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Waze Knows Ways to a $30M RoundSocial traffic and navigation company Waze reeled in $30 million in funding from investors including Horizon Ventures Hong Kong, KPCB’s Digital Growth Fund and the VC’s iFund, as well. Backing will be used to boost the app’s growth in China. Joining Waze’s board are John Malloy, Managing Partner of Blue Run Ventures and Jason Wong of Horizon Ventures and Mary Meeker, partner at KPCB, joins the company as a strategic advisor and board observer alongside Josh Silverman, President of American Express US Consumer division and former CEO of Skype.
- Foundation Medicine Closes A Round with $33.5M
Foundation Medicine Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based cancer diagnostics company, has added to its Series A financing, closing the round with $33.5 million. New investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures join Third Rock Ventures in the round. Brook Byers, a partner with Kleiner Perkins, and Google Ventures’ Krishna Yeshwant will join Foundation Medicine’s board.
- Crashlytics Nabs $1M Round
Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures provided Massachusetts-based Crashlytics with a $1 million seed funding. The company provides crash-reporting solutions to mobile developers to pinpoint performance issues.
- Siluria Technologies Nets $20M
Siluria Technologies, the California-based methane conversion company, has landed $20 million in the form of a Series B investment led by the Wellcome Trust, a UK-based foundation. Other investors include Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital, and Presidio Ventures.
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