Quixey plans to open a new office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Following its recent $50 million Series C funding round, the company aims to recruit aggressively and continue to provide the most intuitive app search and discovery solutions worldwide.
2 min read · 04 December 2013
Diagnostics company Cernostics has raised $1.4 million in Series B funding. Original investors participating in this round of funding include Novitas Capital, Geisinger Health System and the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse.
3 min read · 04 December 2013
Black Swan Energy has completed a $150 million round of investment. Commitments come from its existing shareholders which include Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and KERN Partners.
1 min read · 04 December 2013
Swarm Mobile has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Icon Venture Partners. The company is a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a retail analytics and customer engagement platform.
1 min read · 04 December 2013
Investors Amadeus Capital Partners, DFJ Esprit and Foundation Capital have renewed their commitment to fabless semiconductor company, XMOS. XMOS is expected to use the funding to finance further expansion of its international operations.
3 min read · 04 December 2013
Roche and Molecular Partners have entered into a research collaboration and licensing agreement. Molecular Partners is a privately-owned biotech company focusing on the research, development and commercialization of a class of biological drugs known as DARPins.
4 min read · 04 December 2013
TA Associates is to acquire CMOSIS, a supplier of high performance standard and custom CMOS image sensors. The transaction is conditional on regulatory clearance and is expected to be completed by early 2014. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
3 min read · 04 December 2013
Seedrs has secured more than 2 million pounds of investment via its own platform, setting a new world record for the most equity raised via an equity crowdfunding site. The London-based startup, which last week became the world’s first equity crowdfunding platform open to investors and entrepreneurs throughout Europe, had originally called for 750,000 pounds of investment in return for 12.66 per cent equity.
6 min read · 04 December 2013
INE Ventures has launched INE Ventures Fund I. The fund will co-invest seed capital in Israeli technology startups with a selection of venture capital partners to relocate portfolio company founders to Philadelphia and New York City to help them penetrate the US market and turn into growing multinational companies.
5 min read · 04 December 2013
UK-based Green Biologics has raised a $25 million Series B round led by Sofinnova Partners. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan was exclusive financial advisor to the company.
4 min read · 04 December 2013
