http://www.dealhorizon.com/deal_horizon_news.xml Latest funding news headlines from leading news sources and venture capital information portals. en-us Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:12:49 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100902e6930015p&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW SciQuest Inc. unveiled terms of its previously announced initial public offering, saying it will sell up to 6.9 million shares of stock in an expected price range of $9.50 to $11.50 apiece. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100902e693001b9&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW Simple Finance Technology Corp., doing business as BankSimple, has raised $2.9 million in Series A funding to create its new form of consumer banking. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVLS0020100903e69300004&ProductIDFromApplication=29&r=Rss&s=DJFVLS SciQuest Inc. unveiled terms of its previously announced initial public offering, saying it will sell up to 6.9 million shares of stock in an expected price range of $9.50 to $11.50 apiece as it prepares to return to the public markets. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/k0K59MABbAg/daily61.html SciQuest plans to sell 6 million shares of its common stock at an initial public offering price between $9.50 and $11.50 per share, the Cary-based software company said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:00:06 GMT http://www.venturedeal.com/News/2010/9/3/EverFi-Secures-$11-Million-Venture-Capital-Investment Washington, DC -- Internet company EverFi has garnered $11 million in its first round of venture capital financing.EverFi has developed an online system that helps educate stude... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:33:15 GMT http://www.venturedeal.com/News/2010/9/3/BankSimple-Nets-Series-A-Venture-Capital-Round Brooklyn, New York -- Online financial services company BankSimple has secured $2.9 million in its first institutional round of venture capital investment.BankSimple is deve... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:33:15 GMT http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/09/02/life-image-secures-5-2m-in-second-financing-round-to-push-medical-images-in-the-cloud/ Life Image has won further investor support after more hospitals have bought its new technology for exchanging medical images via the Internet cloud. The Newton, MA-based software startup has closed $5.2 million of a planned $10 million Series B... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:39:38 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/41j2DwYvnD8/ Startup incubators continue to spread across the country, and one of the latest is BoomStartup, a Utah-based organization that's graduating its first class of entrepreneurs next week. If you're a San Francisco/Silicon Valley snob like me, Utah might... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:25:23 GMT http://www.pr-inside.com/esterline-reports-23-earnings-improvement-raises-r2093242.htm BELLEVUE, WA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/02/10 -- Esterline Corporation (NYSE: ESL) ( www.esterline.com : http://www.esterline.com ), a leading specialty manufacturer serving aerospace/defense markets, today reported fiscal 2010 third quarter (ended July... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:01:26 GMT http://feeds.genomeweb.com/~r/genomeweb/biotechtransferweek/~3/3kCcIUWNDxk/dna-medicine-institute-affiliate-seeks-raise-1m The affiliate, called DMI Dx LLC, was incorporated this year and filed with the SEC saying that it plans to raise $1 million in private funding. read more Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:17:43 GMT http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=1313655&sourceType=3 TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2010) - Penfund, an independent provider of junior capital to middle market companies, announced today a US$15 million investment in Choice Environmental Services Inc. ("Choice"). The terms of... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:13:00 GMT http://www.pr-inside.com/usec-toshiba-and-b-amp-w-close-on-r2092972.htm USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU) today closed on the first phase of a strategic investment in the company by nuclear power industry leaders The Babcock & Wilcox Company (NYSE:BWC) and Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502). This investment of $75 million will be used... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:37 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/9KsFPjCDw3w/ When Danish entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers sold his 'social phonebook' ZYB to Vodafone in 2008 for EUR31 million and joined the company, it didn't seem like he would stay forever at such a slow-moving corporate entity. And sure enough he has now left... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:50:37 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/GiwTW_9tSpc/daily55.html Design software maker Autodesk Inc. led a $6 million second venture funding round in Vela Systems Inc. (ADSK) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:27:44 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/___OZMPfuAo/daily54.html Public records aggregator Inflection LLC raised $30 million in its first round of venture capital. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:02:16 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/HJITPFmwdw8/ Washington D.C.-based startup EverFi has just raised $11 million in Series A funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from TomorrowVentures and independent investors including Michael Chasen, the CEO of Blackboard. EverFi... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:05:40 GMT http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/09/02/vela-systems-scores-6m-series-b/ Burlington, MA-based Vela Systems, a mobile field software startup, said today it has raised a $6 million Series B equity financing led by new investor Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK). Existing investors Commonwealth Capital Ventures, GrandBanks Capital,... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:19:43 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/O_hgNsAkrws/daily72.html Inflection LLC, a company that says it is "focused on reshaping the public records system," said Thursday it raised $30 million in a first round of funding. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:57:42 GMT http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=1313339&sourceType=3 CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2010) - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:52:00 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QDoYHyocoas/ The iTunes-for-apps, Allmyapps, has just announced its first round of funding with French VC fund, Elaia Partners - the same firm that has backed French all-stars like Goom Radio, Goojet and Criteo. With 1 million in the bank, the Paris-based... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:26:57 GMT http://feeds.businesswire.com/click.phdo?i=bc927ed61330cf77d26ec188b1cbd7f5 PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allmyapps, the first application store for Windows, secures EUR 1 million Series A round Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:09:21 GMT http://feeds.businesswire.com/click.phdo?i=db8595471edbddf9f8ed1fc5f1ea1604 OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zhone Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZHNE), a global leader in network access solutions for fiber, copper and wireless broadband infrastructures, today announced that broadband stimulus award winner Shawnee Telephone... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:09:21 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/L_-E-EMaJaM/ Withings, the Paris-based company behind the famous tweeting wifi body scale, has just scored 3 million euros from French VC firm, Ventech. It's the company's first round of funding and will be used primarily for the development of 2 new products,... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:08:11 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100901e692000m9&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW Copiun Inc., a provider of corporate endpoint data management products, has secured $1.9 million in Series A funding led by Hub Angels and RRE Ventures, who were joined by Launchpad Venture Group, Beacon Angels and Launch Capital. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100901e692000ul&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW Wavemark Inc. - which uses radio-frequency tags and readers to help hospitals and medical-device makers constantly track inventory - says it has tapped returning investors for a $3.9 million Series C round to hire sales and marketing staff. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100901e6920015p&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW Celator Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised $20 million from new and returning investors in a Series D round, which will bring the company's cancer therapies to Phase III. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100901e692001b9&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW WAY Systems Inc., which makes handheld wireless terminals for processing payments, has sold its assets to VeriFone Systems Inc. for up to $9 million after venture investors put about $50 million into the company over the past seven years. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVLS0020100902e69200001&ProductIDFromApplication=29&r=Rss&s=DJFVLS Phagenesis Ltd. has raised a GBP2 million ($3 million) Series A round to advance a device that could help stroke patients who have lost some or all of their ability to swallow food and drink. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100902e6920002t&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW Accumetrics Inc. has raised an additional $7 million in its Series D round for a total of $24 million in new capital. The capital infusion is expected to fund the company to profitability and comes primarily from the company's existing ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fis.dowjones.com/News/News.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020100902e692000b5&ProductIDFromApplication=32&r=Rss&s=DJFVW Searching for people online makes up a big percentage of search engine queries, but building a company in this space has been challenging for start-ups. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT