B Round
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BuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard
GigaOm &bull Yesterday
BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytical dashboard it uses to monitor the spread of Internet "memes" to any website, brand or publisher that wants to track the popularity of their content. To demonstrate… 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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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 Raises a Cool $16.5M for Enterprise IT
GigaOm &bull Aug 31, 2010
Apptio, a Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company, today said it's raised a $16.5 million Series C round of funding led by Shasta Ventures, which includes participation from current investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group. Apptio raised a… Full Story »
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iContact raises $40 million in Series B
Vator News &bull Aug 30, 2010Email marketing just got a big boost of confidence -- a $40-million boost, to be specific. IContact, a company that provides services for creating and tracking email marketing campaigns, announced Monday that it has raised $40 million in series B funding from JMI Equity, bringing… Full Story »
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Otonomy Closes $38.5M Round to Fund Trials of Hearing-Disorder Treatments
X-Conomy &bull Aug 30, 2010
Follow-on funding for Otonomy that Luke presaged in June has been disclosed by the San Diego biotech, a two-year-old startup developing drug treatments for hearing loss and balance disorders. Otonomy says today it has closed a $38.5 million Series B… Full Story »
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MedNetworks Partners with Healthways, NKT Gets $4M, Aileron Lands Deal With Roche, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
X-Conomy &bull Aug 27, 2010
Anchor Therapeutics, a Cambridge, MA-based biotech formerly named Ascent Therapeutics, brought in $10 million in a Series B round, with investments from TVM Capital, HealthCare Ventures, and the Novartis Option Fund. Anchor is working on drugs it calls "pepducins"-short pieces… Full Story »
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Lumenergi Raises $12.7 Million in Series B Funding
Green VC &bull Aug 26, 2010
More Resources:Green Small BusinessGreen NewsGreen AnswersGreen JobsGreen CareersGreen Collar JobsBrowse Green Jobs:Clean energy jobsEnvironmental jobsLEED jobsSolar jobsWeatherization jobsWind power jobsMore green jobs... Lumenergi, a Newark, California-based company that provides energy efficient lighting management solutions, announced today that it raised $12.7… Full Story »
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Andreessen Horowitz Looking To Raise $650 Million For New Fund
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 25, 2010
The "hottest" VC firm in the valley, Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to raise $650 million, D an Primack at PEHub reports . Primack says the fund wants the giant pile of cash to make more big bets like its $50… Full Story »
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Anchor Sinks $10M Series B, Aileron Lands Deal with Roche, C Change Launches Fund With Vanterra, & More Boston-Area Deals News
X-Conomy &bull Aug 25, 2010
Andover, MA-based NewRiver, a maker of investor disclosure software, said it will be acquired for $77 million by Lake Success, NY-based Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR). NewRiver's investors include Ironside Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Lazard Technology Partners. PatientsLikeMe, a Cambridge,… Full Story »
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Taligen Therapeutics Closes $10 M in Series B
Red Herring &bull Aug 23, 2010
In its quest to develop therapies to treat a variety of inflammatory and immune diseases, the biotech company Taligen Therapeutics announced that it closed on a $10 million tranche of Series B funding, thanks to increased flow to the company's pipeline as its lead golden egg, TT30, progresses towards clinical… Full Story »
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Daily roundup Monday 8/23/2010
Vator News &bull Aug 23, 2010It's Monday morning, and you know what that means. It's time to catch up on everything that happened in the digital world over the weekend and this morning, so that you can start the week in the know. Apple has a patent that would allow them to disable the jail broken iPhone. Ever since the iPhone came out people than finding ways to get around the legal constraints associated with the operating system… Full Story »
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PocketGear raises $15 Million in Series B
Vator News &bull Aug 23, 2010In a bid to aggressively participate in the explosion of smart phones and mobile apps, made by popular because of Apple's iTunes store, PocketGear has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The Durham, NC- base company is being backed… Full Story »
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Startup Investing in Massachusetts Shrinks to $131M in July, Big Drop From June Surge
X-Conomy &bull Aug 23, 2010
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… Full Story »
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Topics:
- A Round
- B Round
- Bain Capital
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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar
Socal Tech &bull Aug 20, 2010
For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy. What is Sidebar all about? Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for… Full Story »
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Clickfree Raises $15 Million
Private Equity Hub &bull Aug 17, 2010
Storage Appliance Corp. (a.k.a. Clickfree), a Toronto-based provider of automatic backup software, has raised US$15 million in Series C funding from Tandem Expansion Fund. The company has now raised over $30 million, including a $10 million Series B round led… Full Story »
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Topics:
- B Round
- Series C Funding
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Yapta Raising $650K In Convertible Round
Northwest Innovation &bull Aug 16, 2010Seattle-based Yapta, which operates an online site for tracking airline and hotel prices for travelers, is in the midst of raising $650,000 in a convertible round of funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The funding is… Full Story »
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Learnings from the Gevo S-1
GreenTech Media &bull Aug 13, 2010
S-1s are great. You can't learn everything about a company from them, but you can learn a heck of a lot. And when the company is pretty indicative of an entire subsector, you can use that company's data to help illustrate trends across a market. Gevo's S-1 is well worth reading through. Because the company is, I think, fairly illustrative of what many venture-backed "2nd generation biofuels" stories have looked like. I don't have any insider knowledge of Gevo, so it's also a good one for me to talk about… Full Story »
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Funding roundup - week ending 08/13/10
Vator News &bull Aug 13, 2010Empire Avenue, a social site where users buy and sell shares in each other, secured $200,000 in seed funding from a group of angel investors headed by Boris Wertz of W Media Ventures. Since beta launching in February, the Edmonton,… Full Story »
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Former Sirtris Execs Sell Resveratrol Via New Nonprofit, Dicerna Closes $25M Deal, ViThera Combats Gut Disease With Engineered Bacteria, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
X-Conomy &bull Aug 13, 2010
Joanna Horobin, CEO of Syndax Pharmaceuticals, confirmed that the Waltham, MA-based cancer-drug developer has raised $6 million in a convertible debt financing round planned to total $7 million. The new funds will support a clinical trial of Syndax's drug, entinostat, as a… Full Story »
