Posted on: May 21, 2013 by asormani
Biopharmaceutical company eFFECTOR Therapeutics has completed a $45 million Series A financing. Investors include U.S. Venture Partners, Abingworth, Novartis Venture Funds, SR One, Astellas Venture Management, Osage University Partners and Mission Bay Capital.
Tags: Abingworth, Astellas Venture Management, Mission Bay Capital, Novartis Venture Funds, Osage University Partners, SR One, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: May 7, 2013 by Alastair Goldfisher
San Francisco-based startup Chute announced Tuesday it raised $7 million Series A round of funding led by Foundry Group, with existing investors Freestyle Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participating. The company, which came out out of Y Combinator, previously raised about $3 million in funding from institutional ind individual investors, including Klout co-founder and CEO Joe Fernandez.
Tags: Chute, Foundry Group, Freestyle Capital, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: May 6, 2013 by Alastair Goldfisher
Clustrix, a San Francisco-based developer of clustered databases to help make them manageable and searchable, has raised a $16.5 million Series C round of funding from current investors Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures and individual investor Don Listwin, a former executive of Cisco. The company, which was founded in late 2005 and came out of Y Combinator, has raised now raised $46.5 million to date.
Tags: ATA Ventures, Clustrix, Sequoia Capital, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: March 19, 2013 by Staff
Diablo Technologies Inc., an Ottawa, Ontario-based maker of memory system interface products, has raised C$7.5 million in additional financing, expanding its latest venture capital round to C$36 million. The new funds include a first-time investment from U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with USVP partner Chris Rust joining Diablo’s board of directors. Additional funds came from the company’s existing investors, which include Battery Ventures, BDC Venture Capital, Celtic House Venture Partners and Hasso Plattner Ventures.
Tags: Battery Ventures, BDC Venture Capital, Celtic House Venture Partners, Diablo Technologies Inc., Hasso Plattner Ventures, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: February 28, 2013 by Connie Loizos
CardioKinetix, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based medical device company, has completed the $23 million second-tranche of its Series E financing, bringing the total round to $48 million. Panorama Capital is the company’s newest investor. It joins previous investors U.S. Venture Partners, JPMorgan Partners, New Leaf Venture Partners, SV Life Sciences, H&Q Healthcare Investors, and H&Q Life Sciences Investors.
Tags: H&Q Healthcare Investors, H&Q Life Sciences Investors, JPMorgan Partners, New Leaf Venture Partners, Panoram Capital, SV Life Science, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: February 25, 2013 by Alastair Goldfisher
Medical device company Intersect ENT has raised a $30 million Series D round of funding that was led by new investor Norwest Venture Partners. Also participating in the round were existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, U.S. Venture Partners, PTV Sciences and Medtronic. The company, which develops therapies for ear, nose and throat surgeons, previously raised $30 million in known funding.
Tags: Intersect ENT, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Medtronic, Norwest Venture Partners, PTV Sciences, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: February 6, 2013 by mboslet
Livefyre said it raised a $15M Series C investment in a deal led by U.S. Venture Partners and joined by existing investors Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital. The money will support new growth and expansion into new markets.
Tags: Cue Ball, Greycroft Partners, HillsVen Group, Livefyre, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: January 9, 2013 by asormani
U.S. Venture Partners has appointed Emily Melton as venture partner. Melton previously was a partner at DFJ, where she was actively involved in a number of companies in the firm`s consumer and enterprise portfolio. After DFJ, Emily was with Mayfield Fund, where she was involved in formulating the firm`s mobile and consumer investment strategy.
Tags: U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: December 13, 2012 by Alastair Goldfisher
U.S. Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and undisclosed individual investors have put $4.3 million into Easilydo, which launches today. San Francisco-based Easilydo provides a personal productivity app for the iOS.
Tags: Easilydo, Mayfield Fund, U. S. Venture Partners
Posted on: December 13, 2012 by asormani
AccelOps has appointed former Cisco Systems executive and Tidal Software chief executive officer Flint Brenton as president and CEO, effective immediately. AccelOps is backed by U.S. Venture Partners.
Tags: U. S. Venture Partners