Jerusalem-based Vidac Pharma, a developer of drugs that treat cancer and oncodermatology disease, has raised $9 million in Series A financing. Israel Biotech Fund led the round with participation from other investors that included Mivtach Shamir Holdings. In addition to the funding, Dr. Robert Spiegel and Ed Saltzman of Israel Biotech Fund’s venture advisory team have been appointed to Vidac’s board of directors.
1 min read · 29 June 2016
OpsGenie, a provider of alerting and on-call management solutions for development and operations teams, has secured $10 million in Series A financing. The investor was Battery Ventures. In addition to the funding, Battery's Neeraj Agrawal and Paul Drews have been added to OpsGenie's board.
1 min read · 29 June 2016
San Francisco-based ForUsAll, a provider of 401(k)s for small businesses, has secured $9.5 million in Series A funding. Foundation Capital led the round. In conjunction with this funding, Steve Vassallo, a general partner at Foundation Capital, has been added to ForUsAll's board while President Clinton's former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers has been named a senior adviser.
1 min read · 29 June 2016
Princeton, New Jersey-based Ameri Holdings Inc, a SAP-based strategy consulting firm, has added Venkatraman Balakrishnan to its board of directors. Balakrishnan is the founder and chairman of Exfinity Venture Partners, a venture fund focused on tech startups. He is also the former chief financial officer at Infosys Ltd.
2 min read · 29 June 2016
Berkshire Group has appointed Justin Brown as vice president of venture investments. Previously, Brown worked at M&T Bank where he served as vice president of commercial real estate banking.
2 min read · 29 June 2016
San Francisco-based Keen IO, a cloud analytics provider, has raised $14.7 million in Series B financing. Pelion Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, Sequoia Capital, Rincon Venture Partners, Amplify Partners and Rothenberg Ventures.
1 min read · 29 June 2016
Louisville, Colorado-based biopharmaceutical company AntriaBio Inc has raised about $12 million in a private placement. SBI affiliate pH Pharma was the lead investor.
2 min read · 29 June 2016
British Columbia-based community management software Community Sift has raised $1.6 million in seed funding. The investors included iNovia Capital and Comerica.
1 min read · 28 June 2016
Addison Lee has acquired European executive car service Tristar Worldwide. No financial terms were disclosed. Tristar was backed by Octopus Ventures.
5 min read · 28 June 2016
San Francisco-based Anki, an entertainment robotics company, has raised $52.5 million in Series D funding, according to a spokesperson for the company. J.P. Morgan led the round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures and Two Sigma. This current funding puts Anki's total tally at $182.5 million.
1 min read · 28 June 2016
