3-V Biosciences 1050 Hamilton Court Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: 650-561-8600 Website: www.3vbio.com
3-V Biosciences, Inc. is a privately-held biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and ultimately commercializing novel antiviral therapeutics that target host cell factors required for viral infection, thereby avoiding many of the shortcomings of traditional pathogen-directed approaches.
Key Contact Name Title Email Merdad Parsey CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 undisclosed
Investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers New Enterprise Associates
955 Dreams 655 Castro, Suite 5 Mountain View, CA 94041 Website: www.955dreams.com
955 Dreams is a next-generation publishing company focused on bringing the best of modern mobile technology to the media industry. The company is creating a new breed of magazines that users can enjoy on their mobile devices and will partner with the best content providers to build the most engaging mobile products for consumers.
Key Contact Name Title Email Kiran Bellubbi CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/26/12 $3,250,000 Seed
Investors 500 Startups CrunchFund Felicis Ventures Kapor Capital m8 Capital
AdaptiveBlue D/B/A GetGlue 22 West 19th Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10011 Phone: 201-788-9030 Website: http://getglue.com
GetGlue is a social network for entertainment. Users check-in and share what they are watching, listening to and reading with friends; get fresh recommendations, exclusive stickers, discounts and other rewards from their favorite shows and movies.
Key Contact Name Title Email Alex Iskold President [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/11/12 $12,000,000
Investors RRE Ventures TimeWarner Investments Union Square Ventures
Affine 58 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 Phone: 650-687-3865 Website: www.affine.tv "Affine delivers the first and only contextual targeting platform for video advertising. Affine's technology provides unparalleled, in-stream visibility, giving brands, agencies, publishers and networks ""TV-like"" clarity and control over where ads appear. The company's broad partner network provides access to more than 85 percent of online video impressions. Affine is based in San Francisco and has multiple patents pending."
Key Contact Name Title Email Michael Mathieu CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/16/12 $5,000,000 Investors Crosslink Highland Capital Partners
AirXpanders 1047 Elwell Court Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-390-9000 Website: www.airxpanders.com
AirXpanders Inc., is a tissue-expansion company focused on the area of breast cancer reconstruction. By employing a revolutionary patient-controlled expander, activated by a wireless remote control, the often painful process of recovering one's feminine shape after cancer can potentially be eased with this needle-free technology that is easy to use and may enable the patient to proceed to a permanent implant much faster than the current standard-of-care. At this time, AirXpanders' products are not cleared or approved for sale.
Key Contact Name Title Email Scott Dodson CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $10,000,000 Series D
Investors GBS Venture Partners Heron Capital Prolog Ventures Vivo Ventures WTI
Akebia 9987 Carver Road, Suite 420 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-985-1920 Website: www.akebia.com
Akebia Therapeutics is a discovery and development company focused on the treatment of chronic anemia. Akebia's lead program, AKB-6548, an orally bioavailable HIF-prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) inhibitor for patients with anemia, is in Phase 2 clinical trials. AKB-6548 potentially promises to be a safer, less expensive, orally dosed pharmaceutical to stimulate endogenous EPO production.
Key Contact Name Title Email Joseph H. Gardner, PhD CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 $4,100,000
Investors AgeChem Venture Fund Athenian Venture Partners Kearny Venture Partners Novartis Bioventures Sigvion Capital Triathlon Medical Ventures Venture Investors
Alice.com 8215 Greenway Boulevard, Suite 340 Middleton, WI 53562 Phone: 877-962-5423 Website: www.alice.com
Alice.com is an online retail marketplace for household essentials. As a leading provider of online retail and interactive marketing services for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry, Alice.com offers manufacturers a direct to consumer platform that provides shoppers with competitive pricing, instant coupons, and simple automation and management of household purchases. And, with its free iPhone app, all of this is available on-the-go.
Key Contact Name Title Email Brian Wiegand CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/31/12 $3,600,000
Investors AlienVault 1901 South Bascom Avenue, Suite 520 Campbell, CA 95008 Phone: 408-465-9989 Website: www.alienvault.com
AlienVault enables enterprises of all sizes to quickly deploy and operate cost effective unified security management solutions for better threat management and easier PCI/SOX compliance. AlienVault solutions come tightly integrated with dozens of sophisticated open source security tools - Snort, OSSEC, OpenVAS, ntop, Nagios, and more - all in the box. OSSIM by AlienVault ™, the de-facto standard Open Source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) OSSIM has over 160,000 downloads and users in 80 countries and AlienVault customers include defense departments, government organizations, banks and enterprises around the globe.
Key Contact Name Title Email Barmak Meftah CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/31/12 $8,000,000 Series B
Investors Adara Venture Partners Neotec Trident Capital
Anaplan 240 Stockton Street, Fifth Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 Phone: 415-742-8199 Website: www.anaplan.com
Anaplan is a revolutionary cloud platform designed for business users to rapidly build and maintain strategic, operational and business planning & performance management applications in days not months. For the first time business users can respond in real time to changing competitive and organizational landscapes without resorting to traditional IT or consulting dependencies.
Key Contact Name Title Email Guy Haddleton CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/19/12 $11,400,000 Series B
Investors Granite Ventures Shasta Ventures
AppDynamics 303 Second Street Suite 450, North Tower San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: 415-442-8400 Website: www.appdynamics.com
AppDynamics is the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-premise application performance management for modern application architectures in both the cloud and the data center. The company delivers solutions for highly distributed and agile environments, helping companies such as Netflix, Priceline, TiVo, ZipRealty, Taleo, and Swisscom monitor, troubleshoot, diagnose, and scale their production applications.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jyoti Bansal CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $20,000,000 Series C
Investors Greylock Partners Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Lightspeed Venture Partners
AppTap 1801 Reston Pkwy Reston, VA 20190 Phone: 703-880-6556 Website: www.apptap.com
AppTap is a contextual app recommendations service and advertising network. The company helps consumers find apps relevant to their interests through contextual app recommendations in articles on leading media sites; app developers promote their apps through sponsored placements; and media companies and carriers boost user engagement and revenue with app recommendations. Key Contact Name Title Email Matt Callaway CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/12/12 $4,000,000
Investors New Atlantic Ventures Syncom Venture Partners
AQT Solar 1145 Sonora Court Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Phone: 408-727-5800 Website: www.aqtsolar.com
Founded in 2007, AQT Solar deploys a proprietary process on proven manufacturing platforms to produce high-performance, low-cost CIGS thin-film solar cells.
Key Contact Name Title Email Michael Bartholomeusz CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/13/12 $18,700,000 Series B
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Aria Diagnostics 5945 Optical Court San Jose, CA 95138 Phone: 408-229-7500 Website: www.ariosadx.com
Aria Diagnostics, Inc., is a molecular diagnostics company committed to providing safe, highly accurate and affordable prenatal tests for maternal and fetal health. Led by an experienced team, Aria is using its proprietary technology to perform a directed analysis of cell-free DNA in blood. Aria's simple blood test equips pregnant women and their healthcare providers with reliable information to make decisions regarding their health, without creating unnecessary stress or anxiety.
Key Contact Name Title Email Ken Song, MD CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 $50,000,000 Series C
Investors Domain Associates Meritech Capital Partners Venrock
Ash Improvement Technology 156 W56th Street 17th Floor, Suite 1701 New York, NY 10019 Phone: 877-871-9940 Website: www.cleancem.com
Ash Improvement Technology Inc. (AIT) is a technology-driven mineral resources company. The firm has developed a proprietary process to convert more than 100 million annual tons in the US, and 1 billion tons worldwide, of landfilled coal combustion residues into a valuable building product with proven environmental benefits.
Key Contact Name Title Email Marc Zacharias CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/27/12 $3,000,000 Investors
Avinger 400 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 650-241-7900 Website: http://avinger.com Founded in 2007 by renowned cardiologist and medical device entrepreneur Dr. John B. Simpson, Avinger develops next-generation catheter-based technologies for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD). Leveraging core competencies in medical device catheter engineering and intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Avinger markets Wildcat and Kittycat catheters, and recently received the CE Mark to market Ocelot, the first ever real-time OCT crossing catheter.
Key Contact Name Title Email John B. Simpson CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 $22,500,000 Series C
Investors
Azuki Systems 43 Nagog Park Acton, MA 01720 Phone: 978-929-9184 Website: www.azukisystems.com
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video platform. To reach this goal we focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for video, and striving to always be building what's next. Our culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by our customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven OTT optimized multi-screen video solution available, now extending to any screen.
Key Contact Name Title Email John Clancy CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $5,100,000
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Balihoo 404 South 8th Street, Suite 300 Boise, ID 83702 Phone: 866-446-9914 Website: http://balihoo.com
Balihoo is the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation (LMA) technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs. By automating local marketing, Balihoo gives national brands unprecedented control over local marketing execution and the ability to control the customer experience closer to the point of purchase.
Key Contact Name Title Email Pete Gombert CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/12/12 $5,000,000 Investors Highway 12 Ventures OpenView Venture Partners
BeachMint 1411 5th St, Suite 200 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Phone: 310-421-9520 Website: www.beachmint.com
BeachMint is a venture backed social commerce company for designer-curated direct to consumer sites, founded by serial tech entrepreneurs, Josh Berman (Co-Founder MySpace) and Diego Berdakin. BeachMint launched their first brand, JewelMint.com, with Kate Bosworth and celebrity stylist, Cher Coulter, in October 2010, StyleMint.com with Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen in July 2011, BeautyMint.com with Jessica Simpson and celebrity skincare expert, Nerida Joy, in October 2011, and ShoeMint.com with Rachel Bilson and celebrity stylist, Nicole Chavez, in November 2011.
Key Contact Name Title Email Josh Berman CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $35,000,000
Investors Accel Partners Goldman Sachs Millenium Technology Value Partners NALA New Enterprise Associates New World Ventures Scale Ventures Trinity Ventures
Bionic Panda 665 Third Street, Suite 150 San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: 650-249-0905 Website: www.bionicpandagames.com
Bionic Panda Games is an Android-focused mobile social games company based in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2010, the company has assembled a strong team with deep backgrounds in mobile and social game development. The company's first game, Aqua Pets, is live in the Android Market today.
Key Contact Name Title Email Charles Hudson CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 undisclosed Seed
Investors 500 Startups Craig Sherman Google Ventures Kal Vepuri Norwest Venture Partners SoftTech VC
Blend Therapeutics 134 Coolidge Avenue Watertown, MA 02472 Phone: 617-923-4100 Website: www.blendtx.com Blend Therapeutics, Inc. is discovering and developing integrative combination medicines with the unprecedented ability to precisely control each agent's therapeutic action in concert. Using the company's proprietary Maestro platform, Blend designs and integrates drugs to target distinct disease pathways with optimal efficacy and safety. Blend was founded by three leaders in the fields of chemistry and nanomedicine from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School: Dr. Robert Langer and Dr. Stephen Lippard of MIT, and Dr. Omid Farokhzad of Harvard Medical School. Key Contact Name Title Email Craig Dunbar VP, Product Development
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 undisclosed Investors Flagship Ventures NanoDimension New Enterprise Associates
Bluefin Labs One Kendall Square, B17001 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-225-2592 Website: www.bluefinlabs.com
Bluefin Labs is a social TV analytics company providing solutions to brand advertisers, advertising agencies, and TV networks. Bluefin Labs' technology and data enable clients, for the first time, to tap into data at scale that links people's social media commentary to the shows and commercials they watch on TV. Grounded in 15 years of cognitive science and machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab, Bluefin Labs was founded by Deb Roy and Michael Fleischman in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
Key Contact Name Title Email Deb Roy CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $12,000,000 Series B
Investors Lerer Ventures Redpoint Ventures SoftBank Capital Time Warner Investments BodyShopBids 600 W. Chicago Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: 800-210-1267 Website: www.bodyshopbids.com
BodyShopBids is a Chicago-based startup that provides a Web and mobile platform to connect consumers who need auto body repairs with body shops through a unique bidding system. The company's technology allows users to easily upload photos of damaged vehicles and receive custom quotes from local body shops, all for free.
Key Contact Name Title Email Brad Weisberg CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $1,000,000 Series A
Investors Lightbank New World Ventures OCA Ventures
Brass Monkey 2 Harris Ave Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 Phone: 617-470-8815 Website: http://playbrassmonkey.com Brass Monkey is video game console that uses smartphones as controllers and any screen with a web browser as the main display. Brass Monkey provides a free SDK (software development kit) that lets developers create games with similar features to traditional consoles (XBox, PS3, Wii, Wii U, etc.) using familiar tools for creating Web based games: HTML5, Unity and/or Flash.
Key Contact Name Title Email Chris Allen CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $750,000 Angel
Investors Adam Miller Boston Seed Capital Michael Dornbrook Steve Garfield
BuzzFeed 54 West 21st Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone: 212-431-7464 Website: www.buzzfeed.com
BuzzFeed Tracks the Web's Obsessions in Real Time. We feature the kind of things you'd want to pass along to your friends: an outrageous video that's about to go viral, an obscure subculture breaking into the mainstream, a juicy bit of gossip that everyone at the office will be talking about tomorrow, or an ordinary guy having his glorious 15-minutes of fame. And when you read BuzzFeed, you'll always know the movies, music, and products that are on the rise and worth your time.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jonah Peretti CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 $15,500,000
Investors Hearst Media Lerer Ventures New Enterprise Associates RRE Ventures Softbank
Cadence Biomedical 146 N. Canal St., Suite 100 Seattle, WA 98103 Phone: 206-659-0614 Website: http://cadencebiomedical.com
Cadence Biomedical is a privately held early stage medical device company whose mission is to improve mobility for people with disabilities. The company's flagship kinetic orthosis product is a revolutionary device that can provide assistance to muscles and help people with severe disabilities walk. Key Contact Name Title Email Brian Glaister CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/19/12 $750,000 Series A-2 Investors Alliance of Angels Frontier Angels HealthTech Capital Keiretsu Forum Northwest Sand Hill Angels Wings
Cambrios Technologies 930 East Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Phone: 408-738-7400 Website: www.cambrios.com
Cambrios leads the industry in the development of proprietary, competitive products for consumer electronics markets using nanotechnology. Cambrios' breakthroughs in nanotechnology-based transparent electrodes simplify electronics manufacturing processes and improve end-product performance for current and future next-generation consumer devices. The company's first product, its ClearOhm™ coating material, produces a transparent, conductive film by wet processing and has significantly higher optical and electrical performance than currently used materials such as indium tin oxide and other transparent conductive oxides. Applications of ClearOhm™ coating material include transparent electrodes for touch screens, liquid crystal displays, e-paper, OLED devices, OLED lighting and thin film photovoltaics. Key Contact Name Title Email John LeMoncheck CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/31/12 $5,000,000 Series D-3
Investors Samsung Venture Investment
Carticept Medical 6120 Windward Parkway, Suite 220 Alpharetta, GA 30005 Phone: 770-754-3800 Website: www.carticept.com
Carticept Medical, Inc. is a privately held medical device company established in 2005 to develop and market innovative solutions for patients with osteoarthritis or cartilage damage. Major investors include Domain Associates, New Enterprise Associates and SonoSite, Inc.
Key Contact Name Title Email Timothy J. Patrick CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/18/12 $10,000,000
Investors Domain Associates New Enterprise Associates SonoSite
Catalyst IT Services 502 S. Sharp Street, Suite 2200 Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: 410-385-2500 Website: www.catalystitservices.com Catalyst IT Services is the leading onshore alternative to offshore information technology outsourcing and consulting. Our Fortune 500 and middle market clients are able to enjoy a range of solutions with a speed, efficiency, and quality unmatched by offshore options, while benefiting from deep industry expertise as well as extensive technical knowledge and experience across all of the major technical platforms.
Key Contact Name Title Email Michael Rosenbaum CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/10/12 $400,000 Mezzanine Debt
Investors DC Community Ventures Change Healthcare 12 Cadillac Drive, Suite 240 Brentwood, TN 37027 Phone: 888-920-5234 Website: www.changehealthcare.com
Change Healthcare Corporation launched in 2007 with a mission to engage consumers in obtaining personalized and actionable cost-savings information that changes the way they purchase healthcare services. Built on a database of medical, dental and pharmacy claims from a national client base, Change Healthcare delivers substantial savings to health plan members and employers in all 50 states. Key Contact Name Title Email Howard McLure CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $9,300,000 Series C Investors BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Sandbox Industries Solidus West Health Investment Fund
Checkpoint Surgical 22901 Millcreek Blvd., Suite 110 Cleveland, OH 44122 Phone: 216-378-9107 Website: www.checkpointsurgical.com Founded in 2009, Checkpoint Surgical's mission is to provide surgeons with state-of-the-art neurodevices to preserve nerves and evaluate nerve and muscle excitability in surgical procedures for better patient outcomes. In 2010, Checkpoint Surgical launched the CHECKPOINT Stimulator/Locator as its flagship product in a line of proprietary neuromuscular surgical devices.
Key Contact Name Title Email Leonard M. Cosentino CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/27/12 $1,700,000 Series B
Investors NDI Healthcare Fund
Choremonster 1411 Vine Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 Website: http://choremonster.com
Choremonster combines digital gaming with a Web-services facet through a suite of mobile and Web applications that allows parents and children ages 6-12 to collaborate interactively to complete household tasks. Parents assign real-life rewards for completing chores and gaining points. Choremonster was founded by two Cincinnati digital pros, Chris Bergman and Paul Armstrong, and is a graduate of the 2011 Brandery accelerator class.
Key Contact Name Title Email Chris Bergman CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/30/12 $350,000 Seed
Investors CincyTech
Clearside Biomedical 212 Rivergate Drive Suwanee, GA 30024 Phone: 678-428-7570 Website: www.clearsidebio.com
Clearside Biomedical is an ophthalmic company specializing in the research, development and commercialization of therapeutic products through a proprietary ocular microinjection platform that targets the individual compartments of the eye. Currently, Clearside Biomedical is focused on its initial product candidate, CLS1001, under development for retinal applications through the delivery of proven therapeutics to the suprachoroidal space.
Key Contact Name Title Email Daniel White CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 $4,000,000 Series A
Investors Hatteras Venture Partners
ClickSquared 280 Summer Street, 6th Floor Boston, MA 02210 Phone: 857-246-7800 Website: www.clicksquared.com ClickSquared is a global provider of cross-channel cloud marketing software and services. With innovative offerings ranging from self-service campaign management and email to fully managed customer engagement and loyalty programs, ClickSquared's pioneering Cross-Channel Marketing Hub orchestrates and delivers analytics-driven, relevant and personalized customer communications across email, direct mail, social, survey, mobile and web channels. Backed by a team of marketing, technology and vertical-industry experts that are passionate about client success, ClickSquared enables organizations of all sizes to maximize the return on their marketing investment.
Key Contact Name Title Email Wayne Townsend CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 $9,000,000
Investors ABS Ventures Flybridge Capital Partners JMI Equity Staley Capital
Co3 Systems 1 Alewife Center, Suite 450 Cambridge, MA 02140 Phone: 617-206-3900 Website: www.co3sys.com
Co3 Systems is an innovator in Data Loss Management solutions. The company's SaaS-based offering enables organizations of all sizes to efficiently prepare for, and rapidly manage data loss events. Companies using Co3 demonstrably minimize the costs resulting from data loss incidents. With funding from Fairhaven Capital, the company's executive team and advisors comprise security expertise from world-leading security, software and service organizations. Key Contact Name Title Email John Bruce CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/30/12 undisclosed
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Code 42 Software 1 Main St. SE, #400 Minnesota, MN 55414 Phone: 612-333-4242 Website: www.code42.com
Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has a long history of partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class businesses. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California, New York City, London and Bangalore, as well as in China via its partnership with IDG-Accel. Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful companies, many of which have defined their categories.
Key Contact Name Title Email Matthew Dornquast CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/18/12 $52,500,000 First Round
Investors Accel Partners Split Rock Partners
ConforMIS 11 North Ave. Burlington, MA 01803 Phone: 781-345-9001 Website: www.conformis.com
ConforMIS, Inc. is a privately-held company that develops and commercializes medical devices for osteoarthritis treatment and joint damage. Its proprietary intellectual property includes more than 300 patents and patent applications in the areas of imaging software, image processing, implant design, surgical techniques, instrumentation, and manufacturing, spanning knee, hip, shoulder, spine, and small joints. ConforMIS knee implants and instrumentation are designed to address all stages of osteoarthritis, the most common reason for knee replacement surgery. All devices have been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration for marketing in the US. In 2009, ConforMIS was named a winner of the Medical Design Excellence Awards, the premier recognition for contributions and advances in the design of medical products, for its iUni and iDuo resurfacing implants.
Key Contact Name Title Email Philipp Lang CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/30/12 $89,000,000 Series E
Investors AGC Equity Partners Axel Johnson
Continuuity 378 Cambridge Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Phone: 310-756-2108 Website: www.continuuity.com Continuuity is big data startup that designs and develops software to help developers build apps.
Key Contact Name Title Email Todd Papaioannou CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 undisclosed Investors Andreessen Horowitz Battery Ventures Bob Pasker Ignition Partners Paul Ambrose The Data Collective
Cool Planet BioFuels 460 Calle San Pablo Camarillo, CA 93012 Phone: 805-482-9055 Website: www.coolplanetbiofuels.com
Cool Planet BioFuels is developing bio based renewable, reduced carbon gasoline that can be blended with conventional gasoline and used in today's vehicles. In addition to BP and ConocoPhillips, several other energy companies are in the process of testing and evaluating Cool Planet's fuel with very good results to date. The company expects to announce additional energy company strategic relationships throughout 2012.
Key Contact Name Title Email Mike Cheiky CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/03/12 undisclosed Series C Investors BP Ventures ConocoPhillips General Electric Google Ventures North Bridge Venture Partners NRG
Cozi 506 2nd Avenue #710 Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: 206-957-8447 Website: www.cozi.com/
Cozi is a free online organizer that helps families manage crazy schedules, track shopping lists and to do lists, organize household chores, stay in communication and share memories-all in one place. Key Contact Name Title Email Robbie Cape CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/26/12 $3,000,000 Series C Investors
CytoPherx 401 W Morgan Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Phone: 734-272-4772 Website: www.cytopherx.com
CytoPherx was founded in July 2007 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is a venture backed, clinical stage medical device company addressing inflammation-based diseases and conditions. The company's products are custom configurations of a proprietary selective cytopheresis-based inflammation modulating system.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jim Danehy CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/04/12 $34,000,000
Investors Capital Midwest Fund Early Stage Partners ONSET Ventures
DailyWorth.com 41 E. 11th St., 11th Floor New York, NY 10003 Phone: 646-723-7341 Website: http://dailyworth.com
DailyWorth is a leader in the new wave of publications about finance and careers for women. Boasting over 200,000 subscribers nationwide, the daily email offers education, inspiration and the impetus to take positive financial action and build real net worth. Key Contact Name Title Email Amanda Steinberg CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $2,000,000 Angel Investors Dave Cohen Dave McClure Eric Schmidt Howard Lindzon Joanne Wilson
Digital Signal 14000 Thunderbolt Pl., Suite R Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: 703-642-8901 Website: www.digitalsignalcorp.com Digital Signal Corporation (DSC) is the world leader in three dimensional (3D) long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. The firm offers comprehensive enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs.
Key Contact Name Title Email David A. Guttadauro CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/03/12 $10,300,000
Investors City Light Capital Columbia Capital Novak Biddle Venture Partners Paladin Capital Group SilverHaze Partners dinCloud 1149 W. 190th St., #2100 Los Angeles, CA 90248 Website: www.dincloud.com dinCloud is a cloud services provider that offers a full spectrum of cloud based services ranging from hosted virtual desktops to datacenter and infrastructure as a service. The core offering, dinHVD, is a hosted virtual desktop that provides a complete turnkey suite of services for complete PC fleet management. dinCloud provides services tailored to fit a range of business models, giving its clients peace of mind. Organizations can transfer capital expenditure and headaches into operational expenses that are fully managed.
Key Contact Name Title Email Kevin Schatzle CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 undisclosed Seed
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Drchrono 2250 Latham St., #51 Mountain View, CA 94040 Phone: 650-701-3620 Website: www.drchrono.com drchrono focuses on creating intuitive cloud computing solutions for Apple's iPad and building a better healthcare experience. The drchrono iPad Patient Care Platform offers a complete practice management solution, including electronic medical records, electronic prescribing, medical billing and patient management.
Key Contact Name Title Email Michael Nusimow CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/26/12 $2,800,000 Investors Matt Cutts Yuri Milner
Elance 441 Logue Avenue, Suite 150 Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: 650-316-7500 Website: www.elance.com
Elance, the world's leading platform for online employment, helps businesses hire and manage in the cloud. For businesses looking to staff-up a team on an hourly or project basis, Elance offers instant access to talent and the ability to build and manage entire teams online. For independent professionals who want to work online, Elance offers access to qualified clients, a virtual workplace and guaranteed pay for great work.
Key Contact Name Title Email Fabio Rosati CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $16,000,000 Expansion
Investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers New Enterprise Associates Stripes Group
Elevation Pharmaceuticals 11455 El Camino Real, Ste 460 San Diego, CA 92130 Phone: 858-436-1616 Website: www.elevationpharma.com
Elevation Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company developing new inhaled therapies for patients with respiratory disease. The company's initial focus is on developing novel therapies for the underserved population of COPD patients not able to effectively control their disease with dry powder or metered dose inhalers. Elevation's lead drug candidate is EP-101, an inhalation solution formulation of glycopyrrolate, a long-acting muscarinic antagonist bronchodilator, in Phase 2 studies for the improved treatment of patients with moderate to severe COPD.
Key Contact Name Title Email Bill Gerhart CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/04/12 $30,000,000 Series B Investors Canaan Partners Care Capital Mesa Verde Venture Partners Novo Ventures TPG Biotech
Eved 4811 Oakton Street, Suite 250 Skokie, IL 60077 Phone: 847-982-9620 Website: www.eved.com
Eved is leading the transformation of the $263B meeting and event industry from a manual, highly fragmented, traditional service sector into a comprehensive online marketplace. Eved bridges the entire supply chain with a complete and interactive sourcing, marketing, and e-commerce solution. Eved has been adopted and championed by leaders in the meeting and event industry and now encompasses more than 2,500 users including organizations, third-party meeting and incentive companies, event planning and destination management companies, hotels, event venues and suppliers.
Key Contact Name Title Email Talia Mashiach CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/04/12 $9,500,000 Series B Investors MK Capital New World Ventures
Finsphere 505 106th Ave NE, Suite 200 Bellevue, WA 98004 Phone: 425-679-5700 Website: www.finsphere.com
Based in Bellevue, Washington, Finsphere was founded in 2007 to enable wireless carriers to help protect their customers through identity authentication services. Finsphere utilizes sophisticated analytics to provide a platform for the development of non-intrusive, privacy enhancing services to protect individuals and data across all industry segments.
Key Contact Name Title Email Mike Buhrmann CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $11,300,000
Investors Frazier Technology Ventures Mohr Davidow Ventures Shasta Ventures Vodafone Group
Fitbit 150 Spear St. San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: 650-395-7284 Website: www.fitbit.com Founded in 2007 in San Francisco, CA, Fitbit is dedicated to delivering simple, innovative health and fitness products and services that help people lead healthier, active lives by giving them the tools to become more aware, motivated and fit every day. Fitbit's Ultra Wireless Activity + Sleep Tracker is the leading wireless fitness tracker on the market, with distribution at leading national retailers such as Amazon.com, Best Buy, Brookstone, Radio Shack, REI and Target. Key Contact Name Title Email James Park CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $12,000,000 Series C Investors Felicis Ventures Foundry Group SoftTech VC True Ventures Glori Energy 4315 South Drive Houston, TX 77053 Phone: 713-237-8880 Website: http://glorienergy.com Glori Energy's mission is to sustainably and efficiently recover billions of barrels of oil trapped in reservoirs using existing oil wells. Glori partners with oil producers to significantly increase their oil production through the deployment of its AEROTM (Activated Environment for Recovery of Oil) System. The system makes use of existing non-potable water sources, optimizing the water quality to activate and sustain the indigenous reservoir microbial life with the desired metabolic activities. The AERO™ System provides a new, viable option to recover previously trapped oil with minimal new footprint or investment.
Key Contact Name Title Email Stuart Page CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $20,000,000 Series C
Investors Advantage Capital Partners Energy Technology Ventures Gentry Venture Partners GTI Ventures Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund Omzest Group Oxford Bioscience Partners
HelloWallet 2121 Ward Court NW #3 Washington, DC 20037 Phone: 202-803-5247 Website: www.hellowallet.com
HelloWallet is a provider of technology-based, personalized financial guidance to employees of Fortune 1000 companies and other large institutions. It helps workers save money, improve their wellbeing, and manage their financial responsibilities through personalized, independent guidance and management services. Additionally, the company gives one membership to a family in need for every five subscriptions it sells. The company is led by former Brookings Institution Fellow Matt Fellowes.
Key Contact Name Title Email Matt Fellowes CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/26/12 $12,000,000 Series B
Investors Morningstar TD Fund
House Party One Bridge St, Suite 3 Irvington, NY 10533 Phone: 800-393-1102 Website: http://houseparty.com
House Party is the leading social media company that combines digital, word-of-mouth and experiential marketing to build brands and drive sales. The company generates millions of consumer conversations and recommendations, online and off, through its passionate community of social influencers, proprietary digital platform, and memorable in-home events, for the world's best-loved brands. Key Contact Name Title Email Chris Maher CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/27/12 $5,300,000 Series C
Investors Acadia Woods Partners
HydroNovation 530 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: 978-376-6681 Website: www.hydronovation.com HydroNovation Inc. develops and manufactures Electro Deionization modules and unique components for commercial and residential water treatment applications under the trademark HydroDITM. The company's primary business goal is to partner with companies that supply complete solutions for these applications and customers.
Key Contact Name Title Email Anil D. Jha CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/27/12 undisclosed Series B
Investors 3M New Ventures Clean Pacific Ventures
Identropy 250 Moonachie Road, 2nd Floor Moonachie, NJ 7074 Phone: 201-580-2700 Website: www.identropy.com
Identropy is a leading provider of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions that enable organizations to derive maximum value from their IAM initiatives in the most cost-effective manner. Providing domain expertise across the entire IAM lifecycle, Identropy's Advisory, Implementation and Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) service offerings have already benefited more than 100 organizations. Its innovative Secure Co-Sourced Unified Identity (SCUID) platform is a set of Cloud-based deployment and management offerings that leverage Identropy's domain expertise and proven reference architecture to enable organizations to reduce the cost and complexity, optimize day-to-day management, and accelerate time-to-value of IAM investments.
Key Contact Name Title Email Victor Barris CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $4,000,000 Series A
Investors Milestone Venture Partners Osage Venture Partners
InCytu 701 George Washington Hwy. Lincoln, RI 2865 Phone: 401-821-3500 Website: www.incytu.com
InCytu, Inc. is a therapeutic device engineering company developing immunotherapeutic and tissue regeneration products to transform personalized medicine. Founded in 2007 and lead by a strong management team, the cornerstone of InCytu's transformative technology platform was developed by Prof. David Mooney at Harvard University. Key Contact Name Title Email Alfred Vasconcellos CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/13/12 $1,860,000
Investors
iPipeline 750 Springdale Drive Exton, PA 19341 Phone: 484-348-6555 Website: www.ipipeline.com iPipeline leads its industry in providing the next-generation suite of sales distribution software to the insurance and financial services markets through its on-demand service. iPipeline's channel solutions for carriers, distributors, and producers automate activities for CRM, forms distribution and processing, quotes and illustrations, in Good Order e-Applications, agency management, data services, policy delivery and related services, enabling the insurance industry to market, sell, and process faster. iPipeline provides the process automation and seamless integration needed to make a sale by aggregating approximately 120 carriers, 1,200 distributors, and 400,000 financial professionals and advisors in a single, Web-based environment - the iPipeline Customer Network. Key Contact Name Title Email Tim Wallace CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/19/12 undisclosed Growth Investors Technology Crossover Ventures
JeNu Biosciences 3911 NE Belvoir Place Seattle, WA 98105 Phone: 206-601-1599
JeNu Biosciences was founded in 2008 by a team of ultrasound scientists, medical doctors and beauty executives and is currently led by Wayne Wager, CEO. JeNu Biosciences is a Seattle-based 'techno-beauty' company that uses low-powered ultrasound to deliver proprietary anti-aging ingredients resulting in more beautiful skin. With the release of the first product, the JeNu Home System, JeNu Biosciences will become a leader in the fastest growing consumer segment in the beauty industry which already has sales of $1 billion annually.
Key Contact Name Title Email Wayne Wager CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $3,000,000
Investors Second Avenue Partners
Joule Unlimited 18 Crosby Drive Bedford, MA 01730 Phone: 781-533-9100 Website: www.jouleunlimited.com
Founded in 2007 by Flagship VentureLabs, Joule is advancing a technology platform for Liquid Fuel from the Sun, expected to eclipse the scale, productivity and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today. Its transformative Helioculture™ platform directly and continuously converts sunlight and waste CO2 to infrastructure-ready diesel, ethanol or commodity chemicals with no dependence on biomass feedstocks, downstream processing or precious natural resources. This process can yield renewable fuels and chemicals in unprecedented volumes with a fraction of the land required by current methods, leapfrogging biomass-dependent approaches and eliminating the economic and environmental disadvantages of fossil fuels.
Key Contact Name Title Email William J. Sims CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $70,000,000 Third Round
Investors Flagship Ventures
Joyent One Embarcadero Center, 9th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone: 415-400-0600 Website: www.joyent.com
Joyent is a global cloud computing and systems software provider that offers an integrated technology suite designed for enterprises and developers. JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe and Kabam. Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript project owned and stewarded by Joyent, provides developers and enterprises such as Microsoft with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive, real-time apps.
Key Contact Name Title Email David Young CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $85,000,000
Investors Telefonica Digital Weather Investment II
KEMP Technologies 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Phone: 631-345-5292 Website: www.kemptechnologies.com
KEMP leads the industry in driving the price/performance value proposition for application delivery and load balancing to levels that our customers can afford. The firm's products' versatile and powerful architecture provide the highest value, while enabling our customers to optimize their businesses that rely on Internet-based infrastructure to conduct business with their customers, employees and partners. Key Contact Name Title Email Kevin Mahon CEO kmahon@kemptechnologies Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $7,500,000
Investors Edison Ventures
Kiwi Crate 103A Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: 650-967-4311 Website: www.kiwicrate.com
Founded in 2011 by executives from eBay, PayPal, YouTube, and BabyCenter, Kiwi Crate sparks creativity in kids and saves time for busy parents by providing all of the inspiration and materials necessary for a variety of hands-on activities ranging from art, science, crafts, and imaginative play. With monthly deliveries of activities designed to help kids discover, explore, and create things in the world around them, Kiwi Crate brings hands-on fun right to your door.
Key Contact Name Title Email Sandra Oh Lin CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/19/12 $5,000,000 Series A Investors 500 Startups Comcast Ventures Consigliere Brand Capital Felicis Ventures First Round Capital Forerunner Ventures Mayfield Fund Uj Ventures
Krush 2 Canal Park Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 978-501-0869 Website: www.krush.com Krush operates an social networking site that allows users to predict trends and get rewarded if other users agree. Krush was incorporated in 2010.
Key Contact Name Title Email Gina Ashe CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $4,500,000 Series A-1 Investors
LaunchPoint 1701 Golf Road Tower One, Suite 1100 Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 Phone: 224-265-0400 Website: www.launchpointcorporation.com
LaunchPoint is a provider of information-centric enterprise services and solutions for healthcare organizations. Corporate divisions Ajilitee and Discovery Health Partners deliver highly flexible, scalable and cost-efficient solutions that enable customers to innovate with information and advance their competitive position. Key Contact Name Title Email Terrence Ryan CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $3,500,000 Series B Investors
Lithium Technologies 6121 Hollis Street, Suite 4 Emeryville, CA 94608 Phone: 510-653-6800 Website: www.lithium.com
Lithium helps great companies build brand nations for their most engaged customers. With Lithium, clients such as Best Buy, AT&T, Sephora, Univision, and PayPal turn their customers' passion into marketing, product development, sales, and customer service assets.
Key Contact Name Title Email Rob Tarkoff CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 $53,400,000
Investors Benchmark Capital DAG Ventures Emergence Capital Greenspring Associates New Enterprise Associates SAP Ventures Shasta Ventures Tenaya Capital
LockerDome 11756 Borman Dr. Suite 250 Saint Louis, MO 63146 Phone: 800-983-5280 Website: www.lockerdome.com
LockerDome is a social networking site for sports. Just like Facebook is your personal persona and LinkedIn is your professional persona, LockerDome is your sports persona. LockerDome works with youth sports programs across the United States to launch private team and league networks, connecting their athletes and teams with other programs across the country. LockerDome allows you to join sports networks for the teams you currently play on and have played for in the past. In addition, you can follow professional athletes who are part of the LockerDome celebrity network. With a LockerDome ID, an athlete's sports memories are accessible in one place, forever.
Key Contact Name Title Email Gabe Lozano CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/04/12 $750,000 Angel
Investors Brian and Carol Matthews Capital Innovators Hal Gentry Moosylvania Marketing
Lookingglass Cyber Solutions 1001 S. Kenwood Ave 2nd Floor Suite 200 Baltimore, MD 21224 Phone: 443-844-3010 Website: www.lgscout.com
Lookingglass Cyber Solutions is a cyber security software company delivering deep visibility into the Internet threat landscape. Lookingglass helps organizations accurately and precisely anticipate and protect against targeted attacks by gathering, correlating, and analyzing threat information from within their own networks, supply chains and the rest of the Internet. The company's core product, ScoutVisionTM, leverages an open architecture, which provides source and sensor agnostic Internet threat visibility - to help users rapidly respond to enterprise network threats - often before they can impact operations.
Key Contact Name Title Email Derek Gabbard CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/30/12 $5,000,000
Investors Alsop Louie Partners Vital Financial
MC10 36 Cameron Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140 Phone: 617-234-4448 Website: http://mc10inc.com MC10 takes electronics 'out of the box' to create thin, conformal systems that are able to move with the natural world. The company combines breakthrough technology with innovative engineering to develop exciting new consumer, medical, and industrial products.
Key Contact Name Title Email David Icke CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/26/12 $2,000,000
Investors Aberdare Ventures
Mevion Medical Systems 300 Foster St. Littleton, MA 01460 Phone: 978-540-1500 Website: http://mevion.com Mevion Medical Systems, Inc. (formerly Still River Systems, Inc.) is a radiation therapy company dedicated to advancing the treatment of cancer. As the pioneering developer of modern proton therapy systems, Mevion provides innovative, safe, and effective solutions by transforming advances in medical technology and science into practical clinical reality.
Key Contact Name Title Email Joseph Jachinowski CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $45,000,000
Investors Caxton Heath Life Sciences CHL Medical Partners ProQuest Investments Venrock
MicroPower Technologies 4225 Executive Square, Suite 430 La Jolla, CA 92037 Phone: 888-854-3312 Website: www.micropowerapp.com
MicroPower Technologies was founded on the idea that wireless surveillance could be cost effective, easy-to-deploy, secure and highly reliable. The company's innovative research and development team designed a comprehensive surveillance system that redefines the market through its use of intelligent algorithms that enhance video quality and reliability, while maximizing cost effectiveness. Its flagship product, the Rugged-i wireless video camera, incorporates advanced software and ultra-low power wireless technologies to eliminate data and power cables.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jon Siann CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 $6,500,000
Investors Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
ModeWalk 38 W. 5th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94402 Phone: 800-690-3550 Website: www.modewalk.com
ModeWalk is an online luxury retailer that offers the most immersive shopping destination online. ModeWalk was founded by Beatrice Pang and Henri Deshays, who are both Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni, with experience in the technology and fashion industries respectively. Ragi Burhum and Mara Behrens, who bring years of experience in technology and creative direction respectively, are also part of the founding team. Indre Rockefeller, who is also of Stanford Graduate School of Business and formerly on staff at Vogue, serves as ModeWalk's Fashion Director.
Key Contact Name Title Email Beatrice Pang CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $1,800,000
Investors Merus Capital MOGL 9645 Scranton Rd, Suite 110 San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 858-720-1979 Website: www.mogl.com
MOGL is a game that that hooks you up with cash for eating out at your favorite restaurants. Founded in 2010, it is the first customer loyalty program of its kind to leverage psychology, technology and clever game mechanics to offer a fun and engaging platform that rewards consumers for their restaurant loyalty. MOGL celebrates a simple philosophy: reward your customers and they'll reward you back! MOGL is the proud recipient of CONNECT's 2011 Most Innovative Product Award. To learn more, visit MOGL.com or download the MOGL app for iPhone or Android.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jon Carder CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/31/12 $10,000,000 Series B
Investors Austin Ventures Avalon Ventures Sigma
MoneyReef 1883 N 1120 W Provo, UT 84604 Website: www.moneyreef.com
MoneyReef is a software company focused on developing mobile applications. Its robust, innovative financial tools possess an industry-unique combination of rich features, flexibility and ease of use that empower consumers to interact with their personal and business financial information in entirely new ways. MoneyReef's rigorous technology platform stores and analyzes consumer behavior, while its sophisticated marketing platform brings relevant offers to consumers and extraordinary marketing conversion rates to merchant partners.
Key Contact Name Title Email Keith Nellesen CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/10/12 $650,000 Seed
Investors Keith Nellesen
Moontoast c/o Aras Corp. 300 Brickstone Square, Suite 700 Andover, MA 01810 Phone: 978-377-8383 Website: www.moontoast.com
Moontoast is the leading social commerce platform for affinity brand retailers, musicians, athlete/celebrities, & authors. Moontoast provides the first social activation engine which helps retailers and brands better acquire, engage, convert and deliver relationships, relevancy and results within the Social Web including Facebook and Twitter, affiliate sites, and ad networks.
Key Contact Name Title Email Blair Heavey CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 $6,000,000 Investors The Martin Companies
MTPV 13915 Burnet Road, Suite 420 Austin, TX 78728 Phone: 512-246-1988 Website: www.mtpv.com
MTPV is a clean energy semiconductor chip company using its breakthrough technology to harness the world's waste heat and convert it to electricity. Key Contact Name Title Email Bob DiMatteo CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/26/12 $3,250,000 Series B
Investors Applied Ventures Northwater Capital
Mykonos Software 370 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: 650-329-9000 Website: www.mykonossoftware.com
Mykonos is the smartest way to secure Websites and Web applications against hackers, fraud and theft. Its Web Intrusion Prevention System uses deception to detect, track, profile and prevent hackers in real-time. Unlike legacy signature-based approaches, Mykonos is the first technology that inserts thousands of detection points to proactively identify attackers before they do damage - without any false positives. Mykonos goes beyond the IP address to track the individual attacker, profile their behavior and deploy counter measures. With the Mykonos Web Security, administrators are liberated from writing rules, analyzing massive log files or monitoring another console. Mykonos neutralizes threats as they occur preventing the loss of data and saving companies millions of dollars from fraud or lost revenue. Key Contact Name Title Email David Koretz CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/23/12 $4,000,000 Series A
Investors Jeff Clarke Mike Jones Scott Banister Tom Golisano
Nanocomp Technologies 162 Pembroke Road Concord, NH 3301 Phone: 603-442-8992 Website: www.nanocomptech.com
Nanocomp Technologies Inc (NCTI), based in Concord, NH, was formed in 2004 as a spin-out of Synergy Innovations, Inc., a technology development company. NCTI's vision is to leverage its proprietary and fundamental advancements in the production of long carbon nanotubes together with a unique ability to fabricate them into physically strong, lightweight, electrically and thermally conductive spun yarns and sheets.
Key Contact Name Title Email Peter L. Antoinette CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $7,600,000
Investors
Natera 2686 Middlefield Road, Suite C Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 650-249-9090 Website: www.natera.com
Natera is a genetic testing company that has developed a proprietary bioinformatics technology (Parental Support) to deliver accurate and comprehensive high throughput testing for reproductive indications from tiny quantities of DNA - as small as that from a single cell. Natera operates a CLIA laboratory in Redwood City, Calif., providing a host of preconception and prenatal genetic testing services. Key Contact Name Title Email Matthew Rabinowitz CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $20,000,000
Investors Claremont Creek Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Sequoia Capital
Neolane 275 Washington Street, Third Floor Newton, MA 02458 Phone: 617-467-6760 Website: http://www.neolane.com
Neolane provides the only conversational marketing technology that empowers organizations to build and sustain one-to-one lifetime dialogues, dramatically increasing revenue and marketing efficiency. Born digital, with best-in-class email and inbound-outbound channel fusion capabilities architected into a single code-based platform, marketers achieve results in record time. Neolane is easy to use for both power and casual users, but powerful enough to drive the most sophisticated marketing strategies. Future proof, Neolane has a track record of enabling its customers to adapt to new customer engagement challenges and exploit opportunities more quickly than their competition. Neolane is used by nearly 400 of the world's leading companies including Alcatel Lucent, barnesandnoble.com, Orange, Sears Canada, Sephora Europe and Sony Music.
Key Contact Name Title Email Stephane Dehoche CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 $27,000,000
Investors Auriga Partners Battery Ventures Gilles Queru Xange
NeuroGenetic Pharma 445 Marine View Ave., Suite 101 Del Mar, CA 92014 Phone: 858-461-4480 Website: www.neurogeneticpharmaceuticals.com NeuroGenetic Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NGP), a biopharmaceutical discovery and development company founded in 2009, is developing innovative drug therapies for Alzheimer's disease. Based in San Diego, Calif., the company's next objective is to obtain an Investigational New Drug approval for its clinical candidate, NGP 555. Future clinical trials will utilize specific amyloid biomarkers and/or brain scanning as an early diagnostic and to monitor drug efficacy in clinical trials. Combining early disease identification with a treatment capable of preventing AD-related pathology, such as NGP 555, would represent an important advance in our ability to prevent AD or hinder its progression to dementia.
Key Contact Name Title Email Dr. William T. Comer CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/04/12 undisclosed Strategic
Investors Abbott Biotech Ventures
NeuroLogica 14 Electronics Ave. Danvers, MA 01923 Phone: 978-564-8500 Website: www.neurologica.com
Established in 2004, NeuroLogica's founders have over 100 years of combined experience in the design, development and manufacturing of imaging systems including ultrasound, CT, PET, radiation therapy and MRI. The original CereTom system, launched in 2005, is currently in use in intensive care units, neurosurgical operating rooms, emergency rooms, stroke centers and clinics, of many of the top Neuroscience programs around the globe.
Key Contact Name Title Email Dr. Eric M. Bailey CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/11/12 $12,000,000
Investors
New Era Portfolio 2101 E. St. Elmo Rd. Suite 110 Austin, TX 78744 Phone: 512-928-3200 Website: www.newerahd.com
A fully integrated art company, New Era Portfolio, and its three wholly owned subsidiaries GalleryDirect.com, New Era HD and New Era Wall, are changing the way designers and consumers look at art. With over 12 million images from numerous genres of art, including abstract, contemporary, vintage and photography, the company works with more than 100 exclusive artists-including photographers, painters and mixed-media artists. New Era Portfolio allows designers and consumers to create one-of-a-kind artwork with the exclusive ability to print art on exceptional and unique materials, such as high-quality paper, canvas, birch wood, aluminum, wall murals and mirrors.
Key Contact Name Title Email Joe Garcia CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $4,000,000 Series A
Investors SSM Partners
Nexenta 455 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95050 Phone: 408-791-3300 Website: www.nexenta.com
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.
Key Contact Name Title Email Evan Powell CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/18/12 $21,000,000 Series C
Investors Menlo Ventures Razor's Edge Ventures Sierra Ventures
Nimble PO Box 3313 Santa Monica, CA 90408 Website: www.nimble.com
Nimble was founded in 2009 to help small businesses transform their communities into business opportunities. Nimble opens a whole new channel for businesses to engage customers in a two-way dialogue, leveraging the power of traditional CRM and social media with its web-based social CRM platform.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jon Ferrara CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 $1,000,000
Investors Dharmesh Shah Don Dodge Google Ventures Jason Calacanis Mark Cuban
Novogy 85 Bolton Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-674-5800 Website: www.novogyinc.com
Novogy develops and produces cellulosic biofuels made from waste paper sludge, to be used in transportation.
Key Contact Name Title Email Colin South CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $4,000,000
Investors
Onit 802 Lovett Blvd. Houston, TX 77006 Phone: 800-281-1330 Website: www.onit.com
Onit was formed by legal software industry experts Eric M. Elfman and Eric A. Smith, co-founders of Datacert, a leading provider of enterprise spend management software. Launched in early 2010, Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. The Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management and information management into one easy to use tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support. Key Contact Name Title Email Eric M. Elfman CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $4,100,000 Series B
Investors Austin Ventures RedHouse Associates
Payoff.com 6701 Center Drive West, Suite 650 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Phone: 310-417-4903 Website: www.payoff.com
Founded 2009, Payoff helps people around the country take control of their financial destiny as they achieve goals and fulfill lifelong dreams. Payoff allows users to share their dreams, set financial goals - like paying off a credit card or saving up for a trip - and track their financial pictures without any complex pie-charts, spreadsheets or data entry. It offers practical tools to help users quickly achieve their goals, and even rewards their progress along the way with badges and cash prizes.
Key Contact Name Title Email Scott Saunders CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/12/12 $2,000,000 Investors Anthemis Group Firstmark Capital Great Oaks Venture Capital
Permeon Biologics One Kendall Square Building 1400W, Ste. 14203 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-945-7780 Website: www.permeonbio.com
Permeon Biologics, Inc. aims to enhance human health by using our novel Intraphilin Technology Platform to enable intracellular biologics as a revolutionary new generation of therapeutic drugs.
Key Contact Name Title Email Katherine S. Bowdish President
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $2,500,000 Venture Debt & Equity
Investors
Physicians Interactive Holdings 293 Boston Post Rd. West Suite 320 Marlborough, MA 01752 Phone: 800-794-6757 Website: www.physiciansinteractive.com
Physicians Interactive Holdings (PIH) is the leading provider of mobile and web-based clinical resources and solutions that help medical professionals, anytime, anywhere, provide better patient care. PIH uses the full power of a worldwide network of healthcare professionals and life sciences companies together in ways that will change the practice and business of medicine, for the better. PIH has developed a foundation of user-generated, proprietary and public data that powers a networked suite of transactional applications, including eSampling, interactive learning programs and mobile solutions.
Key Contact Name Title Email Donato Tramuto CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 $8,500,000
Investors Merck Global Health Innovation Fund Piazza 541 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Phone: 707-776-6520 Website: www.piazza.com Founded in 2009 and publicly launched in 2011, Piazza is a free online gathering place where students can ask and answer questions 24/7, under the guidance of their instructor. Anyone can create a class at Piazza.com to initiate class discussion. Students spend on average four hours a night on Piazza working together in real time with classmates and instructors to find the answers they need at the time they need them. Piazza is FERPA-compliant and used in hundreds of colleges and universities. Key Contact Name Title Email Pooja Sankar CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $6,000,000 Series A Investors Bessemer Venture Partners Felicis Ventures Kapor Capital
PlatformQ 100 Crescent Road Needham, MA 02494 Phone: 617-938-6000 Website: www.platformq.com
PlatformQ is the leading producer of live online events for audiences from 500 to 50,000. PlatformQ brings attendees, thought leaders, and product and service providers together in engaging interactive environments. PlatformQ provide marketers with measurable, targeted, and contextual environments for audience education and engagement.
Key Contact Name Title Email Robert Rosenbloom CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/12/12 $2,400,000 Series B Investors
Polyvore 100 View Street, Suite 101 Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: 650-968-1195 Website: www.polyvore.com
Polyvore is the web's largest fashion community site, where users are empowered to discover their style and set trends around the world. With over 13 million monthly unique visitors, Polyvore's global community has created over 42 million fashion sets that are shared across the web. Key Contact Name Title Email Pasha Sadri CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $14,000,000 Series C
Investors DAG Ventures Goldman Sachs Vivi Nevo
Potomac Research Group 600 New Hampshire Avenue, North West, Tenth Floor Washington, DC 20037 Phone: 202-600-1750 Website: www.potomacresearch.com
Potomac Research Group is an independent research firm formed in early 2008 to provide analysis of federal legislative activities and regulatory policies to institutional investors. PRG's best-in-class talent combines analysts with decades of experience and salesmen with a deep understanding of markets to form a nationally-recognized team.
Key Contact Name Title Email Suzanne Clark CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 undisclosed
Investors Disruptor Capital
PowerVision 298 Harbor Boulevard Belmont, CA 94002 Phone: 650-620-9948 Website: www.powervisionlens.com
PowerVision is a private company focused on developing a novel accommodating intraocular lens which it believes has the potential to restore the vision of youth to millions of patients.
Key Contact Name Title Email Barry Cheskin CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $37,200,000 Series C Investors Advanced Technology Ventures Frazier Healthcare Ventures Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation Venrock
Practice Fusion 420 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: 415-346-7700 Website: www.practicefusion.com
Practice Fusion provides a free, web-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system to physicians. With charting, scheduling, e-prescribing (eRx), lab integrations, referral letters, Meaningful Use certification, unlimited support and a Personal Health Record for patients, Practice Fusion's EMR addresses the complex needs of today's healthcare providers and disrupts the health IT status quo. Practice Fusion is the fastest growing EMR community in the country with more than 130,000 users serving 29 million patients. The company closed a $23 million Series B round of financing led by Founders Fund in 2011.
Key Contact Name Title Email Ryan Howard CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/11/12 $2,000,000
Investors Ali Partovi Hadi Partovi Jed Stremel
Quanterix One Kendall Square, Suite B14201 Cambridge, MA 02130 Phone: 617-301-9400 Website: www.quanterix.com
Quanterix Corporation is developing its proprietary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA) technology for the in vitro diagnostics and life science research markets. The digital nature of SiMoA yields unprecedented assay performance, stemming from a 1,000-fold improvement in sensitivity compared with today's analog only technology. SiMoA will enable researchers in life science to validate novel, low abundance biomolecules from a single droplet of blood, leading to greater insight into disease detection, diagnosis, therapy selection and disease monitoring.
Key Contact Name Title Email Martin Madaus CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 undisclosed Strategic 03/06/12 $2,000,000
Investors In-Q-Tel
Recurly 300 Brannan Street, Suite 608 San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: 415-800-2042 Website: www.recurly.com Recurly, Inc. provides enterprise-class recurring billing management for over seven hundred and fifty subscription-based SaaS, Web 2.0, Mobile, content and publishing businesses worldwide. Businesses like Fox News Radio, JibJab Media, Weather Underground, Justin.tv, GOOD.is, Slideshare and EquityFeed depend on Recurly's ability to deliver recurring billing automation. Since it's launch in January of 2010, Recurly has deployed subscription billing for companies throughout North America and the European Union. Key Contact Name Title Email Dan Burkhart CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $6,000,000 Series A Investors BV Capital FreeStyle Capital Harrison Metal Capital Polaris Venture Partners
RelayFoods.com PO Box 1311 Charlottesville, VA 22902 Phone: 877-573-5295 Website: www.relayfoods.com
The mission of RelayFoods.com is to make eating quality, healthy and sustainable food simple. Relay will accomplish its mission by educating individuals and families about the food they eat, creating connections between producers and end consumers and bringing food to easily accessible locations.
Key Contact Name Title Email Zach Buckner CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/30/12 $3,100,000 Investors Battery Ventures
Retailigence 541 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 204 Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 650-200-0275 Website: www.retailigence.com
Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform designed specifically to help drive qualified foot traffic into local retail stores. Retailigence does this by distributing a brand or retailer's product availability information via a network of location-based application partners, used by consumers who are close to finalizing their buying decision.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jeremy Geiger CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/18/12 $2,600,000 Strategic Investors Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
S.E.A. Medical Systems 61 Daggett Drive San Jose, CA 95134 Phone: 650-218-1840 Website: http://seamedical.com
S.E.A. Medical Systems Inc. is a private healthtech company that pioneers smart solutions for the safe manufacture, preparation, delivery, and disposal of intravenous and other liquid medications. The Company is developing medical devices to catch life-threatening IV drug errors before they harm patients. S.E.A. Medical's unique technology identifies drugs, concentrations, and diluents in IV fluids, and simultaneously measures flow rate and cumulative dose during IV administration. The Company is also developing its proprietary technology for other medical applications. Based in Santa Clara, CA, the company has been supported by strategic funding and Series A investors including Quantum Technology Partners, New Biology Ventures, and private investors. Key Contact Name Title Email Michael Weickert CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $3,000,000 Series B
Investors JK&B Capital
SeeWhy Raises 10 Milk Street, Suite 306 Boston, MA 02108 Phone: 617-502-2077 Website: http://seewhy.com SeeWhy delivers a breakthrough in website conversion technology by providing marketers with the real time, automated website analytics and remarketing tools necessary to immediately reach out to website visitors at the moment that they abandon their online purchase or form. Key Contact Name Title Email Scott Silk CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/19/12 $2,250,000
Investors
Seismic Games 3384 Robertson Place, Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90034 Phone: 310-837-6106 Website: www.seismicgames.com
Seismic Games is a Los Angeles-based games studio dedicated to creating high-quality, next generation social games franchises across digital platforms. The company is led by seasoned game industry executives with experience from Pandemic Studios, Activision and Vivendi Universal.
Key Contact Name Title Email Greg Borrud CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/04/12 $2,000,000 Series A
Investors DFJ Frontier Tom Matlack
Semprius 4915 Prospectus Drive, Suite C Durham, NC 27713 Phone: 919-433-9980 Website: www.semprius.com
Semprius, Inc. is the smart way to generate solar electricity. Based upon the world's smallest solar cells, Semprius designs and manufactures the highest efficiency solar modules in the world. Using patented cell technology and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes, Semprius is leading the way to cost-competitive, sustainable generation of solar electricity. Semprius' headquarters and production facilities are located in North Carolina.
Key Contact Name Title Email Joseph Carr CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/12/12 $3,000,000 Investors Illinois Emerging Technologies Fund In-Q-Tel Morgan Creek Capital Management
SendGrid 929 Pearl Street, Suite 200 Boulder, CO 80302 Phone: 303-552-0653 Website: http://sendgrid.com Founded 2009, SendGrid is the leader in email deliverability. SendGrid's cloud-based platform increases email deliverability, provides actionable insight and scales to meet any volume of email, relieving businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email infrastructures. The email delivery platform of choice for 40,000 web application companies and developers, including foursquare, Pinterest, Airbnb, Twilio and Path, SendGrid delivers more than 2.6 billion emails per month. Key Contact Name Title Email Isaac Saldana President [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $21,000,000 Series B
Investors 500 Startups Bessemer Venture Partners Bullet Time Ventures Foundry Group Highway 12 Ventures SoftTechVC
Senova Systems 1230 Bordeaux Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Phone: 415-324-8505 Website: www.senovasystems.com
Senova Systems develops, manufactures and sells next generation sensor systems based on coupling its patented chemistry with advanced materials, and proprietary microelectronics. Senova Systems' first focus is a revolutionary pHit pH sensor platform, which replaces current glass electrodes with solid-state, smart sensors which contain no glass and require no user calibration. This breakthrough offers significant operational and economic benefits in the life science, food and beverage, dairy, petrochemical, water and environmental sectors, and will ultimately enable novel advances in healthcare and other specialized applications unachievable with conventional pH electrodes.
Key Contact Name Title Email Lee Leonard CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/12/12 $6,700,000 Series B
Investors Harris & Harris Group Phoenix Venture Partners
Sharecare 3280 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 600 Atlanta, GA 30305 Phone: 404-671-4000 Website: www.sharecare.com Launched in 2010 and based in Atlanta, GA, Sharecare's mission is to greatly simplify the search for high-quality healthcare information and answer the world's questions of health. Created by Jeff Arnold and Dr. Mehmet Oz, in partnership with Harpo Studios, Remark Media MARK +3.14% , Sony Pictures Television, and Discovery Communications, the Sharecare interactive social Q & A platform allows people to ask, learn and act upon questions of health and wellness. Key Contact Name Title Email Jeff Arnold CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 $14,000,000 Growth
Investors Galen Partners TomorrowVentures
ShopKeep.com 55 Broad Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10004 Phone: 800-820-9814 Website: www.shopkeep.com Founded by retailers for retailers, ShopKeep.com is the affordable, complete platform for running a shop from an iPad. Backed by the industry's best customer support, ShopKeep's iPad app rings sales, prints receipts, and processes credit cards. It also manages inventory, reports, and customers from anywhere and without extra hardware.
Key Contact Name Title Email Jason Richelson CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/18/12 undisclosed Series A
Investors Contour Venture Partners Tribeca Venture Partners TTV Capital
Silverlink 300 E. 67 South Bedford Street Burlington, MA 01803 Phone: 781-425-5700 Website: www.silverlink.com
Silverlink programs educate and support healthcare consumers as they take on more personal responsibility in their health decisions. Silverlink works with the nation's top health plans and has influenced more than 250 million health decisions, driving results, improving health outcomes and generating substantial cost savings.
Key Contact Name Title Email Stan Nowak CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/31/12 $2,000,000
Investors
SOLX 230 Second Ave., Suite 120 Waltham, MA 02451 Phone: 781-609-2016 Website: www.solx.com
SOLX, Inc. is an emerging leader in the management and surgical treatment of glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness in the world. Founded in 2000 by a serial ophthalmology entrepreneur, SOLX is financially-backed by MVM Life Science Partners, a leading global life science venture capital firm. Key Contact Name Title Email Doug Adams CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/19/12 $3,300,000
Investors MVM Life Science Partners
SPR Therapeutics 22901 Millcreek Blvd, Suite 110 Cleveland, OH 44122 Phone: 216-378-9108 Website: www.sprtherapeutics.com
SPR Therapeutics is a medical device company that is commercializing pain treatments utilizing its proprietary peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) products. We are developing a pipeline of neurostimulation pain therapies that will exploit the same physiologic mechanism of action, proprietary technology, and clinical approach. The first product to be commercialized is the SMARTPATCH™ PNS System, which is a short-term, minimally invasive system that is simple to deliver and can be used for up to 30 days to stimulate electrically a peripheral nerve to relieve pain. SPR Therapeutics was formed in January, 2010 as a portfolio company of NDI Medical, LLC.
Key Contact Name Title Email Maria Bennett CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $2,200,000 Series A Investors NDI Medical
SquareTrade 575 Market St 10th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: 800-686-6007 Website: www.squaretrade.com
Founded in 1999, SquareTrade offers warranties that make sense, with fair prices and no-hassle service. The company boasts millions of customers who have consistently rated the warranty service 5-star reviews. SquareTrade was named one of PC Magazine's Top 100 Websites of 2010, is the winner of the 2011 Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service, and the 2011 Golden Bridge Award for Best Customer Service.
Key Contact Name Title Email Steven Abernethy CEO [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $238,000,000 Growth
Investors Bain Capital Ventures
Supernus Pharma 1550 East Gude Drive Rockville, MD 20850 Phone: 301-838-2500 Website: www.supernus.com
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products for the treatment of central nervous system, or CNS, diseases. The company's extensive expertise in product development has been built over the past 20 years: initially as a stand alone development organization, then as a U.S. subsidiary of Shire plc and, upon its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Shire Laboratories Inc. in late 2005, as Supernus Pharmaceuticals. The company is developing several product candidates in neurology and psychiatry to address large market opportunities in epilepsy and ADHD including ADHD patients with impulsive aggression. Key Contact Name Title Email Jack A. Khattar CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/06/12 $15,000,000 Venture Debt
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SuVolta 130-D Knowles Drive Los Gatos, CA 95032 Phone: 408-866-4125 Website: www.suvolta.com
SuVolta, Inc. develops and licenses scalable semiconductor technologies that enable a significant reduction in IC power consumption while maintaining performance. Based in Silicon Valley, the team includes world-class engineers and scientists with a long history of technology development and innovation to advance the semiconductor industry. The company is backed by leading venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), August Capital, NEA, Bright Capital, Northgate Capital and DAG Ventures.
Key Contact Name Title Email Bruce McWilliams, PhD CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 $17,600,000
Investors August Capital Bright Capital DAG Ventures Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers New Enterprise Associates Northgate Capital
Symform 1008 Western Ave, Suite 400 Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: 206-906-9212 Website: www.symform.com
Symform is a revolutionary secure cloud storage and backup service. Symform's Global Cloud Storage Network protects your data, business and bottom line, providing unlimited offsite cloud storage and backup for the guaranteed lowest flat fee. Unlike traditional data center storage, Symform's global network encrypts, shreds and geo-distributes data. This disruptive technology provides greater security, higher performance and more cost-effective cloud data storage and backup than any alternative today, guaranteed. Customers join the Symform network by contributing excess local storage and, in exchange, receive affordable, unlimited backup. Join the revolution today and experience secure cloud storage and backup that is up to ten times more affordable, faster and safer.
Key Contact Name Title Email Matthew Schiltz CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/25/12 $2,000,000 Series A 04/25/12 $8,000,000 Series B
Investors Longworth Venture Partners OVP Venture Partners WestRiver Capital Syndexa Pharma 480 Arsenal St # 1 Watertown, MA 02472 Phone: 617-607-7283 Website: www.syndexa.com
Syndexa is dedicated to the discovery and development of a new generation of small-molecule drugs targeting novel mechanisms for the treatment and prevention of diseases of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) dysfunction which include inflammatory and metabolic diseases and disorders, cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases. Key Contact Name Title Email Tom Uysal CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 undisclosed Series B-1 Investors MP Healthcare Venture Management
Tealium 12526 High Bluff Drive, Suite 300 San Diego, CA 92130 Phone: 858-779-1344 Website: www.tealium.com
Tealium is the leader in enterprise tag management, serving some of the most demanding clients worldwide. Tealium can be implemented in days instead of weeks or months, reducing tagging costs for organizations. Through the Tealium Tag Management Console, business users can manage their tag implementations in a simple drag-and-drop interface, without further taxing their IT department. Tealium's solutions lets customers save on IT costs, while improving their analytics, their digital marketing deployments and the performance of their web site.
Key Contact Name Title Email Mike Anderson Co-Founder [email protected] Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/11/12 $1,100,000 Series A
Investors Jeff Lunsford Jim MacIntyre Joe Apprendi John Vincent Thomas Falk
ThinkEco 148 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor New York, NY 10016 Phone: 212-684-2959 Website: www.thinkecoinc.com
ThinkEco, Inc. develops easy-to-use energy efficiency products for homes and businesses, and easy-to-integrate solutions for channel partners. The company's patent-pending modlet (for 'modern outlet') features intelligent engineering and algorithms to provide a simple, low-cost and installation-free method for saving money and energy on electronic appliances. The modlet has received multiple awards and was recently featured on the Martha Stewart Show, the Today Show and the Early Show.
Key Contact Name Title Email Erik Katz CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/03/12 $5,360,000
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ThinkVine 10816 Millington Ct. Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-842-5900 Website: www.thinkvine.com
ThinkVine's marketing optimization software enables B2C marketers to maximize their ROI across all of their marketing investments. Our breakthrough ThinkAhead Technology simulates how consumers respond to different marketing plans to provide richer historical insights and better forward-looking guidance than traditional marketing mix, as well as support for an agile, objective ongoing planning process. Recently named a Leader with the highest rated current offering by an independent research firm, ThinkVine's customers include market leaders in consumer packaged goods (CPG), food & beverage, financial services, insurance, travel and hospitality, consumer durables, online retail, technology, and other industries. Key Contact Name Title Email Mark Battaglia CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/10/12 $8,000,000 Series C
Investors CincyTech DFJ Portage Draper Triangle Ft. Washington Capital Partners Northwater Capital
Thumbtack 454 Natoma St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415-779-2191 Website: www.thumbtack.com
Founded in 2009, Thumbtack is a community marketplace for you to list, discover and book local services. We make hiring a service professional as easy as it is to buy a book on Amazon.com.
Key Contact Name Title Email Marco Zappacosta CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/11/12 $4,500,000 Series A
Investors Javelin Venture Partners MHS Capital Tim Draper
Tidemark 2200 Bridge Parkway #102 Redwood City, CA 94065 Phone: 650-716-1480 Website: http://tidemark.net
"Tidemark offers the first suite of cloud, social and mobile powered EPM applications: metrics management, strategic, financial and operational planning, budgeting and forecasting, and profitability modeling. The Tidemark applications are built ""mobile first"" in recognition that today's workforce is geographically dispersed, mobile and frequently working from a variety of devices. "
Key Contact Name Title Email Christian Gheorghe CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/18/12 $24,000,000 Series C
Investors Andreessen Horowitz Dave Duffield Greylock Partners Redpoint Ventures
TraceVector 69 45 108 Th Street #3 B Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-480-3101 Website: www.tracevector.com TraceVector brings together into one platform a powerful fusion of cutting-edge processor technology, software innovation and mathematical algorithms that will usher in a new era in network security. Designed by an intrusion guru, the firm's platform is envisioned to greatly surpass contemporary product offerings and achieve a new level of defensive capability not thought possible until now.
Key Contact Name Title Email Mark Abene CEO Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/03/12 $5,300,000
Investors IA Ventures Khosla Ventures
Trada 1023 Walnut Street Boulder, CO 80302 Phone: 877-871-1835 Website: www.trada.com
Trada is the world's first online advertising services marketplace, where a diverse community of digital advertising experts (Optimizers) and graphic designers (Creatives) work and are paid on their performance. Businesses and agencies who run their online advertising campaigns on Google, Yahoo, Bing and Facebook through Trada will have multiple Optimizers and Creatives working on their campaign at the same time.
Key Contact Name Title Email Niel Robertson CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/05/12 $9,000,000 Series D
Investors Foundry Group Google Ventures
TrialPay 303 Bryant St. 2nd Floor Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: 650-318-0000 Website: www.trialpay.com
TrialPay's transactional advertising platform boosts revenue and converts more customers for online merchants by placing targeted promotions around transactions. TrialPay presents customers with compelling incentives and payment options from name-brand advertisers, increasing sales for online merchants while driving traffic and customer acquisitions for premier advertisers.
Key Contact Name Title Email Alex Rampell CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/31/12 $40,000,000 Investors DAG Ventures DFJ Growth Greylock Partners QuestMark Partners T. Rowe Price Visa
Trion Worlds 1200 Bridge Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065 Phone: 650-631-9800 Website: http://www.trionworlds.com
Trion Worlds is the leading publisher and developer of premium games for the connected era. Powered by a breakthrough development and publishing platform, Trion is revolutionizing the way games are developed, played and sold. Trion's world-class team delivers high-quality, dynamic, and massively social games operated as live services across the biggest game genres and devices, including the critically acclaimed blockbuster, Rift™ and the highly-anticipated End of Nations™ and Defiance™.
Key Contact Name Title Email Lars Buttler CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/19/12 $84,000,000 Growth
Investors Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Uptake 1173 Warner Ave. Tustin, CA 92780 Phone: 949-440-1800 Website: www.uptakemedical.com Uptake Medical is focused on the development and commercialization of innovative, non-surgical treatments for lung diseases. InterVapor is the first and only approach to endoscopic lung volume reduction for people with severe emphysema that uses the body's natural healing process without leaving any implants or foreign materials in the lung. In clinical studies, InterVapor has demonstrated clinically meaningful improvements in breathing function, exercise capacity and quality of life. With headquarters in Tustin, Calif., Uptake Medical received the CE mark and TGA approval to commercialize InterVapor.
Key Contact Name Title Email R. King Nelson CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/09/12 undisclosed Series C Investors Affinity Capital Arboretum Ventures Crescent Point Group GBS Venture Partners Maverick Capital ONSET Ventures WRF Capital
UrbanSitter 58 Maiden Lane, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 Phone: 415-677-7331 Website: www.urbansitter.com
An online service for parents and sitters to connect through people they know, UrbanSitter makes booking a trusted babysitter as easy as booking dinner reservations. The site enables parents to search, book and review trusted sitters within minutes.
Key Contact Name Title Email Lynn Perkins CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/31/12 $1,750,000 Seed Investors First Round Capital Menlo Ventures Rustic Canyon Partners
Verivo Software 1000 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451 Phone: 781-795-8200 Website: www.verivo.com A leading provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly, securely and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo's platform to drive their mobility initiatives.
Key Contact Name Title Email Steven Levy CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/10/12 $17,000,000 Growth
Investors Ascent Venture Partners Commonwealth Capital Ventures Egan-Managed Capital
Warp Drive Bio 215 First Street, Suite 430 Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: 617-492-0913 Website: www.warpdrivebio.com Warp Drive Bio is driving the reemergence of natural products in the era of genomics to create breakthrough treatments that make an important difference in the lives of patients. Built upon the belief that nature is the world's most powerful medicinal chemist, Warp Drive Bio is deploying a battery of state-of-the-art technologies to access powerful drugs that are now hidden within microbes. Key to the Warp Drive Bio approach is the company's proprietary 'genomic search engine' and customized search queries that enable hidden natural products to be revealed on the basis of their distinctive genomic signature. Launched in 2011 through a groundbreaking strategic partnership with Sanofi and with financing from Third Rock Ventures and Greylock Partners, the company was founded by renowned scientist Dr. Gregory Verdine, along with Dr. George Church and Dr. James Wells.
Key Contact Name Title Email Alexis Borisy Interim CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/10/12 undisclosed
Investors Greylock Partners Sanofi Third Rock Ventures
Wemo Media 555 Rose Ave. Venice, CA 90291 Phone: 310-770-6746 Website: www.wemomedia.com
"Wemo Media is a next generation digital studio creating rich+social media and assembling a world-class team comprised of Academy Award-winning artists, technology innovators and veteran execs from film, games and the web. Our core offering is the ""Maker Media Platform,"" a disruptive online creative collaboration platform enabling digital artists and developers around the world to peer-produce innovative digital media. TheBlu is Wemo Media's first rich+social media title published on the ""Maker Media Platform"", available now in public beta at theblu.com. "
Key Contact Name Title Email Neville Spiteri CEO [email protected]
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/11/12 undisclosed Seed
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WhipTail Secures 9 Whippany Road Buildings 2, 6 And 7 Whippany, NJ 7981 Phone: 888-550-8136 Website: www.whiptail.com
WhipTail commercialized the first all-flash enterprise storage array to address performance issues in data centers. Installed worldwide in numerous mission critical database, virtualization, and online environments, WhipTail's solid-state storage dramatically reduces delays related to hard disk contention and access times, allowing servers to process more data in dramatically less time - months to days, hours to minutes. Key Contact Name Title Email Dan Crain CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/17/12 undisclosed Series B Investors Ignition Partners RRE Ventures Spring Mountain Capital
X-BODY 100 Beaver Street, Suite 101 Waltham, MA 02453 Phone: 781-891-0029 Website: www.x-bodybiosciences.com
X-BODY is a privately held biotechnology company formed in 2008 by industry veterans Richard Wagner, Brant Binder and Gordon Binder. The company's mission is to apply its innovative capabilities to the discovery of human antibodies against high-value therapeutic targets. X-BODY has entered into a number of alliances with other corporations to generate antibody therapeutic candidates. X-BODY's internal efforts are focused on discovering and developing compounds against biologically relevant targets in oncology and ophthalmology.
Key Contact Name Title Email Rick Wagner CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/23/12 $4,100,000
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Xlerant 12 South Main Street Norwalk, CT 6854 Phone: 203-883-4380 Website: www.xlerant.com
"XLerant is a software solutions company that builds and implements innovative, practical, and incredibly powerful corporate budget preparation software for mid-sized and large organizations, energizing a ""Culture of Budget Accountability"" among users. The company serves clients in several industries, including higher education. XLerant's premiere budgeting and planning application, BudgetPak, replaces spreadsheet-based budgeting and provides maximum user flexibility and financial controls. Improved communication, greater ownership of the numbers and increased transparency enables companies to better manage financial performance throughout the fiscal year." Key Contact Name Title Email Ted Dacko CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/24/12 $3,000,000 Series B Investors Chrysalis Ventures Connecticut Innovations
Zmags 321 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210 Phone: 866-989-6247 Website: www.zmags.com
Zmags helps thousands of the world's most progressive global retailers and brands design brilliant and consistent marketing and merchandising campaigns across social, mobile, tablet, and e-commerce platforms, driving product discovery and inspiring impulse purchase(s). Using the Zmags on-demand rich media merchandising platform, leading brands have measurably and dramatically increased customer engagement, conversion rates, order size and brand loyalty without the burden of IT constraints. Zmags is among the fastest growing technology companies in North America, ranking #70 on the Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 500.
Key Contact Name Title Email Michael Schreck CEO
Funding Events Date Amount Type 01/10/12 $7,000,000
Investors Northcap Partners OpenView Venture Partners Square 1 Bank