May 2011

Novophage Completes $5.7M Series A Financing

May 31, 2011

Novophage, a Boston, MA-based early-stage technology company that develops a new class of biologics for different industrial applications, has completed a $5.7m Series A round of financing. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation from Founder Collective, Boston University (BU) and strategic investors Chevron Technology Ventures and The Kraft Group. In conjunction [...]

ADVANCE Medical Raises US$6M in Series A Financing

May 31, 2011

ADVANCE Medical, a Palo Alto, CA- and Sao Paulo, Brazil-based company that commercializes innovative medical technologies in Brazil and other countries in Latin America, has raised US$6m in Series A financing. The round was led by Venrock and Brazilian institutional investors and angels. ADVANCE Medical specializes in helping innovative medical technology companies (such as ZELTIQ [...]

Rocketick Receives $2.5M Strategic Investment from NVIDIA

May 31, 2011

Rocketick, a Ramat Gan, Israel-based GPU-based logic simulation provider, has received a $2.5m strategic investment from NVIDIA. NVIDIA, which is a leader in visual and parallel computing, will become a product licensee of Rocktick’s GPU-based logic simulation accelerator, called RocketSim, and Jeff Herbst, VP of Business Development at NVIDIA, will become an observer on the [...]

Pixonic Receives $5M in Second Venture Capital Financing

May 31, 2011

Pixonic, a Moscow, Russia-based social network games publisher, has received $5m in its second venture capital financing. Investors include Ventech, Kite Ventures, and TA Venture. The company intends to use the funds to publish new games in social networks, including Facebook, through its own PixAPI platform, which is designed to provide developer with fast integration, game [...]

Intrexon Corporation Closes $100M Series E Financing

May 31, 2011

Intrexon Corporation, a synthetic biology company, has closed a $100m Series E financing round. Investors include new shareholders, who committed the majority portion of the round and existing backers, including Randal J Kirk, Intrexon’s Chairman and CEO, and Third Security, LLC. This investment brings the total amount raised by the company to date to over [...]

OpenX Technologies Closes $20M Series D Funding

May 31, 2011

OpenX Technologies, Inc., a Los Angeles-based provider of digital advertising technology, has completed a $20m Series D funding round. The round, which brings the total amount raised to date to more than $50m, was led by SAP Ventures, with the participation of additional new investors AOL Ventures, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc., and Presidio [...]

Excelimmune Closes $10.5M Series B Financing

May 31, 2011

Excelimmune, Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of fully human recombinant polyclonal antibodies for therapeutic use, has held the final close of a $10.5m Series B financing. The funding includes new and existing high net worth individual investors. The company intends to use the funds to advance Staphguard, a human recombinant polyclonal antibody (HRPA) [...]

investiere.ch Raises USD$600K from Angel Investors

May 31, 2011

investiere.ch, a Zug, Switzerland-based online start-up financing platform created by Verve Capital Partners, has raised USD $600k from angel investors. The funds will be use to ramp up operations, improving the usability and investment process management capabilities of its platform and to implement basic post-deal services. Co-founded by Steffen Wagner, investiere.ch, which has a strategic [...]

Primus Power Receives $11M

May 31, 2011

Primus Power, a Hayward, CA-based provider of grid-scale energy storage solutions, has received $11m in its last financing round. DBL Investors and I2BF Global Ventures joined existing investors Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company plans to use the capital to continue to advance to a full scale demonstration system [...]

Fondo Italiano di Investimento Makes Indirect Investment in Wisequity III

May 31, 2011

Fondo Italiano di Investimento recently made an indirect investment of undisclosed amount in Wisequity III, the third private equity fund managed by Milan-based Wise SGR. The fund, which is currently in fundraising phase, will provide expansion capital to Italian small and medium-sized businesses with a turnover ranging between €20m and €100m, and focusing on leveraged [...]

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