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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    September 15th, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: September 12 2011 Woozworld raises $6 Million for Mobile Tween Application Woozworld, the Montreal based company, has announced the end of newest funding round, which has brought the company an amount of $6 million. Read the full story here Septmeber 13 2011 Aurora Algae raises $22 Million for Biochemical Energy Aurora Algae, the developer of biofuels and biochemicals which come from algae, has recently announced the end of another round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $22 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database Tweet  

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  • Aurora Algae raises $22 Million for Biochemical Energy

    September 13th, 2011 No comments

    Aurora Algae, the developer of biofuels and biochemicals which come from algae, has recently announced the end of another round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $22 million. The company is part of a small set of biologically-produced chemical companies which receive funds and which are focusing on producing diverse and multiple types of biochemical products which are used in order to replace other sources of energy. One of their products is the feed stock and transportation fuel. Lately, these companies have registered a large number of successful exits. Some of the companies which have successfully completed the files which […]
     

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  • Woozworld raises $6 Million for Mobile Tween Application

    September 12th, 2011 No comments

    Woozworld, the Montreal based company, has announced the end of newest funding round, which has brought the company an amount of $6 million. This funding round has been led by Telesystem and iNovia Capital, but also from some anonymous angel investors. As a result of this funding round, Bernard Gershon, the former General Manager and Senior Vice President of Disney, has joined the company’s board of advisors. Woozworld is a massive multiplayer user-generated social game for tweens (children aged between 9 and 14). The chief executive of the company, Eric Brassard, declared that the goal of the company is that of turning Woozworld into […]
     

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  • Shocking Technologies raises $15.2 Million in Series C of Funding

    September 9th, 2011 No comments

    Shocking Technologies, the company based in San Jose, California, has recently announced the end of the third round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $15.2 million which is going to be used in order to make electric-shock-proof electronic circuit boards. This funding round has reunited investors from Littelfuse, Arch Ventures, ATA Ventures, Balch Hill Capital, Skylake Incuvest, Vista Ventures and some private investors. The company is going to use the money in order to build additional manufacturing capacity as for it to be able to meet the demand on the market. The company specializes in using nanotechnologies in order to […]
     

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  • CloudOn raises $7.7 Million in Series A of Funding for Mobile Productivity Applications

    September 8th, 2011 No comments

    CloudOn, the company based in Palo Alto, California, has recently arrived at the end of the discussions for the first round of funding which brought the company an amount of $7.7 million, announced the SEC. The company specializes in providing access to the productivity and collaboration tools needed by customers for the devices they are using. The company has been formally known as AppToU, a company which provided high-quality solutions for all type of mobile devices. According to the marketing materials released by the company, CloudOn is “creating a mobile, enterprise, cloud-based workspace” in order to find solutions as to help workers increase their productivity […]
     

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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    September 6th, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: September 6 2011 Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, starts Venture Capital Fund The Associated Press has recently announced that Michael Arrington, the founder of the very popular tech blog, TechCrunch, has taken the decision of starting a venture capital firm. This venture capital fund will have an initial capital of $20 million. Read the full story here September 5 2011 Druva raises $12 Million in Series B of Funding for Smart phones and Tablets Druva, the company based in Mountain View, California, recently announced the end of the round B of funding, which has brought the company an amount of $12 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE […] 

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  • Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, starts Venture Capital Fund

    September 6th, 2011 No comments

    The Associated Press has recently announced that Michael Arrington, the founder of the very popular tech blog, TechCrunch, has taken the decision of starting a venture capital firm. This venture capital fund will have an initial capital of $20 million, money which the founder intends to use in order to support other entrepreneurs start-up businesses such as TechCrunch, meaning blogs which cover the same type of subjects as the ones we are used to see on TechCruch. The venture capital firm will receive funds from investors such as the tech company AOL Inc., company which has purchased TechCrunch last year for an amount which has remained undisclosed to the public, and […] 

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  • Druva raises $12 Million in Series B of Funding for Smart phones and Tablets

    September 5th, 2011 No comments

    Druva, the company based in Mountain View, California, recently announced the end of the round B of funding, which has brought the company an amount of $12 million. The company specializes in designing data protection systems, consolidation and application recovery challenges software. This funding round has been led by Nexus Venture Partners along with Sequoia Capital. According to the funding deal, Jishnu Bhattacharjee, from Nexus Venture Partners, is going to join the board of directors at Druva. The money raised in this second funding round is going to be used in order to provide support for smart phones and tablets and to expand sales […]
     

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  • Double Verify raises $33 Million for Advertising Monitoring System

    September 1st, 2011 No comments

    Double Verify Ltd., the start-up offering solutions for online advertising monitoring, has recently announced the end of the series B of funding, which has brought the company an amount of $33 million. This second funding round has been led by JMI Equity among with the previous investors from Blumberg Capital, Genacast Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners and one of the venture capital sections of Comcast Communications Corporation. Up to this moment, the company has managed to raise an amount of $46.5 million, which actually gives the firm a value of $200 million. From this moment on, JMI Equity is going to dictate the direction towards […]
     

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  • Zeebo raises $17 Million in series B of Funding for Education Platform

    August 30th, 2011 No comments

    Zeebo, a game producing company, whose purpose has been that of “helping the next billion play, learn and connect”, has recently announced the end of the second round of funding, which has brought the company $17 million. This amount of money comes from a private equity firm, SEC filing. The company intends to use this amount of money in order to sustain the evolution and spreading of a new gaming console which can be used for educational purposes. Despite the fact that education and entertainment are not exactly industries that seem to get along just fine, as there are more and more statistics which […]
     

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  • Zerto raises $15 Million in Series B of Funding for Disaster Recovery for Cloud Systems

    August 29th, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: August 22 2011 Zerto raises $15 Million in Series B of Funding for Disaster Recovery for Cloud Systems Zerto Inc., the Israeli based developer of the software called Disaster recovery, has recently announced the end of the second round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $15 million. Read the full story here August 6 2011 Multinational Team of Investors Invest $3.6 Million in Series B Funding Round for Tantaline QuickMobile, the US company which specializes in developing mobile solution in order to provide the necessary applications for meetings and events industries, has recently announced the end of a first round of funding which has brought the company a […] 

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  • Voxy raises $2.8 Million for Language Learning Application

    August 29th, 2011 No comments

    Voxy, the company based in Roseland, New Jersey, has recently announced the end of the first round of funding for the company, which has brought them an infusion of capital of $2.8 million. The company specializes in developing software solutions for learning languages in an easy and fun way. This first funding round has been led by Seavest Inc., along with ff Venture and Contour Ventures. This means that Seavest, Inc. and at Contour Ventures are going to join Voxy’s investor base and to join off the Asset Management and several other new and existing angel investors. This money is intended to be used for […]
     

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  • AliveCor raises $3 Million for iPhone/Android Heart Monitors

    August 26th, 2011 No comments

    AliveCor has recently managed to raise $3 million in venture capital for the new service they have developed. The company succeeded in creating an application which functions as a low-budget electrocardiogram (ECG) which is compatible with lots of mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads and Android devices. This series A funding round has been led by Burrill & Company, with the participation of Qualcomm Ventures and of the Oklahoma Life Science Fund. The application allows users to monitor their hearts by the means of a card-sized wireless device which manages to turn the mobile device into a low-cost heart monitor which has similar features […]
     

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  • Birchbox raises $10.5 Million in Series A Funding

    August 26th, 2011 No comments

    Birchbox, a start-up company functioning as a makeup discovery retail platform has recently announced the fact that it has managed to raise an amount of $10.5 million in the series A of funding. This first funding round has been led by Accel Partners, with the participation of First Round Capital, Harrison Metal, Forerunner Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Sam Lessin, Consigliere, Gary Vaynerchuck, Dave Morin, Stanford University Endowment and Andy Dunn. The company, which is similar to other firms such as BeachMint, Blissmobox, Foodzie and Babbaco, has developed a subscription box of the month model which allows members to receive makeup and beauty products. This means that […]
     

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  • Zerto raises $15 Million in Series B of Funding for Disaster Recovery for Cloud Systems

    August 22nd, 2011 No comments

    Zerto Inc., the Israeli based developer of the software called Disaster recovery, has recently announced the end of the second round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $15 million. The funding round has been led by US Venture Partners and joined by current investors Greylock Partners and Battery Ventures. The first round of funding has brought the company $7 million. The company has been founded by Ziv Kedem, the CEO of the company, and his brother, Oded Kedem, the CTO of the company. They have previously worked for the disaster recovery company Kashya, which has been sold in 2006 to […]
     

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  • Quickmobile raises $2.3 Million from Angel Investors for the Development of event Applications

    August 18th, 2011 2 comments

    QuickMobile, the US company which specializes in developing mobile solution in order to provide the necessary applications for meetings and events industries, has recently announced the end of a first round of funding which has brought the company a total of $2.3 million. The money has been obtained from different angel investors, both as equity and as debt. Over the years, QuickMobile has become known on the market due to the mobile solutions the company has developed for major tech and film events such as Dreamforce 2010, Tribeca Film Festival or Sundance Film Festival. The company focuses on providing elaborated applications based on the […]
     

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  • Ignition Partners Leads $10 Million Series B Funding Round for Apprenda

    August 10th, 2011 No comments

    Based in Clifton Park, New York, Apprenda is an innovator which has developed a Platform as a Service or PaaS which can be deployed anywhere for the .NET industry. The company announced on August 8, 2011, that it has secured $10 million in a series B funding round that was led by Ignition Partners. Other investors who participated in this funding round include the company’s existing investors, NEA and High Peaks Venture Partners. Apprenda’s mission is to provide an in depth database for IT service providers. The company has accomplished this by creating a PaaS which can be deployed […]
     

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  • The National Institutes of Health Award a $2 Million Grant to Firefly Bioworks, INC

    August 9th, 2011 No comments

    August 8 2011 The National Institutes of Health Award a $2 Million Grant to Firefly Bioworks, INC Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Firefly Bioworks, a leading manufacturer of universal multiplex assays has announced on Friday, August 5, 2011, that it has been awarded a $2 million grant. Read the full story here August 6 2011 Multinational Team of Investors Invest $3.6 Million in Series B Funding Round for Tantaline Tantaline, a company which has grown to become a wold leader in the manufacturing of non-corrosive materials, announced on August 5, 2011, that it has received $3.6 million in a series B funding round by an international team of investors. Read the full story here Click here to download our […] 

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  • The National Institutes of Health Award a $2 Million Grant to Firefly Bioworks, INC

    August 8th, 2011 No comments

    Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Firefly Bioworks, a leading manufacturer of universal multiplex assays has announced on Friday, August 5, 2011, that it has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to further the company’s research, development, and manufacturing of diagnostic RNA profiling in the treatment of cancer. The grant is phase II in a funding project that the National Institutes of Health has been involved in together with the National Cancer Institute for the development of micro RNA profiling. The mission of Firefly Bioworks is to develop instruments and universal multiplex assays to treat many genetic based diseases […]
     

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  • Multinational Team of Investors Invest $3.6 Million in Series B Funding Round for Tantaline

    August 6th, 2011 No comments

    Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Tantaline is a company which has grown to become a wold leader in the manufacturing of non-corrosive materials. The company announced on August 5, 2011, that it has received $3.6 million in a series B funding round by an international team of investors. The leading investors in the funding round include the US-based private equity firm, Berwind Private Equity, Danish investment firm, Vaekstfonden, and CC Holdings, which is another Danish company. Other investors who participated in this funding round were undisclosed to the public. Proceeds from this funding round will go to continue and further […]
     

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  • CrossLink Capital Invests $6 Million in Funding Round for Music and Voice Lessons Provider, TakeLessons

    August 4th, 2011 No comments

    Based in San Diego, California, TakeLessons has been revolutionizing the music and voice education industry and taking it into the 21st Century by becoming one of the largest online music and voice lesson providers. The company was founded with the vision of uniting music and voice teachers with music and voice students. The company announced on August 3, 2011, that it has raised $6 million venture funding round that was led by CrossLink Capital. Other investors who participated in this funding round include SofTech VC plus several prominent angels who did not disclose their names. The primary vision of […]
     

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  • Kimbia raises $4 Million in Series B of Funding

    August 3rd, 2011 No comments

    The Texas based fundraising and event registration platform, Kimbia, Inc., recently announced the successful end of the series B of funding which brought the firm capital in the amount of $4 million. The funding round has been led by S3 Ventures. The money raised in venture capital is intended to be used in order to expand the industry adoption of its Web-based fundraising and event management software. Kimbia provides an innovative platform which is designed in order to suit the needs of the next generation of online fundraisers, event organizers and social advocates. The innovation brought by the company in the fundraising field is […]
     

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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    August 2nd, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: August 2 2011 Cloud Storage Company CX gets $5 Million in Funding CX, a cloud storage and SaaS data file management system, has recently managed to raise $5 million in a new round of funding. Read the full story here August 1 2011 Interactions Corporation raises $12 Million in Venture Capital Interactions Corporations, a start-up company based in Boston, has recently raised $12 million in a funding round. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database Tweet  

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  • Cloud Storage Company CX gets $5 Million in Funding

    August 2nd, 2011 No comments

    CX, a cloud storage and SaaS data file management system, has recently managed to raise $5 million in a new round of funding. This funding round has been led by Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures, with the participation of Hanna Capital. With this new amount of funding received, the company has managed to raise by the moment a total amount of funding of $10 million. This is a start-up company which has launched at the beginning at the year and has had a great evolution, managing, so far, to also acquire a fellow cloud-based file storage company named FileDen. At the moment, the financial terms […]
     

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  • Interactions Corporation raises $12 Million in Venture Capital

    August 1st, 2011 1 comment

    Interactions Corporations, a start-up company based in Boston, has recently raised $12 million in a funding round. The company produces alternative solutions to the traditional IVR systems, which has made it register a quick growth on the innovative technology market. This founding round has been led by Sigma Partners, but North Hill Ventures, Cross Atlantic Partners and Updata Partners have also had a strong participation. The company intends to use the recent funds in order to support the firm’s growing company base, to take the measures in order to expand its presence on the market and to invest in new technology and infrastructure. Mike […]
     

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  • PixelFish raises $4 Million in Series B of Funding for Online Video Advertising Solutions for Small Companies

    July 29th, 2011 No comments

    One of the most important businesses on the market of providing online video advertising solutions for small companies, PixelFish, has recently announced their closing of the round B of funding which has helped them raise $4 million. This founding round has been led by the early-stage venture company, Bullpen Capital. The previous investors have also participated in this round of funding. So, the names of investors from FLOODGATE and Mack Capital have been once more related to PixelFish. But there have also been new funders from Tomorrow Ventures, 500 Startups and Western Technology Investment. The company has previously raised the amount of $2.1 million […]
     

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  • Supersonic Ads raises $4.2 Million from Greylock

    July 26th, 2011 No comments

    Here are the latest Venture Capital news: July 26 2011 Supersonic Ads raises $4.2 Million from Greylock Supersonic Ads, the Israeli start-up company based in London, recently managed to raise $4.2 million in venture capital. Read the full story here.. July 25 2011 Solar Edge raises $8 Million from the Silicon Valley Bank SolarEdge Technologies, the developer of photovoltaic power optimization, has recently managed to raise the amount of $8 Million as a credit line from the Silicon Valley Bank. Read the full story here.. ===>> Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database Tweet  

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  • Supersonic Ads raises $4.2 Million from Greylock

    July 26th, 2011 2 comments

    Supersonic Ads, the Israeli start-up company based in London, recently managed to raise $4.2 million in venture capital. The company develops social in-game advertising solutions. The round A of funding has been led by Greylock Israel. Up to this moment, in the company there have already been invested $6 million, which has guaranteed a fast pace of growing for the Israeli start-up. After this round of funding, Greylock IL is to send its partner, Yoram Snir, to join the board of Supersonic Ads. It is recently that the company has been selected as one of the few firms which have the right to sell […]
     

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  • Solar Edge raises $8 Million from the Silicon Valley Bank

    July 25th, 2011 1 comment

    SolarEdge Technologies, the developer of photovoltaic power optimization, has recently managed to raise the amount of $8 Million as a credit line from the Silicon Valley Bank. This amount is destined for the financing of the company’s need for working capital requirements and of the company’s growth initiatives which are to become effective in the short and mid-term. This founding round has been preceded by another one which has brought the company the amount of $60 million from Genesis Partners, Vertex Venture Capital, Walden Israel, Lightspeed Ventures and other venture capital funds from Israeli and from other foreign countries. The Chairman and CEO of […]
     

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  • Transcend Medical raises $51 Million in Round B of Funding for expanding the Surgical Glaucoma Study

    July 20th, 2011 No comments

    Transcend Medical, Inc., has recently managed to raise $51 million in round B of funding. The company specializes in producing ophthalmic devices which serve to developing minimally invasive glaucoma therapies. This round of funding has been led by the previous investors from Canaan Partners, Finistere Ventures, HLM Venture Partners, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Latterell Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Split Rock Partners and Technology Partners. The only new partner who has joined the funding at the moment is Investor Growth Capital. Abhijeet Lele, the Managing Director and Head of Healtfcare Investing at IGC declared the following: “Transcend’s promising clinical outcomes and R&D progress to date demonstrate […]
     

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