More greenhouse gas monitoring — Clear Standards lands first funding
With a carbon cap and trade now a near certainty for the United States, investors are rushing to fund companies that will help create the market. A Sterling, Va. company called Clear Standards is the latest, with a new $4 million for an inventory system… Continue Reading
DigitalBridge lands $16.5M for rural wireless growth
Wireless broadband provider DigitalBridge Communications snagged $16.5 million in a third round of funding, including $8.5 million in debt. The money will be used to scale the business, which focuses on expanding wireless broadband services to rural areas.
The three-year-old company has established service in 15… Continue Reading
Amidst the cacophony of music start-ups, ReverbNation echoes
While grinning investment bankers, safe pension funds and good returns from tech stocks may be hard to come by for the foreseeable future, the world does not lack start-ups promising to help indie musicians. Among them, ReverbNation, which has just raised $3 million, looks like… Continue Reading
SGN, on quest for social gaming revenue, raises $15 million
Social Gaming Network, or SGN, is one of the more promising companies exploiting Facebook’s platform. It builds “social games” — online games that use friend relationships and other social data from social networks to deliver more compelling games.
It’s promising because it wants to straddle the… Continue Reading
DigitalBridge Communications raises $20M for rural broadband
Whether WiMAX will ever appear from major providers like Sprint is uncertain, but DigitalBridge thinks it can effectively sell the service by offering it to small rural communities.
The company plans on serving markets with fewer than 150,000 residents, of which there are quite a few,… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Monday, Nov. 19, 2007
Featured companies: Alere Medical, AorTx, BioMedical Innovations, Cavidi, Centice, Integrated BioPharma, Oxitech, Nastech
UPDATED: Expanded items on Centice, AorTx and Alere Medical.
Centice raises $11M for drug-safety technology — Centice, a Morrisville, N.C., developer of computer-sensor systems, raised $11 million in a second funding round. Investors included S-Group Direct… Continue Reading