Recently Announced Venture Capital Deals
|   Issuer | Round Close | Round # | Amount (M) | Lead Investors |
| SkinMedica Inc. Carlsbad, Calif. Develops drugs focused on dermatological conditions. The company has raised more than $95M in total funding since its 1999 inception, including a split-tranched $56M Series D round in 2004. www.skinmedica.com | Biotech | E | $15M | EuclidSR Partners (led), Apax Partners, Domain Associates, HealthCare Ventures, Montreux Equity Partners, Perseus-Soros BioPharmaceutical Fund, Split Rock Partners. |
| Ventaira Pharmaceuticals Columbus, Ohio Develops drugs focused on inhalation. The company, formerly called BattellePharma, raised $22M in early 2003 at a PMV of about $42M. www.ventaira.com | Biotech | B | $14M | TL Ventures (led), Battelle Ventures, Safeguard Scientific, PA Early Stage Partners, Fletcher Spaght Ventures, Reservoir Venture Partners, James Richardson & Sons Ltd. |
| Akustica Inc. Pittsburgh Develops acoustic system-on-chip products. The company has raised about $28M since its 2001 inception. www.akustica.com | Chips | C | $15M | Rangos Investments, Mobius Venture Capital. |
| eASIC Corp. San Jose, Calif. Provides configurable logic and ASIC products. The company previoulsy raised $5M in May 2004 from Kleiner Perkins. The company was founded in 1999 by Zvi Or-Bach, the founder of Chip Express. www.easic.com | Chips | B | $7.5M | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, individual investor Vinod Khosl (a Kleiner Perkinspartner). |
| Avinti Inc. Orem, Utah Provides email security services. www.avinti.com | B | $7.2M | Sequel Venture Partners (led), Staley Capital, vSpring Capital, Wilson Sonsini Investments. | |
| Blue Security Inc. Menlo Park, Calif. Develops anti-spam and anti-spyware software. www.bluesecurity.com | A | $3M | Benchmark Capital. | |
| Protonex Technology Corp. Southborough, Mass. Provides long duration portable and remote fuel cell-based power sources. The company previously raised about $5M. www.protonex.com | Energy | B | $9M | Conduit Ventures, SAS Investors, Solstice Capital, Commons Capital, Parker Hannifin Corp., Contango Capital Management, Massachusetts Green Energy Fund. |
| FeedBurner Chicago Provides Web publishing services. www.feedburner.com | Internet | B | $7M | Mobius Venture Capital (led), Sutter Hill Ventures, Portage Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. |
| ReachLocal Inc. Encino, Calif. Provides online advertising services. www.reachlocal.com | Internet | B | $7.75M | VantagePoint Venture Partners. |
| VoteHere Inc. Bellevue, Wash. Provides secure online voting systems. The company has raised nearly $20M since 2000. Past investors include Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard (through Compaq Computer Corp.). www.votehere.com | Internet | E | $4M | Northwest Venture Associates. |
| CorNova Inc. Burlington, Mass. Makes coronary stents. www.cornova.com | Med Tech. | A | $3M | CardioTech International Inc., Implant Sciences Corp. |
| Mirabel MedicalSystems Inc. Austin, Texas Makes breast cancer screening system. The company, founded in 1993, operates additional facilities in New Jersey and Israel. www.transscan.co.il | Med Tech. | B | $9M | Stockton Partners. |
| Picolight Inc. Boulder, Colo. Makes fiber-optic components. The funding is a first close on its latest round. The company hopes to raise between $4M and $7M during the second quarter. It now has raised more than $100M since its 1996 inception. www.picolight.com | Optics | E | $13M | NA |
| Applimation Inc. New York Provides software that optmizes Oracle’s enterprise applications. www.applimation.com | Software | C | $4M | Battery Ventures (co-led), JMI Equity Fund (co-led), Waypoint Ventures. |
| Bluestreak Network Inc. Dallas Develops presentation software for digital TV and wireless personal media devices. www.bluestreaknetwork.com | Software | B | $6M | Solidarity Fund QFL, BDC Venture Capital, First Capital Group. |
| Valen Technologies Inc. Denver, Colo. Provides predictive modeling and decision-enabling software for the insurance industry. It is the company’s first round of institutional funding. www.valentech.com | Software | B | $3M | Appian Ventures. |
| Appfluent Technologies Inc. Bethesda, Md. Provides software that improves the performance of server-based databases. The funding was a Series A-1 and Series A-2 recap. The company had previously raised about $21M. www.appfluent.com | Storage | A | $3.1M | Carlyle Venture Partners, DynaFund Ventures, New Markets Growth Fund, Updata Venture Partners. |
| Hycrete Technologies Inc. Jersey City, N.J. Makes a water-based corrosion inhibitor. The funding amount was undisclosed. www.hycrete.com | Tech. | A | NA | NJTC Venture Fund. |
| Tideline Capital San Francisco Provides outsourced vendor services for the software industry. www.tidelinecapital.com | Tech. | A | $10M | Voyager Capital (co-led), Odin Capital (co-led), Windingo Partners. |
| Integrian Inc. Durham, N.C. Provides wireless products and technologies. The company has raised about $19M. www.integrian.com | Wireless | B | $13M | Polaris Venture Partners (led), Dow Chemical Intersouth Partners, Motorola Ventures, Wakefield Group. |
| Rave Wireless Inc. New York Wireless satrtup. | Wireless | A | $2.1M | Sigma Partners, Bain Capital Ventures. |
| Trapeze Networks Inc. Pleasanton, Calif. Provides business applications and services to the mobile enterprise workforce. www.trapezenetworks.com | Wireless | C | $13M | NA |
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