Tagged: series a

July 23, 2015 @ 9:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SutroVax, a recently established biopharmaceutical vaccine company, announced on Thursday the completion of a $22 million Series A financing round. This round was led by Abingworth, the international investment group, with participation from Longitude Capital, Roche Venture Fund and CTI Life Sciences Fund. SutroVax is developing vaccines… Read More

July 22, 2015 @ 9:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bright.md, developer of a virtual care solution to improve efficiencies and reduce costs in the delivery of care for non-acute conditions, today announced that it has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round. These funds will support continued market development for its healthcare software-as-a-service… Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 1:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Picwell, the company that focuses on providing a recommendation engine for health plan selection, today announced that it has closed its Series A round of funding totaling more than $4 million. MassMutual Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), led the… Read More

July 1, 2015 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blue Medora, an innovator in the cloud systems management space, today announced a $4.6 million Series A round of venture capital funding. The round was led by Ann Arbor-based Michigan eLab, with participation from current investors Start Garden, Grand Angels and other equity holders. The investment brings Blue Medora’s total funding to $6… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CropX, provider of advanced adaptive irrigation service, announced it has completed the first close of its $9 million Series A financing. Led by Finistere Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and GreenSoil Investments, each investor in the Series A round is dedicated to agriculture technology innovations. OurCrowd also… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Elation Media chairman Gerald Levin announced that Kansas business leader Paul Mai has taken an equity stake in the company, helping to close out the media start-up’s $150,000 seed funding round for an undisclosed amount. Levin is the former Chairman/CEO of Time Warner. He is also part of the team that founded HBO and served… Read More

June 5, 2015 @ 4:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

HWTrek, a platform that provides an ecosystem for digital electronics, announced this week that it has successfully raised $4 million during its series a funding round, which was led by WI Harper and ITIC. According to its description, HWTrek pairs manufacturing experts with project creators to help navigate the… Read More

May 15, 2015 @ 6:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Paidy, the cardless e-commerce payment and instant credit service from Exchange Corporation K.K. (“ExCo”), announced that it has expanded its Series A to US$8.3 million. Existing Series A lead, Arbor Ventures, led the expansion together with new investors SIG Asia and MS Capital. Russell Cummer, chief… Read More

May 5, 2015 @ 11:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kano, the computer you build and code yourself, launched the new version of its computer kit at the technology conference TechCrunch Disrupt. Now powered by the Raspberry Pi 2, the New Kano is six times faster, and loaded with games and projects that are learned,… Read More

April 29, 2015 @ 10:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

XOEye Technologies, a wearables solutions company that is reshaping industrial business processes and data capture, today announced it has closed its $1.9 million Series A funding round. IncWell LP II, an early-stage venture firm founded in 2013 by Tom LaSorda, formerly CEO of Chrysler Group… Read More

April 21, 2015 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Untapt, Inc., an automated recruiting platform that exclusively focused on connecting financial services companies with top tech talent, today announced the completion of a $3 million Series A Preferred Stock financing led by Tsai Capital Corporation and its affiliates. The round also included participation from SenaHill Investment… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New Matter, a leader in consumer 3D printing, announced today the close of its Series A Funding round of $6.5M. Alsop Louie Partners led the round, with other notable investors including Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures, the investment arm… Read More

January 29, 2015 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

TweelX, a Nashville-based startup that launched its patent-pending Music Stock Exchange in 2013, has raised $200,000 in series A funding. Three investors participated in the transaction last month, including La Ragazza & Associates and Atlantic Merchant Capital Investors. Co-founder and CEO of TweelX, Chase Tweel… Read More

January 15, 2015 @ 4:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ciphrex Corp , a software company in the emerging field of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, announced it has completed the sale of its Series A stock offering. The company, based in San Diego, was co-founded by Eric Lombrozo and Enrique Lombrozo just over a year ago. Its… Read More

December 12, 2014 @ 10:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RCS Capital Corporation (NYSE:  RCAP) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to exchange RCS Capital’s existing Series A convertible preferred stock owned by Luxor Capital Group LP and its affiliates (“Luxor”) for a new series of perpetual preferred and a new series of… Read More

December 9, 2014 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise announced on Tuesday (December 9th) it has launched a new single-family home funding arm.  The company plans to allocate approximately $10 million per month to qualified real estate investors with a proven record of successful purchases and rehabs in top markets… Read More

December 8, 2014 @ 1:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

XOEye Technologies, a enterprise wearables solutions company that is reshaping industrial business processes,  announced on Monday (December 8th) the commitment of $1.5 million towards its $2 million Series A funding round. The financing round, which will remain open for 90 days, is currently co-led by venture… Read More

November 15, 2014 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitreserve, a money service that makes using digital money easy, fast and free, is raising funds through Venovate Marketplace, a U.S.-based brokerage platform for alternative investing, and London-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Raising funds on Venovate is spurred from the company’s belief that financing should be an… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 4:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Retailcommon, a Toronto-based social shopping network, announced on Tuesday (October 21st) it has raised $2 million in Series A financing. The company, which developed a revolutionary way for retailers to connect with their customers’ mobile devices while they are actively shopping, also announced it will… Read More

April 14, 2014 @ 10:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

When you’re a prominent equity crowdfunding platform, how do you raise a Series A? You get a bunch of venture capital firms to hop into the round and open a portion of the raise to the crowd, which is precisely what SeedInvest has done. Better… Read More