Connie Loizos
Catchpoint Systems, a New York-based maker of online performance monitoring software, has raised $3.2 million in Series A financing led by Battery Ventures. Catchpoint was founded in 2008.
Alvaro Fernandez of the research group SharpBrains says that if and when Lumos Labs and NeuroSky go public, they could transform the brain health industry
Twenty-month-old Metaps, a Tokyo-based company focused on helping developers "monetize" their products and services over the Android operating system, has raised approximately $11 million from Fidelity Growth Partners Japan, along with existing investors.
Retailigence, a Redwood City, Calif.-based company whose back-end database helps track whether items are stocked in the stores of its retail customers, has raised $6.3 million in new funding from its existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Motorola Solutions, along with new investors Telenav and OPT, one of Japan's largest digital ad agencies. Retailigence had previously raised $4.2 million.
The OKAngel Sidecar Fund, an investment vehicle created through a partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the U.S. Treasury State Small Business Credit Initiative, has invested $300,000 in Sway Medical Technologies. Tulsa, Ok.-based Sway makes portable balance testing software for iOS devices, ostensibly allowing phsyicians to better assess their patient's stability and their risk of falling, among other things.
In late 2011, Groupon, the daily deals company, went public in a glittering debut. But it quickly began to lose luster, and after abruptly ousting its founding CEO, Andrew Mason, last week, the VCs who invested in the company probably wondered whether they would have to write down their carrying value for the company yet again. According to experts, they should be more worried whether Groupon will be worth anything at all.
Sometimes, a good idea isn’t terribly sexy. So it may be with eShares, a new, Palo Alto-based company that's asking law firms and startups alike to replace their paper stock. Specifically, the eight-month-old company aims to digitize companies’ stock certificates and later, options certificates -- and to integrate with equity compensation software like CapMX so that every change to a company’s cap table can take place transparently, in real time.
Four years ago, Maria Alegre landed her first job in Silicon Valley, as the first person in the business department of iPhone gaming startup Tapulous. Today, the 27-year-old is the cofounder and CEO of 14-month-old Chartboost, a company she believes will fundamentally change the way that game developers operate.
Sophia Search, a San Jose, Calif.-based company focused on semantic content analysis, has raised a $3.7 million Series A round of funding led by the growth equity fund Atlantic Bridge.
PeopleMatter, a Charleston, S.C.-based maker of HR software, has raised $19 million in Series B funding, led by Scale Venture Partners, whose partner, Rob Theis, has joined the board. Previous PeopleMatter investors Intersouth Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Harbert Venture Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, C&B Capital and Silicon Valley Bank also contributed to the funding.