Audience, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of voice processing solutions enabled with noise suppression, has raised $15 million in total VC funding. Return backers included New Enterprise Associates, Tallwood Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital and VentureTech Alliance. The company has now raised $60 million.
2 min read · 25 March 2009
1 min read · 25 March 2009
Identec Solutions AG, an Austria-based supplier of industrial RFID-based tracking and tracing solutions, has acquired TunnelCom, a Norway-based provider of automatic tagging solutions for the tunnel, mining, oil and gas industries. No financial terms were disclosed. Identec has raised VC funding from firms like Hannover Finanz GmbH, RFID Invest AG, UBF Mittelstandsfinanzierungs AG and Gamma Capital Partners.
3 min read · 24 March 2009
Axcient Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of data protection SaaS solutions for small and mid-sized enterprises, has raised $6 million in Series A funding fromAllegis Capital and Peninsula Ventures.
3 min read · 24 March 2009
FirstBest Systems Inc., a Bedford, Mass.-based developer of insurance underwriting management systems, has raised $6 million in Series B funding. Return backers Flybridge Capital Partners and Brookstone Partners co-led the round. FirstBest previously raised $7 million.
4 min read · 24 March 2009
Flat World Knowledge, a Nyack, N.Y.-based publisher of open-source commercial textbooks, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. Backers include Greenhill SAVP, High Peaks Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners.
3 min read · 24 March 2009
Redpoint Ventures has made three hires: Satish Dharmaraj, co-founder of open-source email company Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo), as a partner; Nety Krishna, formerly ofApplied Materials, as a venture partner and CTO of the firm's energy, materials and environment practice; and Pueo Keffer, previously a senior associate with TA Associates, as a vice president with Redpoint's growth equity fund.
4 min read · 24 March 2009
Satish Dharmaraj has agreed to join Redpoint Ventures as a partner, according to AllThingsD. He is the co-founder of open-source email company Zimbra, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2007 for $350 million. Dharmaraj left Yahoo earlier this year. www.redpoint.com
1 min read · 23 March 2009
Claros Diagnostics Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based developer of handheld urological cancer diagnostic testing system for point-of-care use, has raised $4 million in second-round funding, according to a regulatory filing. Shareholders include Oxford Bioscience Partners, Bioventures Investors, Accelerated Technologies Partners and Commons Capital. www.clarosdx.com
1 min read · 23 March 2009
Ardian Inc., a developer of a catheter-based medical device to treat hypertension, has raised $47 million in third-round funding. Medronic Inc. led the round, and was joined by Emergent Medical Partners and return backers Advanced Technology Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures and Split Rock Partners. The company previously raised $17 million.
3 min read · 23 March 2009
