Adura Technologies Inc.
San Francisco
www.aduratech.com
Amount/Round: $12M/NA
Investors: NGEN Partners (led), VantagePoint Venture Partners and Claremont Creek Ventures.
Details: Develops wireless lighting management systems for offices and other commercial facilities. The company raised a $5M Series A round in late 2008.
CFX Battery Inc.
Pasadena, Calif.
www.cfxbattery.com
Amount/Round: $14.2M/B
Investors: CMEA Capital, Harris & Harris, Schlumberger and US Venture Partners.
Details: Develops primary and rechargeable batteries enabled by nanotechnology. The company says it has now raised $29.4M in total VC funding.
ecoATM
San Diego
www.ecoATM.com
Amount/Round: NA/Series A
Investors: Tao Venture Partners and individual investor Jens Molba.
Details: Develops automated kiosks for recycling consumer electronics. The funding is the first close on the Series A, which is expected to close within the next month or two, according to the company. Investor Jens Molba, who has joined ecoATM’s board of directors, is the founder of Coinstar.
Enerkem Technologies Inc.
Montreal
www.enerkem.com
Amount/Round: $54M/NA
Investors: Waste Management Inc., Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, BDR Capital and Cycle Capital.
Details: Develops synthetic gas and other alternative fuels.
General Compression Inc.
Newton, Mass.
www.generalcompression.com
Amount/Round: $17M/A
Investors: US Renewables Group (led) and Duke Energy.
Details: Develops compressed air energy storage systems for commercial-scale wind power systems.
EDUCATION
Eleutian Technology LLC
Ten Sleep, Wyo.
www.eleutian.com
Amount/Round: $10M/NA
Investors: Cheyenne Capital Fund.
Details: Provides online English education to students in Asia. Bob Grady of Cheyenne has joined the board.
Moonshoot
Palo Alto, Calif.
www.moonshoot.com
Amount/Round: $6.6M/A
Investors: Alsop Louie Ventures, TL Ventures and Presidio Ventures.
Details: Develops an online gaming experience for teaching English to children. The company also announced that Tom Kalinske, former CEO and chairman of Leapfrog, was named executive chairman.
MyEdu
Austin, Texas
www.myedu.com
Amount/Round: $5.5M/B
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures.
Details: Provides online tools to help students manage the process of obtaining a college degree.
GAMING
Ngmoco
San Francisco
www.ngmoco.com
Amount/Round: $25M/C
Investors: Institutional Venture Partners (led), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners and Maples Investments.
Details: Develops gaming software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The company has now raised about $44M in funding.
INTERNET
Currensee Inc.
Boston
www.currensee.com
Amount/Round: $8M/B
Investors: North Bridge Venture Partners (led) and Egan-Managed Capital.
Details: Operates an online trading network. The company raised a $6M Series round in October from North Bridge.
EveryScape Inc.
Waltham, Mass.
www.everyscape.com
Amount/Round: $6M/C
Investors: SK Telecom Americas (led), Dace Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Details: Develops virtual platforms for viewing destinations. The company has now raised about $20M in total funding.
INTERNET MARKETING
Dukky LLC
New Orleans
www.dukky.com
Amount/Round: NA/B
Investors: LongVue Capital.
Details: Provides online marketing software services. The company previously raised $3M in funding.
MED TECH
Pulmonx Corp.
Redwood City, Calif.
www.pulmonx.com
Amount/Round: $32M/NA
Investors: HealthCap (co-led), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (co-led), DeNovo Ventures, Latterell Venture Partners, MedVenture Associates, Montreux Equity Partners and POSCO BioVentures.
Details: Develops medical devices for the treatment of patients with severe emphysema. The company has now raised about $65M in funding.
Seahorse Bioscience, Inc.
Billerica, Mass.
www.seahorsebioscience.com
Amount/Round: $5M/D
Investors: Commonwealth Capital Ventures, FLIR Systems Inc, Rock Maple Ventures, Life Sciences Partners, Oxford Bioscience Partners, Healthcare Ventures, New Science Ventures and HLM Venture Partners.
Details: Develops medical instrument for biological research and drug discovery. The company has now raised about $30M in funding.
MEDIA
Clicker Media Inc.
Los Angeles
www.clicker.com
Amount/Round: $11M/B
Investors: Jafco Ventures (led), Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.
Details: Operates a programming guide portal for Internet television.
Vook
Alameda, Calif.
www.vook.com
Amount/Round: $2.5M/seed
Investors: Maples Investments, Baseline Ventures, Founder Collective and individual investors Ron Conway and Kenneth Lerer.
Details: Operates as a digital publisher that mixes media including text, video, pictures, social media and links.
SEMICONDUCTORS
Luminus Devices Inc.
Billerica, Mass.
www.luminus.com
Amount/Round: $19M/F
Investors: Argonaut Private Equity, Braemar Energy Ventures, Paladin Capital Group and Stata Venture Partners.
Details: Develops LED products for display and illumination applications. The company raised a $72M Series E round in early 2008.
Quantenna Communications Corp.
Fremont, Calif.-
www.quantenna.com
Amount/Round: $15M/D
Investors: Grazia Equity, Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, Southern Cross, Swisscom and Venrock.
Details: Operates as a fabless maker of wireless chipsets. The company has now raised about $64M in total VC funding.
SOFTWARE
Pano Logic Inc.
Menlo Park, Calif.
www.panologic.com
Amount/Round: $20M/C
Investors: Mayfield Fund (LED), Goldman Sachs and Foundation Capital.
Details: Develops virtual desktop hardware and software to enable server-based computing. The company previously raised more than $24M in funding from Foundation Capital and Goldman Sachs.
VMOps Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
www.vmops.com
Amount/Round: $8.8M/B
Investors: Redpoint Ventures
Details: Develops software that allows enterprises and service providers to build Infrastructure as a Service clouds. The funding is the first close of an $11M Series B round, according to a regulatory filing. The company previously raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures.
TRANSPORTATION
GreenRoad Technologies Inc.
Redwood Shores, Calif.
www.greenroad.com
Amount/Round: $10M/NA
Investors: Generation Investment Management.
Details: Develops driver safety technologies that also aim to reduce fuel consumption. The company previously raised about $32.5M from Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Amadeus Capital Partners and Balderton Capital.
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