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Qteros sees its way to initial $22m

Qteros, formerly known as SunEthanol, nearly doubles its $25m B round with $22m initial close of its series C.

GE lights deal fire for Ciris Energy

GE Energy Financial Services backs methane start-up Ciris Energy.

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.

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.

Shire agrees first venturing deal

Drugs group Shire gains management commitment to corporate venturing.

Rabobank backs commodity exchange

Universal Commodity Exchange gains Rabobank among its investors

Wal-Mart backs $500m round for 360buy

Started in 2004 by Qiangdong Liu, 360Buy has been growing at 300% per year and has raised $500m from investors, including US supermarket chain Wal-Mart.

Paychex acquires SurePayroll

SurePayroll closed its series B round in January 2001 and a decade after launch sells to peer Paychex.

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