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Kyruus Seals $5.5M Series ABoston-based Kyruus Inc. has raised $5.5 million in Series A financing from Highland Capital Partners, Venrock and strategic investor Gerson Lehrman Group. The company is also backed by individual investors including Jonathan Bush, Ed Park, John Goldsmith and James Golden. Formed last year, Kryuus is developing a technology platform to unify public and proprietary healthcare data sources to perform processing, profiling, and predictive analytics based on the professional personas of physicians.
- Slideshow: VCs and PE Execs Who've Made the Leap into Pro Sports
Lately, new investors have been popping up from coast to coast in professional sports teams deals. As entrepreneurs’ companies and PE and VC portfolios rebound, some of the boldface names in charge of them are loosening purse strings to make the mega-ego purchases of professional ballclubs. That means that, possibly, PE pros Josh Harris and Steve Pagliuca could find themselves in a dispute not over how the carry is split in a club deal, but over who carried the ball the previous night in the Celts-76ers game. Although these investors are savvy when it comes to LBOs, IPOs and dividend recaps, things haven’t always panned out the way they’ve wanted on the diamond/gridiron/hardwood/ice....
- VYou Seals $3M Series A for Video Tech
VYou, the developer of a conversational video platform, has closed on $3 million in Series A financing. RRE Ventures and Highland Capital Partners led the round, which will be used for growth and technology development. Other investors include High Peaks Venture Partners, Broadway Video Ventures, and individual investors Kevin Wall, David Tisch, and Rick Webb. Adam Ludwin of RRE Ventures and Dan Nova of Highland Capital will join as board members.
- session M Nets $6.5M
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners teamed to provide mobile app firm session M with a $6.5 million financing. Other partners also contributed to the funding, which session M announced at its website, but they were not publicized. session M will be a part of the KPCB iFund. Bob Davis from Highland and Matt Murphy from KPCB will join the Company's board.
Optimism Remains Heading Into Q214 IPOs in Q1 raised $1.4B; what will Q2 bring?
- IPO Profiles from March 2011
Profiles of 2 companies that debuted in March 2011: Cornerstone OnDemand and Qihoo 360 Technology
- Norwest Doesn't Look 50
VC firms celebrates half a century; and notes from NVCA conference