Fisker Automotive Inc.
Irvine, Calif.
www.fiskerautomotive.com
Amount/Round: $20M/B
Investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Details: Develops a lithium-ion-based plug-in hybrid sports car. The company had announced a deal last month at the North American International Auto Show, but without a dollar figure. The company previously raised a $5.5M first round led by Palo Alto Investors. It plans to roll out its first cars at the end of the year.
BIOTECH
BioVascular Inc.
San Diego
www.biovascularinc.com
Amount/Round: $10.9M/C
Investors: BB Biotech Ventures (led), Merck KGaA, Domain Associates.
Details: Develops treatments for cardiovascular diseases. The company has now raised about $18.9M in total funding. Martin Munchbach, partner of BB Biotech, has joined the board.
NGM Biopharmaceuticals Inc.
Hillsborough, Calif.
www.ngmbio.com
Amount/Round: $25.55M/A
Investors: Column Group, Prospect Venture Partners, Rho Ventures.
Details: Develops drugs focused on metabolic diseases. The company has so far called down about $8.5M of the round, according to a regulatory filing.
CHIPS
Kotura Inc.
Monterey Park, Calif.
www.kotura.com
Amount/Round: $10M/C
Investors: GF Private Equity Group, the Viterbi Group, ComVentures, ARCH Venture Partners and individual investor Andrew Rickman (chairman of the company and co-founder of Bookham Inc.).
Details: Develops silicon-based optoelectronic integrated circuit components and modules used in fiber-optic communications equipment. David Fallace, of GF Private Equity Group, has joined the board.
Tehuti Networks
Austin, Texas
www.tehutinetworks.net
Amount/Round: NA/B
Investors: ProSeed Venture Capital Fund (led) and individual investor Ron Lachman of Lachman-Goldman Ventures.
Details: Develops solutions-on-a-chip for accelerating TCP/IP processing. The company also has offices in Israel and Taiwan.
CLEANTECH
Infinia Corp.
Kennewick, Wash.
www.infiniacorp.com
Amount/Round: $50M/B
Investors: GLG Partners (led), Wexford Capital, Vulcan Capital, Khosla Ventures, EQUUS Total Return Inc., Idealab, Power Play Energy.
Details: Develops solar thermal engine technology. The company raised $10M in a Series A round in June 2007.
COMMUNICATIONS
Voxify
Alameda, Calif.
www.voxify.com
Amount/Round: $15M/D
Investors: Intel Capital (led), El Dorado Ventures, Palomar Ventures, Sigma Partners.
Details: Develops technology for automated customer service via speech recognition. The company previously raised about $20M.
CONSUMER INTERNET
First Thirty Days Inc.
New York
www.first30days.com
Amount/Round: $5M/A
Investors: Hearst Interactive Media (led), New York City Investment Fund and individual investors, including former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons.
Details: Operates a website with online self-help content. The company was founded by CEO Ariane de Bonvoisin, who previously worked as a corporate strategist and VC at Bertelsmann, Sony and Time Warner.
Howcast Media
New York
www.howcast.com
Amount/Round: $8M/A
Investors: Tudor Investment Corp.
Details: Operates a website that features how-to videos. The company was founded by former executives of Google and YouTube.
The Point
Chicago
www.thepoint.com
Amount/Round: $4.8M/A
Investors: New Enterprise Associates.
Details: Operates a Web-based group action network based on the “tipping point” principal, providing help to organize fund-raisers, rallies and boycotts. Peter Barris, managing general partner of NEA, has joined the board.
VisualCV Inc.
Reston, Va.
www.visualcv.com
Amount/Round: $4M/A
Investors: Heidrick & Struggles, Valhalla Partners.
Details: Operates a website that helps users build online resumes.
EDA
Pyxis Technology Inc.
Santa Clara, Calif.
www.pyxistech.com
Amount/Round: $5.25M/B
Investors: KT Venture Group, Austin Ventures, CMEA Ventures, Formative Ventures.
Details: Develops EDA software for chip design and analysis. The funding brings the Series B round total to $14.45M. The company has now raised nearly $20M in total funding since July 2004.
GAMING
Rocketon Inc.
South San Francisco
www.rocketon.com
Amount/Round: $5M/B
Investors: D.E. Shaw.
Details: Develops massively multiplayer social games. The company raised $800K in a Series A funding round from Bertram Capital in August 2007. Jeffrey Drazan, managing director of Bertram Capital, sits on the board.
HEALTH CARE
OneOncology Inc.
Orlando, Fla.
www.oneoncology.com
Amount/Round: NA/B
Investors: NA
Details: Provides cancer care services.
MARKETING
Lotame Solutions
New York
www.lotame.com
Amount/Round: NA/A
Investors: Battery Ventures (led), Hillcrest Management, Betaworks.
Details: Develops advertising solutions for social networking sites.
MED TECH
Avedro Inc.
Boston
www.avredo.com
Amount/Round: $8M/A
Investors: Prism VentureWorks, Echelon Ventures, Borealis Ventures.
Details: Develops vision correction technologies.
OraMetrix Inc.
Richardson, Texas
www.orametrix.com
Amount/Round: $20M/C
Investors: Rho Ventures, CenterPoint Venture Partners, Brentwood Venture Capital, Star Ventures, Versant Ventures.
Details: Provides 3D technology solutions for orthodontic care. The company has now raised about $100M in total VC funding since 1999, including a $15M infusion in June 2000 at a PMV of nearly $50M. VentureWire reports that the latest round has a PMV $104M.
PolyRemedy Inc.
Mountain View, Calif.
www.polyremedy.com
Amount/Round: $25M/B
Investors: Advanced Technology Ventures (co-led), IDG Ventures Boston (co-led), Harris & Harris Group, MedVenture Associates.
Details: Develops a robotic system for applying point-of-care wound dressings. ATV’s Tom Rodgers and IDG’s Michael Greeley have joined the board.
OUTSOURCING
GlobalLogic Inc.
Vienna, Va.
www.globallogic.com
Amount/Round: $30M/C
Investors: Sequoia Capital India (led), New Atlantic Ventures, New Enterprise Associates.
Details: Provides outsourced engineering services for software development.
RETAIL
UpSpring
Austin, Texas
URL NA
Amount/Round: $2M/B
Investors: Individual investors, including Walter Foss, CEO of Three Meadows, and Sherman Wyman, chief financial officer of Inland American Communities.
Details: Makes products for parents, such as motion sensors for sleeping infants, for sale at Target.com and Babies “R” Us stores. The company previously raised $600K in financing.
SECURITY
Tizor Systems Inc.
Maynard, Mass.
www.tizor.com
Amount/Round: $8.3M/C
Investors: Longworth Venture Partners (led), Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Masthead Venture Partners, Navigator Technology Ventures, Common Angels.
Details: Provides enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for the data center. Nilanjana Bhowmik, partner at Longworth, has joined the board. The company has now raised about $25M in funding since April 2004.
SOFTWARE
Merlin Technologies Corp.
Dallas, Texas
www.merlintechcorp.com
Amount/Round: $10M/A
Investors: Updata Partners.
Details: Develops candidate assessment and employee development software. Ira Cohen, venture partner, and Barry Goldsmith, general partner at Updata Partners, have joined the board. The company was co-founded by Steve Sasser and Jim Buchanan, former CEO and CFO, respectively, of Peopleclick Inc.
SugarCRM
Cupertino, Calif.
www.sugarcrm.com
Amount/Round: $20M/D
Investors: New Enterprise Associates (led), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Walden International.
Details: Develops open source customer relationship management software. The company previously raised about $27M.
STORAGE
Atrato Inc.
Westminster, Colo.
www.atrato-Inc.com
Amount/Round: $18M/A
Investors: Individual investors Jesse Aweida (founder of Aweida Venture Partners and StorageTek); Tom Porter (former CTO of Seagate); Gary Gentry (senior vice president of Maxtor); and Dick Blaschke (former IBM and EMC executive).
Details: Develops a storage platform that is designed to eliminate the barriers to high-speed, high-volume data access.
LogLogic
San Jose, Calif.
www.loglogic.com
Amount/Round: $13.5M/D
Investors: Focus Ventures (led), Sequoia Capital, Telesoft Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, Invesco Private Capital.
Details: Develops log lifecycle management appliance. The company previously raised about $21M.
TECHNOLOGY
PublicEarth Inc.
San Francisco
www.publicearth.com
Amount/Round: $3M/A
Investors: Polaris Venture Partners.
Details: The company, which is still in stealth mode, is developing a database of location-specific content with an environmental component. Polaris Partner Bob Geiman has joined the board.
VIDEO
TurnHereInc.
Emeryville, Calif.
www.turnhere.com
Amount/Round: $7.5M/A
Investors: Venrock, Hearst Interactive Media.
Details: Operates an online video platform.
VOIP
VoIPshield Systems
Ottawa, Ontario
www.voipshield.com
Amount/Round: $6M/B
Investors: NOAR Group Ltd. (led), Brightspark Ventures.
Details: Develops products to secure voice communications on IP networks.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
CellFire Inc.
San Jose, Calif.
www.cellfire.com
Amount/Round: $12M/C
Investors: Silver Creek Ventures (led), Menlo Ventures, Storm Ventures.
Details: Develops a restaurant and shopping coupon service that users can download to mobile devices.
Vaultus Mobile Technologies Inc.
Boston
www.vaultus.com
Amount/Round: $6M/NA
Investors: Point Judith Capital, Susquehanna International Group, IDG Ventures San Francisco.
Details: Develops wireless data communications and mobile computing solutions. David Martirano, general partner at Point Judith Capital, has joined the board. The company has now raised about $73M in total VC funding since 1999.
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