Agari has announced a $5 million strategic investment and the addition of two new executives. An undisclosed strategic investor and existing investors Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners participated in the round. Ingrum Putz has joined the company as vice president of engineering and Vidur Apparao as chief technology officer.

Labcyte, a privately-held company advancing acoustic liquid handling, has closed a Series D financing led by the healthymagination fund, a part of GE Ventures. The $5.3 million round also included current Labcyte investors – Abingworth, Alloy Ventures, Cross Atlantic Partners, Delphi Ventures, H&Q Healthcare Investors and H&Q Life Sciences Investors.

Volcano Corporation, a manufacturer of precision guided therapy tools to enhance the treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease, has signed an agreement to acquire Crux Biomedical. Under terms of the agreement, Volcano will pay $36.0 million in cash at closing. Crux Biomedical has been funded by Alloy Ventures, Three Arch Partners, Emergent Medical Partners and Thomas Fogarty, M.D.

Siluria Technologies said it closed a $30 million Series C financing led by new investors Bright Capital and Vulcan Capital and joined by existing investors ARCH Venture Partners, The Wellcome Trust, Alloy Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Lux Capital, Altitude Life Science Ventures and Presidio Ventures. The company is developing a technology to convert [...]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based ViVOtech has held a first closing of its Series D round, bringing the company’s total funding to $96 million. The company’s point-of-sale technology is designed to provide rich mobile commerce solutions for in-store payment, loyalty, marketing, and merchandising. The company’s investors include Alloy Ventures, Citi Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, EDBI, First Data [...]

YouSendIt, a provider of extended enterprise collaboration services, has launched a new product line called Workstream. Headquartered in Campbell, CA, YouSendIt is backed by venture capital firms Adams Street Partners, Alloy Ventures, Emergence Capital Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds and Sigma Partners. PRESS RELEASE YouSendIt, Inc., the leading provider of extended enterprise collaboration services, today announced [...]

Cloud-based email security company AGARI, f.k.a. Authentication Metrics Inc., has added $2.5 million in fresh capital from Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners. The Series A round will be used to scale its technology, designed to protect brand reputation, eliminate email threats, and prevent the loss of sensitive data, the company says. AGARI is based in Palo Alto, Calif. Alloy Ventures led the round.

Siluria Technologies, the California-based methane conversion company, has landed $20 million in the form of a Series B investment led by the Wellcome Trust, a UK-based foundation. Other investors include Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital, and Presidio Ventures.

Siluria Technologies, a San Francisco-based developer of methane-based alternatives for producing fuels and chemicals normally derived from oil, has raised $20 million in new capital. The Series B round was led by UK-based Wellcome Trust, with participation from Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital, and Presidio Ventures.

NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Genomatica Inc, which makes chemicals from renewable feedstocks, wants to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering to capitalize on burgeoning interest in the green chemistry sector. The San Diego-based company, in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, did not [...]