Private Equity
Andrew P. Dempsey, former chief operating officer of Fortress Investment Group's Permanent Capital Business Group, has joined Easterly Capital, a private investment firm founded by former Affiliated Managers Group chief financial officer Darrell Crate. Dempsey will be responsible for capital formation and business development.
3 min read · 19 June 2014
Newlight Technologies has successfully completed a Series C financing round, raising $9.2 million from both new and existing investors, and bringing the company's total capital raised to $18.8 million. Newlight Technologies is a sustainable materials company using a breakthrough microorganism-based biotechnology process to convert air and greenhouse gas into carbon-negative thermoplastics that can replace oil-based plastics at commodity scale.
4 min read · 04 April 2014
Argos Therapeutics has increased the size of its previously announced Series E financing by $17.5 million, bringing the total amount of committed funds from $42.5 million to $60 million. Argos is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of fully personalized immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases using its Arcelis™ technology platform.
2 min read · 21 November 2013
iSTAR Medical SA, a privately held ophthalmic device company and first spinout of Healionics Corporation, has raised a Series A financing. The financing was co-led by Capricorn Health-Tech Fund NV and Societe Regionale d'Investissement de Wallonie and included participation from Financière Spin-off Luxembourgeoise and Namur Invest - Preface.
3 min read · 21 November 2013
Mobile-first legal startup Shake has raised $3 million in venture capital financing. SoftBank Capital led the Series A round of funding with participation from existing investor RRE Ventures and from new investors BoxGroup, ENIAC Ventures, Mesa+, WGI Group, and Patrick Keane.
3 min read · 21 November 2013
Sobera Capital has acquired the venture capital fund BayTech Venture Capital from Bayerische Landesbank, European Investment Bank, Bpifrance, Versicherungskammer Bayern and BayernLB Capital Partners. Sobera Capital was backed in this secondary direct transaction by Unigestion.
1 min read · 21 November 2013
Appear Here, an online marketplace for short-term retail space, has closed a funding round. Howzat Partners (backers of Trivago), MMC Ventures (backers of AlexandAlexa) and Forward Investment Partners (existing investors and backers of uSwitch and Hailo) took part. Other participants in this round include Meyer Bergman, Playfair Capital and Ballpark Ventures, as well as Marc Hazan (of Spotify) and Miroma Ventures (investors in Pinterest).
4 min read · 21 November 2013
Catalyze.io, a cloud-based healthcare technology company, has closed a Series A financing round co-led by Baird Capital’s venture capital group, Arthur Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with participation from the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Gener8tor, Angels on the Water and other individual investors. The company is a cloud-based healthcare technology company.
3 min read · 20 November 2013
August has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Maveron, with participation from Cowboy Ventures, Industry Ventures, Rho Ventures, and SoftTech VC.
3 min read · 20 November 2013
eClinicalWorks is investing $50 million over the next 12 months to further enhance and expand its patient engagement tools. Part of this funding will be used to hire an additional 100 software developers.
4 min read · 20 November 2013
