than 38,000 celebrities and athletes. Advertisers use this analysis on BAT’s Endorsement Platform … Continue reading “Brand Affinity Technologies Obtains $20,000,000 Series C Funding”
Scio Security Secures $1,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e37bc63b-d5e0-4a32-94ad-6fd77e7a1a27&Preview=1 Date 8/24/2010 Company Name Scio Security Mailing Address 1237 Jones Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Company Description Scio’s TrustedPath is the simplest and safest way to secure any Internet transaction. TrustedPath leverages consumers’ existing mobile devices for strong, usable, risk-adaptive secondary authentication, backed by a secure cloud-hosted service. Website http://www.sciosecurity.com Transaction … Continue reading “Scio Security Secures $1,000,000 New Financing Round”
SpaceCurve Obtains $1,100,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c3cf0e45-2a7e-4522-81d7-20d5446420f9&Preview=1 Date 8/24/2010 Company Name SpaceCurve Mailing Address 260 Sheridan Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description SpaceCurve is a fundamentally new kind of massively parallel analytical database technology. Effortlessly index geospatial polygon data in real-time using Internet-scale compute clusters. Efficiently analyze social and semantic graphs on massively parallel systems. Fuse complex … Continue reading “SpaceCurve Obtains $1,100,000 New Financing Round”
VSS Monitoring Obtains $20,000,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b8390514-f5f6-4163-82cf-eaa8d6077c45&Preview=1 Date 8/24/2010 Company Name VSS Monitoring Mailing Address 38 Adrian Court Burlingame, CA 94010 Company Description VSS Monitoring is the world leader in traffic capture, allowing IT professionals to see into the farthest reaches of even the largest networks, preventing problems from reaching end users, and dramatically reducing the time to … Continue reading “VSS Monitoring Obtains $20,000,000 Series A Funding”
ValueAppeal Rolls Out National Services for Property Tax Appeals, Competing with EasyTaxFix and Others
Who wouldn’t want to lower their property taxes? That’s the question on the minds of the team over at ValueAppeal, a Seattle-based startup that helps online customers to quickly evaluate their current value of their real estate property, and to create a custom property tax appeal that could potentially save them money. The company, founded … Continue reading “ValueAppeal Rolls Out National Services for Property Tax Appeals, Competing with EasyTaxFix and Others”
AmberWave Systems Shut Down After Raising $91M in Venture Backing—New Company Formed With Its Assets
Earlier this year, Salem, NH-based semiconductor company AmberWave Systems Corp quietly shut its doors, and a new company called AmberWave, Inc. has been formed with its assets, according to multiple sources close to the companies. The news comes to light after an SEC filing on Thursday revealed that AmberWave, Inc., incorporated this year, had raised … Continue reading “AmberWave Systems Shut Down After Raising $91M in Venture Backing—New Company Formed With Its Assets”
Rapportive’s “Social CRM” Gmail Plugin Makes E-mail Social Again
This is the fifth in a series of profiles of companies emerging this summer from Mountain View, CA-based startup incubator Y Combinator. When Google launched Gmail five years ago, a lot of people were freaked out by the keyword-based text ads that appeared alongside e-mail messages. The idea that Google’s algorithms were “reading” your e-mail … Continue reading “Rapportive’s “Social CRM” Gmail Plugin Makes E-mail Social Again”
HP Makes Rival Bid for 3Par
Dell, which made an $18-per-share tender offer for Fremont, CA-based storage virtualization company 3Par (NASDAQ: [[ticker:PAR]]) last week, now has a competitor. Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard announced today that it will offer $24 per share or roughly $1.6 billion, which is about $450 million more than Dell’s offer. HP executive vice president David Donatelli told the … Continue reading “HP Makes Rival Bid for 3Par”
Google Likes Like.com
Like.com, a four-year-old startup in San Mateo, CA, that created a “visual shopping” site underpinned by sophisticated computer vision and machine learning algorithms, has been acquired by Google, according to an announcement on Like’s website. “We see joining Google as a way to supersize our vision and supercharge our passion,” CEO and co-founder Munjal Shah … Continue reading “Google Likes Like.com”
AngelPad Plans 9/10 Launch
AngelPad, a new mentorship program for Web startups founded by seven ex-Google employees, is planning to hold a launch event in San Francisco on September 10, according to a Twitter post yesterday. AngelPad’s founding team features a variety of former product, marketing, advertising, and research managers from Google, including Richard Chen, Keval Desai, Thomas Korte, … Continue reading “AngelPad Plans 9/10 Launch”
Nokia Buys Motally
Motally, a San Francisco startup making software that measures the usage of mobile applications, will acquired by Nokia, the Espoo, Finland-based wireless giant said Friday. Nokia plans to adapt Motally’s software to work with applications running on the Qt, Symbian, Meego and Java mobile operating systems. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Motally was backed by … Continue reading “Nokia Buys Motally”
Inkling Launches E-Textbooks
San Francisco-based Inkling announced Friday the release of an iPad app that displays interactive digital textbooks. Aimed at college students, the program allows in-app purchases of textbooks, including McGraw-Hill texts on biology, economics, marketing, and psychology. Inkling also said that it has collected an unspecified amount of Series A venture financing from Sequoia Capital, Felicis … Continue reading “Inkling Launches E-Textbooks”
Ann Arbor’s Own Hopes To Get Michigan Coffee Houses Buzzing Again
The Burrito Joint eatery at the corner of Packard and Dewey in Ann Arbor might seem an unlikely birthplace for a tech startup. But that was where Verdi Erel Ergun, 27, the Joint’s owner and an MBA student at the University of Michigan, decided he was fed up with his cash register. And frustration, when … Continue reading “Ann Arbor’s Own Hopes To Get Michigan Coffee Houses Buzzing Again”
ViaSat Keeps Lead in Space-Based Internet, Mitek Enables Smartphone Check Deposits, AngeList Screens Biz Plans for Individual Investors & More San Diego BizTech News
We had interesting patent news that put Mitek Systems on our innovation radar screen, and that’s where you want to be. Catch up on that and the rest of San Diego’s tech news for the past week. —The competition for satellite-based Internet service is tightening up for Carlsbad, CA-based ViaSat (NASDAQ: [[ticker:VSAT]]), which now faces … Continue reading “ViaSat Keeps Lead in Space-Based Internet, Mitek Enables Smartphone Check Deposits, AngeList Screens Biz Plans for Individual Investors & More San Diego BizTech News”
AP Backs Out of I Can Has Cheezburger Deal Over Concerns of Journalistic Integrity
Everyone loves a cute picture of a kitten with a funny (and often, misspelled) caption over it. Everyone other than the Associated Press, that is. Seattle’s famous (or infamous depending on your point of view) I Can Has Cheezburger network has made a name for itself as a place where the absurdly adorable meets funny. … Continue reading “AP Backs Out of I Can Has Cheezburger Deal Over Concerns of Journalistic Integrity”
Taligen Collects $10M For Focus on Rare Diseases
Taligen Therapeutics wants to apply its technology platform to treat rare diseases in which the immune system goes haywire and attacks healthy cells. The Cambridge, MA-based biotech startup says it has received $10 million from its investors to drive its first drug toward initial human studies against a rare autoimmune disease. The new funding brings … Continue reading “Taligen Collects $10M For Focus on Rare Diseases”
How Bay Area Biotech Stacks Up With the Rest of the World
Recently, Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria told an audience of biotechnology executives that America’s foothold as the preeminent technology innovator may be slipping. “Bill Gates is the Britney Spears of China,” Zakaria said. “But in the U.S., Britney Spears is still Britney Spears.” The reverence our rivals place on science and math is measured appropriately in … Continue reading “How Bay Area Biotech Stacks Up With the Rest of the World”
Startup Investing in Massachusetts Shrinks to $131M in July, Big Drop From June Surge
It looks like the lazy days of summer are in full swing. While equity financing deals for Massachusetts startups surged in June to hit a total of $307 million, investors took a bit of a break in July. Last month, Bay State tech and life sciences startups raised less than half their June sum, $131.4 … Continue reading “Startup Investing in Massachusetts Shrinks to $131M in July, Big Drop From June Surge”
Intel Buys McAfee, Facebook Challenges Foursquare, Zynga Acquires Conduit Labs, & More Bay Area BizTech News
Technology newshounds were torn last week between the old and the new. One analyst described Intel’s multi-billion-dollar takeover of McAfee as “a lot like a horseless-carriage vendor buying a leading supplier of buggy-whips.” There was far more buzz over Facebook’s new geolocation platform and what it might mean for competitors. The roundup: —In dollar terms, … Continue reading “Intel Buys McAfee, Facebook Challenges Foursquare, Zynga Acquires Conduit Labs, & More Bay Area BizTech News”
The Art of the Startup
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves, and Savitch partner Roger Rappoport leads a half-day presentation for entrepreneurs on deciding when to form a company, and how to navigate legal, fund-raising, and other issues related to making that decision. Successfully avoiding the most common pitfalls can make a difference. Rappoport heads the law firm’s emerging growth & technology practice. … Continue reading “The Art of the Startup”
Corporate Governance: The Startup Ingredient You Cannot Do Without
Corporate governance is the key factor to make sure that the right questions get asked and that checks and balances are in place to ensure the best decisions get made for the creation of long-term sustainable value. CommNexus and the EvoNexus incubator have recruited some experienced speakers to discuss the importance of recruiting an effective … Continue reading “Corporate Governance: The Startup Ingredient You Cannot Do Without”
Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame Idea Resonates—Although A Few Potential Cracks Have Surfaced in the Pavement
If ever an idea has, um, hit its stride quickly, it’s the one we wrote about last week to create an Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame in Kendall Square to honor local and regional entrepreneurs in much the same fashion as the Hollywood Walk of Fame honors movie stars. As Xconomist Bill Aulet, managing director of … Continue reading “Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame Idea Resonates—Although A Few Potential Cracks Have Surfaced in the Pavement”
Inkling Obtains Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0ad4dd04-f162-49c2-9951-a15be20915b0&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name Inkling Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Inkling was founded in late 2009 to tackle the challenges of interactive publishing. Inkling’s partnerships with major publishers like Cengage Learning, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, and Wolters Kluwer will yield next-generation interactive titles that replace traditional … Continue reading “Inkling Obtains Series A Financing”
Nimbula Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=657c94e4-f320-4615-ab73-a3d14929cf45&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name Nimbula Mailing Address 3000 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Nimbula delivers a new class of cloud infrastructure and services system that uniquely combines the flexibility, scalability and operational efficiencies of the public cloud with the control, security and trust of today’s most advanced … Continue reading “Nimbula Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Funding”
Federated Media Publishing Acquires TextDigger for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dbce1ca9-8cfa-4c54-94fd-9db7a95f8805&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name TextDigger Mailing Address 12 South 1st Street San Jose, CA 95113 Company Description TextDigger, Inc. is an artificial intelligence software developer focusing on advanced information retrieval services for the Web. Spun off of CNET, we are a San Jose-based start-up offering a unique semantic search service for … Continue reading “Federated Media Publishing Acquires TextDigger for Undisclosed Sum”
Visual IQ Lands $3,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e41002e2-8861-4a25-8909-b14f4142c63f&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name Visual IQ Mailing Address 75 2nd Ave. Needham, MA 02494 Company Description Our hosted software products solve your dilemma of capturing, integrating, analyzing and understanding your marketing performance data. Our Marketing Intelligence Platform online interface delivers near real-time marketing and campaign performance analytics, customer trending, and strategic … Continue reading “Visual IQ Lands $3,000,000 New Financing”
Zimride Receives $1,200,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=37d85cb8-3460-4ae7-a1c8-3833265f16ff&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name Zimride Mailing Address 548 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Zimride’s industry leading rideshare service helps organizations establish easy to use, private, social networks for ridesharing. The result: a critical mass of users sharing rides, saving money and reducing resource consumption. Website http://www.zimride.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Zimride Receives $1,200,000 New Round”
GameCrush Secures $705,500 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dc1a403d-e2c5-41cb-946d-ac5c0e1e3ae4&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name GameCrush Mailing Address 799 Castro St. San Francisco, CA 94114 Company Description The company operates a gaming website that connects game players. Website http://www.GameCrush.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $705,500 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture … Continue reading “GameCrush Secures $705,500 New Financing Round”
Roche Acquires BioImagene for $100,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e1a8a90e-d6ae-4101-9630-a8f5596429ab&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name BioImagene Mailing Address 919 Hermosa Ct. Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description In the life sciences and healthcare industry, two-thirds of the data is in the form of images. The process of extracting meaningful information and knowledge from image data is still manual, inefficient, inaccurate and expensive. At … Continue reading “Roche Acquires BioImagene for $100,000,000”
Texting.ly Secures $400,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fd0a6f3d-4d24-4ed3-811a-bef91f9e0aa3&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name Texting.ly Mailing Address 36 E. 12th St. New York, NY 10009 Company Description The company provides a service that lets companies interact with their customers via text messages. Website http://www.Textingly.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $400,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed … Continue reading “Texting.ly Secures $400,000 New Funding”
Taligen Therapeutics Secures $10,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=127552f9-d5c5-4e88-83b7-7d96f57606ca&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2010 Company Name Taligen Therapeutics Mailing Address 12635 East Montview Blvd Aurora, CO 80045 Company Description Taligen’s lead technology is directed at inhibiting factor B, an essential component in the amplification of complement activation. Inhibition of factor B down-regulates complement activation, thereby dampening the inflammatory response. Taligen’s second technology is … Continue reading “Taligen Therapeutics Secures $10,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
Top Tools to Survive and Thrive With Social Media
In this power session on social media, TelCentris marketing vice president Erik Bratt offers his tips, including: Social media tools to help your business now; streamline your personal communications and increase your effectiveness; how to improve your approach to social media and social media management; and how any hours your company needs to spend on … Continue reading “Top Tools to Survive and Thrive With Social Media”
Founder Institute Information Session
After launching 160 companies worldwide, the Founder Institute is preparing for its third San Diego session this Fall. Applications have begun, and the four-month training program begins Sept. 21. The Institute prepares entrepreneurs to lead the next generation of technology startups, through weekly company-building sessions that are guided by experienced CEOs. The Institute is hosting … Continue reading “Founder Institute Information Session”
Calling All Founders: Information Session on San Diego Founder Institute
The San Diego Founder Institute is hosting a free informational session at the Cooley law firm, and anyone interested in becoming a world-class founder is invited. The Founder Institute prepares entrepreneurs to lead the next generation of world-class technology companies. Weekly company-building sessions are guided by experienced CEOs, and they are held in the evening … Continue reading “Calling All Founders: Information Session on San Diego Founder Institute”
JiWire Obtains $2,100,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5b0d1602-4dff-4654-8d34-283c1a83e16e&Preview=1 Date 8/21/2010 Company Name JiWire Mailing Address 220 Sansome Street 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description JiWire is the leading mobile broadband advertising network, delivering premium, location-driven advertising on Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks. JiWire enables the mobile broadband ecosystem (wireless ISPs and device manufacturers) to monetize public mobile broadband … Continue reading “JiWire Obtains $2,100,000 New Financing”
InfoAxe Garners $3,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=26d575c6-9f51-4e24-9710-6214b63b6d2c&Preview=1 Date 8/21/2010 Company Name InfoAxe Mailing Address 541 Del Medio Avenue Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Infoaxe is the next generation Search Engine searching a very different kind of Web, founded by two graduate students at Stanford University. Website http://www.infoaxe.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “InfoAxe Garners $3,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
deCarta Garners $6,166,593 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8be97d28-df4d-4dd2-91aa-f5a1adf22661&Preview=1 Date 8/21/2010 Company Name deCarta Mailing Address Four North Second St. San Jose, CA 95113 Company Description deCarta is the leading geospatial software platform that powers today’s most successful Location-Based Services (LBS) applications such as those deployed by Ask.com, Qualcomm, Hotels.com Verizon, Sprint and many others. Website http://www.decarta.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “deCarta Garners $6,166,593 Series D Round”
Google Acquires Like.com for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=75447d72-3e94-4be5-9c41-a9bbb6548179&Preview=1 Date 8/21/2010 Company Name Like.com Mailing Address 777 Mariner’s Island Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Like.com is the first true visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items. We believe that there are literally millions of items that are difficult to … Continue reading “Google Acquires Like.com for Undisclosed Sum”
RatePoint Brings in $7M Series C
Needham, MA-based RatePoint, a maker of Web-based platforms for managing customer feedback, announced it has scored a $7 million Series C round led by Prism VentureWorks, .406 Ventures, and Castile Ventures. The newest funding brings RatePoint‘s funding pot to $23.5 million, which includes a $10 million Series B financing it raised last year. The company … Continue reading “RatePoint Brings in $7M Series C”
Facebook Catches Hot Potato
Brooklyn, NY-based Hot Potato today confirmed rumors that it’s the latest acquisition target at Palo Alto, CA-based Facebook. Hot Potato launched last fall with an iPhone app that allows users to “check in” to an activity or event, such as a sports game, and converse with other people about the same activity. Those features overlap … Continue reading “Facebook Catches Hot Potato”
Tyfone Nabs $5M
Portland, OR-based Tyfone, which develops mobile software for contactless payment services, has raised $5 million in equity from an undisclosed investor, according to a regulatory filing. The company partnered with Atlanta, GA-based e-commerce and payment processing company First Data in March, to offer SideTap micro secure digital (MicroSD) memory cards equipped with Tyfone’s technologies, which … Continue reading “Tyfone Nabs $5M”
Apple to Shut Down Quattro Wireless Ad Network; Quattro Team Working to get iAd Platform Up to Speed
Waltham, MA-based Quattro Wireless, which was acquired by Apple in January, is shutting down its three-year-old mobile advertising network in order to focus exclusively on suppporting Apple’s new iAd platform for distributing rich-media ads to iPhone and iPod touch users. Quattro announced the shutdown today on its website and in a memo to advertisers and … Continue reading “Apple to Shut Down Quattro Wireless Ad Network; Quattro Team Working to get iAd Platform Up to Speed”
Biocept Targets Spreading Tumors With Advance in Diagnostics
We noted earlier this week that San Diego-based Biocept, which is developing advanced cancer diagnostics technology, had recently raised $2.3 million from its investors. That news reminded me of a fascinating meeting I had in June with Biocept CEO Stephen Coutts, a 30-year veteran of San Diego’s biotech community. In one of the cooler demonstrations … Continue reading “Biocept Targets Spreading Tumors With Advance in Diagnostics”
Visual IQ Grabs $3M From Fog City
Visual IQ, a Needham, MA-based maker of enterprise software for marketing intelligence, has wrapped up $3 million in an equity-based funding round. The funding, which represents Visual IQ’s first institutional round, comes from San Francisco-based Fog City Capital, the company says. Its website lists CVS, Wachovia, Radio Shack, and Microsoft as its customers.