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Battery Ventures Leads $14 Million in Series B Investment Round for Israel-Based XtremIO
June 7th, 2011 No comments
Based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, XtremIO, which is a developer of storage systems for the next generation has announced on June 6, 2011, that it has closed a $14 million series B funding round led by Battery Ventures. Other investors who took part in this funding round include Giza Venture Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners. XtremIO is a company which is dedicated to developing different storage solutions for the next generation and to meet the demands of today’s computing needs. So far, the company has developed sophisticated storage technology for cloud computing systems and develops systems that can meet the often unmet [...]
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May 29th, 2011 No comments
Based in San Francisco, California, Resilient Network Systems is a company which is security and networking company, has announced on May 25, 2011, that it has secured $5 million in a series A funding round led by Alsop Louie Partners, an investment firm in the San Francisco Bay area. Other investors who participated in this funding round include other individual angel investors. One of the many innovators in the security and networking industry, which has popped up in Silicon Valley, like mushrooms after a rainstorm, Resilient Networking Systems has shown to be a top model that has attracted the investors in this [...]
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Tradeshift raises $7 Million in Series B of Funding
May 23rd, 2011 No comments
One of the most recent funding news presents us a successful company which managed to raise external capital in order to expand. Tradeshift is a company which functions as a social network for business. The main service the company provides is a free web based invoicing service. This month, the company managed to raise $7 million in funding from Notion capital, the venture fund of the founders of MessageLabs, a company that has been sold to Symantec for $700 million in 2008. This is the second round of funding for Tradeshift which has previously raised funds from PayPal. Tradeshift is a company that has [...]
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Shacho Raises over $10 Million in Angel Capital
Based in Provo, Utah, Shacho, INC is a company with a temporary working name and its cofounder, Josh James has announced on May 19, 2011, that he has raised $10 million in angel capital from some prominent and highly visionary angel investors. These investors include Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com; Ron Conway; Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO of Success Factors; Andreesen Horowitz, Mark Gorenberg, managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten in Japan; John Pestana, cofounder of Omniture; Dan Rose, vice president of Facebook; Paul Sagan, CEO of Akami; S. Steven Singh, chairman and CEO of Concur; and John Thompson, CEO [...]May 20th, 2011 No comments
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Billing Revolution raises $6.6 Million for Mobile Payment Services
May 18th, 2011 No comments
The Seattle based start-up company, Billing Revolution, has recently managed to raise $6.6 million in the series B of funding. This funding round has been led by the venture capital firm, DCM with the participation of SKTelecom, the venture capital firm which led the company’s first round of funding. This round of funding had the intention of raising money in order to develop the company’s system of mobile payment services. Andy Kleitsch, the CEO of Billing Revolution, has declared that the money gathered in this B round of funding are going to be used in order to expand the sales team and the development [...]
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Investor, Andreesen Horowitz Leads $40 Million in Series D Funding Round for Shoe Dazzle
May 17th, 2011 1 comment
Based in Los Angeles, California, Shoe Dazzle has become one of the world’s leading personalized shoe shopping site and has announced on May 16, 2011, that it has secured $40 million in a series D funding round led by investor, Andreesen Horowitz. Other investors who participated in this massive funding round include Polaris Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Upon condition of this funding round, general partner at Andreesen Horowitz, John O’Farrell, will be joining the company’s board of directors. Shoe Dazzle is an e-commerce site which personalizes the shoe shopping experience for each individual shopper who logs onto the site. [...]
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April 28th, 2011 2 comments
Based in Beijing, China, Milanoo.com has become one of the biggest global online women’s retailers based in China. The company announced on April 25, 2011, that it has partnered together with Sequoia Capital, one of America’s largest global venture capital firms. Just being known in China was not enough for the founders of Milanoo.com. The online merchant has also become one of the largest retail and wholesale merchants worldwide, primarily selling fine jewelry, women’s lingerie, formal wear, wedding wear, Cosplay items, shoes, and more. Milanoo.com may mainly have women’s wear on their website, but women’s [...]
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Intuit Supports Entrepreneurs by Committing $37 Million
April 21st, 2011 1 comment
Based in Mountain View, California, Intuit announced on April 20, 2011, that it has committed $37 million in capital to support entrepreneurs as their part of participation of the Startup America Partnership Program. Intuit is a financial institution which specifically caters to small businesses. Intuit brings about several different services and products that help small entrepreneurs. One of the programs that Intuit provides small businesses is software which help business owners manage their finances and file their taxes. One of the programs that Intuit provides is the Personal Finance Software solution. The Personal Finance Software works together [...]
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Schooner Capital Leads $4 Million Investment in Funding Round for Zixi
April 13th, 2011 No comments
Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, the industry leader of online cloud HDTV broadcasting, Zixi, has announced on April 12, 2011, that it has secured $4 million in additional funding found led by Schooner Capital. Other investors who participated in this funding round include prominent private investors who are veterans in the broadcasting industry from the time cable television was released. These investors are the former CEO and chairman of Scientific Atlanta, Sidney Topol, and one of the first cofounders and CEOs of CNN, the founder and president of the Food Network, Maurice Schonfeld, who is commonly known as Reese to his [...]
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Business Lender, Direct Capital Infuses Small Businesses with Working Capital
April 12th, 2011 1 comment
Based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Direct Capital is a nationwide business lender which makes commercial and business loans to small businesses announced on April 11, 2011, that it is planning to infuse small businesses with working capital to keep them afloat during these difficult economic times. The business loans that Direct Capital is planning to infuse small businesses could not come at a better time. In a time where the economic climate is rather difficult and with many business lenders not eager to dole out small business loans to struggling small businesses, the loans that Direct Capital is providing will allow [...]
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April 12th, 2011 No comments
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, BluePrint Medicines is an innovative company that is developing revolutionary new solutions for the effective treatments of cancers. BluePrint announced on April 11, 2011, that it has secured $40 million in series A funding, led by Third Rock Ventures and two private investors who are also involved with the founding of the company, Drs. Nick Lydon, PhD and Brian Druker, MD. Proceeds from this funding round will go to innovative new solutions which can help health professionals translate new molecular data into personalized cancer treatments. Since its inception, BluePrint Medicines has dedicated its mission to develop sensitive [...]
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Intel Capital Leads $30 Million Investment in Online Textbook Publisher, Kno
April 12th, 2011 1 comment
Based in Santa Clara, California, Kno, which is a market leader in online textbook publishing has announced on April 8, 2011, that it has secured a $30 million investment led by Intel Capital in a series C funding round. Other investors who participated in this funding round include Advanced Publications, which is also a new investor to the company. Kno’s existing investors, Andreesen Horowitz, First Round Capital, FLOODGATE, and SV Angels. The lion’s share of the funding round was provided by Intel Capital, which is the investment arm of Intel Processors, the manufacturer of the famous Pentium Central [...]
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Forbes Came Out With the 100 Midas List of Tech Investors of 2011
April 8th, 2011 4 comments
Forbes Magazine, one of the most read financial magazines worldwide, has announced its 100 Midas List for 2011. The 100 Midas List is a list of one hundred investors who are in the tech industry and have had the largest ROI in the previous year. Many of these investors invest in innovative tech companies who are primarily startups and have increased their value to investors over five fold. Investors who are listed in the 100 Midas List are primarily venture capitalists and angel investors who invest either seed capital or early stage companies and have increased their ROI along with the [...]
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Private Chinese Investors Invest $100 Million in US-Chinese Therapeutics Joint Venture, Ascletis
April 7th, 2011 No comments
With two headquarters based in both Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Hangzhou, China, Ascletis is a US-Chinese joint venture that aims to provide effective therapeutic solutions for infectious diseases and cancer. The company announced on April 6, 2011, that it has raised $100 million led by the Hangzhou Binjiang Holding Company and private undisclosed Chinese private investors. The fund is primarily design to enhance the development of important therapeutic solutions for both cancer and infectious diseases. The company has also received the first tranche of this massive funding round, totaling $50 million. Besides private investors from China making [...]
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April 7th, 2011 No comments
Based in Houston, Texas, the Houston Technology Center is an incubator for new entrepreneurs who are in the tech industry that show promise to become large corporations. The incubator announced on April 5, 2011, that it has proposed a new $100 million venture fund for its Houston Technology Future Fund, which is a fund that the Houston Technology Center has earmarked for the entrepreneurs whom it incubates in its incubation program. The incubator wants to allocate funds from this new future fund to select companies the Houston Technology Center sees fit to disrupt the entire tech industry. The [...]
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April 5th, 2011 No comments
Based in New York, Insight Venture Partners announced on April 4, 2011, that it has just closed two new funds that total over $2 billion for new software and tech companies. This large investment was offered by undisclosed investors who are interested in the firms continual investing in world-class companies who are in the software and tech industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Venture Partners has become one of the leading global investment firms which primarily invests in growth oriented funds for companies and entrepreneurs who are primarily in the software, internet, and new media industries. One of the reasons why Insight [...]
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Global Investment Firm, NEA Leads $30 Million Investment in Funding Round for TidalTV
April 1st, 2011 No comments
Based in Baltimore, Maryland, TidalTV is an industry leader in video advertising and optimization as well as a leading provider of management solutions for advertisers in today’s complex and ever changing advertising industry. The company announced on March 31, 2011, that it has raised $30 million in a funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, or NEA. Other investors who participated in this funding round include the company’s existing investors, Comcast Interactive Capital and Valhalla Partners. TidalTV has made a bang in the modern-day advertising market by providing a solution that has effective video advertising and optimization of a brand’s message [...]
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Oak Investment Partners Leads $25 Million Investment in Funding Round for Movik Networks
April 1st, 2011 No comments
Based in Littleton, Massachusetts, wireless networking product developer, Movik Networks announced on March 31, 2011, that it has secured $25 million in a funding round led by Oak Investment Partners. Other investors who participated in this funding round include the company’s existing investors, Highland Capital Partners and NorthBridge Venture Partners. Movik started out by being a pioneer in the emerging mobile network pioneer and developed one of the first RANs or radio accessible networks in the country. The technology that Movik Networks offers allows users to have a safe wireless network which they can access on any portable communication device, such as [...]
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March 30th, 2011 No comments
Based in Boulder, Colorado, the log data company, LogRhythm has announced on March 30, 2011, that it has raised $10 million in series C funding with Adams Street Partners leading the funding round. Other investors who participated in this funding round include the company’s existing investors, Access Venture Partners, Colorado Fund I, Croghan Investments, and Grotech Ventures. Proceeds from this funding round will be used to fund the company’s expansion and growth, this has seen record-breaking numbers. LogRhythm is a major player in the log management industry. The company manages a service known as SIEM 2.0, which not only [...]
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March 29th, 2011 No comments
Based in Hollywood, Florida, IT security provider, Prolex Technologies has announced on Monday, March 28, 2011 that it has closed $13.9 million in growth capital led by Kennet Partners. Other investors who took part in this funding round also include IPVG Corp., which is an IT company listed on the Philippines Stock Exchange. IPVG offers all kinds of IT services which include online gaming, and other services which can benefit from the added security that Prolex Technologies provides. Founded in 2003, Prolex Technologies is an IT company which has developed innovative IT security systems that are designed to make corporate data [...]
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March 25th, 2011 44 comments
Based in Essen Germany and having opened new offices in both San Francisco, California, and Rochester, New York, Germany’s largest online outsourcing company, Clickworker, announced on March 24, 2011, that it has secured a €4.25 Million ($5.91 million USD) funding in series B funding round led by two European investment firms, High-Tech Grunderfonds and Corporate Finance Partners together with one of Europe’s largest private investor, Klaus Wecken. Other investors who participated in this funding round have not been disclosed to the public. Clickworker is a company that was founded in 2006 in Essen Germany designed to outsource labor globally for companies who need [...]
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March 23rd, 2011 No comments
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 8thBridge has become a pioneer in the social networking industry and has also announced on March 22, 2011, that it has raised $10 million in series B funding round which was led by Trident Capital. Other investors, who participated in this funding round include Split Rock Partners, who originally participated in the company’s series A funding round. 8thBridge provides a social network to allow online merchants to partner with the company in order to build a social shopping network for their customers through Facebook and the merchants individual e-commerce sites. The platform that 8thBridge offers is unique in [...]
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March 22nd, 2011 12 comments
Based in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, Core Essence Orthopedics is a company which develops orthopedic devices for high volume medical procedures in sports medicine that involve both soft tissues and skeletal repairs of an athlete’s extremities. The company announced on March 21, 2011, that it has secured an $11.5 million investment in a series B funding round led by Baird Venture Partners. Other investors who participated in the funding round include the company’s existing investors, who include NewSpring Capital, Robin Hood Ventures, and other individual undisclosed private investors. Devoted to sports medicine and high impact injuries that can often happen to those [...]
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March 22nd, 2011 4 comments
Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Barton Nelson announced that it has received a $7.5 million investment from Advantage Capital Partners. Barton Nelson is one of America’s top 25 manufacturers and the company produces a wide variety of products, which include sticky notes, scratch pads, desk calendars, memo cubes, and many other such office supplies. Many of the items that Barton Nelson manufactures are typically sold under the name Bebco, and Barton Nelson has also made significant publicity stunts that caught the public’s eye. One of the biggest publicity stunts that Barton Nelson has done was hire the [...]
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Ravio Mobile raises $42 Million in Series A Funding Round
March 20th, 2011 2 comments
Ravio Mobile Ltd., the producer company of the Angry Birds game, has raised $42 million in the series A financing round led by the venture capitalists at Accel Partners, Atomico Ventures and Felicis Ventures. With this occasion, Niklas Zennstorm, one of the co-founders of Skype and Atomic Ventures, has joined Ravio’s board. Nobody would have believed that a game based on some angry birds and several pigs will raise such a big amount of funds as the game was not expected to attract so many players from the beginning. But the public has been so fascinated with this addictive game that they bid into [...]
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Nexterra raises $15millions in Equity Funding
March 20th, 2011 2 comments
The already known tendency of funding biotechnology business ideas proves to continue to be powerful as the Canadian system provider of biomass, Nexterra, has just raised $15millions in equity funds from the Tandem Expansion Fund and the ARC Financial, venture capital firms that sustain expanding businesses. The business idea on which the Nexterra project is based refers to ways of saving electric energy and minimizing the costs for heat. The project addresses especially to large consumers such as hospitals, government buildings, universities and schools, and industrial facilities. The biomass gasification system developed by the company based in Vancouver allows these heavy consumers generate their own [...]
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Tool Maker, Stanley Black & Decker Donates $1 Million in ToolBank USA to Aid Expansion Effort
March 18th, 2011 No comments
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, ToolBank USA has announced on March 16, 2011, that it has just received $1 million investment from tool maker, Stanley Black & Decker for its nationwide expansion efforts. This is the largest investment ToolBank has received in its entire corporate history. The funding that Stanley Black & Decker invested into ToolBank is primed to be fully fulfilled within five years and the proceeds from the funding will go to allow ToolBank to expand its services throughout the US from coast to coast. ToolBank USA is a not for profit organization that has a mission to providing a wide [...]
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March 16th, 2011 No comments
Based in Durham, North Carolina, Advanced Animal Diagnostics, or AAD, has announced on March 15, 2011, that it has raised $11 million in equity funding with Intersouth Partners leading the funding round. Other investors who participated in this funding round include Novartis Venture Funds, the venture capital arm of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and other undisclosed private investors. AAD is a company which develops animal diagnostic tools to diagnose various diseases in livestock and other dairy animals. The company develops innovative methods to test a wide variety of farm animals for diseases and other disorders right on the farm with extreme accuracy. [...]
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March 15th, 2011 No comments
Based in Bedminster, New Jersey, Omthera Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company which develops innovative specialty pharmaceuticals has announced on March 14, 2011, that it has just raised $33.9 million in a funding round which was led by New Enterprise Associates. Other companies who participated in this funding round include the company’s existing investor, Sofinnova Partners. Omthera Pharmaceuticals is a company which produces specialty pharmaceuticals for the clinical treatments of dyslipidemia and other diseases related to lipids in the body. Some of the other related diseases that Omthera Pharmaceuticals produces treatments for include hypertriglycemia, mixed dyslipidemia, and triglycerides. All [...]
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Novak Biddle Ventures and QED Investors Invest in WealthEngine and Take Best Early Stage Award
March 14th, 2011 1 comment
Based in Bethesda, Maryland, WealthEngine announced on March 14, 2011, that after being together with its investment partners, Novak Biddle Ventures and QED Investors, the company has taken together with its two investors the 2011 Venture Capital Awards of the Greater Washington Area. The award is delegated to be the top honors for the Best Early Stage Award for the Year. WealthEngine is a company which provides financial services for hospitals and medical institutions. The company leads the market in wealth identification and information-based fundraising solutions. The company’s solutions are not only limited to the medical industry, however. WealthEngine [...]
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