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eFFECTOR Therapeutics Raises $45 Million Series ABiopharmaceutical company eFFECTOR Therapeutics has completed a $45 million Series A financing. Investors include U.S. Venture Partners, Abingworth, Novartis Venture Funds, SR One, Astellas Venture Management, Osage University Partners and Mission Bay Capital.
Grotech Ventures Raises $225 Million With Simple Pitch: We Sell Our StartupsEarly-stage IT and healthcare investor Grotech Ventures announces it has raised a new $225 million fund after a 20-month process.
Grotech Raises $225M With Simple Pitch: We Sell Our StartupsThe Virginian venture firm raised $109 million for its previous fund, which closed in 2009
- Box Acquires Crocodoc
Venture-backed Box has acquired Crocodoc, a startup that makes HTML5 document rendering and viewing technology. Terms of the deal were not released. The full Crocodoc team will join Box, with Crocodoc co-founder and CEO Ryan Damico serving as Box's director of platform, the company said. Box is backed by venture firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, General Atlantic, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners.
Crocodoc Sale Provides Exit for Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Other Angels - CorrectedCrocodoc, an angel-backed startup that offers document-viewing software to enterprises, announced Thursday that it has been purchased for an undisclosed amount by Box Inc., a venture-backed cloud storage company. An alumnus of incubator Y Combinator, Crocodoc has raised about $1 million in angel funding, according to Reuters.
- GoodData and Box Expand Technology Partnership
GoodData and Box have launched the GoodBox Bash™, a cloud-based app that allows Box customers to process data about the effectiveness of highly-collaborative teams.
- Chute Opens Up With $7M Series A
San Francisco-based startup Chute announced Tuesday it raised $7 million Series A round of funding led by Foundry Group, with existing investors Freestyle Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participating. The company, which came out out of Y Combinator, previously raised about $3 million in funding from institutional ind individual investors, including Klout co-founder and CEO Joe Fernandez.
- Sequoia, USVP Back Clustrix With Series C
Clustrix, a San Francisco-based developer of clustered databases to help make them manageable and searchable, has raised a $16.5 million Series C round of funding from current investors Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures and individual investor Don Listwin, a former executive of Cisco. The company, which was founded in late 2005 and came out of Y Combinator, has raised now raised $46.5 million to date.
- Box Hires Three Enterprise Tech Execs
Box has hired three enterprise technology executives. Justin Somaini, Yahoo!'s ex-chief information security officer, has joined Box as the company's first chief trust officer. Niall Wall, a Symantec veteran, has joined Box as their SVP of business development. And Jeff Mannie, an ex-PayPal executive, was named Box's VP and controller.
- Zerto Seals $13M Series C
Zerto, a disaster recovery company focused on virtualized data centers, has raised $13 million in Series C financing. The round was led by RTP Ventures, an affiliate of ru-Net Holdings, with support from existing investors Battery Ventures, Greylock and U.S. Venture Partners. Murat Bicer, managing director of RTP Ventures, will join the company’s board of directors.