Recently Announced Venture Capital Deals
Name[Location]
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Mountain View, Calif.
One of five anti-spam software makers funded in past six weeks
Redwood City, Calif.
Anti-spam software maker. Raised to date: $26M.
Cupertino, Calif.
Fabless chipmaker developing reconfigurable logic devices.
Founded in 2000. Raised to date: $11.7M.
Avista Labs
Spokane, Wash
Makes fuel cells. Second partof A round. Raised $7.5M inJuly from ChrysalixEnergy LP,. Wall StreetTechnology Partners, BuerkCraig Victor.
Dallas, TX
Makes business-to-business software.
Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
Operates Web service for “lifetime photo management” Did not disclose amount of round.
Tampa, Fla
Provides Internet exchange and colocation.
AmpliMed Corp.
Tuscon, Ariz
Twelve-year-old pharmacompany develops cancerdrugs. Spun out of Universityof Arizona.
Los Gatos, Calif.
Part of licensing agreement for CryoVascular’s angioplasty freezing technology. Boston Scientific has option to buy company in future.
Dallas, TX
Makes small-molecule drugs for cancer, other diseases. Licensed patents from University of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr. Co. launched last week.
San Diego, Calif.
Develops drugs using patented “in vivo” discovery technique.
Poulsbo, Wash.
Makes orthopedic products. Deal is part of restructuring
Irvine, Calif.
Makes products to fix bone fractures. Founded in April 2000
Austin, Texas
Videoconference company
Polycom is a partner.
Somerset, N.J.
Lumeta’s customers include government agencies, and in the financial and pharmaceutical sectors.ÊÊ
Confluent Photonics Corp.
Salem, N,.H.
All three investors participatedin company’s $11M Series A in December 2000.
Watertown, Mass.
Makes software to create radio frequency ID networks.
Los Gatos, Calif.
Fabless chipmaker with new wireless architecture. Bob Ackerman of Allegis, Wes Raffel of ATV and Greg Galanos of Mobius joined the board.
Denver, Colo.
Combines RF ID technology with logistics soft ware to manage “mobile-assets” (AKA beer kegs)
Cupertino, Calif.
iS3 has raised $11M to date.
Cambridge, Mass.
Makes video analysis software for commercial security companies. Spawned in ’02 by Flagship.
Chicago
Abridean offers user management software. Conrad Lewis joins Abridean’s board as chairman.
Ottawa, Ontario
Software to manage IP networks.
Newton, Mass
Makes business intelligence software.
San Mateo, Calif.
Novus led round. Escend provides demand chain management software. Company founded in 1999.
San Diego, Calif.
Small-molecule cancer drugs.
San Jose, Calif.
Chairperson Carol Snell, co-founded
Aspect Communications. Investment was follow-on, bringing B round to $40M.
New York
Makes performance management software.
Has R&D in Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Montreal, Quebec
Data protection. Founded in
1994.
Austin, Texas
Makes application relationship
mgmt. software. Has raised $18.5M.
since founded in April.
New York
Makes enterprise information management software. Raised Series A of $8.8M in 2002.