Quantum Immunologics Inc.
Tampa, Fla.
www.quantumimmunologics.com
Amount/Round: $2.2M/NA
Investors: Mentor Capital.
Details: Develops cancer immunotherapies.
CLEANTECH
Advanced Telemetry
San Diego
www.advancedtelemetry.com
Amount/Round: NA/B
Investors: The Quercus Trust (led) and 21Ventures.
Details: Develops energy and resource conservation solutions.
eMeter Inc.
San Mateo, Calif.
www.emeter.com
Amount/Round: $32M/NA
Investors: Sequoia Capital (led) and Foundation Capital.
Details: Provides smart grid management software and systems.
GreenRay Inc.
Westford, Mass.
www.greenraysolar.com
Amount/Round: $2M/A
Investors: Quercus Trust (led) and 21Ventures.
Details: Develops solar technology for residential homes.
COMMUNICATIONS
Vocollect Inc.
Pittsburgh
www.vocollect.com
Amount/Round: $15M/NA
Investors: Riverside Partners.
Details: Provides voice solutions for workforce management of mobile workers.
HEALTH CARE
IntegriChain Inc.
New York
www.integrichain.com.
Amount/Round: NA/B
Investors: Milestone Venture Partners (led) and Cross Atlantic Partners.
Details: Provides data and analytics software to the pharmaceuticals industry. Morgan Rodd, general partner at Milestone, has joined the board.
MedVentive Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.
www.medventive.com
Amount/Round: $7.25M/C
Investors: Excel Venture Management (led), HLM Venture Partners and Long River Ventures.
Details: Develops software for pharmacy management and evidence-based medicine. The company has now raised more than $15M in funding since 2006. Enrico Petrillo, managing director at Excel, has joined the board. Caleb Winder, vice president at Excel, will serve as a board observer.
INTERNET
Constructive
Vancouver, British Columbia
www.constructive-media.com
Amount/Round: NA/NA
Investors: Yaletown Venture Partners.
Details: Operates a collaborative online network called Partnerpedia.
Home-Account Inc.
San Francisco
www.home-account.com
Amount/Round: NA/NA
Investors: Rembrandt Ventures and Freedom Financial Network.
Details: Provides an online mortgage finding service. The company had received seed funding from Charles River Ventures’ QuickStart program.
PriceDrip
Monroe Township, N.J.
www.pricedrip.com
Amount/Round: NA/seed
Investors: 2G Associates.
Details: Operates an online auction site.
ProtonMedia
Lansdale, Pa.
www.protonmedia.com
Amount/Round: $2.5M/A
Investors: Originate Ventures and Osage Ventures.
Details: Develops an online collaboration tool for business.
INTERNET MARKETING
Definition 6
Atlanta
www.Definition6.com
Amount/Round: $15M/NA
Investors: Navigation Capital Partners.
Details: Operates an interactive marketing agency.
Intent Media
New York
www.intentmedia.com
Amount/Round: $9M/A
Investors: Matrix Partners.
Details: The startup operates an online advertising company launched by the founding team of Site59.
Lat49
Vancouver
www.lat49.com
Amount/Round: $1.5M/A
Investors: PenderFund Capital Management (led) and Discovery Capital.
Details: The startup says it provides an online, geo-contextual advertising network. David Roberts, entrepreneur-in-residence at PenderFund, has joined the board.
MED TECH
BeneChill
San Diego
www.benechill.com
Amount/Round: $13.5M/C
Investors: HealthCap, MedVenture Associates, NGN Capital, and the Solon Foundation.
Details: Develops medical devices for treating hypothermia. The company has now raised $23.5M in funding since 2006. Johan Christenson of HealthCap has joined the board.
Oraya Therapeutics Inc.
Newark, Calif.
www.orayainc.com
Amount/Round: $42M/C
Investors: Domain Associates (co-led), Scale Venture Partners (co-led), Essex Woodlands Health Ventures and Synergy Life Partners.
Details: Develops radiation treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration, a common cause of blindness. The company previously raised $22M in funding. Mark Brooks, a managing director with Scale, and Brian Halak, a partner with Domain Associates, have joined the board.
Signostics Inc.
Palo Alto, Calif.
www.signosticsmedical.com
Amount/Round: $4M/NA
Investors: Brandon Capital Partners, Playford Capital and Terra Rossa Capital.
Details: Develops portable ultrasound devices. The company had previously raised $9M in funding.
NETWORKING
iPeak Networks
Ottawa, Ontario
www.ipeaknetworks.com
Amount/Round: NA/A
Investors: Miralta Capital.
Details: The startup provides networking technology to prevent packet loss.
PHARMACEUTICALS
Cognition Therapeutics Inc.
Pittsburgh
www.cogrx.com
Amount/Round: $1.21M/A
Investors: Ogden CAP (led), M5Invest Partners, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, Innovation Works and individual investors.
Details: Develops treatments for Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases of the human brain.
NewLink GeneticsCorp.
Ames, Iowa
www.newlinkgenetics.com
Amount/Round: $7.5M/D
Investors: NA
Details: Develops cancer vaccines and drugs that modulate the immune system.
Profectus BioSciences Inc.
Baltimore
www.profectusbiosciences.com.
Amount/Round: $5M/C
Investors: Cross Atlantic Capital Partners.
Details: Develops vaccines for chronic viral infections. The funding brings the company’s total venture capitalization to $19M.
SOFTWARE
Acquia Inc.
North Andover, Mass.
WWW.acquia.com
Amount/Round: $8M/B
Investors: North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners.
Details: Develops an open-source content management system called Drupl. The company previously raised $7M North Bridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.
Narus Inc.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
www.narus.com
Amount/Round: $8.7M/NA
Investors: American Capital, Mayfield Fund, NeoCarta Ventures, Panorama Capital and Walden International.
Details: Develops business infrastructure systems and software. The company previously raised about $105M in funding.
SlideRocket
San Francisco
www.sliderocket.com
Amount/Round: $5M/B
Investors: Azure Capital Partners (led) and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
Details: Develops online presentation software. The company has now raised more than $11M in funding since late 2007. Hummer Winblad led the company’s Series A round. In other company news, SlideRocket has named former SalesForce.com executive Chuck Dietrich as its new CEO and co-founder Mitch Grasso will assume the role of CTO.
Azure Capital Partners General Partner Ray Carey has joined the board.
STORAGE
Akiba Technologies Inc.
Boston
www.akibainc.com
Amount/Round: $6.5M/A
Investors: Foundation Capital and North Bridge Venture Partners.
Details: The company, operating in stealth mode, is developing a database virtualization solution. Steve Vassallo of Foundation and Michael Skok of North Bridge have joined the board.
VIDEO
Invodo Inc.
Austin, Texas
www.invodo.com
Amount/Round: $6M/B
Investors: Sevin Rosen Funds and S3 Ventures.
Details: Operates an online video management platform. The company previously raised $1.5M in funding.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Aloqa Inc.
Palo Alto, Calif.
www.aloqa.com
Amount/Round: $1.5M/A
Investors: Wellington Partners (led) and individual investors.
Details: Develops context-aware mobile applications.
Source: Thomson Reuters database, company websites and press release
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