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Month: April 2013
BioAmber to IPO at $15-17
Lanxess invested $10m at $28.49 per share as part of BioAmber’s $30m series C round.
PrePlay swims into $4.7m
Alongside RSE Ventures, which is chaired and co-founded by Dolphins owner Ross, was venture capital firm Trilogy Equity Partners.
AIQ closes $5m round
AIQ has raised $5m in series A financing from Penton Media, Rory Curran and Peter Wilson-Smith.
Edenred collects with SavingStar
SavingStar, an online grocery saving service, has raised $9.1m in its fourth round of funding in a round led by Edenred.
iRhythm finds the $16m beat
Stanford-backed iRhythm raises $16m series D round led by Norwest Venture Partners.
Bezos invests in Business Insider
Business Insider, the business content site founded by Henry Blodget, has raised around $5m in new funding led by Jeff Bezos.
CPF shines with $37m
Clean Power Finance, an online platform that provides software and financial services to solar power professionals and investors, has raises $37m in funding.
Burton joins Kaplan accelerator
The three-month first Kaplan EdTech Accelerator starts in June with 10 entrepreneurs gaining $20,000.
Cydan develops with $16m
Alongside Pfizer Venture Investments, which led the financing, were venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates and property debt manager Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
Quantance powers up D round
In January, Quantance said it had raised $1.65m – now extended to $12m.
CyOptics sees way to exit
Avago said the acquisition of CyOptics would help its fibre optics product portfolio for emerging 40G and 100G enterprise and data centre applications. Last year, CyOptics had net sales of $210m, up 21% from 2011.
GenSight raises $41.8m
GenSight Biologics, a ophthalmic therapeutics using gene therapy, has raised $41.8m in series A funding from backers Novartis Venture Fund, Abingworth LLP, Versant Ventures and Index Ventures.
Foursquare converts local interest
Foursquare, a US-based location-based application, has raised $41m in convertible debt from a consortium including media group O’Reilly’s corporate venturing unit. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners led the financing from its Waterman growth debt fund with O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital providing the… Continue reading Foursquare converts local interest