Private Equity
Aspect Ventures has raised $181 million for its second venture fund. The fund will focus on early-stage tech companies.
4 min read · 23 January 2018
Emeryville, California-based Gritstone Oncology, a personalized cancer immunotherapy company, has named Jean-Marc Bellemin as executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer. His appointment became effective January 5, 2018. Previously, Bellemin worked at Actelion Pharmaceuticals USA where he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Gritstone Oncology's backers include Versant Ventures, The Column Group, Clarus Funds, Frazier Healthcare Partners, RedMile, Casdin Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, Trinitas Capital, GV, Alexandria Venture Investments and Bay City Capital.
3 min read · 23 January 2018
Austin-based HNI Healthcare, a physician practice management company, has raised $32.64 million in Series E financing. The investors were Bison Capital and Spindletop Capital.
1 min read · 23 January 2018
San Francisco-based seed and Series A investor Day One Ventures came out of stealth and announced its launch. The firm would not disclose its fund size target, how much money it has raised or the identity of its LPs. But it said it has already made 14 investments, including Lvl5, which creates HD maps for self-driving cars; DigitalGenius, provider of machine learning technology for customer service; and Piper, an edtech company that manufactures a do-it-yourself computer kit for kids.
1 min read · 23 January 2018
1 min read · 23 January 2018
3 min read · 22 January 2018
Springbuk, a provider of employer-facing health intelligence software, secured $20 million in Series B financing. HealthQuest Capital and Echo Health Ventures led the round with participation from Lewis & Clark Ventures and Elevate Ventures.
1 min read · 22 January 2018
Baltimore-based Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics company, has raised $11 million in funding. F-Prime Capital Partners and Kaiser Permanente Ventures led the round with participation from Arthur Ventures, Lionbird Venture Capital and Cognosante Ventures.
1 min read · 22 January 2018
Digital nutrition platform Zipongo has raised $35 million in Series B funding. The investors were Seventure Partners, Mayfield and Zaffre Investments, the investment fund of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
4 min read · 22 January 2018
China and Newton, Massachusetts-based Harbour BioMed, a developer of therapeutics for cancer, has closed an undisclosed amount of Series A+ financing. The investors were CDH Investments and Advantech Capital.
1 min read · 22 January 2018
