Week in deals, May 10, 2010

BIOTECH

Mirina Corp.

Seattle

www.acceleratorcorp.com/node/93

Amount/Round: NA/A

Investors: Versant Ventures (led), Alexandria Real Estate Equities, ARCH Venture Partners, OVP Venture Partners and WRF Capital.

Details: Develops microRNAtherapeutics. The company had raised a $3.6M Series A round in 2008. Brian Atwood, managing director of Versant, has joined the board.

CLEANTECH

Alphabet Energy Inc.

Berkeley, Calif.

www.alphabetenergy.com

Amount/Round: $1M/seed

Investors: Claremont Creek Ventures and the CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund.

Details: Develops inexpensive waste heat recovery technology.

EdenIQ

Visalia, Calif.

www.edeniq.com

Amount/Round: $12.3M/B

Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson (led), The Westly Group, Kleiner Perkins, Cyrus Capital, Angeleno Group, Element Partners, Morgan Stanley, Advanced Equities, Omninet and Nimes Capital.

Details: Develops biofuel yield enhancement technologies. The company previously raised more than $33M.

CLOUD

AppDynamics Inc.

San Francisco

www.appdynamics.com

Amount/Round: $11M/B

Investors: Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Details: Provides application for monitoring the performance of applications. The company has now raised $16.5M in funding.

Virtustream Inc.

Bethesda, Md.

www.virtustream.com

Amount/Round: $15M/A

Investors: Intel Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners and TDFunds.

Details: Provides virtualization technology platform. The round now stands at about $40M, including past commitments from Columbia Capital and Blue Lagoon Capital.

CONSUMER INTERNET

Assured Labor Inc.

Boston

www.assuredlabor.com

Amount/Round: $1M/seed

Investors: Nexus Venture Partners, Kima Ventures and individual investors Michael Van Swaaij (former CEO and chairman of Skype) and Fabrice Grinda (CEO of OLX.com).

Details: Develops an online and mobile marketplace for jobs in emerging markets.

Caring.com

San Mateo, Calif.

www.caring.com

Amount/Round: $4M/NA

Investors: Intel Capital.

Details: Operates an online site for family caregivers about eldercare. The company previously raised $16M from Shasta Ventures, DCM and Split Rock Partners.

Internet Pawn Inc.

Denver

www.internetpawn.com

Amount/Round: $1.5M/A

Investors: Daylight Partners and Access Ventures.

Details: Operates an online pawn shop. Rocky Mountain, a partner at Daylight Partners, has joined the board.

LivingSocial.com

Washington, D.C.

www.livingsocial.com

Amount/Round: $14M/C

Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (led), U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures and Revolution LLC.

Details: Operates a social discovery and cataloging network and provides Facebook apps Visual Bookshelf and Pick Your Five. The company previously raised $30M, including a $25M Series B round last month.

RocketLawyer

San Francisco

www.rocketlawyer.com

Amount/Round: $6.5M/NA

Investors: NA

Details: Helps users create standard legal documents via an online platform. The funding is the first close of a $7.6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The only new board member listed is Philip Dur, a managing director in the Menlo Park, Calif.-based office of Investor Growth Capital. The company previously raised capital from Lexis-Nexis. Dan Nye, former CEO of LinkedIn, took over as the company’s CEO back in March.

StackOverflow

New York

www.stackoverflow.com

Amount/Round: $6M/NA

Investors: Union Square Ventures (led) and individual investors Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, Joshua Schachter, Micah Siegel and Bob Paske.

Details: Operates a free Q&A site for programmers. The site was developed by New York based programmer Joel Spolsky, author of the blog Joel on Software.

EDUCATION

Academia.edu

Location unknown

www.academia.edu

Amount/Round: $1.6M/A

Investors: Spark Ventures (led) and individual investors, including Mark Shuttleworth (Thawte founder, Ubuntu); Thomas Lehrman (Gerson Lehrman Group co-founder) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

Details: Operates a social sharing site for academic researchers.

FINANCIAL

HelloWallet

Washington, D.C.

www.hellowallet.com

Amount/Round: $3.6M/A

Investors: Grotech Ventures and Jean and Steve Case.

Details: Operates a personal financial website.

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Alter-Eco Inc.

San Francisco

www.altereco-usa.com

Amount/Round: $2M/A

Investors: Good Capital, Serious Change Fund and Renewal2 Investment Fund.

Details: Makes organic, fair trade food products. Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, has joined the board.

HEALTH CARE

Healthline Networks

San Francisco

www.healthline.com

Amount/Round: $14M/C

Investors: Investor Growth Capital (led), Peacock Equity Fund and Reed Elsevier Ventures.

Details: Provides online health information services.

Management Health Solutions Inc.

Fairfield, Conn.

www.mhsinc.com

Amount/Round: $7M/B

Investors: Enhanced Equity Fund (led) and Radius Ventures.

Details: Provides supply chain management solutions to hospitals. The Series B investment was used to fund the company’s recent acquisition of AtPar, Inc., a provider of mobile technology solutions for managing clinical supply inventories.

Qliance Medical Management Inc.

Seattle

www.qliance.com

Amount/Round: $6M/B

Investors: Bezos Expedition (led), MSD Capital, Second Avenue Partners, New Atlantic Ventures, Clear Fir Partners and individual investor Drew Carey.

Details: Operates insurance-free direct primary care clinics in the state of Washington. The company previously raised $7.5M in funding. Bezos Expeditions is the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos; MSD Capital is the private investment firm of Michael Dell and Drew Carey is an actor and co-owner of the Seattle Sounders soccer team.

InTouch Technologies

Santa Barbara, Calif.

www.intouchhealth.com

Amount/Round: $10M/NA

Investors: Beringea (led), Galen Partners, InvestCare Partners and Twenty One East Victoria

Details: Provides remote telemedicine solutions.

INTERNET MARKETING

Enquisite Inc.

San Francisco

www.enquisite.com

Amount/Round: $5.2M/NA

Investors: Rho Canada Ventures (led), Castile Ventures, Formative Ventures, Retro Venture Partners and The Entrepreneurs’ Fund III.

Details: Provides marketing measurement and optimization solutions. The company previously raised about $9M.

Mojiva Inc.

New York

www.mojiva.com

Amount/Round: $7M/B

Investors: UV Partners (led) and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.

Details: Operates a mobile advertising network. The company previously raised $3M in funding.

Wildfire Interactive Inc.

Palo Alto, Calif.

www.wildfireapp.com

Amount/Round: NA/NA

Investors: Summit Partners (led) and individual investors Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut and Gary Vaynerchuk.

Details: Develops social media marketing software.

MEDIA

TheWrap.com

Santa Monica, Calif.

www.thewrap.com

Amount/Round: $2M/B

Investors: Maveron Capital.

Details: Operates an online news site focused on the entertainment and media markets. The company was founded by Sharon Waxman, former Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times. Ben Choi, principal of Maveron, has joined the board.

MED TECH

TearScience

Morrisville, N.C.

www.tearscience.com

Amount/Round: $44.5M/C

Investors: Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Investor Growth Capital, General Catalyst, De Novo Ventures, Spray Ventures and Quaker Bio Ventures.

Details: Develops a device to diagnose and treat chronic dry eye disease.

XOS Digital Inc.

Boston

www.xosdigital.com

Amount/Round: NA/B

Investors: NewSpring Capital, Dublin Capital, Blue Chip Venture Co. and Beechtree Capital.

Details: Provides content management and digital technology solutions for collegiate and professional sports organizations. Glenn Rieger, general partner of NewSpring, has joined the board.

NETWORKING

Infineta Systems

San Jose, Calif.

www.infineta.com

Amount/Round: $15M/A

Investors: Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners.

Details: Provides a network infrastructure.

Netronome Systems Inc.

Cranberry Township, Pa.

www.netronome.com

Amount/Round: $23M/D

Investors: DFJ Esprit, Raptor Group, Top Technology Ventures and Tudor Ventures.

Details: Provides network flow processors. DFJ Esprit also is an existing shareholder, based on its acquisition of 3i Group’s Netronome stake via a direct secondary portfolio acquisition.

REAL ESTATE

SmartZip Analytics Inc.

Pleasanton, Calif.

www.smartzip.com

Amount/Round: $4.5M/NA

Investors: Intel Capital.

Details: Provides independent investment ratings and analysis for residential real estate.

SECURITY

IronKey Inc.

Los Altos, Calif.

www.ironkey.com

Amount/Round: $22M/NA

Investors: Bridgescale Partners (led), Mohr Davidow Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures and Crosslink Capital.

Details: Provides secure portable computing solutions.

SEMICONDUCTORS

SuVolta Inc.

Los Gatos, Calif.

www.suvolta.com

Amount/Round: $22.2M/NA

Investors: NA

Details: Develops low-power CMOS semiconductor technology. Forest Baskett of New Enterprise Associates is listed as a new board member. The company previously raised just over $20M from August Capital, DAG Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

SOFTWARE

Cotendo

San Carlos, Calif.

www.cotendo.com

Amount/Round: $12M/C

Investors: Tenaya Capital (led), Benchmark Capital and Sequoia Capital.

Details: Provides content delivery and site acceleration services. The company previously raised more than $7M in funding. Tom Banahan, managing director of Tenaya Capital, has joined the board.

Fixmo Inc.

Toronto

www.fixmo.com

Amount/Round: NA/NA

Investors: iNovia Capital.

Details: Develops smart phone utility software. The company previously raised about $2M from Rho Ventures Canada and Extreme Venture Partners.

Marketo

San Mateo, Calif.

www.marketo.com

Amount/Round: $10M/C

Investors: Mayfield Fund (led), InterWest Partners and Storm Ventures.

Details: Develops lead management software. The company previously raised $22M in funding.

Proferi

San Mateo, Calif.

www.proferi.com

Amount/Round: $2M/A

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners.

Details: Develops analytics software. The funding is the first close of a $6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The stealth-mode company was co-founded by former Greylock entrepreneur-in-residence Christian Gheorghe.

Vovici

Dulles, Va.

www.vovici.com

Amount/Round: $4.6M/C

Investors: Austin Ventures and Mayfield Fund.

Details: Provides enterprise feedback management solutions. The company previously raised more than $10M in funding.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Cantaloupe Systems

San Francisco

www.cantaloupesys.com

Amount/Round: $12.4M/C

Investors: Foundation Capital and Global Environment Fund.

Details: Provides wireless technology solutions for the vending industry. The company previously raised $6M in funding.