Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008

Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES

Sonoma Ortho names Glen Coleman as CEO, preps launch of bone implant (VentureWire)
TechniScan draws $13M for ultrasound CT scanners (release)
OrbiMed plans $150M Asian life-science fund (VentureWire)
Accelerated Tech pulls in $47M, aims for $125M in second med-tech fund (VentureWire)
Amedisys buys out TLC Health Care for… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007

Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

India’s Perfint, medical-device co., raises $3.5M (release)
Source MDx strikes Pfizer partnership to ID cancer, inflammation “fingerprints” (release)
Columbia River Resources acquires pharma RFID maker Traxxec (release)

India’s Perfint, medical-device co., raises $3.5M – Perfint, a Chennai, India-based producer of medical equipment, raised $3.5 million in a new… Continue Reading

MPM says the game is afoot in India

MPM says the game is afoot in India

MPM Capital, a VC firm headquartered in Boston and South San Francisco, Calif., wants to put Indian life-science firms on notice that it’s comin’ a-huntin’. The VC firm told reporters for VentureWire, Reuters and others that it plans to actively pursue equity investments in privately… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007

Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007

Featured companies: AxoGen, Cognition Therapeutics, Ester Neurosciences, Gene Security Network, HealthTalk, MPM Capital, Revolution Health, SparkPeople

UPDATING: Expanded items on AxoGen, Ester and Cognition. Posted full items on MPM (link) and Gene Security Network (link).

AxoGen raises $12M for nerve regeneration — AxoGen, an Alachua, Fla., biotech focused on… Continue Reading

Roundup: Digg’s deal, Facebook, Stage6, AideRSS, Toyota’s plug-in, Google & more

Roundup: Digg’s deal, Facebook, Stage6, AideRSS, Toyota’s plug-in, Google & more

Here’s the latest action:

Digg, the news-ranking site, signs big advertising deal with Microsoft — It is similar to the one signed by Facebook with Microsoft, says co-founder Kevin Rose.

Divx to spin off its Stage6 video-sharing site: Stage6, a site featuring user-created videos that uses technology from… Continue Reading

MPM goes after Indian healthcare companies

MPM Capital, a San Francisco venture capital firm focused on healthcare investments, has partnered with Indian biotechnology company Reliance Life Sciences to invest in India.

VentureWire has the story (sub required), and says it is significant because it is one of the first commitments to healthcare… Continue Reading

Wikia’s coffers, Browster dies, closed Dash, Techdirt’s $, and RepoMan Redux

Wikia’s coffers, Browster dies, closed Dash, Techdirt’s $, and RepoMan Redux

Roundup of the latest Silicon Valley action:

Browster, dies — The web 2.0 carnage is beginning to pile up. This week’s casualty is San Francisco’s Browster, the company that wanted to save you time by popping up a little image of a page when you scrolled over… Continue Reading

MakeMyTrip, Indian travel site, raises $13M, joins all the other Indian travel sites

MakeMyTrip.com, the Indian travel site, has raised $13 million in a second round of funding amid robust growth, according to The Economic Times.

Helion Ventures and Sierra Ventures, and existing backer Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) invested $6 million, $4 million and $3 million, respectively, the… Continue Reading