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The . Week . IN . Deals
   Category  Name (Location) Amt./Rd. Investors Contact Notable
Biotech 
Aperon Biosystems Palo Alto, Calif. www.aperon.com $15.3M/B Canaan Partners (led), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Onset Ventures, Alliance Technology Ventures. Develops biosensor systems for diagnosis and therapeutic management. Wende Hutton, venture partner of Canaan, has joined the board.
Codon Devices Inc. Cambridge, Mass. www.codondevices.com $13M/A Flagship Ventures, Alloy Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Vinod Khosla. Develops synthetic biology to help improve vaccines, agricultural products and biorefineries.
Esprit Pharma Inc. East Brunswick, N.J. $5M/A Apax Partners, Domain Associates, New Enterprise Associates. Develops drugs. No additional information was available.
Innovative Biosensors Inc. College Park, Md. www.innovativebiosensors.com $3.5M/A Harbert Venture Partners (led), New Markets Develops tests to detect harmful pathogens.
SomaLogic Inc. Boulder, Colo. www.somalogic.com $15M/D Quest Diagnostics Inc. Develops proteomics systems and applications. The funding deal includes a joint technology development agreement with Quest. The company has raised more than $41M since 2002.
         
     

Comm.

 

 Ygnition Inc. Tukwila, Wash. www.ygnition.com $13M/D Advanced Equities (led), ComVentures, Chrysalis Ventures. Broadband provider. The company has raised $34M to date.
     

Internet
Become.com Inc. Mountain View, Calif. www.become.com $7.2M/B Trans Cosmos Inc. (led), Ron Conway, Bob Bozeman. Operates a retail products search engine.
Feedster Inc. San Francisco www.feedster.com NA/A Selby Venture Partners (led), Omidyar Network, members of New York Angels. Provides Internet search engine and advertising network. Feedster’s angel investors include Kevin Hartz, co-founder of Xoom, and Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite.
     

Med Tech
Calypso Medical Technologies Inc. Seattle www.calypsomedical.com $44M/C Arnerich Massena & Associates (co-led), BB Biotech Ventures (co-led), Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, Merlin BioMed Group, Rockport Ventures, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Integra Ventures. Develops medical devices that focus on radiation therapy for treating cancer.
     

Security
Fidelis Security Systems Inc. Bethesda, Md. www.fidelissecurity.com $4M/A Inflection Point Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners, the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, WS Investment Co. Provides network security solutions.
servers

   

 Augmentix Corp. Houston www.augmentix.com $9M/B Centennial Ventures, Austin Ventures. Provides server hardware and software solutions for applied computing applications. The company raised $3M in early 2004 from Austin Ventures.
Software

   

 Attenex Corp. Seattle www.attenex.com $5M/A Voyager Capital. Develops software to help law firms better manage electronic documents. The company was spun out of Seattle law firm Preston Gates & Ellis in 2001. Enrique Godreau of Voyager has joined the board.
Black Duck Software Inc. Waltham, Mass. www.blackducksoftware.com $12M/B Fidelity Ventures, Intel Capital, SAP Ventures, Flagship Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Red Hat. Provides open source software. Dave Power, partner of Fidelity, has joined the board. The company raised $5M in a Series A infusion in July 2004. The company was expected to announce the funding this week. See story, page 1.
Klir Technologies Seattle www.klir.com $8.7M/A Ignition Venture Partners (co-led), MK Capital (co-led). Provides network performance management software and services. Richard Fade, a venture partner of Ignition, and Mark Terbeek, a partner with MK Capital, will join the board.
Oxlo Systems Inc. Broomfield, Colo. www.oxlo.com $5M/B Wayport Ventures, Appian Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital. Provides B2B software for automotive suppliers and dealers.
Rivermine Software Inc. Fairfax, Va. www.rivermine.com $10M/B Longworth Venture Partners (led), Columbia Capital and Valhalla Partners. Provides software for enterprise telecom management. The company raised $5M in a Series A funding in late 2003.
storage

   
ONStor Inc. Los Gatos, Calif. www.onstor.com $24M/D ComVentures (led), Mayfield, Foundation Capital and Worldview Technology Partners. Provides enterprise network storage. The company has raised nearly $80M since its 2000 inception.
tech

   
Dynamic Payment Ventures Inc. Plano, Texas $3M/A Catamount Ventures, CEOLO Investments. Provides payment processing services to the restaurant industry.
Tachyon Networks Inc. Vienna, Va. www.tachyon.com $7M/E West River Capital (led), BV-Cornerstone Ventures, CEA Capital Partners. Provides high-speed, satellite-based Internet access services. The company has raised more than $90M since its 1997 inception, including a $13M infusion in late 2000 at a PMV of $25M.
wireless

   
Global Locate Inc. San Jose, Calif. www.globallocate.com NA/NA Siemens Venture Capital. Develops global positioning system products for wireless devices. The details of the funding were not disclosed in a regulatory filing. But the company has been raising a $25M Series D funding. It is unclear if the Siemens deal is part of that Series D round. The company had previously raised $22M from Firsthand Capital Management and GC Investments.
Paratek Microwave Inc. Columbia, Md. www.paratek.com $15M/C Polaris Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Investor Growth, ABS Ventures. Develops miniaturized 3D RF devices to reduce power consumption of wireless handsets.
Tatara Systems Acton, Mass. www.tatarasystems.com $6M/C Highland Capital Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners. Develops software and equipment for wireless networks. The company has raised $24M since 2003.
TensorComm Inc. Denver www.tensorcomm.com $7M/B Centennial Ventures (led), Access Venture Partners, Crawley Ventures, iSherpa Capital. Provides wireless technology for carriers to increase network capacity. Steve Halstedt, managing director and co-founder of Centennial, will join the board.