NeoEdge Networks launches casual game channel widgets

NeoEdge Networks launches casual game channel widgets

Major portal web sites get a lot of traffic, but sometimes the visitors don’t stay for long. Video games, on the other hand, are extremely sticky. NeoEdge Networks, a start-up whose chairman is Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, is making it easy to put the two together so that visitors can play games on the big web sites and thereby stay longer.

The Mountain View, Calif., company has a casual game ad network that has been feeding… Continue Reading

NeoEdge Networks, online game advertising company, raises $3M

NeoEdge Networks Inc., a Mountain View, Calif. company that lets online game publishers find sources of advertising targeted to the game’s theme and content, has raised $3 million of a planned $8 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Wire. Return backers include Jefferson Partners and Vimac Ventures.

Combinent BioMedical Systems, a drug-delivery company, pulls in $3M

Combinent BioMedical Systems, a Cambridge, Mass., developer of a vaginal drug-delivery technology, raised $3 million in a first round of financing.

The round was led by Cytyc Development, a subsidiary of women’s health company Cytyc. Other investors include VIMAC Ventures and Commons Capital. Combinent is developing new combinations and formulations of drugs that can be administered via a permeable polymer ring fitted into the vagina.

A Cytyc release describes the financing here.