A Round
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Ustream Snags Former Palm PR VP Lynn Fox
TechCrunch &bull Today
We hear that former Palm Vice President of Public Relations Lynn Fox has given up on her "Consult Until-I-Find-Another-Job Consulting" plans and landed a permanent gig at video streaming service Ustream. Her formal title will be VP of Corporate Communications… Full Story »
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- A Round
- SoftBank Capital
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Inflection's Archives.com Raises $30M
Alarm Clock &bull Yesterday
Palo Alto-based Inflection raised $30M in a first round of funding. Inflection was founded in 2006 and is best known for its web site Archives.com which aggregates public data, and is often used for geneology research. The company publishers another… Full Story »
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Otonomy Gets $38.5M, Avalon Helps Restart Drug for Age-Related Blindness, Accumetrics Heads Toward Profitability, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
X-Conomy &bull Yesterday
The life sciences news over the past week was almost all about deals. Money came out of INC Research, a contract research organization in North Carolina that was founded in San Diego. Money went into Otonomy, Accumetrics, and some other… Full Story »
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BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Sean Parker
TechCrunch &bull Yesterday
New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital, Roger Ehrenberg's IA Ventures, and Village Ventures, along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park (Amy Nauiokas… Full Story »
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Accumetrics Adds $7 Million in Venture Funding, Plans to Reach Profitability
X-Conomy &bull Yesterday
San Diego-based Accumetrics says today it has raised an additional $7 million as part of a Series E venture round that was announced last October, when the biomedical diagnostics company raised about $16.5 million. The company says it has closed… Full Story »
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EXCLUSIVE: Early Twitter Employee Alex Payne's Online Bank Startup, BankSimple, Raises A Big Round
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Sep 1, 2010
BankSimple , a new type of technology-focused, online-only banking startup cofounded by an early Twitter employee, has just completed a round of venture funding, SAI has learned. First Round Capital's Josh Kopelman, IA Ventures' Roger Ehrenberg, and Village Ventures' Matt… Full Story »
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CallMiner Raises $4 Million From Inflexion Partners, Intersouth Partners and Sigma Partners
Private Equity Hub &bull Sep 1, 2010
CallMiner Inc. secured $4 million through a Series C financing. The funding came from Inflexion Partners, Intersouth Partners and Sigma Partners. CallMiner is a Fort Myers, Fla.-based provider of enterprise speech analytics. It plans to use proceeds towards its expansion. Full Story »
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Celator Pharmaceuticals Secures $20Mmillion in Series D Funding Round
Private Equity Hub &bull Sep 1, 2010
Celator Pharmaceuticals raised $20 million in a Series D private equity financing. The Princeton, N.J.-based cancer treatment developer plans to use proceeds to complete clinical trials and other efforts to advance its CPX-351 liposome injection as a treatment for acute… Full Story »
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Celator Pharmaceuticals Raises $20 Million in Series D Financing
PR Newswire &bull Sep 1, 2010
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Celator Pharmaceuticals, a privately held pharmaceutical company developing new and more effective therapies to treat cancer based on the company's proprietary technology, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series D private equity financing. Proceeds will support completion of ongoing clinical trials and activities related to advancing the company's lead investigational product, CPX-351 (Cytarabine:Daunorubicin) Liposome Injection as a treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). The round was led by a new investor, Thomas, McNerney… Full Story »
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Interview with Sunny Gupta, Apptio
Northwest Innovation &bull Aug 31, 2010This morning, Bellevue-based Apptio (www.apptio.com) announced it had raised $16.5M in a Series C funding round for the firm, as it looks to expand and grow--despite still sitting on funding from its last rounds. To gain more insight into why the firm is raising funding, as well as to hear about how the firm has already been seeing great growth in the past year, we talked with Sunny Gupta, the firm's CEO. Sunny Gupta: Apptio is delivering business applications for the CIO, via an on-demand delivery model. In its simplest form, what we help CIOs do is number one, help… Full Story »
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Apptio Nabs $16.5M Series C, While Series A and B Funds Collect Interest in the Bank
X-Conomy &bull Aug 31, 2010
Entrepreneurs looking for tips on how to rake in venture capital might want to talk to Apptio's co-founder and CEO Sunny Gupta. Although the Bellevue, WA-based software startup still has money in the bank from its $7 million Series A in… Full Story »
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Chartbeat gets $3M from Index Ventures
Vator News &bull Aug 31, 2010Chartbeat announced Tuesday that it's taken a $3 million Series A investment Index Ventures. Charbeat is a New York-based company, founded in October 2008, that provides real-time data analytics and performance alerts for the Web sites of its clients. We… Full Story »
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Real-Time Analytics' ChartBeat Raises $3M
Alarm Clock &bull Aug 31, 2010
Every analytics firm has to content with Google Analytics, which is good and free. ChartBeat does this by providing real-time data. Google Analytics refreshes data only every few hours. Media companies in particular are finding real time data to be… Full Story »
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MapMyFITNESS Secures $5 Million in Series A Funding
Private Equity Hub &bull Aug 31, 2010
MapMyFITNESS, a Denver, Colo.-based company that offers online and mobile fitness tracking applications, raised $5 million in a Series A financing. The round was led by Austin Ventures. Full Story »
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TweetPhoto Renames Itself As It Grows Beyond Twitter
GigaOm &bull Aug 31, 2010
TweetPhoto, one of a number of picture-sharing services that piggyback on Twitter, says it has expanded its features beyond the microblogging social network to the point where it needs a new name. The company today announced it has changed its name to Plixi, and plans to… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Canaan Partners
- A Round
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Apptio Raises $16.5M
Northwest Innovation &bull Aug 31, 2010Seattle-based Apptio said this morning that it has raised $16.5M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included current investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group. Apptio is a provider… Full Story »
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Wireless Home Theatre Startup Snap Networks Eyes $3.5M VC Funding
VC Circle &bull Aug 31, 2010
Here is a technology product startup betting on India's urban consumption story. Snap Networks Pvt Ltd, a two-year-old start-up developing wireless home theatre solution, is hitting the market for raising $3.5 million in venture capital after having mopped up angel funding from Sling Media co-founder Bhupesh Shah and Mumbai-based Ghalla Bhansali Group among others. The Bangalore-based firm, which will be launching its 5.1-channel… Full Story »
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MapMyFitness Works Out $5 Million In Series A Funding
TechCrunch &bull Aug 31, 2010
Denver, Colorado based MapMyFitness, Inc has just announced raising $5 Million in a Series A round of financing lead by Austin Ventures. The health-related social network and training application company operates a network of sites including MapMyFitness.com, MapMyRide.com, MapMyRun.com, MapMyTri.com,… Full Story »
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SunPower lands sweet array of government contracts
Venture Beat &bull Aug 31, 2010
SunPower's installation at the DOE headquarters Solar energy company SunPower Corporation has landed a sweet array of installation contracts for U.S. government entities, amounting to about 20 megawatt's worth of new solar projects for groups such as the Navy. The… Full Story »
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EndoGastric Solutions Gets $30M More
Northwest Innovation &bull Aug 30, 2010Redwood City-based EndoGastric Solutions, a developer of treatments for upper gastrointestinal diseases, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), announced today that it has raised $30M in a Series F financing round. The firm also has major operations in Redmond. The round… Full Story »
