| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.10.2024 | Aryaka expands Unified SASE offering with new cloud service broker and Menlo Security integration
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One click below support... | Secure access service edge provider Aryaka Networks Inc. today announced new updates to its solutions, including a new cloud access security broker service, validated interoperability with Menlo Security Inc., and a new Aryaka Interactive P... |
| 25.08.2016 | Gobiquity raises $6M to expand vision screening app for children to more devices, markets | Gobiquity’s amblyopia screening test is Class 2, 510(k) exempt medical device and Burns said the company has met the requirements set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Amblyopia is the leading cause of permanent vision loss in child... |
| 30.06.2016 | Dysh - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 Finalist | Check out King's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort Dysh, the free app, launched by Toast Labs, Inc. merges user-generated content and mobile technology to create a conversation around the food, g... |
| 28.06.2016 | ScreenMeet - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 Winner | Check out Lilienthal's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort ScreenMeet's license the software as a SaaS monthly/annual subscription between $10 and $25/month depending on which platforms the custome... |
| 24.06.2016 | The History Project - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 | Check out Lichtenstein's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort The History Project's Freemium platform is releasing a premium offering in late Q2 that will enable additional back-up of content, with ... |
| 22.06.2016 | Laughly - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 | Check out Scott's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort Laugh.ly is launching the first streaming app dedicated to stand-up comedy. The app not only allows listeners to stream comedy from professiona... |
| 18.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 18, 2016 | Aria Systems raised $50M; Verizon led $57M in Jana; Vera closed $17M Series B funding
Vyopta, provider of video collaboration analytics, closed its very first round of venture capital, netting the company a $5 million Series A led by AVX Pa... |
| 10.02.2016 | Shasta Ventures adds Doug Pepper as a managing partner to focus on application startups | Shasta Ventures announced today that venture capitalist Doug Pepper has joined the early-stage investment firm as a managing partner. In this capacity, Pepper will be focused on Software as a Service (SaaS) and mobile application companies.... |
| 09.02.2016 | Stellar Loyalty Completes $9M Series A Funding | Stellar Loyalty, a Foster City, CA-based consumer relationship company, raised $4m in funding completing its Series A round totaling $9m.
Backers included TDF Ventures and InterWest Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to accelera... |
| 13.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 13, 2015 | White Star Capital closed $70M funding; GetYourGuide bagged $50M; Zola raised $10M
WriteLab, a browser-based tool that provides feedback on writing, has raised $2 million in a series A round led by Reach Capital with participation from Kapo... |
| 03.08.2015 | Gobiquity CEO talks about plans to use vision screening platform to advance value based care | A mobile health eye screening test administered by doctors to spot risk factors for amblyopia in children and a color chart app to spot telltale signs of
biliary atresia in newborns would, at first glance seem unrelated. But in an interview... |
| 24.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist - Stroll Health | Check out Stroll Health's presentation
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Stroll Health delivers an app for ambulatory and primary care physicians’ offices that enables clinicians to make personalized value-based referrals. Stroll's technolo... |
| 17.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist - Cloudwear | Check out Cloudwear's presentation
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Cloudwear has developed the next generation of cloud account security solutions that are fully HIPAA compliant. Cloudwear can improve online healthcare data security aroun... |
| 13.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist Nodexus | Check out Nodexus' presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Nodexus is commercializing a versatile system, consisting of a hardware platform (tablet-sized) and disposable cartridges, that was develope... |
| 10.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist - Core Mobile | Check out Core Mobile's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Core Mobile makes Healthcare - Mobile, Efficient & Coordinated to achieve 3 objectives, (1) Improve efficiency to reduce healthcare... |
| 06.03.2015 | Splash Health 2015 People's Choice Award Winner | Check out Privail's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health, Privail won the People's Choice Award. Here's the video of Anwaar Al-Zireeni, Privail co-founder and CEO, giving on of the winning presentation.
Pri... |
| 27.02.2015 | Luminate Health's Splash Health 2015 winning pitch | Check out Luminate Health's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health, Luminate Health took home the gold. Here's the video of Siddharth Sinha, Luminate co-founder and CEO, giving the winning presentation.
Lumin... |
| 13.02.2015 | How illuminating: Invuity raises $20M for its surgical tools that light up | Invuity’s small devices actually are quite complex. Much of the eight years was spent on designers perfecting their design of the company’s illuminating clips, which snap onto the retractors that snake through tissue.
“It’s like trying to s... |
| 12.02.2015 | The winner of Vator Splash Health is Luminate Health! | And a big congratulations to our People's Choice winner, Privail!
(Image: Jules Walker (KPMG), Bambi Francisco (Vator), Sidd Sinha (Founder & CEO, Luminate Health), Jessica Hsu (Founder & CTO)
The ballots are in! They have all been ... |
| 12.02.2015 | Presenting the 6 finalists for Vator Splash Health! | These 6 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top tech VCs and entrepreneurs!
Today, Vator will be holding its first ever Splash Health event in Oakland, where speakers such as Dr. Katrina Firlik, Tom Lee, Founder & CEO o... |
| 09.02.2015 | Five reasons to come to Splash Health 2015 on 2/12/2015 | Learn why healthcare will be insanely different in 25 years
Healthcare as we know it will be dramatically different in a decade, and insanely different in 25 years. That's our prediction. It's not so bold really. Many people have the same v... |
| 18.06.2014 | Benvenue Medical secures $40M Series E to beef up manufacturing, U.S. commercialization | InterWest Partners led the round, and general partner Dr. Gil Kliman was appointed to Benvenue’s board. Other investors include DeNovo Ventures, Domain Associates, Technology Partners and Versant Ventures. Silicon Valley Bank was the sole d... |
| 29.04.2014 | Indi Raises $47.25M | Indi (Integrated Diagnostics), a Seattle, WA-based molecular diagnostics company pioneering the use of blood-based proteomic tests, raised $47.25m in funding.
It came from the $30.25m closing of its Series B round and $17m in non-dilutive d... |
| 12.03.2014 | DataRPM secures $5.1M in Series A led by InterWest Partners | DataRPM, a Big Data analytics startup selling business intelligence software, has secured $5.1 million in a Series A round of funding from US-based investor InterWest Partners with participation of existing investor CIT Gap Funds.
Ruban Phu... |
| 12.02.2014 | Welltok raises $22M as IBM investment arm Watson makes first digital health investment | The funding will help meet some of the goals of Welltok’s partnership with Watson Business Group to develop a CafeWell Concierge line. It will also be used to expand CafeWell’s products for accountable care organizations, insurance brokers ... |
| 01.02.2014 | Bigger in Bend, Part 3: Engineering a regional tech cluster | 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!
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to B... |
| 30.01.2014 | Engineering a regional tech cluster | Part 3 of Bigger in Bend
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regi... |
| 25.01.2014 | A venture capitalist is turning Bend, OR into a startup city (with bioscience included) | This post and the two that follow highlight what Dino has learned about the characteristics of the startup and investing landscape in a regional market and what it takes to intentionally engineer a thriving regional tech cluster.
Part 1: Be... |
| 23.01.2014 | Bigger in Bend: Building a regional startup cluster | 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!
When customer development and the Lean Startup we... |
| 22.01.2014 | Bigger in Bend | Building a Regional Startup Cluster – Part 1 of 3
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with.
Dino an... |
| 09.12.2013 | Big corporates are increasingly investors, mentors, wannabe-disruptors in digital health | Qualcomm Life Fund's Jack Young
More than $4 billion has been invested in digital health startups in the past three years, Qualcomm Life Fund's director Jack Young told attendees at HIMSS' Venture+ event at the mHealth Summit this week, and... |
| 06.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Booksnark | 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!
We get many books sent to VentureBeat, but today ... |
| 20.09.2013 | Indi Molecular Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding | Indi Molecular, a Culver City, CA-based developer of a synthetic replacement for antibodies, raised $1.5m in seed funding.
The round was led by InterWest Partners, with participation from several angel investors.
The company intends to use ... |
| 04.09.2013 | Vidora’s second screen Apple TV app now helps content producers fatten their wallets | 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!
Second-screen TV app Vidora already impressed us ... |
| 04.09.2013 | Vidora’s second screen Apple TV app now helps content producers fatten their wallets | Second-screen TV app Vidora already impressed us with its ability to aggregate and push video content to our television screens (via Apple TV). Now it’s rolling out some new features that should help its content partners make more money.
Vi... |
| 25.06.2013 | InterWest leads $15M round in Biba | New chat and audio conferencing product looking to disrupt the conference calling market
One day, we may just be saying: "Send me a Biba." Or "I'll Biba you."
That's because Biba is a next-generation, mobile-first confer... |
| 06.06.2013 | ‘Vidora’ is a second screen iPad app all Apple TV owners should be using | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Admittedly, Airplay is probably the most useful and important feature on the Apple TV. And yet, it’s also the feature that consistently... |
| 16.05.2013 | Pelican Imaging Closes $20M Series C Funding | Pelican Imaging, a Mountain View, California-based developer of camera technology for mobile devices, closed a $20m Series C funding.
Backers included new strategic investors Qualcomm Incorporated, through Qualcomm Ventures, and Nokia Growt... |
| 07.05.2013 | Joyus Raises $11.5M in Second Funding | Joyus, a San Francisco, CA-based video shopping company, raised $11.5m in a second funding round.
The news was firstly reported by AllThingsD.com (read here) and then confirmed by Time Warner Investments, which led the round along with Inte... |
| 10.04.2013 | WellTok Lands $18.7M From NEA, Emergence & InterWest To Make Your Health Plan More Engaging | Traditionally, healthcare managers — whether they be health plans, care organizations, brokers or employers — have struggled to get their members to engage with their wellness programs and heath tools. Founded in 2009, Denver-based startup,... |
| 20.02.2013 | Gynesonics Raises $21M Series D Funding | Gynesonics Inc., a Redwood City, California-based women’s healthcare company, raised a $21m Series D funding.
The round was led by HBM Partners, with participation new investor Correlation Ventures and existing investors Abingworth, Advance... |
| 05.02.2013 | Spredfast Raises $18M in Venture Capital | Spredfast, an Austin, Texas-based provider of independent social marketing software, raised $18m in venture capital.
The round was led by OpenView Venture Partners, with follow-on participation from Austin Ventures and InterWest Partners.
T... |
| 21.11.2012 | Empowered and UCLA Bring Career Retraining to the iPad | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Many of us see a reason to lament when we hear that millions of Americans are unemployed while millions of US jobs go unfilled. Steve Poizner looks at the same facts and envis... |
| 02.11.2012 | LocBox Raises $5.1M in Series A Funding | LocBox, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that provides local businesses with a multi-channel marketing platform, has raised $5.1m in Series A funding.
Backers include InterWest Partners, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, 500Startups, Anand ... |
| 02.11.2012 | Flurry Raises $25M in Series D Financing | Flurry, a San Francisco, New York and London-based mobile app measurement and advertising platform, has raised $25m in an oversubscribed Series D financing.
The round, which brings the company’s total funding to $51.6m, was led by Crosslink... |
| 31.10.2012 | LocBox Raises $5.1M From InterWest, Google Ventures, Others To Help Local Businesses Master Online Deals And Marketing | It seems like there are an infinite number of marketing tools competing for local businesses’ attention nowadays. An AngelPad-incubated startup called LocBox helps those businesses manage their efforts in a way that’s focused on acquiring c... |
| 18.10.2012 | Cebix Raises $30.9M in Series B Financing | Cebix, Inc., a La Jolla, California-based biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for complications of diabetes, has raised $30.9m in Series B financing.
Backers include existing investors InterWest, Sofinnova Ventures and Thomas, M... |
| 12.10.2012 | How Will Salesforce Adapt To The Next Platform Shift: Mobile Computing? | Editor’s note: Bruce Cleveland is a General Partner with InterWest Partners focused on software and services sector investments with an emphasis on cloud computing, mobile and analytical applications. Follow him on Twitter.
Most of us are f... |
| 05.10.2012 | Healthy Consumers And The Future Of The Patient-Physician Relationship | Editor’s note: Michelle Snyder is executive in residence at InterWest Partners focusing on the transformative role that mobile, social, and data can play in the healthcare industry. You can follow her on Twitter.
It’s hard not to read an ar... |
| 05.09.2012 | Fundraising: Doximity, a professional network exclusively for physicians, raises $17 million | Solution/product: Doximity is a professional network where physicians can connect with colleagues, do referral searches and communicate using its HIPAA-compliant communication tools. One in seven U.S. physicians use the network. Medical sch... |
| 17.07.2012 | Funding Daily: venture capital makes it rain with downpour of investment | 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!
Funding news flooded our wire today with so many ... |
| 17.07.2012 | Aryaka raises $25M to make internet usage more like race cars | 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!
Cloud startup Aryaka raised $25 million to help c... |
| 17.07.2012 | Funding Daily: venture capital makes it rain with downpour of investment | Funding news flooded our wire today with so many announcements and releases, it was like swimming upstream in a hurricane to keep up with it all. We’re having to include a lightning round below just to cover all the bases. Grab a life vest,... |
| 02.07.2012 | Gojee Raises $2.8M From InterWest For Beautiful Recipe Aggregation | Gojee, an aesthetically pleasing recipe-sharing site, has raised a first venture round of $2.8 million from InterWest Partners. The New York startup has pivoted its way into a growing site with more than 500,000 registered users — and it’s ... |
| 10.03.2012 | Sexy IPOs Versus SaaS-y IPOs | Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Doug Pepper, who is a General Partner at InterWest Partners where he invests in SaaS, mobile, consumer internet and digital media companies. He blogs at dougpepper.blogspot.com.
IPOs are hot agai... |
| 08.02.2012 | RockYou Cofounder Lance Tokuda Keeps It Old School With New Classmates Competitor SchoolFeed | Lance Tokuda was one of the masterminds behind viral apps on Facebook back at the end of last decade. He cofounded and led RockYou as its chief executive through the evolution of the Facebook platform, all the while inundating users with hu... |
| 16.12.2011 | CarWoo! Closes $6M Funding | CarWoo!, a Burlingame, CA-based car online marketplace, has closed a $6m funding round.
Backers include InterWest Partners, Comcast Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Raymond Tonsing and others.
The company plans to use the funding to launch new p... |
| 09.12.2011 | Gain Fitness grabs $650K to pump up its business | Gain Fitness, developer of an exercise application, wants to make personal trainer-quality workouts available to the masses. The San Francisco-based startup has raised a round of seed funding to develop a marketplace for fitness enthusiasts... |
| 09.12.2011 | Gain Fitness grabs $650K to pump up its business | 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!
Gain Fitness, developer of an exercise applicatio... |
| 16.11.2011 | Marketo Secures $50M in Venture Capital Funding | Marketo, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of Revenue Performance Management (RPM) technology, has secured $50m in new venture financing.
The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Institutional Venture P... |
| 16.11.2011 | Marketo lands $50M from Battery, IVP, InterWest to continue its marketing automation domination | 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!
Marketing automation firm Marketo has raised a ma... |
| 15.11.2011 | Sera Prognostics Raises $19.3M in Series A Funding | Sera Prognostics Inc., a Salt Lake City, UT–based company that develops tests to diagnose preterm birth and other pregnancy complications, has raised $19.3m in Series A funding.
The round was led by venture capital firms InterWest Partners,... |
| 27.09.2011 | Spredfast Raises $12M in Series B Funding | Spredfast, an Austin, Texas-based social media management system provider, has raised $12m in Series B funding.
The round was led by InterWest Partners , with participation from lead Series A investor Austin Ventures (read here).
The compan... |
| 03.08.2011 | Get Satisfaction secures $10 million for social CRM | Bruce Cleveland of InterWest leads Series B for community brand pages
Social CRM company Get Satisfaction announced Wednesday that it has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Bruce Cleveland, general partner at InterWest. C... |
| 03.08.2011 | Get Satisfaction Raises $10M Series B Funding Round | Get Satisfaction, a San francisco, CA-based online community platform designed to support companies in improving relationships with their customers, has raised a $10m Series B round of funding.
The round, which brings the total amount rasie... |
| 23.06.2011 | Encore Career Institute raises $15M to educate Baby Boomers | 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!
A new online education startup for Baby Boomers, ... |
| 23.06.2011 | Encore Career Institute raises $15M to educate Baby Boomers | A new online education startup for Baby Boomers, The Encore Career Institute in Los Gatos, announced today that it has landed $15 million in first round financing co-led by VC firms Granite Ventures and InterWest Partners.
Founder and CEO S... |
| 08.06.2011 | Virtual storage startup Virsto closes $12M round | Virtual storage software startup Virsto announced that it closed a $12 million second round of funding led by InterWest Partners and that it had acquired Melbourne, Australia-based EvoStor.
Both the new investment and the acquisition will h... |
| 25.03.2011 | Inside look at VC performance: Top and bottom five in Washington state | Bogdan Sudito photo
It’s been a rough few years for venture capitalists, with the IPO market in the tank and venture returns slumping. And while things have improved slightly in recent months as large M&A deals occur, the venture capita... |
| 01.02.2011 | Aria Systems closes $20M Series C round | The company's subscription billing solution has attracted some big names and heavy hitters
Subscription billing solution Aria Systems announced Tuesday the close of a $20 million Series C round led by InterWest Partners, with help from prev... |
| 10.01.2011 | Minnesota drug developer CNS Therapeutics raises $3 million | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| 26.10.2010 | Pelican Imaging Receives $10M in Series B Financing | Pelican Imaging Corporation, a Mountain View, CA-based software start-up in the business of commercializing computational cameras for the smartphone market, has received $10m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Globespan Capital Par... |
| 13.10.2010 | CarWoo! Closes $6M Series A Financing | CarWoo!, a Burlingame, CA-based car buying marketplace, has closed an over $6m Series A financing.
The round was led by Interwest Partners, with participation by Comcast Interactive Capital, Blumberg Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Raymond T... |
| 22.06.2010 | CVRx touts clinical trial results of blood pressure neurostim device | By Thomas Lee
CVRx Inc. of Plymouth, Minn., said Monday that hypertension patients using its Rheos stimulation device reported a sharp drop in blood pressure after four years.
In a study presented at the European Society of Hypertension mee... |
| 21.06.2010 | CVRx reports positive four-year results for its anti-blood pressure device | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| 27.04.2010 | Marketo brings in another $10M for marketing automation | Marketo, a company selling web tools for salespeople and marketers, has raised $10 million in a fourth round of funding. The funds came from existing investors, led by Mayfield Fund and with participation from InterWest Partners and Storm V... |
| 09.03.2010 | There is No Perfect VP of Sales and Marketing | Sales and marketing are not the same thing. It’s true they both deal with relationship management and it’s true that neither of these job descriptions require hardcore engineering, but just because they’re both in the realm of words over co... |
| 12.02.2010 | How Much Venture Capital Should You Raise For Your SaaS Venture? | The short answer is “as much as you need”. The more tactical answer is “as much as you can raise cheaply”. The latter is a pragmatic view. Raise more than you need when times are good. Just because you raise it does not mean you need to spe... |
| 27.08.2009 | Minnesota’s CNS Therapeutics raises $7 million | Promoted
Clinical Care Capacity Planning
Learn how to manage clinical care capacity more efficiently during uncertain times.
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Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R... |
| 10.08.2009 | Pelican scoops up $7M for computational cameras | Pelican Imaging, a company specializing in computational cameras, has brought in $7 million in a first round of funding, according to PE Hub. Recent backers of the Soquel, Calif., company include Granite Ventures and InterWest Partners.
Ven... |
| 15.07.2009 | New funds puff up Cloud9 for business intelligence software | Cloud9 Analytics, maker of software that aggregates business intelligence for company leaders, has raised an undisclosed amount in second-round capital from InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures, reports VentureWire. Both firms had also ... |
| 07.05.2009 | Cleveland Clinic-backed Autonomic Technologies raises $20 million | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| 06.05.2009 | Autonomic snags $20M to treat headaches | Autonomic Technologies, maker of implantable devices that can soothe severe headaches, has raised $20 million in a second round of funding led by InterWest Partners. The Menlo Park, Calif. company is one of three biotech firms InterWest has... |
| 16.04.2009 | Michigan’s Lycera Corp. raises a $36 million Series A round | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| 30.03.2009 | LensX Lasers nabs $22M for eye surgery lasers | LensX Lasers, a maker of surgical lasers used to repair cataracts, has brought in $22.36 million in a second round of funding from Versant Ventures, InterWest Partners and SV Life Sciences. Based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., the company was foun... |
| 25.02.2009 | Eiger snaps up $7.1M to treat hepatitis | Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, developer of treatments for strains of hepatitis, announced that it brought in $7.1 million in first-round funding from InterWest Partners and Vivo Ventures. The Palo Alto, Calif. company will use the new money to ... |
| 15.02.2009 | Loopfuse Gets Series A Funding from True Ventures | True Ventures got our attention by closing a Series A deal in the dark days just after the financial meltdown, funding Syncplicity. It has just announced that it is funding LoopFuse, a late entrant to the very crowded marketing automation s... |
| 04.02.2009 | Eiger Biopharmaceuticals raises $7.1M | Eiger Biopharmaceuticals has raised $7.1 million in a first round of venture funding, according to Private Equity Hub. The Palo Alto, Calif. startup doesn’t have a website, and we don’t have any details about the company at this time. Inves... |
| 12.01.2009 | InterWest funds Exalt to meet rising backhauling demand | Exalt Communications, provider of wireless backhauling services, is one of five companies sharing a $21 million investment from InterWest Partners, reports VentureWire. Neither the amount of the investment nor its intended purpose have been... |
| 08.01.2009 | SpectraLinear nabs $9.8M for computing timers | SpectraLiner, a company that provides internal clocking devices used in computing and internet communications systems, has raised $9.84 million in third-round funding, according to peHUB. It hasn’t disclosed plans for the new money but curr... |
| 08.01.2009 | Satori brings in $22M to stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks | Satori Pharmaceuticals, a company that says it’s developing drugs with the potential to actually stop Alzheimer’s disease in its early phases — an unprecedented claim — landed $22 million in second-round funding to push its products through... |
| 16.12.2008 | IPO market freezes out two more health care startups | Poor market conditions have dashed the IPO hopes of two more health care companies — clinical data provider Epocrates and cardiovascular drug developer Aegerion Pharmaecuticals. This makes 38 companies across all sectors that have had to pu... |
| 11.12.2008 | Bivio nets $15.8M for flexible networking systems | Networking systems developer Bivio Networks just took in $15.8 million in a round led by Silver Creek Ventures and including new Japanese investors Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation and Cross Technology Partners, as well as existing backe... |
| 26.11.2008 | Tween mobile provider Kajeet bags $1M | Kajeet, the cell phone service provider for kids and tweens, closed a $1.05 million second-round of venture backing to continue product and market development. The Bethesda, Md.-based company is coming off a big win last week, striking a de... |
| 20.11.2008 | Staccato, Artimi merge to keep UWB efforts alive | Ultra-wideband chip makers Staccato Communications and Artimi announced that they have merged, adopting the name of the former. The new entity also received $20 million in new equity funding, allowing it to refocus its energies on the top p... |
| 19.11.2008 | Analog chip firm Quantance raises $12 million to speed up cell phone data | High-speed data networks on cell phones, such as the iPhone, are anything but high speed. But Quantance, a chip maker that has just raised $12 million in funding, has a solution that could triple data speeds in future phones at very little ... |
| 17.11.2008 | Double down? Spin in? New questions for a new economy | [Editor’s Note: We focus a lot on how hard it must be to raise money as a startup in this economic climate, with little attention paid to how agonizing it must be for VCs to pick and choose who is to survive. Below, Silicon Valley venture c... |
| 22.10.2008 | Video processor maker Silicon Optix sells assets and tech to IDT | Silicon Optix, developer of high-definition video processors, has sold out almost entirely to Integrated Device Technology (IDT) for an undisclosed amount. The sale includes the transfer of intellectual property and engineering teams in add... |
| 10.10.2008 | HD electronics maker VizionWare short circuits | VizionWare Inc., a producer of cables and adapters, has shuttered — and fast. The announcement went out today and the company’s website has already disappeared. Attributed to disappointing sales in Blu-ray connectors, its close leaves inves... |
| 03.10.2008 | Avaak brings in $7M to prep wire-free camera | Avaak, a creator of video networking technology, received $7 million in its first round of private funding — money that will go toward putting the finishing touches on its new camera system, the Vue Personal Video Network. Even though it wa... |
