South Plainfield, New Jersey-based Admera Health, a molecular diagnostics company, has closed an undisclosed amount of Series A funding. Prime Value Capital Management led the round with participation from Sungent Bioventure. Also, PVCM’s founding partner, Dr. Chenhui Wen, has been added to Admera Health's board of directors.
3 min read · 07 April 2015
San Francisco-based CoreOS, a provider of open source enterprise solutions for Linux containers, has raised $12 million in funding. Google Ventures led the round with participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fuel Capital and Accel Partners.
3 min read · 07 April 2015
Real estate investing marketplace RealtyShares has secured $10 million in Series A funding. Menlo Ventures led the round with participation from General Catalyst Partners. In addition to the funding, John Jarve, managing director at Menlo Ventures, has been appointed to RealtyShares' board.
3 min read · 07 April 2015
San Francisco-based biotech company True North Therapeutics has closed $35 million in Series B funding. OrbiMed led the round with participation from return backers Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, MPM Capital, SR One and Baxter Ventures.
4 min read · 07 April 2015
New York City-based NSONE, a next-generation DNS and traffic management provider, has raised $5.35 million in Series A funding. Flybridge Capital Partners and Sigma Prime Ventures led the round with participation from other investors such as Founder Collective and Center Electric. In addition to the funding, David Aronoff of Flybridge Capital Partners and Raju Rishi of Sigma Prime Ventures have been added to NSONE's board of directors.
4 min read · 07 April 2015
Facial biometrics company Kairos has acquired IMRSV, a provider of audience analytics. No financial terms were disclosed. Kairos' backers include Kapor Capital, New World Angels, VenVelo, Quotidian Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Eniac Ventures, 500 Startups and TechStars.
2 min read · 06 April 2015
Oakland, California-based Educents, an online marketplace for classroom products, has secured $2.9 million in seed funding. SoftTech VC led the round with participation from other investors that included Crosslink Capital, Deep Fork Capital, Kapor Capital and Learn Capital.
3 min read · 06 April 2015
Los Angeles-based sensor networks provider Mojix has closed $14 million in Series D funding. OMERS Ventures led the round with participation from other investors that included Mercury Ventures. Concurrent with the funding, Rainer Busch, managing partner at Mercury Ventures, Kent Thexton, managing director at OMERS Ventures, and Bandel Carano, managing partner at Oak Investment Partners, have been named to Mojix's board of directors.
3 min read · 06 April 2015
Bitcoin trading platform Buttercoin is closing its service on April 10, the company announced in a post on its site. Buttercoin cited a "dip in bitcoin interest among Silicon Valley investors" as a reason for the shutdown. According to Crunchbase, Buttercoin's previous backers included Google Ventures, FLOODGATE, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital and Rothenberg Ventures.
1 min read · 06 April 2015
San Francisco-based ZenPayroll, an online payroll software provider for small businesses, has raised $60 million in funding. The investors included Emergence Capital Partners, Ribbit Capital, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures.
3 min read · 06 April 2015
