Angel Medical Systems Inc., a medical device company, has raised $27.5 million in new financing. Investors include SOAM Angel Partners, and unnamed existing investors, the company said Monday.
3 min read · 17 December 2012
Allakos Inc., a biotechnology company based in the San Francisco area, has raised $32 million in Series A venture financing. Novo Ventures led the round, with Alta Partners, RiverVest Venture Partners and the Roche Venture Fund also participating. As a result, Peter Moldt, partner at Novo Ventures; Robert Alexander, director at Alta Partners; and John McKearn, managing director at RiverVest Venture Partners, join the company’s board.
3 min read · 17 December 2012
Duetto Research, a startup focused on cloud-based technology for the travel and hospitality industry, has raised $10 million in Series A financing led by Battery Ventures and Altimeter Capital. existing investors Thayer Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff, also participated.
4 min read · 17 December 2012
Gravy, the maker of a mood-based mobile app, has raised a total of $6.4 million the company announced Thursday. Investors include Piedmont Investment Advisors. The company’s app is designed to direct users to activities and events near where they live, work and play. Gravy, formerly timeRAZOR, is based in Leesburg, Virgina.
3 min read · 14 December 2012
Panorama9 has raised $900,000 in seed financing from private technology investors in Denmark. Names of the investors were not released. Panorama9, maker of a web-based IT dashboard, will use the money for continued development and to expand its US sales presence, the company said.
2 min read · 14 December 2012
The Thiel Foundation recently awarded three new grants via its Breakout Labs, a revolving fund to promote innovation in science and technology. The winning companies were AVEtec, a company developing ways to harness the physics of tornadoes to produce energy; and healthcare focused technology companies General Genomics and Siva Therapeutics.
4 min read · 14 December 2012
Vivino, maker of a social wine app that allows users to keep track of wines they drink, has raised $1 million in Series A financing from Nordic VC Creandum. Vivino received seed funding last year from SEED Capital and Skype co-founder Janus Friis. Vivino was founded in 2009 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
3 min read · 13 December 2012
SpotHero, a parking garage reservation startup, has raised $2.5 million in a round led by Battery Ventures. 500 Startups, David Cohen’s Bullet Time, e.Ventures, OCA Ventures, New World Ventures, Lightbank,and Draper VC also participated. Chicago-based SpotHero is a mobile app and website that allows drivers to reserve parking spots.
2 min read · 13 December 2012
Enevate Corp., a developer of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, has raised $24 million in Series B capital. The round includes new investors CEC Capital, Tsing Capital, Presidio Ventures, and existing investors Mission Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Enevate is based in Irvine, Calif.
2 min read · 12 December 2012
Colorado-based medical device company Cerapedics Inc. has completed a $19 million Series C round led by new investors MedImmune Ventures and CVF LLC, an affiliate of Henry Crown and Company. Existing investors including OrbiMed Advisors and NGN Capital also participated.
4 min read · 12 December 2012
