FastScale secures $5.5M for cloud management
FastScale Technology, a provider of tools for managing virtual computing environments and data centers, has raised $5.5 million in a second round of funding from ATA Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures, Hunt Ventures and an undisclosed corporate investor.
Based in Santa Clara, Calif., the company’s flagship software, FastScale… Continue Reading
Innography raises $6.5M for patent management and research
Innography, a startup that helps companies manage their intellectual property, has raised $6.5 million in a first round of funding. Austin Ventures led the round, and Hunt Ventures (the initial seed investor) participated.
Austin, Tex.-based Innography says it matches patent and business data to generate sales… Continue Reading
Athenix raises $10M for biofuels and specialty chemicals
Athenix, a Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based maker of processes and products for agricultural and bioenergy applications, has raked in $10 million from existing investors Hunt Ventures, Intersouth Partners and Polaris Venture Partners, reports PEHub.
The company sells genes and enzymes that can be used to… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Jan. 17, 2007
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
TransEnterix gets $21M for minimally invasive GI surgery (release)
Stem-cell developer Bioheart’s IPO postponed (Forbes.com)
Medical-practice software provider AdvancedMD acquired by Francisco Partners (release)
Peptimmune draws $8.2M for MS drug trials (release)
Drug-delivery co. Talima Thera names Martin Babler CEO (release)
Alimera Sciences aims for autumn IPO to fund… Continue Reading
Keibi, for busting porn on social networks
As social networks grow around the globe and across demographics, so to will the amount of user-generated pornographic images on those networks.
Keibi has a solution: It is launching power tools for porn-spotting and removal. It wants to help social networks enforce the decency standards they… Continue Reading
Keibi to harness user-generated content, after seeing chaos at Piczo
Keibi is a new San Francisco company that wants to help social networking sites mange the massive, chaotic flood of user-generated information they get.
Pierre Grenier, who worked briefly at fast-growing San Francisco social network Piczo, saw the pain it and other companies had dealing with… Continue Reading
ZenZui, offering rich “visual” mobile applications
Zenzui is a significant new spin-out out from Microsoft that delivers rich mobile applications — from Amazon, to Traffic.com and travel site Kayak — to your mobile phone.
Zenzui is still in closed testing mode, and will be distributed more widely beginning this summer.
So far,… Continue Reading