Date | Title | Description |
10.12.2014 | McKesson launches new venture fund for health startups | Rodgers joins McKesson Ventures from Cambia Health, where he led their venture investing efforts targeting companies that are helping to lower cost, improve access, and improve the navigability and sustainability of the healthcare system fo... |
21.05.2014 | Evergage Banks $4M in Series A, Led by G20 Ventures | Boston's Evergage, which allows companies to track customers and respond in real-time, banked $4 million in Series A on Wednesday.
The round was led by G20 Ventures, whose co-founder Bob Hower will join the startup’s board of directors, wit... |
01.05.2014 | Morgenthaler, ATV vets team up for new $172M early-stage life science venture capital fund | Carusi said in a statement that a lively IPO market, improvements at the FDA and interest from large corporate players to invest in and acquire life science companies has created a lot of promise in the sector, making it appealing for inves... |
15.10.2013 | Thinking Phone Networks Raises $10M in Funding | Thinking Phone Networks, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of unified communications as a service (UCaaS), raised $10m in funding.
Backers included existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures.
The company inte... |
23.09.2013 | FDA removes roadblocks to medical app innovation | The United States Food and Drug Administration has finally released guidelines on how it plans to regulate thousands of new health-related smartphone applications.
After months of delaying its decision, the agency has determined that the va... |
30.04.2013 | Entrepreneurs say the FDA is killing medical innovation | Chandra Duggirala, maker of an experimental device for type two diabetes, is on the verge of giving up.
Duggirala’s company, Novobionics, raised a small amount of funding for a noninvasive technology that mimics the effects of gastric bypas... |
30.04.2013 | Entrepreneurs say the FDA is killing medical innovation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Chandra Duggirala, maker of an experimental devic... |
02.04.2013 | Aquion Energy Holds First Close of $35M Series D Financing | Aquion Energy, Inc., a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based developer and manufacturer of Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) batteries and energy storage systems, completed the first closing of a $35m Series D financing round.
The round was leading Bright ... |
02.11.2012 | Medical device/life science startups that survive the next 36 months “will be in the catbird seat” | It noted that capital commitments to US venture funds fell in the 3rd quarter of 2012 compared with the previous three months. The number of new funds increased, reducing the concentration of the new capital that was raised.
The source of t... |
25.10.2012 | Thrasos Therapeutics Completes $35M Financing | Thrasos Therapeutics, a Montreal, QC, Canada-based clinical stage, biotherapeutics company focused on the discovery and development of targeted therapies for the prevention and treatment of kidney disease, has completed a $35m financing.
Th... |
03.10.2012 | Thinking Phone Networks Raises $16.5M | Thinking Phone Networks, a Cambridge, MA-based enterprise cloud communications service provider, has raised $16.5m in funding.
The investment was led by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) and Bessemer Venture Partners.
In conjunction with t... |
25.07.2012 | Fundraising: Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair company raises $6 million | Location: San Clemente, California.
Product: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Stent-Graft to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Money raised: $6 million (earlier regulatory filings show the company raised an additional $16.5 million).
How it will ... |
12.07.2012 | Xconomist of the Week: ATV’s Bob Hower on “A” Startups, IPOs, & the God of VC | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The venture capital industry is in flux. A lot of firms and funds are contracting. Big guys are doing more later-stage investments (see GitHub). Little guys are trying to inno... |
22.06.2012 | ShopSocially Launches Its Platform, Scores An Extra $550K In Funding | ShopSocially, a social commerce startup, is formally announcing the launch of its social shopping platform and is revealing some of its early insights from its customer lineup. The company has worked with several hundred customers to date, ... |
09.05.2012 | Medtech venture capitalist: Many late-stage deals are “crap” | To Carusi, however, the risk is well worth it.
“Many of these late-stage deals are crap,” he told an audience gathered at the Medtech Investing Conference in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
His confidence stems from the fact that he believes that... |
13.02.2012 | Solar Junction Closes $19.2M Series D Funding | Solar Junction, a San Jose, Calif.-based developer of high efficiency multi-junction cells for the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market, has closed its $19.2m Series D funding round.
Backers include New Enterprise Associates, Advanced Tec... |
13.12.2011 | Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Raises $8M in Extended Series A Financing | Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge, Mass.-based clinically staged company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative, effective and safe medicines to treat inflammatory and metabolic diseases, has raised further $8m in Ser... |
05.12.2011 | Actifio Raises $33.5M in Series C Funding | Actifio, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of a Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform, has raised $33.5m in Series C financing.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from existing investors North Bridge Ven... |
07.09.2011 | Aquion Energy Closes $30M Venture Financing | Aquion Energy, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based developer and manufacturer of innovative batteries and energy storage systems, has closed a $30m venture financing.
The round was led by Foundation Capital, with participation from existing investor K... |
12.08.2011 | Cedexis Raises $6M Series A |
Madrona Venture Group and Advanced Technology Ventures both invested in the round.
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PORTLAND, OR, Cedexis, the l... |
21.10.2010 | ShopSocially Nabs $1.1 Million Series A, Lets You Shop Socially | We recently wrote about a new startup operating in the social commerce space, called ShopSocially. Founded in late 2009 by entrepreneurs Jai Rawat and Samir Palnitkar, ShopSocially’s tagline is “where friends help friends shop” as the site ... |
17.02.2010 | Calisolar catches $23.5M following 6N Silicon buy | Calisolar, maker of high-efficiency solar cells made out of cheaper, scrap silicon, has brought in $23.5 million in new equity, according to a regulatory filing with the SEC. The new financing is linked to the company’s recent acquisition o... |
23.07.2009 | Visage Mobile returns from the dead to focus on corporate phone management | Visage Mobile, former maker of software for mobile virtual network operators, unraveled a while ago, selling off most of its assets despite raising upwards of $90 million in venture capital. But now it’s reemerged with a new $2 million and ... |
22.07.2009 | Coskata looks to stimulus to finish commercial biofuel plant | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Even though cellulosic ethanol maker Coskata just... |
22.07.2009 | Coskata looks to stimulus to finish commercial biofuel plant | Even though cellulosic ethanol maker Coskata just brought in $40 million in a third round of funding in November, it needs more to finish off its new commercial-scale plant — and the government stimulus package for biofuels looks like just ... |
21.05.2009 | Host Analytics gets funds for financial management software | Host Analytics, a Redwood City, Calif.-based maker of financial performance management software, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding to expand its product portfolio and to strengthen its marketing efforts. Advanced Technology ... |
23.03.2009 | Medtronic leads $47 million investment in hypertension company Ardian | Advanced Technology Ventures and Split Rock Partners – which, like Morgenthaler, are previous investors – also joined in the investment along with new investor Emergent Medical Partners. Medtronic was also a new investor.
Ardian raised ... |
13.02.2009 | Medical device maker Emphasys on the auction block | Emphasys Medical, maker of a valve that diverts air to only the healthy parts of lungs in emphysema patients, has put itself up for sale after the Food and Drug Administration rejected its lead product in December. This is the second relati... |
11.02.2009 | VC Firms, Led By Advanced Technology Ventures, Aim To Polish Image with Entrepreneurs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This we’ve known: The venture capital business model relies on having talented entrepreneurs to run their portfolio companies. Yet many entrepreneurs love to hate VCs, and new... |
12.01.2009 | Mayfield brings cleantech sector expert on board | Mayfield Fund announced today that it’s hired Coskata founder Todd Kimmel, a specialist in cleantech investing, to expand its portfolio of energy technology companies. Before now, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based firm has focused almost exclusi... |
08.01.2009 | Plexxikon teams up with Roche, eyes $335M to fight kidney disease | Pharmaceutical company Plexxikon has joined forces with health care giant Roche for at least $60 million to develop a treatment for polycystic kidney disease, commonly called PKD. Under the terms of the deal, Roche will have full global rig... |
12.12.2008 | Energy Innovation and the Economy: New England Speaks Out on Video | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
During the networking-and-refreshments portion of Xconomy’s forum on Energy Innovation at the British Consulate General in Cambridge, MA, last week, we pulled aside a few volu... |
05.12.2008 | Coskata Collects $40M from Blackstone, ATV, Globespan, Greatpoint | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Coskata, the Warrenville, IL, cellulosic ethanol startup that debuted with a bang at the Detroit Auto Show last January, has raised $40 million in additional capital in a Seri... |
04.12.2008 | Re-energizing Energy Innovation: Experts Spar (Lightly) at Xconomy Forum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The role of technology entrepreneurs in rebuilding the U.S. energy economy was the main theme at Xconomy’s latest forum Tuesday night. Topping the agenda was an all-star panel... |
15.09.2008 | Packet Design takes $12M, likely the final round | Network routing and traffic analysis equipment maker Packet Design has raised a fourth round of funding, according to VentureWire.
This round, which Packet Design expects to be its last, will be used expand internationally.
This $12 million... |
09.09.2008 | Proteolix raises $79M for cancer treatment | Proteolix, which is developing drugs to treat cancer by disrupting key cell functions, has raised $79 million in a third round of funding, according to VentureWire. That’s the third largest biotech funding this year.
Nomura Phase4 Ventures,... |
21.07.2008 | Qumu raises $10.7M for enterprise video | Qumu, which provides the infrastructure for the use of video communication in a corporate environment, has raised $10.7 million in a third round of funding. The round was led by Advanted Technology Ventures.
The Emeryville, Calif. startup’s... |
13.06.2008 | Qumu raises $8.6M for enterprise video efforts | Enterprise video company Qumu has raised a $8.6 million third found of funding.
As Qumu says on its site “video plays an increasingly strategic role in the way enterprises communicate internally and externally.” Qumu customers including AT&... |
01.06.2008 | Online marketing company [x+1] recapitalizes with $16 million | Online marketing company [x+1] (pronounced “X plus one”) has recapitalized with a new round of funding. The goal is to restart the company with a goal of giving better online marketing returns through visitor engagement and ad relevance.
Ot... |
06.02.2008 | ATV’s New $300 Million Fund to Expand Firm’s Reach to Green Building Materials and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Advanced Technology Ventures slipped one by us. Over the holidays the Waltham, MA-based venture firm closed its eighth fund, at $303 million, and didn’t put out a notice. Vent... |
04.02.2008 | Advanced Technology Ventures closes new $303M fund | Advanced Technology Ventures, a venture firm based in Palo Alto and Waltham, Mass., has closed its eighth fund at $303 million
ATV typically invests in internet and computing technologies, communications, cleantech and healthcare.
The firm ... |
21.09.2007 | Funders Commit $100 Million More for GreatPoint’s Coal-to-Gas Technology | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Not so many decades ago, natural gas was considered a nuisance—a dangerous explosive to be vented from underground pockets and flared so that miners and drillers could get at ... |
05.09.2007 | Go East, Young Man: How Clean Tech Drew Two Venture Insiders from the Bay Area to the Bay State | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If there is a central incubator for “clean-tech” businesses, it’s California. Stiff environmental regulations, generous tax incentives, top-ranked research universities and na... |
31.05.2007 | Aperio, digital-pathology innovator, raises $11M | Aperio, a Vista, Calif., maker of systems that digitize medical images for use in the diagnosis of disease, raised $10.6 million from existing investors. It last raised $17 million in a second round of funding in Nov. 2005, and has now garn... |
11.05.2007 | NeuroVista raises $33.8M for epilepsy devices | (CORRECTED: See below.)
Seattle-based NeuroVista, a developer of devices for the treatment of epilepsy, raised $33.8 million in a second-round funding and left behind its former name, BioNeuronics.
The company, founded in 2002 by whiz kid D... |
08.05.2007 | Cardiovascular biotech Portola Pharmaceuticals raises $70M, eyes IPO | Portola Pharmaceuticals, a South San Francisco, Calif., biotech aiming to develop treatments for blood clots and other heart-related problems, raised $70 million in a third round of financing dominated by late-stage and public-market invest... |
- | Medtech venture capitalist: Many late-stage deals are “crap” | Mike Carusi, general partner at California venture capital company Advanced Technology Ventures, is a firm believer that you can strike gold by investing in early stage companies.
He is a contrarian given that most medical technology ventur... |
- | Medical device/life science startups that survive the next 36 months “will be in the catbird seat” | A survey of 31 San Francisco venture capitalists’s outlook for the next six to 18 months has found confidence up slightly in the third quarter of the year, but not for life science and healthcare investing where the landscape will get more ... |
- | Morgenthaler, ATV vets team up for new $172M early-stage life science venture capital fund | Four general partners from Advanced Technology Ventures‘ and Morgenthaler Ventures‘ life science teams have joined forces to invest up to $172 million in biopharmaceutical and medical device startups.
Lightstone Ventures, led by Michael Car... |
- | Massachusetts-based device company raises $34.76 million to fund US pivotal clinical trial, execute commercial strategy abroad | GI Dynamics, Inc., a Lexington, Mass.-based company known for its EndoBarrier Therapy, which it claims can reduce blood-sugar levels and offer weight-loss results in Type 2 Diabetes patients, has raised $34,755,000 in equity and CDIs, accor... |
- | Fundraising: Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair company raises $6 million | Company name: Altura Medical.
Industry: Medical devices.
Location: San Clemente, California.
Product: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Stent-Graft to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Money raised: $6 million (earlier regulatory filings show the ... |
- | Medtronic leads $47 million investment in hypertension company Ardian | MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Medtronic joined Morgenthaler Ventures and three other firms in investing $47 million in Ardian Inc., a California device company that treats hypertension, according to a press release.
Ardian is developing a cathet... |
- | McKesson launches new venture fund for health startups | San Francisco tech giant McKesson Corporation has launched a new venture fund that promises to invest in early and growth stage startups working in the healthcare space.
The company did not specify how much the fund is, but it said it will ... |