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EyeQ said Tuesday it raised $1.2 million in funding from Corsa Ventures, DreamIt, Houston Angel Network, South Coast Angel Network and other angel investors. Austin-based eyeQ provides in-store analytics technology.
4 min read · 01 April 2015
Militello Capital said Wednesday it sold Veenome to Integral Ad Science. Financial terms weren’t announced. Veenome, of New York and Fairfax, Virginia, provides video analytics.
2 min read · 01 April 2015
SmartNews said Wednesday it raised a $10 million bridge round led by GREE. Globis Capital Partners, Atomico, Mixi and Social Venture Partners also participated. SmartNews, with offices in Tokyo, San Francisco and New York, is a news discovery app.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
Thrasos Innovation has raised a $21 million financing round from investors including the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, BDC Venture Capital and SR One. Thrasos, of Montreal, is biotech focused on developing therapies to treat kidney disease.
2 min read · 01 April 2015
CipherCloud said Tuesday it has acquired the technology of Anicut Systems. Financial terms weren’t announced. Anicut provides advanced cloud security analysis of traffic using machine learning to detect malicious insider and external threats. CipherCloud is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Transamerica Ventures, Delta Partners and T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
Atyr Pharma Inc. said Tuesday it raised $76 million in Series E financing led by new investor Sofinnova Ventures and an undisclosed large institutional investor in the biotechnology industry. Also taking part in the round were T. Rowe Price Associates Inc.; Federated Investors Inc.; Deerfield; Rock Springs Capital Management; EcoR1 Capital; Sphera Global Healthcare and two additional undisclosed institutional investors. Atyr said current venture capital investors and a current public investment fund took part in the raise as well. San Diego-based Atyr Phrama is a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of Physiocrine-based therapeutics to address rare diseases.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
Monroe Capital said Wednesday it provided A $14.5 million loan to support BelHealth Investment Partners LLC’s recap of Precision Toxicology LLC. San Diego-based Precision Toxicology is a clinical laboratory that specializes in providing quantitative drug testing, primarily for the purpose of helping physicians monitor their patients undergoing treatment for pain or substance abuse.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
Midaxo said Tuesday it received $1.5 million euro (US$1.6 million) investment from from Seed Fund Vera (which operates under Finnvera plc), Hiidenkivi Investment and other private sources. Waltham, Massachusetts-based Midaxo provides M&A software.
3 min read · 01 April 2015
Marlin Equity Partners said Monday it has acquired e-MDs Inc. Financial terms weren’t announced. Austin-based e-MDs provides electronic medical record and practice management software and services to ambulatory care organizations. Marlin has merged e-MDs with MDeverywhere, a portfolio company.
3 min read · 31 March 2015
Razberi Technologies said Monday that Gary Hall was named VP of Finance. Razberi, which develops network video solution, raised $3.5 million in Series A funding led by LiveOak Venture Partners last year.
2 min read · 31 March 2015
