Phreesia raises $11.6M to make waiting-room clipboards obsolete
Phreesia, maker of electronic tablets to replace those pesky intake clipboards at doctors’ offices, announced today that it brought in $11.6 million in a round led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries. This brings the New York company’s total capital raised to $25… Continue Reading
Extreme Reach grabs $1.5M for video advertising
Extreme Reach, a company that integrates advertisements into digital videos across web, television and mobile platforms, just brought in $1.5 million in first-round funding to build its sales and marketing operations.
Based in Needham, Mass., the firm effectively holds clients’ hands through the process from the… Continue Reading
Qteros readies for near-term cellulosic ethanol production
A technology that might offer some respite to first-generation ethanol makers like Verasun and Pacific Ethanol has received a significant $25 million from backers including oil giant BP and George Soros’s investment fund. The company in question is Qteros, formerly called SunEthanol, a little-known startup… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Monday, Sept. 17, 2007
Featured companies: Bioptigen, Echo Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Intrinsic Therapeutics, Microbia, Phreesia, Sontra Medical, TransMedics, Xanthus Pharmaceuticals
[NOTE: This is a catchup briefing, posted on 9/28/07. I've adjusted the item's timestamp to keep the briefings in chronological order. --D.P.H.]
Patient-info digitizer Phreesia takes in $10.3M — Phreesia, a New York… Continue Reading
Pogo Jet files to go public, despite having no revenue
Pogo Jet, a Chicopee, Mass., provider of a private jet charter service, filed to go public and raise $103.5 million.
Remarkably, the company wants to do so despite having no revenue. It won’t even launch its service until 2009, and is still awaiting government approval. Its… Continue Reading
SunEthanol, latest cellulosic ethanol company, raises round
SunEthanol, an Amherst, Mass. biofuels technology company, said it has raised a first round of funding to commercialize the so-called “Q Microbe,” a natural bacteria that helps convert cellulose into ethanol.
VeraSun Energy, Battery Ventures and Long River Ventures, led the investment, the amount of… Continue Reading