MJ Hudson legal start-up gains corporate venturing backing from financial services clients.
Category: Firms
SK Telecom starts uCirrus round
UCirrus gains SK Telecom Ventures as investor at the start of its funding round.
Disney adds magic to Gendai Games round
Disney’s Steamboat Ventures participated in the series A for mobile device games maker Gendai.
CSK-backed Morphlabs gains $5.5m B round
Legendary serial entrepreneur Winston Damarillo gains funding for latest software company, Morphlabs.
Peacock Equity invests $2m in Vivox
Vivox, a US-based provider of voice services for social applications, gains corporate venturing media fund to its investor consortium.
Pacific Biosciences extends F round to $109m
Venture backing to biotech company Pacific Biosciences takes funding to $370m.
ABB makes first deal from new division
Switzerland-based power and automation technology group ABB invests $20m as part of smart grid company Trilliant’s $106m round.
InMobi turns to VCs rather than strategic investor
India-based mobile advertising company InMobi returns to venture capital investors rather than add strategic investor to second funding round.
PayPal backs BillFloat’s A round
Micro-credit provider gains angel and strategic backing to aid struggling debtors.
Windpower snares Deerpath deal
GE-backed Southwest Windpower, a US-based renewable energy provider, acquires partner Deerpath Energy.
Mirics gains $13m C round
Acacia Capital Partners, Pond Ventures and Intel Capital support TV receiver Mirics.
Joyent adds Layerboom Systems to its cloud
Intel Capital-backed Joyent bolts on software company Layerboom.
Intel reaps $160m windfall from Smart flotation
Intel Capital sells initial tranche of 10 million shares in Canada-based education equipment provider Smart Technologies’ flotation.
NVP joins IDG and Accel in India
Norwest Venture Partners joins venture peers in backing India-based Perfint Healthcare.