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Recently Announced Venture Capital Deals

Issuer Category Round # Amount (M) Lead Investors
Eximias Pharmaceutical Corp. Berwyn, Pa. Develops drugs that fight liver cancer. Biotech D $63.5 Cross Atlantic Partners (led), Quaker BioVentures, New Enterprise Associates, OrbiMed Advisors, Birchmere Ventures, Easton Hunt Capital Partners, Pacific Rim Ventures, Emerging Technology Partners.
Kemia Inc. San Diego Discovers and develops oral small molecules. Company has raised around $53M since its 2002 inception. Biotech B $33.5 JPMorgan Partners (led), Novo A/S, HamiltonApex Technology Ventures, Alta Partners, Forward Ventures, Texas Pacific Group Biotechnology, TPG Ventures,Novartis BioVentures.
Salmedix Inc. San Diego Develops oncology drugs. Aaron Davidson, of HIG Ventures and Sam Wertheimer of OrbiMed Advisors join the board. Company has raised $81.5M to date. Biotech C $45.0 HIG Ventures (led), OrbiMed Advisors, Easton Hunt Capital Partners, Hunt Ventures, Novo A/S, Quilvest Capital, Clariden Bank, InterWest Partners, Versant Ventures, Alexandria Equities, CMEA Ventures, Delphi Ventures, ProQuest Investments, Ventures West, Aberdare Partners, GeneChem Therapeutics, BioFrontier Global Investment Partnership.
Open-Silicon Inc. Sunnyvale, Calif. A fabless ASIC company focused on communications and consumer electronics. Company raised $8.5M in a Series A in June 2003. Thomas Rosch, general partner at InterWest, joins the board. Chips B $11.0 InterWest Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital.
WiDeFi Inc. Satellite Beach, Fla. Makes chips used to increase the range of Wi-Fi networks. Chips A $6.8 The Aurora Funds (co-led), Axiom Venture Partners (co-led), Grace Venture Partners, funds managed by Silicon Valley investor Bill Draper, The Inflexion Fund, Camp Ventures, Band of Angels.
Fox-Tek Inc. Toronto, Ontario Develops fiber optic sensors and instruments. Comm A $3.0 Undisclosed.
NextHop Technologies Mountain View, Calif. Provides routing protocols and related technologies for Internet infrastructure manufacturers. Company has raised $25M since 2000. Comm D $4.0 New Enterprise Associates, Labrador Ventures, Parker Price Venture Capital.
Severon Corp. Hillsboro, Ore. Provides monitoring services for electric utilities. Company has raised $23M in funding. Energy B $9.0 El Dorado Investment Co. (co-led), Perseus LLC (co-led), Nth Power LLC, Ventures West, Cascadia Pacific Management, Oregon Life Sciences, company management.
Precision I/O Inc. Palo Alto, Calif. Develops high-speed networking architecture. Company was spun out from Packet Design in 2003 and received seed funding from Packet Design. Company wasfounded by longtime husband-and-wife tech entrepreneurs Judy Estrin and BillCarrico. CEO Estrin was a onetime CTO of Cisco Systems. Internet A $10.0 Advanced Technology Ventures, 3i Group, Foundation Capital, Masthead Venture Capital.
Princeton eCom Corp. Princeton, N.J. Provides electronic payment services. Company has raised $130M since 1998, including a $34M Series C in late 2000 at a PMV of $134M. Internet F $10.0 Conning Capital Partners (led), Mellon Ventures, Lazard Technology Partners.
CloudShield Technologies Inc. Sunnyvale, Calif. Makes network security device for fiber-optic networks. Funding deal closed in December but announced last week. Security C $20.0 Foundation Capital (led), Paladin Capital Group, ComVentures, TPG Ventures.
DeepNines Inc. Dallas Provides network security software. Security A $16.0 Insight Venture Partners (co-led), Dawntreader Funds (co-led), EFO Holdings.
Conformia Software Inc. Redwood City, Calif. Provides product conformance management software for regulated process industries, such as life sciences. Software B $7.0 Foundation Capital (led), Sequoia Capital.
Intoto Inc. Santa Clara, Calif. Provides integrated security, wireless and voice software platform products. AsiaTech Managing Partner Katherine Jen joins the board. Software B $11.0 AsiaTech Management.
Mendocino Software Fremont, Calif. Provides application recovery software. Software A $15.0 Mayfield (co-led), Accel Partners (co-led), Advent International, Foundation Capital.
Olive Software Inc. Denver Provides content management software for the publishing and library industries. Software A $6.0 Sequoia Capital.
RulesPower Inc. Burlington, Mass. Provides business process management software. Jonathan Silver, a managing director with Core Capital, joins the board. Software B $6.7 Core Capital Partners (led), Kodiak Venture Partners.
SigmaQuest Inc. Santa Clara, Calif. Develops enterprise software. Series A funding was undisclosed. Software NA $0.0 Amidzad LLC, Fred Gibbons of Venture-Concept, and unnamed investors.
Isilon Systems Inc. Seattle Provides distributed storage systems. Company has raised nearly $30M since its 2001 inception, including a $15M Series B in 2002 at a PMV of $31M. Storage C $15.5 Lehman Bros. (led), Sequoia Capital, Atlas Venture, Madrona Venture Group.
ShotSpotter Inc. Mountain View, Calif. Provides gunshot location technology to detect gunfire in urban areas. Funding amount was not disclosed. Gary Lauder, managing director of Lauder, joins the board. Tech NA $0.0 Lauder Partners.
Vapore Inc. Richmond, Calif. Develops liquid vaporization technology. Trans A $2.0 Band of Angels Fund, individuals from Band of Angels, RSH Ventures, Keiretsu Forum.
OnStation Corp. San Mateo, Calif. Trans G $4.5 Horizon Ventures (led), Glynn Capital Management, New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures.
TechnoCom Corp. Los Angeles Provides wireless location solutions. Wireless A $6.8 Timeline Ventures (led), Third Point Management Co., Titan Investment Partners, iSherpa Capital.
Wispry Irvine, Calif. Developes low-cost high-performance components for radio frequency systems. Wireless A $1.0 Tech Coast Angels.