Corporate-backed Motricity revises Nasdaq listing plans
Category: Firms
SR One welcomes the stars
GlaxoSmithKline’s SR One leads $22m series B round for Constellation Pharmaceuticals
SAP starts its DeviceVM operation
SAP Ventures joins DeviceVM consortium by leading $10m funding round.
Pfizer catches lab rodent deal
Pfizer joins series A round for Ablexis as drugs companies seek mice to test
Managers behind BlackBerry fund discuss merger option
Corporate-backed BlackBerry Partners Fund looks at organisation change as global expansion begins.
European governments ride to VCs’ rescue
Research by European Investment Fund finds governments responsible for nearly a third of venture funding
Swiss group power up GreenTeg’s spin-out
Swisselectric forms club to fund GreenTeg’s spin out.
Novartis muscles in again on NanoPowers round
Novartis Venture Funds leads first round of funding for NanoPowers
Symantec makes smart call with Mocana funding
Symantec leads series C round for Mocana
US Army backs Ogmento’s war games
The US Army has led a $3.5m first round of investment in Ogmento, a New York-based company that adds computer-generated images to the physical real-world environment, known as augmented reality.
US Army backs Ogmento’s war games
The US Army has led a $3.5m first round of investment in Ogmento, a New York-based company that adds computer-generated images to the physical real-world environment, known as augmented reality. Leading the series A round was Chart Venture Partners, a $100m venture capital fund investing in security-related technologies formed by Chart Group, a private investment… Continue reading US Army backs Ogmento’s war games
BlackBerry fund strikes China joint venture
Research in Motion (RIM), a Canada-listed company that makes the BlackBerry mobile phone, has started raising a planned $100m corporate venturing fund for China.
Rosen leaves Pfizer for venture capital
David Rosen has this month joined US-based healthcare venture capital firm MPM Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence.
Intel becomes third strategic at TRA
A third strategic investor has joined the syndicate backing US-based market research company TRA Global’s third round of funding in the three years since its launch. Intel Capital, the in-house venture capital division of US chip maker Intel, invested $10m as part of TRA’s $18.2m series C round. Its investment came from the $200m Intel… Continue reading Intel becomes third strategic at TRA