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Transphorm Seals $25M Series DTransphorm Inc. has closed a $25 million Series D financing round from Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd., a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management, and existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. The latest round brings Transphorm’s total funding to $63 million. The company, which launched in February, will use the money to continue development of its compact power conversion technology.
- VC People Moves, June 2011
Hires and other personnel changes at Greycroft, Lightbank and Chrysalis among other VC firms
- Lux Capital Names Woolsey, Foster Venture Partners
Venture firm Lux Capital has added James Woolsey and Richard Foster as venture partners. Woolsey will help the firm identify investment opportunities in energy that offer significant economic and environmental benefits. Foster will focus on new technologies and business models for Life Sciences and healthcare IT investment, the firm said in a statement. Woolsey is chairman of Woolsey Partners; he also currently chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group. Foster is managing partner of Investment and Advisory Services. He was previously a director and senior partner with McKinsey & Co., where he co-founded the healthcare and private equity practices.
- Cerulean Pharma Inc. Closes $24 Million in Series C Financing
Cerulean Pharma Inc. closed a $24 million Series C financing. Lilly Ventures led the round, with participation from all existing investors including Polaris Venture Partners, Venrock, Lux Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. Lilly’s Venture Partner Steve Hall joined the board of the Cambridge, Mass.-based designer and developer of nanopharmaceuticals. Cerulean plans to use the capital to advance its CRLX101development candidate into a randomized Phase II trial as a non-small cell lung cancer drug.
- Week in deals, July 19, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- peHUB Wire: Monday, July 12, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Monday, July 12, 2010
Random Ramblings
- Visterra Raises $6 Million
Visterra Inc., a Camrbidge, Mass.-based developer of technologies that can interrogate how pathogens interact with human cells, has raised $6 million in first-round funding. Backers include Flagship Ventures, Lux Capital and Polaris Venture Partners. The company is an MIT spinout, and previously was called Parasol Therapeutics.