Educational industry software provider Interfolio has secured over $12 million in funding. Quad Partners led the round.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
Industry Ventures has named Amir Malayery as vice president. Previously, Malayery founded Dapper Shopping Inc. Also, the venture firm has promoted Ira Simkhovitch to vice president on its secondary team and Brian Langner to associate on its partnership holdings team.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
Los Angeles-based equity crowdfunding platform StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc has raised $5.5 million in funding. The investor was SE Agoura Investment LLC.
2 min read · 08 January 2016
Australian life science venture firm Brandon Capital Partners has opened a new office in Palo Alto, California. J. Leighton Read has joined the firm as a venture partner and will head the Palo Alto office.
4 min read · 08 January 2016
Germany-based Deposit Solutions GmbH, a platform for retail savings deposits in Europe, has secured 6.5 million euros (approximately over $7 million) in funding. The investors include Peter Thiel and e.ventures.
3 min read · 08 January 2016
Third Rock Ventures LLC has named Michael W. Bonney as a partner. Previously, Bonney worked at Cubis Pharmaceuticals Inc where he served as CEO.
3 min read · 08 January 2016
San Jose, California-based Signifyd, a provider of fraud protection services for ecommerce businesses, has appointed Bill McKiernan to its board. McKiernan is the founder of CyberSource Corp, a Visa subsidiary. Signifyd's backers include Allegis Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, IA Ventures, Lucas Ventures, QED Investors, Resolute.VC and Tekton Ventures.
3 min read · 08 January 2016
Early-stage venture firm Madrona Venture Group has named Bill Richter as a venture partner. Previously, Richter worked at EMC where he was the president of the Isilon Storage Division.
3 min read · 08 January 2016
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Zymeworks, a biotherapeutics company, has raised $61.5 million in Series A funding. BDC Capital and Lumira Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Eli Lilly and Company, Celgene, CTI Life Sciences Fund, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ. Perceptive Advisors, Teralys Capital, Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund, Brace Pharma Capital and Merlin Nexus. In addition to the funding, Dion Madsen, a senior managing partner at BDC Capital’s healthcare venture fund, has been added to Zymeworks’ board of directors while Dr. Daniel Hétu, a managing director at Lumira Capital, will become an observer.
3 min read · 08 January 2016
Virtuix has raised more than $5 million in funding via SeedInvest. Based in Austin, Texas, Virtuix is a virtual reality company and maker of the Omni motion platform.
2 min read · 07 January 2016
