Connie Loizos
Safeguard Scientifics, a Wayne, Pa.-based investment company focused on technology and healthcare outfits, has provided $5 million of a new $6 million Series B round of financing raised by Pneuron Corp., a Woburn, Mass.-based company that sells large data integration software applications. Osage Venture Partners, a previous investor in Pneuron, contributed the remaining funding to the round.S
Julep Beauty, a Seattle-based beauty brand, has raised $10.3 million in Series B funding led by the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and including Western Technology Investments and Version One Ventures. Previous investors in the company, including Maveron; Lady Gaga's manager, Troy Carter; and Precedent Investments also participated in the new round.
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.
Health Catalyst, a Salt Lake City-based data warehousing company that's focused on healthcare, has added $8 million to its Series B round, care of Kaiser Permanente Ventures and CHV Capital. Previously, the company had raised $33 million for its Series B, from investors that include Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Sorenson Capital.
Plastiq, a Boston-based online payments company, has raised $6 million in financing. The round was led by Atlas Venture and Flybridge Capital Partners and also included investors in an earlier, $2.3 million financing sewn up last spring. Those other investors include NextView Ventures, Greenoaks Capital Management and individual investors such as Harvey Golub, the former chairman and CEO of American Express.
This week, the research company Nielsen published a new report on mobile consumers, and it's rich with data that highlights how very differently people use their phones across Australia, Brazil, China, India, Italy, South Korea, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.
Codenvy, a San Francisco-based cloud environment for coding, building, and testing apps, today announced it has closed $9 million in Series A led by Toba Capital with Auriga Partners and a number of angels participating.
Risk Management Systems, a Newark, Calif.-based maker of catastrophe risk management software, has named Paul Dali as chairman of its board of directors. Dali, a longtime venture capitalist, most recently founded the venture firm KeyNote Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was also CEO of Regis McKenna.
Quotient Biodiagnostics, a transfusion diagnostics business based in Edinburgh, Scotland, has raised $5 million from Quotient CEO Paul Cowan and the healthcare venture capital firm Galen Partners based in Stamford, Conn. Over the past 18 months, Quotient has raised more than $19 million altogether.
Keith Rabois, a serial operating executive who most recently resigned as the chief operating officer of the payments company Square, has joined the venture firm Khosla Ventures as a partner. Before joining Square, Rabois spent numerous years at LinkedIn, first as a vice president, then as an executive VP of strategy and business development. Earlier in his career, Rabois, who has a law degree, was also an executive VP focused on public policy at PayPal. He also spent a year as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Clarium Capital, the hedge fund run by PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel.