Medsphere raises $12 million for electronic health records
Turning the U.S.’s rickety paper-based system of health records into a state-of-the-art electronic one is no pretty task.
But someone’s got to do it.
Medsphere Systems Corporation, an open-source electronic health records provider, said it raised $12 million today to meet demand from hospitals racing to keep their… Continue Reading
Twitter search engine Topsy launches with $15M
Topsy.com, launched last week, is a brand new search engine focused exclusively on Twitter content. Like Google, it presents its results based on popularity metrics, namely the popularity or influence of the tweeter in question — a factor determined by how many followers the user… Continue Reading
Tela closes $5.5M to scale semiconductor manufacturing
Tela Innovations, a Campbell, Calif. firm working to streamline semiconductor designs and manufacturing, has added three investors to close a $5.5 million third round of funding, reports VentureWire. The new backers, Cadence Design Systems, KT Venture Group and Qualcomm, join past contributors Intel Capital, AsiaTech… Continue Reading
Stealth search company Blekko gets $3M
Blekko, a stealth search company started by Topix co-founder Rich Skrenta, has raised $3 million in a second round of funding, according to TechCrunch.
Little is known about the company, and right now its website contains nothing more than a photo of, um, a puppet (see… Continue Reading
Tela Innovations funded for 45 nanometer chipmaking
Tela Innovations is a Campbell, Calif. company with a technology for manufacturing 45 nanometer chips, which have just coming to the consumer market starting with Intel’s Penryn processor.
The company uses computational lithography techniques to address a special problem encountered in the manufacture of extremely advanced… Continue Reading