Intuitive Surgical buys NeoGuide for less invasive surgical tech

Intuitive Surgical, provider of large robotic surgical equipment, announced its acquisition of NeoGuide Systems, a San Jose, Calif., company that makes minimally invasive surgical devices. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Intuitive says it doesn’t have a specific application for NeoGuide’s technology… Continue Reading

Compliance software maker Autonomic fails to rebrand, shutters

Autonomic Networks, the very recently reinvented version of Vernier Networks, has finally given up the ghost after failing to raise a new round of capital. The Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of software that monitored compliance with network security protocols had just launched a beta of… Continue Reading

Strix strings together funds for wi-fi expansion

Strix Systems, a Calabasas, Calif. provider of wi-fi equipment, announced that it raised an undisclosed round of strategic investments to fuel expansion of its mesh-like wireless networks nationwide and overseas. To this end, it has already established a toehold in Africa with six networks of… Continue Reading

Replay Solutions wins $2M to bust software errors

Replay Solutions, developer of software that detects errors in other applications running on your computer, pulled in an extra $2 million today in what is now a $13 million second round of financing. The bump came from UV Partners, which joined previous investors Hummer Winblad,… Continue Reading

Content delivery platform Conviva raises $20M in new funding, but won’t talk about the technology

Content delivery platform Conviva raises $20M in new funding, but won’t talk about the technology

Conviva, a San Mateo, Calif. company that was formerly called Rinera Networks, has raised a substantial $20 million in new funding. But, as the headline notes, they don’t want to give the details on why they’re able to attract so much — short of making… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007

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

Life sciences briefing: Monday, Sept. 10, 2007

Life sciences briefing: Monday, Sept. 10, 2007

Featured companies: BioVascular, Carefx, ClinResearch, Healthcare Management Directions, NanoCor, OxyPlus, Revitus, Spotlight Surgical, United BioSource

UPDATED: See below.

Healthcare IT provider Carefx pulls in $17.9M — Carefx, a Scottsdale, Ariz., provider of hardware and software that “aggregates” patient records, has raised $17.85 million in a third funding round, Private… Continue Reading

Venafi raises $5M to offer meta-encryption service for large companies

Venafi, a company that says it is the first to offer large companies a service that manages all of their encryption technologies, has raised a $5 million second round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Foundation Capital.

This brings the company’s total to… Continue Reading