Mail.com Media Corp., an El Segundo, Calif.-based operator of digital media portals, has raised $35 million in Series D funding. Quadrangle Capital Partners, an affiliate of Quadrangle Group, led the round, and was joined by WI Harper Group and Novel TMT Ventures.
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Blip.tv, a New York–based online television network, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures.
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IDEX Corp. (NYSE: IEX) has acquired Semrock, a Rochester, N.Y.–based provider of optical filters for biotech and analytical instrumentation in the life sciences markets. The deal was valued at approximately $60 million in cash. Semrock had raised around $16 million in VC funding from firms like Bluestream Ventures.
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amBX UK Ltd., a provider of "sensory surround" entertainment technology, has spun out from Philips Technology Incubator with an undisclosed amount of VC funding from Prime Technology Ventures.
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Texert Inc., a Dallas-based provider of enterprise risk management solutions, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from New Venture Partners.
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Replay Solutions Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of testing automation solutions for software development, has raised $2 million in new Series B funding from UV Partners. It had held an $11 million first close in August from Sigma Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Partech International.
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Highland Capital Partners has promoted Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh has to general partner. He had joined the firm’s Menlo Park office in 2004 as a senior associate, and focuses on early-stage medical device and biotech opportunities. Highland also has added vascular biologist Dr. Elazer Edelman as a senior advisor.
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Cobalt Biofuels, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of biobutanol, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. New backer LSP and returnee Pinnacle Ventures co-led the round, and were joined by Harris & Harris Group and existing shareholders Vantage Point Venture Partners, The Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund and @Ventures.
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