GE Energy Financial Services backs methane start-up Ciris Energy.
Month: January 2011
JJDC and MP join Genocea
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation and MP Healthcare Venture Management join drugs peer GlaxoSmithkline in backing Genocea Biosciences.
NY Times backs AdKeeper’s $35m B round
Venture capital firm Oak Investment Partners led the $35m B round for AdKeeper as a new investor alongside its other investors, which include the New York Times
EnglishCentral raises NTT for long-distance deal
Atlas, Google and NTT back EnglishCentral’s $4.5m round.
Google hunts out Scvngr again
Scvngr has raised $15m in its second round led by venture capital firm Balderton Capital and repeat investors Highland Capital Partners and Google Ventures.
PneumRx raises $33m for European expansion
Forbion Capital Partners, which span out from Dutch bank ABN Amro at the end of 2006, and Endeavour Vision join as new investors in PneumRx.
VoiceBox two-thirds way to round
The $5.3m extended series C shares for VoiceBox Technologies has come from five investors.
Intel adds one for [x+1]
[x+1] raises $10m in B round with Intel Capital joining consortium.
GM wins venturing award
Global Corporate Venturing has awarded General Motors Ventures as the most influential corporate venturing unit in the transport and logistics sector.
Goldman Sachs backs Facebook
News provider New York Times said Goldman had invested $450m in Facebook, and Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a Russia-based investment firm backed by corporate venturing units run by Naspers and Tencent, invested $50m.
IDG commits to second Korean fund
International Data Group was the first non-Korean company to set up a corporate venturing firm for nascent companies in the country and will start raising its second $100m fund this year.
Shire agrees first venturing deal
Drugs group Shire gains management commitment to corporate venturing.
Hydrogen’s role in the energy sector
Henri Winand interview first published in the autumn edition of Lotus Engineering’s proActive e-magazine.
Case study: Intelligent Energy
Intelligent Energy shows it has the power to push forward in renewable energy with its fuel cells for multiple transport and other purposes.