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Green Buildings Online Inc., a Connecticut-based online media company providing green building professional education, training and information, recently raised $150k in funding. The funds were provided by Connecticut Innovations. The company intends to use the new capital to develop and promote their new PoplarNetwork.com. Led by Rob Freeman Jr., Founder and CEO, Green Buildings Online […]

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uSpeak, a Madrid, Spain-based provider of a mobile application to learn Spanish, raised €500k in funding. Backers included Carlos Dexeus, Fernando Fiksman, Philippe Dillmann and Great Oaks. The company intends to use the capital to expand to other platforms and hire new people. Co-founded in 2011 by Andrés Burdett and Jamie Dick-Cleland, uSpeak provides iPhone […]

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Nuron Biotech, Inc., an Exton, PA-based specialty biologics and vaccines company, closed an $80m financing. The financing, provided by new investor HealthCare Royalty Partners II, LP, included a $30m equity investment and a $50m Synthetic Royalty® agreement tied to future sales of Meningitec™, HibTITER® and the company’s other products, including NU100. Led by Shankar Musunuri, […]

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Handsome Ltd, a Manchester, UK-based medical devices manufacturer, has raised £250k from the North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact. The company intends to use the capital to complete product development and clinical user studies, as well as implementing relevant ISO accreditations and commercializing products to bring them to market. Led by CEO […]

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Chase Bank USA, NA, a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has acquired Bloomspot, Inc., a San Francisco, California-based provider of targeted merchant offers. The acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, is expected to close in early 2013. Led by Jasper Malcolmson, CEO, Bloomspot connects members to local and national merchants such as […]

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Aventa Technologies Inc., a Danvers, MA-based developer of manufacturing equipment for emerging alternative energy markets, has received a strategic investment from Applied Ventures, the the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., as a part of a Series A funding. The company will use the proceeds to strengthen thier product line and scale manufacturing capabilities. Led […]

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Synbody Biotechnology Inc. (SBI), a Farmigton, CT-based early-stage biotechnology company, has raised $250k from Connecticut Innovations. This investment was preceded by an initial investment of $750k that CI made through its Seed Investment Fund in March (read here). Led by president Paul Hallenbeck, Ph.D., and vice president of research and development and co-founder Kevin Burroughs, […]

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Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:ADBE) has acquired online social media platform Behance. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The acquisition of Behance, which enables creatives to showcase and share their work and has over 1 million members, is designed to add community features to Creative Cloud, the Adobe platform launched earlier this year to […]

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CMDBioscienceSM Inc., a New Haven, CT-based computational biotechnology company that specializes in the computer-enabled analysis, modeling and design of therapeutic protein-peptide interactions, raised $1m in Series A funding. Backers include existing investor Connecticut Innovations, which injected $500k in CMD, LaunchCapital, Enhanced Capital Connecticut, the Mohegan Tribe, and an individual investor. Led by Joseph Audie, Ph.D., […]

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According to a filing with the SEC (read here), Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital raised $700m for a new fund. Multiple reports assumed that Sequoia Capital Global Growth Fund, L.P., this is the name of the vehicle, will invest abroad and operate separately from the other international ventures Sequoia currently manages in […]

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AxioMx Inc., a Branford, Connecticut-based early-stage biotechnology company, raised $2.5m in funding. Backers include Connecticut Innovations (CI), which invested $750k, Elm Street Ventures and company founders. Launched in 2012 and led by CEO Christopher McLeod, CSO Michael Weiner, Ph.D., and Tom Thompson, vice president of sales and marketing, AxioMx is developing a novel approach to […]