Dan Broderick has joined Prolog Ventures as its fourth partner. He previously was a managing director with Mason Wells. www.prologventures.com
Steven Pidgeon and David Lewis have joined the Phoenix law office of DLA Piper as partners in the corporate and securities practice group. They previously were with Snell & Wilmer LLP. www.dlapiper.com
OpGen Inc., a Madison, Wis.-based provider of microbial genome analysis, has raised $23.6 million in third round funding. The deal represents a restart for OpGen, which last spring laid off two-thirds of its employees due to financial troubles. New backers include CHL Medical Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Versant Ventures, while return backer Mason Wells […]
Vantrix Corp., a New York-based provider of mobile multimedia adaptation and delivery solutions, has raised $12 million in Series B funding. JK&B Capital led the deal, and was joined by return backers SummerHill Venture Partners, Entrepia Ventures, BDC Venture Capital and Innovacom. www.vantrix.com
Chlorogen Inc., a St. Louis-based developer of a protein-based therapy for gynecological cancer, has ceased operations, and is in the process of selling its technology assets. The company had raised over $15 million in VC funding from firms like Finistere Partners, Burrill & Co., Harris & Harris Group, Prolog Ventures and Redmont Venture Partners. www.chlorogen.com
Mawell Ltd., a Helsinki, Finland-based health informatics company, has raised Euro8 million in VC funding from CapMan. www.mawell.com
Steve Goldby and Ken Song have joined Venrock as a partner and vice president, respectively. Both will be based in Menlo Park. Goldby spent the past nine years with Venrock-based materials science company Symyx Technologies, where he now serves as executive chairman. Before that, he was CEO of scientific information company MDL Information Systems. Song […]
Fred Niemeier has joined Baird Capital Partners as a Chicago-based vice president. He previously was with Danaher Corp., as global director of strategic sourcing and materials for the company's Motion Business unit. BCP is the U.S.-based buyout fund of Baird Private Equity. www.bairdcapitalpartners.com
Tagsys, a provider of item-level RFID infrastructure, has called down the second $16 million tranche of its $35 million Series C round. Backers include JPMorgan Partners, DFJ Espirit (f.k.a. Cazenove Private Equity), Endeavour Advisors, Saffron Hill Ventures, Add Partners and Elliott Associates. The company has now raised around $80 million in total VC funding. www.tagsys.net
VMWare Inc. (Nasdaq: VMW) has acquired Dunes Technologies, a Switzerland-based provider of IT process orchestration software for virtual environments. No financial terms were disclosed. Dunes had raised VC funding from Swiss firm Affentranger Associates. www.vmware.com www.dunes.ch