Epoxy Inc., a startup developing tools for professional video channels and networks, said that it has raised $2 million in new funding. GRP Partners led the round, which will be used to expand the company’s engineering team. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners, joined the company’s board as a result of the round. Expoxy is based in Venice, Calif.
3 min read · 05 March 2013
Lucid Energy, a developer of renewable energy systems, has raised an undisclosed amount from Israel’s OurCrowd, a hybrid venture and crowdfunding platform. Terms were not disclosed Lucid Energy is based in Portland, Ore.
3 min read · 05 March 2013
Des Moines, Iowa-based Appcore, a maker of cloud computing automation software, has raised $6 million in Series B financing. This Series B funding included undisclosed private investors as well as existing investor Telephone Acquisition Company, the company said in a press release.
3 min read · 05 March 2013
Endosense, a Geneva-based developer of sensing technology focused on catheter ablation for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, has raised $4.3 million in new funding, bringing its Series C round to $44.6 million. Endosense is backed by Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Neomed, Gimv, VI Partners, Sectoral Asset Management, Ysios Capital Partners, Initiative Capital Romandie and NGN Capital.
2 min read · 05 March 2013
San Francisco-based Pathbrite has raised $4 million in Series A2 financing, the company announced Monday. Pathbrite, an education portfolio platform company, is backed by ACT, ReThink Education, Josh Mailman and angel investors. The money will go toward continued development. Pathbrite has raised a total of $8 million to date.
2 min read · 04 March 2013
US HealthVest has raised $36 million in new financing. Investors include Polaris Partners; Richard Kresch; Fidelity Biosciences; George Conrades, chairman of Akamai Technologies; Trevi Health Ventures; Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth; and Carl Byers, former CFO of athenahealth. The company is a provider of specialized psychiatric care.
3 min read · 04 March 2013
Magazine publisher Condé Nast International has led a $20 million investment round for farfetch, an e-commerce marketplace for independent fashion boutiques. Existing investors Advent Venture Partners, Index Ventures and e.ventures also participated in the fundraising.
4 min read · 04 March 2013
Sophia Search, a Belfast-based developer of semantic content analysis technology, has raised $3.7 million in Series A financing. The investment was led by Atlantic Bridge, and will be used for marketing and sales efforts in North America and the UK.
3 min read · 04 March 2013
Ted Kummert becomes the latest from the computer giant to join the Pacific Northwest venture firm
2 min read · 01 March 2013
The new firm, founded by financial-services entrepreneur Micky Malka, has already invested in Borro and three other startups
3 min read · 01 March 2013