Scoopler gets seeded for real-time search
Scoopler, one of the newest companies providing real-time search capabilities, has brought in a seed round somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million. Based in San Francisco, the company was backed by Avalon Ventures, XG Ventures and high-profile individual investors Ron Conway and Michael Birch.
Scoopler, which… Continue Reading
Cloudkick’s simple cloud management gets $750K
Updated
With more companies looking to move their applications onto cloud infrastructure, startups are emerging that offer services to facilitate that process. Cloudkick, for example, says it has built the easiest way manage your applications in the cloud, and it has just raised raised $750,000 in… Continue Reading
Simulmedia launches today to bolster TV show promotions
Television channels spend a staggering $10 billion every year on commercial spots promoting their own shows. Riding this wave, Simulmedia launched today to increase the relevance of these ads and ultimately boost program ratings by better engaging viewers. The brainchild of Dave Morgan — founder… Continue Reading
Awarepoint finds $13.3M for location-pinpointing platform
Location systems developer Awarepoint raked in $13.3 million in fourth-round financing to expand its domestic and international presence in the radio frequency identification (RFID) space. The San Diego company’s platform, utilizing this technology, is able to track the precise location and movement of people and things.
Cardinal… Continue Reading
Nabbr nabs $2.6M for social network marketing
Nabbr, a Chicago firm that specializes in digital marketing and widget development, brought in $2.57 million in a second round of funding from Allen & Co., Avalon Ventures and undisclosed others. The company has typically focused on widgets that market music on social networks but… Continue Reading
Investors find Chumby endearing as well with new $12.5 million round
Personal electronic devices with Internet connections are all the rage these days. A small, part touch-screen, part stuffed animal called Chumby is hands down the most endearing of these.
Chumby’s parent company, Chumby Industries, announced today a new round of financing to expand the reach of… Continue Reading
Life-science briefing: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Antibody-discovery startup Adimab raises new funding (release)
Lung-device maker Spiration gets $19M (release)
Sample-prep startup Protein Discovery pulls in $10M (release)
Inogen takes in $13M for portable oxygen device (VentureWire)
Healthcare IT concern Medaptus raises $11M for expansion (VentureWire)
Contract lab Synexis raises $14M (peHUB)
Medical-device VC firm BioStar Ventures takes… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
Featured companies: Advanced Bio-Surfaces, Ambit Biosciences, EnteroMedics, Molecular Vision, Skyline Ventures
UPDATED: Expanded items on Skyline Ventures, Ambit, and Molecular Vision, and moved EnteroMedics to a new item here.
Skyline Ventures raises $350M life-sciences fund — Skyline Ventures, a Palo Alto, Calif., VC firm, closed a $350 million fund… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Monday, Nov. 12, 2007
(UPDATED: See below.)
Featured companies: Anaptys Biosciences, Arterial Remodeling Technologies, Cambria Biosciences, CaseNet, ChemoCentryx, Ensemble Discovery, MediQuest, Piedmont Pharmaceuticals, Raven Biotechnologies, Sensys Medical, Verus Pharmaceuticals, Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals
UPDATED: Expanded items on Anaptys, Arterial Remodeling, Raven Biotech, Sensys and MediQuest. Moved ChemoCentryx and Xanodyne to a separate item.
Antibody-drug maker Raven Biotech… Continue Reading
BioVex raises $22M for cancer-killing viruses
Woburn, Mass.-based BioVex, a biotech working on new ways to attack cancer and infections, raised $22 million in a fifth funding round. Triathlon Medical Ventures led the round, joined by New Science Ventures, Forbion Capital Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Credit Agricole Private Equity, GeneChem Management, Innoven… Continue Reading
InCode BioPharmaceutics raises $2M to target autoimmunity
InCode BioPharmaceutics, a Lahaina, Hawaii, biotech targeting autoimmune and inflammatory disease, raised $2 million in a second funding round, VentureWire reports (subscription required). The funding was provided by Avalon Ventures.
InCode is developing what VentureWire vaguely describes as “therapeutic uses for certain amino-acid sequences in… Continue Reading
Vocera raises $7M more for wireless communication badges
Vocera Communications has raised another $7 million for its wearable Wireless communications badges, which let workers talk over distances via WiFi networks, VentureWire reports today (sub required).
The Cupertino company’s technology allows workers to press a button on a small badge, and ask for someone and… Continue Reading