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Social Venture Fund Provides Seed Funding to Mytonomy

Social Venture Fund, a student-led, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based "impact investing" fund that's closely affiliated with the University of Michigan, has participated in a seed-stage financing for Mytonomy, a video storytelling platform for college and career advising. Other investors include NewSchools Venture Fund and Kapor Capital. Social Venture Fund makes investments of up to $100,000. Terms of the Mytonomy deal were not disclosed. Two-year-old Mytonomy is based in Washington, D.C.

David Van Horne Joins Goodwin Proctor's San Francisco Office

Goodwin Proctor, the law firm, has hired David Van Horne as a member of the firm's business law department, in its San Francisco office. Van Horne will be working with emerging growth companies and venture capital firms.

Kaazing Raises $15 Million, Boosting Total Financing to $39 Million

Kaazing, a six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company whose software helps drive the real-time Web and mobile communications of customers like Google, Bechtel, and Intel, has raised a $15 million round of funding that brings its total funding to $39 million. New Enterprise Associates and Columbus Nova Technology Partners led the round, with previous investors participating. Kaazing's last big round of funding came less than a year ago. In June 2012, it raised $17 million. Investors in that round were not disclosed.

Zonoff Raises $3.8 Million Series A

Zonoff, a Malvern, Pa.-based startup whose software strives to act as the "brains" of the connected home, has raised a $3.8 million series A round from Valhalla Partners and Grotech Ventures.

peHUB Second Opinion 4.17

Intel just bought the 7-year-old startup Mashery, Twitter sharpens its ad targeting by sifting through tweets, and the gourmet cupcake bubble is bursting. And so much more!

peHUB Second Opinion 4.16

Shareholder activists are beginning to aim at bigger targets, Yahoo posts flat first-quarter revenue, Google's next batch of gadgets is a-ma-zing, promises chairman Eric Schmidt, and so much more!

The Riverside Company Promotes Nine Employees

The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm based in Cleveland, has promoted nine professionals to partner, principal, or director, including Joe Lee, who joined Riverside in 2006 and has just been promoted to partner, and Jack Nestor, who joined the firm in 2005 and has also been promoted to partner.

peHUB Second Opinion 4.15

Terrifying explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, tax avoidance schemes of the rich and famous, and coming to a workplace near you: fines for being fat? And so much more!

Montgomery & Co. Gets Out of the Advisory Business

Signal Hill, an investment bank with offices around the country, is bolstering its West Coast operations in San Francisco with the addition of 13 investment banking professionals from Montgomery & Co., the companies announced today. As part of a strategic refocus, Montgomery has "decided to concentrate on its asset management business," the company said. Terms of its arrangement with Signal Hill wee not disclosed.

Preqin Report: Venture Deal Activity Not So Brisk

Preqin study reports Q1 deal activity the lowest since Q3 2010