Cloud-based enterprise performance management provider Host Analytics has closed $17 million in Series D venture financing. The round was fully financed by the company’s existing investors Advanced Technology Ventures, Trident Capital, StarVest Partners and Next World Capital.

Thrasos Therapeutics has raised $35 million for its treatment of acute kidney injury. SR One led the round, with additional funds coming from the GSK Canada Life Sciences Innovation Fund, SW Co., Advanced Technology Ventures, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Lumira Capital, MP Healthcare Venture Management and Pappas Ventures.

Enterprise cloud communications service provider Thinking Phone Networks has secured a $16.5 million investment led by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) and Bessemer Venture Partners. The company also announced Bob Hower, general partner, ATV, and Bob Goodman, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners, have joined its board of directors.

While tech trends fluctuate wildly, one survey notes life science VCs have quietly racked up impressive returns.

GreatPoint Energy has raised funding of $1.25 billion from China Wanxiang Holdings to finance and construct the first phase of a one trillion cubic feet per year coal to natural gas production facility. The complex will be located near Turpan, Xinjiang in the Peoples Republic of China. As part of the transaction, Wanxiang will become [...]

EndPlay, a provider of content management delivered in the cloud, has attracted additional funding from management and existing investors, VantagePoint Capital Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures. This brings total financing for the company to $21.5 million. PRESS RELEASE EndPlay, Inc., a leading SaaS provider of content management, engagement and monetization solutions delivered in the cloud, [...]

Rive Technology, a provider of materials-based solutions for catalytic and separations processes for refining, chemicals, and biofuels, has appointed David C. Aldous as chief executive officer. Aldous brings over 30 years of experience in the refining, chemicals and catalyst industries, including over 20 years at Royal Dutch Shell where he was executive vice president of [...]

The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, like many LPs, loaded up on venture capital funds during 2000 and 2001 when the hope of big Web 1.0 wins peaked and then faded.

Solar Junction, the California-based developer of solar cells, bagged another $19.2 million from current investors with an additional investment from strategic IQE. Other investors include New Enterprise Associates, Advanced Technology Ventures, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. PRESS RELEASE: SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 13, 2012 — Solar Junction, a developer of high efficiency multi-junction cells for the [...]

Early-stage investing is chugging along at a nice pace. But Silicon Valley venture capitalists are less confident about the months ahead than they were during the financial tumult of the fall. This is according to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index prepared each quarter by Mark Cannice, a professor at the University of San [...]