The quasi-corporate venturing units of two Danish foundations back the kidney treatment company.
Month: April 2012
HomeAway in $18m Spanish trip with Toprural
HomeAway, backed by Google in 2010, snaps up Spanish peer.
Merrimack raises $100m in IPO
Biopharmaceutical company Merrimack, backed by Fidelity, raises $100m on Nasdaq.
Cisco sambas into Brazil with $547m
Cisco Systems reportedly makes a big research and development push into Brazil, including plans for a venture fund.
Markit acquires Data Explorers
The Goldman Sachs-backed data provider snaps up another data company.
RR Donnelley sets down $2.5m on CoffeeTable
RR Donnelley, a US-based print company, backs Real Value Corporation, the parent company of iPad shopping app CoffeeTable, which is led by venture firm Maveron’s Ben Choi.
Enterome swallows down $6.6m
Enterome, a gut healthcare company backed by Natixis venture unit Seventure, raises the funds after a $1.5m seed round from Inra Transfert, the French National Institute in Agronomic Research’s tech transfer organisation.
Swisscom enters Matrixx syndicate
Swisscom Ventures joins France Telecom’s Innovacom backing real time data processing company Matrixx Software.
Genband sees gold in Aztek
Computer networks company Genband, backed by multiple corporates including Siemens, Intel and Texas Instruments, buys its Verizon-backed network migration rival.
Sapphire polishes up $144m
Monsanto backs the algae-based fuel company, which has now raised more than $300m from public and private sources and has the US-based agricultural company’s former chief executive, Robert Shapiro, on its board.
Adimab develops $13.8m F round
The US-based drug developer backed by Google’s corporate venturing unit raises its latest funding round and buys a 21,500 square foot research facility.
Violin Memory’s $800m pre-IPO crescendo
The company takes in a $50m round at an $800m valuation from backers including SAP, Toshiba and Juniper Networks, when it had reportedly been slated for a flotation in the first quarter or this month.
Trade bodies reward corporate venturing execs
Both the NVCA and the BVCA have appointed venture executives of corporates to their boards in wins for the industry.
iSotera raises $1.8m
Marshall’s Martlet and Fidelity’s Moonray Investors back LED company iSotera.