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Recently Announced Venture Capital Deals

Issuer Round Close Category Amount (M) Lead Investors
Pervasis Therapeutics Inc. Cambridge, Mass. Develops tissue engineering and cell-based therapy solutions. Bio tech A $500.0 Flagship Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners
VaxInnate Corp. New Haven, Conn. Makes vaccine for infectious diseases. Company named Carlo Russo president and CEO. He most recently was at Merck Research Labs. Bio tech B $23.0 HealthCare Ventures, Oxford Bioscience Partners, MedImmune Ventures, CHL Medical Partners.
Goal Semiconductor Inc. Montreal Fabless semiconductor company. Chips A $3.9 BDC Venture Capital (co-led), Solidarity Fund QFL (co-led).
StrongMail Systems Inc. Los Angeles Provides enterprise-grade e-mail generation and delivery. Mark Kvamme of Sequoia and Sangam Pant of Evercore join the board. Email A $6.0 Sequoia Capital, Evercore Partners.
NetScaler Inc. Santa Clara, Calif. Provides traffic control systems for enterprises, e-businesses and service providers. Company has raised nearly $80M since 1998. Internet F $20.0 Focus Ventures (led), Granite Global Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs, Gabriel Venture Partners, Bay Partners.
Skype Technologies SA Luxembourg Makes peer-to-peer software that allows users to make free phone calls over the Internet. Seed and Series A rounds came from Draper Investment Luxemborg (which invests for Bill Draper and his family) and Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior funding amount undisclosed. Internet B $18.8 Draper Fisher Jurvetson (co-led) and Index Ventures (co-led)
Speakeasy Inc. Seattle Provides broadband services, mostly to professionals working in home-based offices. Company has raised $50M since its 1995 inception, including a $6.5M Series C in 2002 at a PMV of $32M. Internet D $24.0 3i Group (co-led), BV Capital (co-led), Ares Management, Cornerstone Ventures, Granite Ventures, Matthew G. Norton.
Accumetrics Inc. San Diego Focuses on cardiovascular applications. Company raised over $36 million in funding between its 1996 inception and 2002, then was reacquired by co-founder Robert Hillmanin 2003. Essex invested more than $5M in deal. Med tech B $7.0 Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Fisher Scientific International.
AgaMatrix Inc. Cambridge, Mass. Makes consumer medical devices. Med tech B $500.0 Collaborative Seed & Growth Partners
Cardiac Dimensions Inc. Kirkland, Wash. Provides non-invasive heart failure treatments. Deal was first reported by The Seattle Times. Med tech B $15.0 Frazier Healthcare Ventures (led), MPM Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, InterWest Partners.
IatroQuest Corp. Montreal Developing a biosensing platform technology called Bio-Alloy. Company raised $11M Series A last year. Med tech B $1.1 In-Q-Tel.
SurgRx Inc. Palo Alto, Calif. Makes laparoscopic vessel fusion tools for hemostasis. Med tech B $4.5 Prospect Street Ventures
UPEK Inc. Berkeley, Calif. Makes a silicon-based fingerprint security system. UPEK was formed via a VC-backed spinoff of STMicroelectronics NV’s fingerprint biometrics business. Security A $20.0 Sofinnova Ventures (co-led), Sofinnova Partners (co-led), Diamondhead Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital, EDBV Management, Green Dot Capital.
Genalytics Inc. Newburyport, Mass. Provides business analytics software. Software B $2.0 Egan-Managed Capital.
Gluecode Los Angeles Enables companies to merge third-party software applications Software C $5.0 Palomar Ventures and Rustic Canyon Ventures
Mezzia Inc. Indianapolis Provides enterprise software for the health care industry. Software C $2.0 KB Partners, Mason Wells Biomedical, Gazelle TechVentures.
iJET Travel Risk Management Inc. Provides travel risk management services for multinational corporations. Company has raised $22.5M since 2000, including a $8M Series B in 2001 at a PMV of $30M. Trans C $5.4 Longworth Venture Partners (led), EuclidSR Partners, PA Early Stage Partners.
Bitfone Corp. Laguna Niguel, Calif. Provides over-the-air software updates for mobile phones. Company has raised $48M since 2001, including a $8.3M Series A in 2001 at a PMV of $22M. Wireless C $21.0 Prism Venture Partners (led), Flextronics Inc., Nokia Venture Partners, Nexit Ventures, St. Paul Venture Partners, 3i Group, CIR Ventures, KTB Ventures.