Eureka Genomics
Hercules, Calif.
www.eurekagenomics.com
Amount/Round: $3.7M/seed
Investors: Individual investors.
Details: Develops bioinformatics analysis of sequencing data.
Saladax Biomedical Inc.
Bethlehem, Penn.
www.saladax.com
Amount/Round: $8.4M/C
Investors: Excel Venture Management (led), Golden Seeds LLC, Ben Franklin Technology Partners and the Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania.
Details: Develops diagnostic tests for the delivery of personalized medicine. The company previously raised $11.5M in funding.
Vaxart Inc.
San Francisco
www.vaxart.com
Amount/Round: $12.5M/B
Investors: Care Capital.
Details: Develops oral-delivery vaccines.
CONSUMER INTERNET
Stylesight
New York
www.stylesight.com
Amount/Round: $10M/B
Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Volition Capital (f.k.a. Fidelity Ventures.
Details: Provides fashion information online. The company previously raised $16M in funding.
Local Dirt
Madison, Wis.
www.localdirt.com
Amount/Round: NA/NA
Investors: Peak Ridge Capital.
Details: Operates an online marketplace for food products.
Posterous
San Francisco
www.posterous.com
Amount/Round: $4.4M/A
Investors: Redpoint Ventures (co-led), Trinity Ventures (co-led), SV Angel, Founder Collective, Lowercase Capital, XG Ventures and individual investors Brian Pokorny and Aydin Senkut.
Details: Operates a blog publishing platform.
TripIt Inc.
San Francisco
www.tripit.com
Amount/Round: $7M/C
Investors: Azure Capital Partners (co-led) and OATV (co-led).
Details: Provides an online travel organizer and social network. The company previously raised $6.1M, including a $5.1M Series B round from OATV, Sabre Holdings and Europeean Founders Fund.
ECOMMERCE
Kwedit Inc.
Mountain View, Calif.
www.kwendit.com
Amount/Round: $3.3M/A
Investors: True Ventures, Maples Investments and Fenwick & West.
Details: Develops a payment platform for virtual goods and social games. The company previously raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding.
Payfone Inc.
New York
www.payfone.com
Amount/Round: $6M/B
Investors: NA
Details: Develops ecommerce technology that allows users to pay for online goods via mobile devices. Bob Borchers, a partner with Opus Capital, is listed as a new board director. The company previously raised about $1.6M in a round led by RRE Ventures.
ShopIgniter Inc.
Portland, Ore.
www.shopigniter.com
Amount/Round: $3M/A
Investors: Madrona Venture Group.
Details: Develops multi-channel ecommerce software. Tom Alberg, managing director at Madrona Ventures, has joined the board.
EDUCATION
American Sentinel University
Aurora, Colo.
www.americansentinel.edu
Amount/Round: $9M/growth
Investors: JLL Partners.
Details: Operates an online university that provides degree programs for professionals.
INTERNET
Lucid Imagination
Mountain View, Calif.
www.lucidimagination.com
Amount/Round: $10M/B
Investors: Granite Ventures, Shasta Management and Walden International.
Details: Provides open source search technologies. The company previously raised $6M in funding.
INTERNET MARKETING
DoubleVerify Inc.
New York
www.doubleverify.com
Amount/Round: $10M/B
Investors: Institutional Venture Partners (led), Blumberg Capital, First Round Capital and Genacast Ventures.
Details: Provides online advertising verification solutions., has raised $10M in Series B funding. The company raised a $3.5M Series A round in May 2009.
MED TECH
Carticept Medical Inc.
Alpharetta, Ga.
www.carticept.com
Amount/Round: $20M/B
Investors: SonoSite Inc., Domain Associates and New Enterprise Associates.
Details: Develops medical devices that help repair cartilage defects. The company previously raised about $25.55M in funding.
TransMedics Inc.
Andover, Mass.
www.transmedics.com
Amount/Round: $36M/E
Investors: Foundation Capital (co-led), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (co-led) and Flagship Ventures.
Details: Develops portable life support systems for organ transplant. In December 2008, the company canceled an $86.25M IPO, citing “market conditions.” At the time, it had raised about $90M in total VC funding from 3i Group, Tudor Investment Corp., Flagship, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Sherbrooke Partners, Alta Partners, CB Health Ventures, Posco BioVentures and Sagamore Bioventures.
MISCELLANEOUS
JimmyJane Inc.
San Francisco
www.jimmyjane.com
Amount/Round: $2M/NA
Investors: Palo Alto Investors.
Details: Manufactures sexual accessories. The company has now raised $8.3M in total funding.
PHARMACEUTICALS
Omthera Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Bedminster, N.J.
www.omthera.com
Amount/Round: $6.5M/A
Investors: Sofinnova Partners.
Details: Develops treatments for dyslipidemia, or high blood cholesterol caused by too many fatty substances in the blood.
RFID
Alien Technology Corp.
Morgan Hill, Calif.
www.alientechnology.com
Amount/Round: $10.9M/NA
Investors: Advanced Equities, New Enterprise Associates and Sunbridge Partners.
Details: Develops RFID technology. The company previously raised about $300M over nine rounds of funding.
SEMICONDUCTORS
Tilera Corp.
Santa Clara, Calif.
www.tilera.com
Amount/Round: $25M/C
Investors: Broadcom Corp., Quanta Computer and NTT Financing Corp.
Details: Operates as an ASIC fabless semiconductor company. The company previously raised $39M from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital and Walden International.
SiBeam Inc.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
www.sibeam.com
Amount/Round: $36.5M/D
Investors: Foundation Capital (led), Lux Capital, Hatteras Funds, U.S. Ventures Partners and New Enterprise Associates.
Details: Develops semiconductor systems solutions for wireless communications platforms. The company previously raised more than $80M.
SOFTWARE
SensAble Technologies Inc.
Woburn, Mass.
www.sensable.com
Amount/Round: $8M/NA
Investors: HLM Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
Details: Provides 3D touch-enabled digital solutions for commercial software development. The company has now raised $38M in total VC funding since 1996.
1010data
New York
www.1010data.com
Amount/Round: $35M
Investors: Norwest Venture Partners.
Details: Provides analytics, data publishing and warehousing services. The company was founded in 2000 and does not appear to previously have taken institutional funding. Jon Kossow, a partner with Norwest Venture Partners, is listed as a board member.
STORAGE
RainStor Inc.
San Francisco
www.rainstor.com
Amount/Round: $7.5M/B
Investors: Storm Ventures (co-led), Informatica (co-led), Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and The Dow Chemical Co.
Details: Provides online information storage services. The company also maintains an office in the United Kingdom.
Scale Computing Inc.
Indianapolis
www.scalecomputing.com
Amount/Round: $9M/B
Investors: Benchmark Capital (led), Blue Chip Venture Co., CID Equity and Spring Mill Venture Partners.
Details: Provides end-to-end mid-market clustered storage solutions.
VIDEO
SeaWell Networks Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
www.seawellnetworks.com
Amount/Round: $7M/A
Investors: BDC Venture Capital (led), Northwater Intellectual Property Fund and Ontario Centres of Excellence.
Details: Provides Internet video distribution products.
WIERLESS COMMUNICATIONS
ActiveTrak Inc.
Portland, Ore.
www.activetrak.com
Amount/Round: NA/A
Investors: ProtectCell.
Details: Provides mobile endpoint security solutions.
Cardagin Networks Inc.
Charlottesville, Va.
www.cardagin.com
Amount/Round: $1M/A
Investors: Undisclosed individual investors.
Details: Develops a mobile marketing platform.
Kineto Wireless Inc.
Milpitas, Calif.
www.kineto.com
Amount/Round: $9M/E
Investors: Oak Investment Partners, Motorola, Sutter Hill Ventures, Venrock and Seapoint Ventures
Details: Develops wireless infrastructure software for cellular phones. The funding is the first close of a $15M fifth-round of funding, according to a regulatory filing. The company previously raised about $103M in total funding since 2001 from Oak Investment Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Venrock, Seapoint Ventures, Motorola and InterDigital Communications Corp.
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