Direct Flow Medical takes $40M for heart valve treatments

Direct Flow Medical, maker of a minimally-invasive device to treat heart valve disease, has raised $40 million of a targeted $42.5 million third round of venture funding, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Santa Rosa, Calif., the company is backed by Johnson… Continue Reading

Sonoma secures $12M to heal wrist, clavicle fractures

Sonoma Orthopedic, maker of a device used to mend wrist and clavicle fractures, has raised $12 million in a third round of funding to commercialize its first two products, reports VentureWire. Based in Santa Rosa, Calif., the company’s flagship offering is the WaviBody — a… Continue Reading

IntelePeer raises $18M for telephony-Web platform

IntelePeer raises $18M for telephony-Web platform

IntelePeer a Silicon Valley company that offers technology to make calls from within Web applications to phones or other devices, has raised $18 million in a third round of venture capital funding led by VantagePoint Venture Partners.

IntelePeer is somewhat like Ribbit, another Silicon Valley company… Continue Reading

TheFunded delivers subpoenaed documents

TheFunded, the VC-review site that was recently subponaed by EDF Ventures, says it has handed over the requested documents — and, amusingly, site owner Adeo Ressi decided to videotape himself as he delivered the documents to the Oakland offices of EDF’s attorneys.

During the video, Ressi… Continue Reading

Analysts: EDF Ventures’ deal terms aren’t that harsh

Analysts: EDF Ventures’ deal terms aren’t that harsh

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In the wake of EDF Ventures‘ subpoena demanding information about one of its critics on controversial VC-rating site TheFunded, more scathing commentary about the Ann Arbor, Michigan firm has come to light. For example, the commenter targeted by EDF says the firm has “very harsh… Continue Reading

Subpoenaed documents at TheFunded reveal more negative commentary about EDF Ventures

Subpoenaed documents at TheFunded reveal more negative commentary about EDF Ventures

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Venture capital firm EDF Ventures last week subpoenaed the Web site TheFunded, demanding information about a person who left negative comments about EDF.

This evening, VentureBeat has exclusively obtained documents requested by the subpoena. TheFunded’s owner, Adeo Ressi, will likely hand over these documents to the… Continue Reading

Life-science briefing: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Life-science briefing: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Oxford NanoLabs takes in £10M for sequencing tech (PDF release)
Alure Medical raises $4.5M for plastic-surgery implants (release)
Bone-disease biotech Therosteon spins out of research institute, raises funds (PDF release)
Genome-analysis toolmaker BioTrove files for $75M IPO (Edgar)
RNAi developer Tekmira acquires Protiva, ends litigation (release)

Oxford NanoLabs takes… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Friday, Oct. 19, 2007

Life sciences briefing: Friday, Oct. 19, 2007

Featured companies: DirectFlow, Direvo, Indigo Biosystems, MacroGenics

Direct Flow raises $27M for heart-valve implants — Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Direct Flow Medical, a startup developing heart implants, raised $27 million in a second funding round. Investors included Johnson & Johnson Development, Foundation Medical Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners, ePlanet,… Continue Reading

RockeTalk raises $7.1M for mobile phone messaging tools

RockeTalk, a San Diego-based developer of software that combines all mobile phone messaging tools into a single application, has raised around $7.1 million in a first round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Wire.

Backers include iSherpa Ventures, EDF Ventures and… Continue Reading

Sonoma Orthopedics raises at least $10M for spinal devices

Sonoma Orthopedics, a stealthy spinal-device maker in Santa Rosa, Calif., raised at least $10 million in a second funding round, VentureWire reports. The company raised $3 million in a first round last April.

Sonoma Orthopedics is at work on devices that repair or reinforce bones from… Continue Reading

Greenplum, and the Web 2.0 server

Greenplum, and the Web 2.0 server

Greenplum, a San Mateo company offering businesses an affordable way to sort though hundreds of terabytes of data to become more intelligent about their customers’ habits, has raised $19 million in financing.

Greenplum is significant because it says it provides a database for speedy data warehousing… Continue Reading