Living Proof Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.
www.livingproof-inc.com
Amount/Round: $7M/A
Investors: Polaris Venture Partners.
Details: A biomaterials startup. The company, f.k.a. Andora Inc., is led by President Amir Nashat, who joined Polaris last year as a general partner.
Quanterix Corp.
Cambridge, Mass.
www.quanterix.com
Amount/Round: $15M/A
Investors: Arch Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Flagship Ventures.
Details: Develops technology that enables digital detection of proteins, nucleic acids and enzyme activities.
CLEANTECH
AVA Solar
Ft. Collins, Colo.
www.avasolar.com
Amount/Round: $104M/C
Investors: DCM (led), Technology Partners, GLG Partners, Bohemian Cos., Invus LP.
Details: Develops thin-film photovoltaic modules. The company has now raised $155M since June 2007.
MIOX Corp.
Albuquerque, N.M.
www.miox.com
Amount/Round: $19M/C
Investors: DCM (led), Sierra Ventures, Flywheel Ventures
Details: Provides water treatment systems. The company has now raised about $44M since 2005.
Nexterra Energy Corp.
Vancouver, Canada
www.nexterra.ca
Amount/Round: $3.5M/D
Investors: ARC Financial Corp.
Details: Develops gasification systems that use waste fuels. Since 2004, the company has now raised about $19M from ARC Financial, its sole investor.
Solazyme Inc.
South San Francisco
www.solazyme.com
Amount/Round: $45.4M/D
Investors: Braemar Energy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, The Roda Group, Harris & Harris Group.
Details: Develops biofuels through the use of microalgae. The company has now raised about $54M in total funding.
Xunlight Corp.
Toledo, Ohio
www.xunlight.com
Amount/Round: $11M/C
Investors: Rabo Ventures (led), Trident Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures.
Details: Develops low-cost and flexible thin-film silicon solar modules. The company had previously raised $29M.
COMMUNICATIONS
Anagran Inc.
Redwood City, Calif.
www.anagran.com
Amount/Round: $8.5M/D
Investors: Advanced Technology Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ArrowPath Venture Capital.
Details: Develops high-capacity flow management routers. The funding is the first close of an expected $11.6M Series D round, according to a regulatory filing. The company previously raised about $45M.
Expand Networks Inc.
Roseland, N.J.
www.expand.com
Amount/Round: $8.5M/NA
Investors: Intel Capital.
Details: Provides WAN compression and acceleration appliances. The company previously raised more than $60M from America Online, Comcast Interactive Capital, DIC, Federated Kaufman Fund, Omninet Capital, RBC Capital Markets, Tamir Fishman Ventures and Robeco Investment Management.
CONSUMER INTERNET
The Active Network
San Diego
www.activenetwork.com
Amount/Round: $80M/F
Investors: ESPN, Canaan Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Performance Equity Partners.
Details: Operates an online community for the active lifestyle market. The company has now raised a VC round each of the past four years, including a $67M Series E deal last summer and a $35M Series D deal in 2006 at a pre-money valuation of about $200M (which included $20M from ESPN).
Rocket Paper Scissors
San Francisco
www.dizzyworld.com
Amount/Round: $1M/A
Investors: European Founders Fund.
Details: Operates a social networking website for children. The company, a.k.a. Dizzyworld, previously raised an undisclosed funding round from Charles River Ventures.
Picateers Inc.
San Mateo, Calif.
www.picateers.com
Amount/Round: $6.6M/A
Investors: Norwest Venture Partners.
Details: Provides an online photo sharing service for schools’ portrait programs.
SpeedDate.com
San Mateo, Calif.
www.speeddate.com
Amount/Round: $6M/B
Investors: Menlo Ventures.
Details: Operates an online speed dating service. The company had raised a $2.6M Series A round last year.
ENTERTAINMENT & RECREATION
Ngmoco
San Francisco
www.ngmoco.com
Amount/Round: $5.6M/A
Investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (led), Maples Investments.
Details: Publishes games for the iPhone. The deal was announced in July, but the dollar amount was recently disclosed. Bing Gordon, KPCB partner and former chief creative officer of Electronic Arts, has joined the board.
Webcarzz Inc.
San Francisco
URL NA
Amount/Round: $4M/A
Investors: Meakem Becker Venture Capital.
Details: Develops multiplayer online games. The company has partnered with San Rafael, Calif.-based Mind Control Software Inc. for game development.
INTERNET
MoFuse
Providence, R.I.
www.mofuse.com
Amount/Round: NA/seed
Investors: The Slater Technology Fund.
Details: Provides mobile publishing solutions for bloggers.
ReputationDefender
Redwood City, Calif.
www.reputationdefender.com
Amount/Round: $2.6M/A
Investors: European Founders Fund, Maples Investments, RP/JA Investments.
Details: Provides online name-monitoring and protection services. The company—which was founded in Louisville, Ky., in 2006, but moved to California later that year—raised less than $1M in angel-backed seed money before this latest round of funding.
Space Pencil Inc.
Emeryville, Calif.
URL NA
Amount/Round: $800K/A
Investors: True Ventures, SoftTech VC.
Details: Provides Web analytics. The company is run by Neil Patel and Hamit Shah, who both were previously with Advantage Consulting Services and Crazy Egg.
INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS
WildBlue Communications Inc.
Greenwood Village, Colo.
www.wildblue.com
Amount/Round: $50M/NA
Investors: Liberty Media, Intelsat, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
Details: Provides broadband Internet-over satellite services in rural United States.
INTERNET MARKETING
Adisn Inc.
Long Beach, Calif.
www.adisn.com
Amount/Round: $1M/A
Investors: Battery Ventures.
Details: Operates an online ad network.
Brand.net
San Mateo, Calif.
www.brand.net
Amount/Round: $10M/B
Investors: Norwest Venture Partners, InterWest Partners.
Details: Operates an online network focused on brand advertising. Robert Abbott, general partner of Norwest Venture Partners, has joined the board.
Demandbase
San Francisco
www.demandbase.com
Amount/Round: $8M/B
Investors: Sigma Partners (led), Altos Ventures, Adobe Systems.
Details: Provides lead generation and marketing list-building solutions as a pay-as-you-go service. The company had previously raised $3.3 million.
Mall Networks
Lexington, Mass.
www.mallnetworks.com
Amount/Round: $7M/B
Investors: Dace Ventures (led), Flybridge Capital Partners, Venture Capital Fund of New England, LBO Enterprises.
Details: Provides merchant-funded online loyalty shopping solutions. The company has now raised about $14M since 2005.
MED TECH
Baxano Inc.
Mountain View, Calif.
www.baxano.com
Amount/Round: $20M/B
Investors: Kearny Venture Partners (led), Prospect Venture Partners, Three Arch Partners.
Details: Develops minimally invasive spinal devices. The company had previously raised $8.64M.
Glaukos Corp.
Laguna Hills, Calif.
www.glaukos.com
Amount/Round: $35M/D
Investors: OrbiMed Advisors, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, InterWest Partners, Domain Associates, Fjord Ventures, Montreaux Equity Partners, Versant Ventures.
Details: Develops devices for the treatment of glaucoma. The company had previously raised about $53M since 2001.
PHARMACEUTICALS
DiaKine Therapeutics
Charlottesville, Va.
www.diakine.com
Amount/Round: NA/seed
Investors: BlueTree Allied Angels.
Details: Develops drugs to treat diabetes.
Osprey Pharmaceuticals USA
San Francisco
www.ospreypharma.com
Amount/Round: $11M/A
Investors: Burrill & Co. (led), Novo Nordisk Biotech Fund, Yasuda Enterprise Development, GeneChem Therapeutics Venture Fund, BDC Venture Capital, Inc., Western Technology Seed Investment Fund.
Details: Develops protein therapeutics for treating inflammatory diseases. Jack Anthony and John Hamer of Burrill & Co.; Martial Lacroix of GeneChem; and Jean-Francois Pariseau of BDC Venture Capital have joined the board.
Proteostasis Therapeutics Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.
www.proteostasis.com
Amount/Round: $45M/A
Investors: HealthCare Ventures, Fidelity Biosciences, New Enterprise Associates, Novartis Option Fund, Genzyme Ventures.
Details: Develops small molecule therapeutics to control the body’s protein homeostasis.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Refocus Imaging Inc.
Mountain View, Calif.
www.refocusimaging.com
Amount/Round: $250K/A
Investors: Greylock.
Details: Develops digital camera technology.
SECURITY
Secure64 Software Corp.
Greenwood Village, Colo.
www.secure64.com
Amount/Round: $3.7M/A
Investors: NA
Details: Develops server security applications.
SEMICONDUCTORS
Microfabrica Inc.
Venice, Calif.
www.microfabrica.com
Amount/Round: $22.5M/B
Investors: Versant Ventures (co-led), Interwest Partners (co-led), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DynaFund Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Partech International.
Details: Develops micro-devices for medical, electronic and defense applications. The company, f.k.a. MemGen, has now raised about $62M in total VC funding since its 2000 inception.
Nusym Technology Inc.
Los Gatos, Calif.
www.nusym.com
Amount/Round: $8.1M/B
Investors: Voyager Capital (led), Draper Richards, Woodside Fund.
Details: Develops EDA software that discovers chip flaws prior to fabrication.
SOFTWARE
Correlix Ltd.
New York
www.correlix.com
Amount/Round: $8M/B
Investors: Sequoia Capital (led), Genesis Partners, Blumberg Capital, Xenia Ventures.
Details: Provides software solutions for monitoring and analyzing trading execution and market-data flows in real time.
Daptiv Inc.
Seattle
www.daptiv.com
Amount/Round: $6M/B
Investors: Bay Partners, Kennet Partners, King Street Partners, Wolf Bay Holdings.
Details: Develops collaborative project and portfolio management software. The company, f.k.a. eProject, held a $12M first close on the Series B round last year and has now raised more than $35M in funding to date.
Expressor Software
Burlington, Mass.
www.expressor-software.com
Amount/Round: $10M/B
Investors: Commonwealth Capital Ventures (led), Globespan Capital Partners, Sigma Partners.
Details: Provides semantic data integration software. Justin Perreault, general partner at Commonwealth, has joined the board.
Forerun Inc.
Waltham, Mass.
www.forerunsystems.com
Amount/Round: $1.4M/A
Investors: Massachusetts Development Technology Corp.
Details: Develops clinical workflow solutions for emergency services. The technology was developed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Schooner Information Technology Inc.
Menlo Park, Calif.
www.schoonerinfotech.com
Amount/Round: $15M/A
Investors: CMEA Ventures, Redpoint Ventures.
Details: Develops enterprise software. The company is led by Richard Busch, who previously was with Sun Microsystems as research director of computer system architecture and analysis.
STORAGE
Data Robotics Inc.
Santa Clara, Calif.
www.drobo.com
Amount/Round: $15M/D
Investors: Greylock, RRE Ventures, Sutter Hill Venture Partners.
Details: Develops data storage products. The company has now raised about $43M in funding since 2005.
VIDEO
Conviva
San Mateo, Calif.
www.conviva.com
Amount/Round: $20M/B
Investors: UV Partners (led), Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates.
Details: Provides a live media platform for online video delivery. The company, f.k.a. Rinera Networks Inc., has now raised about $38M in total funding.
Qik
San Mateo, Calif.
qik.com
Amount/Round: NA/NA
Investors: Individual investors Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Ning and Netscape) and Ben Horowitz (co-founder of Loudcloud).
Details: Provides mobile video broadcasting service. The company previously raised a $3M Series B round from individual investors Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce.com), Arjun Gupta (of Telesoft Partners) and George Garrick (of Jingle Networks).
StudioNow
Nashville, Tenn.
www.studionow.com
Amount/Round: $2.4M/A
Investors: Clayton Associates.
Details: Provides online video-creation services. The funding brings the Series A round total to $4.1M. The initial $1.7M tranche was provided by Clayton and Claritas Capital.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
JumpTap
Cambridge, Mass.
www.jumptap.com
Amount/Round: $26M/D
Investors: AllianceBernstein (led), General Catalyst Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Summerhill Venture Partners, Valhalla Partners, WPP.
Details: Develops mobile search services. The company has now raised about $70M in total VC funding.
RadioFrame Networks Inc.
Redmond, Wash.
www.radioframenetworks.com
Amount/Round: $28M/F
Investors: Plainfield Asset Management, Ignition Partners, Ericsson Venture Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners.
Details: Provides a platform for converging mobile voice and data. The company had previously raised about $78M since 2001.
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