Education.com brings in $5.3M for online education and parenting advice
Education.com Holdings, a web site providing information — mostly for parents — on various education and child-raising topics (from bullying to financing college tuition), has raised $5.3 million in second-round preferred stock, reports VentureWire.
Last year, the Redwood City, Calif., company snagged $9.75 million in a… Continue Reading
Trip-planning site TravelMuse zooms ahead with $2M
TravelMuse, a web site and widget maker that allows users to make, save and book elaborate travel plans, has raised $2 million of an anticipated $3.9 million in debt and equity funding, according to VentureWire. Based in Los Altos, Calif., the company gained $517,000 of… Continue Reading
Newly-formed Blade Games raises $4M for cheaper developer tools
Blade Games, the result of last month’s merger between developer tool provider Digini and game outsourcing company Vyk Games, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding led by California Technology Ventures.
The new entity provides a video game development platform, called Blade3D; an… Continue Reading
TravelMuse launches new widget, scores $600K
It’s a good week for trip planning website TravelMuse. It launched its first application, the TravelMuse Plan-It!, which allows users to collect travel information from a range of sites in one centralized location — and then share it with their friends. On top of that,… Continue Reading
Digini raises round for tools that can broaden game development
Digini has raised a first round of funding to make software tools that let hobbyist, independent or professional game developers be more productive when designing complex 3-D game environments.
The amount of the investment by California Technology Ventures wasn’t disclosed. The idea is to lift the… Continue Reading
Education.com scores $9.75 million in second round of funding
Online education portal Education.com will announce a total of $9.75 million in its second round of financing today, VentureBeat has learned. The site seeks to become a one-stop destination for parents looking for online answers about their children’s education.
The site’s main appeal lies in its… Continue Reading
TravelMuse launches a good looking vacation recommendations site
Are you looking to take a vacation with a specific purpose, say bird-watching? If so, perhaps you should check out TravelMuse, a new vacation recommendation site that launched this week.
The site, which has one of the better looking user interfaces of any travel site that… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007
Featured companies: AngioScore, Forsight Labs, Genoptix, Metastatix, Optherion, QLT
UPDATED: See below.
Artery opener AngioScore pulls in $30M — AngioScore, a Fremont, Calif., maker of balloon catheters used to open up clogged arteries, raised $30 million in a fifth funding round. Investors included Telegraph Hill Partners, Psilos Group Management,… Continue Reading
Ceregene: Catching an updraft in gene therapy
(UPDATED: See below.)
Ceregene, a San Diego biotech at work on a gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease, has so far raised $28 million in a third funding round and last week struck a development partnership with Genzyme that resulted in a $25 million up-front payment and potential… Continue Reading
SurgRx, a company that seals human tissue, raises $20M (video)
SurgRx, a Redwood City, Calif. maker of technology that uses heat and electric current to seal human tissue for medical purposes, has raised $20 million in fifth round of financing, VentureWire is reporting (sub required).
Hedge fund Magnetar Capital led the round, which included backers Alta… Continue Reading
Health Hero raises $16M for web-based home monitoring technology
Health Hero Network, a Redwood City start-up that provides a Web-based technology for people to monitor chronic health problems from their home, has raised $16 million in a second round of funding.
The product is called the Health Buddy System. The investment was led by existing… Continue Reading