Nick Leschly, partner of Third Rock Ventures, has been appointed the company’s president and chief executive as Genetix Pharmaceuticals rebrands itself Bluebird Bio.
Category: Firms
4Home reveals Verizon deal call
Verizon Ventures revealed as the strategic investor in 4Home, which closed its $6.8m series B round in the first three months of the year.
GM strikes second deal from Ventures fund
GM Ventures and Itochu Technology Ventures invest $4.2m in lithium-ion battery maker Sakti3.
eBay gains court victory in Craigslist struggle
Associated Press reports on legal victory in online auction company eBay’s venture investment in internet company Craigslist.
Safeguard Scientifics passes test for Good Start
Safeguard Scientifics joins consortium investing $18m in Good Start Genetics.
Ooyala shoots D round success
CID Group and Itochu Technology Ventures lead the $22m series D round investment in Ooyala.
Danfoss closes venture investing division
Stig Poulsen, managing director of Danfoss Ventures, has decided to leave the Danish industrial group after a transition period following the company’s reorganisation of its corporate venturing division to concentrate more on internal innovation.
LiveScribe written $39m cheque
US telecoms provider Qualcomm joins pen maker Livescribe’s $39m series C round.
Strategic backers join DataSphere’s C round
Fisher Communications, a Nasdaq-listed media group, emerges as DataSphere Technologies investor.
RF gains $9m in its C round
Intel Capital-backed tag maker RF Code gains $9m in C round.
Core pays for GoalSpring Financial’s expansion
Goldman Sachs-backed Core invests in GoalSpring Financial, an online personal debt management company.
Coulomb raises $15m in C round
LG Group spin-outs LS Industrial Systems and LS Cable back Coulomb Technologies’ $15m C round.
Lilly commits $150m to venture funds
Newswire Bloomberg quotes Eli Lilly executive as saying it would commit up to 20% of each of the three venture funds that could raise $250m each.
Solaria shines on series D round extension
Solaria closes series D round at $55, excluding a new $10m loan facility from debt provider Western Technologies (WTI).