Recently Announced Venture Capital Deals
| Issuer | Category | Round # | Amount (M) | Lead Investors |
| Enerpulse Inc. Albuquerque, N.M. Makes a new type of spark plug. | Auto | A | $2.3 | Altira. |
| Acuity Pharmaceuticals Philadelphia Develops RNA interference therapeutics to treat ophthalmic diseases. | Bio tech | A | $2.4 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners, BioAdvance, individual investors. |
| Acceleron Pharma Boston Develops drugs for the treatment of musculoskeletal and metabolic disorders. | Bio tech | A | $25.0 | Polaris Venture Partners (led), Advanced Technology Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Venrock Associates, Sutter Hill Ventures. |
| Morphotek Inc. Exton, Pa. Develops protein and antibody products using gene evolution technology. Company has raised $38M to date, including a $10M deal in 2001 at a PMV of $20M. | Bio tech | C | $26.0 | Forward Ventures (led), S.R. One Ltd., Morgenthaler Ventures, Rock Maple Ventures, China Development Industrial Bank, DSM Venturing, Flagship Ventures, Burrill & Co., CB Health Ventures, Trieste. |
| Inovys Corp. Pleasanton, Calif. Provides semiconductor testing equipment. Company has raised $38.8M since 1999, including a $17.7M Series B in 2001 at a PMV of $30M. | Chips | C | $16.3 | Storm Ventures (led), HIG Ventures, Hotung Ventures, Revolution Ventures, CMEA Ventures, Palomar Ventures, TechFarm, Synopsys Inc. |
| Kilopass Technology Sunnyvale, Calif. Develops non-volatile memory chips. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. | Chips | NA | $0.0 | Nokia Venture Partners, InveStar Capital, iGlobe Partners. |
| Intrepid Learning Solutions Seattle Makes educational software for e-learning services. Company has raised almost $7.5M to date. | Edu | C | $4.3 | Rustic Canyon Partners (led), Madrona Venture Group, Buerk Dale Victor, Staenberg Venture Partners. |
| MDG Medical Inc. Cleveland Makes automated pharmaceutical dispensing system for use in hospitals and long-term care facilities. | Med tech | B | $7.5 | LSWK Investment, RSL Investment Management (the VC arm of Estee Lauder Cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder), Michael Siegal (CEO and president of Olympic Steel). |
| Actona Technologies Los Gatos, Calif. Provides services for Wide Area Networks, such as storage centralization. Company has raised $21M to date. Deal to be announced Monday. | Network | C | $10.0 | Mayfield (led), Sequoia Capital, Cisco Systems, Evergreen Partners, Fantine Group. |
| CoreStreet Somerville, Mass. Develops security software for companies. Company has raised $14M to date. Two Updata partners join the board. | Security | B | $8.5 | POD Holdings (co-led), Updata Venture Partners (co-led), individual investors. |
| Preventsys Inc. Carlsbad, Calif. Provides vulnerability assessment sofware. Company has raised $15M since 2002. Also, Thomas E. Rowley was named CEO. He was the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Counterpane Internet Security. | Security | B | $3.0 | UV Partners. |
| Above All Software Inc. San Mateo, Calif. Develops point-and-click software. Company has raised $18M since 2002 and was formelry known as BAM! Software. | Software | B | $11.5 | Greylock (led), JPMorgan Partners, Granite Ventures, Adobe, SipplMacDonald Ventures. |
| Bridgestream Inc. Oakland Provides authorization management software. Company has raised $7M since 1999. | Software | A-1 | $3.5 | Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (co-led), Outlook Ventures (co-led), Polestar Capital, WBCW, NewVista Capital. |
| Catalytic Inc. Palo Alto, Calif. Develops software for DSP application productivity. Series A was at a PMV of just over $12M. | Software | A | $6.0 | New Enterprise Associates (led), ITU Ventures. |
| CombineNet Inc. Pittsburgh, Penn. Makes inventory software. ATV partner Bill Wiberg joins the board. Deal to be announced Monday. | Software | C | $12.0 | Advanced Technology Ventures (led), Apex Ventures, eCentury, Revolution. |
| Nimcat Networks Inc. Ottawa Provides peer-to-peer call processing software. The amount in the Series A deal was not disclosed. | Software | A | $0.0 | Siemens Venture Capital. |
| Think3 Inc. Cincinnati Makes MCAD design software. Company has raised $70 million in venture funding since 1999 inception, including a $20M deal in 2000 at a PMV of $109M.Think3 is led by Chairman and CEO Joe Costello, former CEO of Cadence Design. | Software | F | $11.0 | DCM-Doll Capital Management. |
| Vendavo Inc. Palo Alto, Calif. Develops price management software. Company named GE executive and venture capitalist Al Crites president and CEO. | Software | D | $6.0 | DCM-Doll Capital Management, InterWest Partners, St. Paul Venture Capital, Sigma Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors. |
| Candera Inc. Milipitas, Calif. Provides storage solutions for IT infrastructures. Company has raised $59Msince 2000. | Storage | D | $12.0 | Athenian Venture Partners, Fort Washington Partners, AsiaTech Management, Dali Hook Partners, Hotung Group, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, Venture Strategy Partners. |
| Dust Inc. Berkeley, Calif. Develops wireless mesh sensor networks. | Wireless | A | $7.0 | Foundation Capital (led), Institutional Venture Partners, In-Q-Tel. |
| Integrian Inc. Durham, N.C. Provides wireless products and technologies. Company named Peter Durand its new CEO. | Wireless | A | $5.5 | InterSouth Partners (led), Motorola Ventures, Wakefield Group. |
| Teravicta Technologies Austin, Texas Makes next-generation radio frequency solutions. | Wireless | D | $6.0 | Convergent Investors, Agave Capital. |
| VeriWave Inc. Beaverton, Ore. Develops test equipment for wireless LAN markets. | Wireless | A | $4.0 | U.S. Venture Partners (led), TL Ventures. |
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