Mobile address application (app) EveryMe has received funding from firms including Tencent and Crunchfund.
Month: October 2011
Statesman negotiates support from the BGF
The bank-backed Business Growth Fund’s chief executive says its second deal backing of the UK-based travel management company indicates it is “now very much open for business”.
Five financial firms give Chi-X a hand
BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are among the firms to have acquired a minority stake alternative trading market Chi-X Global.
Blackberry Partners issues messenger prizes
The corporate-backed VC firm has published the winners of the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) section of its annual Developer Challenge, honouring mobile applications that make use of the instant messaging service.
Imagen raises $40m
Fidelity and Novo units link up with SV Life Sciences to back the $40m series A round for the eye disease treatment company.
Siklu tunes in to $20m
Ethernet radio company Siklu has closed its series B round, with support from investors including corporate Qualcomm Ventures.
Google Ventures helps build strong Foundation
Cancer diagnostics company Foundation Medicine has extended its series A round to $33.5m from an intial $25m raised in March 2010 with Google and KPCB joining Third Rock as backers.
Endeca destiny answered by Oracle
Oracle is set to acquire software developer Endeca, which is backed by both Intel and SAP, for an undisclosed sum.
Waze navigates its way to $30m
The Qualcomm-backed traffic navigation app has raised a further $30m and is now looking to expand its social-based service to China
Ordr.in on Google’s menu
Google Ventures and Ludlow Ventures have provided seed funding for the aggregated food ordering app, which is looking to expand its service to Facebook.
Yasuda helps Topica raise $27m
US-based Topica Pharmaceuticals secured $27m of series B funding yesterday from investors including Yasuda Enterprise Development Corp., a venture capital (VC) firm backed by Japan-based insurance company Meiji Yasuda Life. Also participating in the round were VC firm Prospect Venture Partners and VC fund Third Rock Ventures. The funding will be used to conduct clinical… Continue reading Yasuda helps Topica raise $27m
Goldman helps float Dropbox’s $250m cloud
Goldman Sachs’ backing of cloud document sharing company Dropbox comes in the same year it helped social networking company Facebook raise $1.5bn.
Grupanya gets funding from Intel Capital
Intel Capital has provided financing for Turkey-based social commerce startup Grupanya, a daily deals company.
Linkable Networks connects with Citi
Linkable Networks has changed its name from Clovr Media at the same time as it attracts corporate venturing unit Citi Ventures as a backer.