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Brazil’s Cielo, the country’s largest credit and debit card operator, said on Monday it will buy U.S. payment solutions provider Merchant e-Solutions for $670 million to enable it to settle more online transactions. MeS, as the Redwood City, California-based company is known, specializes in settling e-commerce and mobile payments and annually processes more than $14 billion […]
Were Ellen Pao considered a partner of the venture firm, it would had been impossible to claim sexual harassment under federal law or state law, says one attorney
Tim Mahlman, who was appointed chief revenue officer at the Klout last August, has left the company to join Greycroft Partners as an entrepreneur in residence.
Facebook put SecondMarket on the map. Then it went public and everything changed.
LinkSmart, a new, Boulder-based maker of “text linking optimization” software for publishers, has raised $4.7 million in funding from Foundry Group, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Costanoa Venture Capital. Seth Levine, a managing director at Foundry, describes the technology as “an intuitive, scalable, automated platform that analyzes and controls keyword text linking with the goal of optimizing […]
Infraredx, a Burlington, Mass.-based medical device company, has signed an exclusive, five-year agreement with Nipro Corp. to distribute its TCV Imaging System in Japan. Under the terms of the agreement, Infraredx will receive a minimum of $50 million in revenue over the duration of the agreement. PRESS RELEASE: Infraredx, Inc., a medical device company committed to […]
Nara Logics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that has created a Web personalization engine, has raised $4 million in Series A financing from angel investors. PRESS RELEASE: Today, Nara Logics Inc., a company that solves the problem of web search by crafting a more personalized and liberating Web, announced the launch of the company and $4 […]
OBN, an Oxford-based not-for-profit business network that supports bioscience businesses in the ‘Golden Triangle’ biocluster and beyond, has established two new investor advisory panels with participants from: BD&L executives, including Amgen, Astellas Pharma Europe, Biogen Idec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Crescendo Biologics, Kymab, Polytherics, Prosidion, Shire and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Europe, among others. PRESS RELEASE: OBN, the not-for-profit […]
Numerous stories today about a new, Boston-based company mentioned the involvement of Breyer Capital, the low-flying growth-stage fund of Jim Breyer. That's probably no accident.
Earlier this week, AOL co-founder Steve Case swung by the San Francisco offices of Thomson Reuters and was nice enough to chat for an hour. Look for an extended version of our talk — including an in-depth discussion about his investment firm, Revolution — in the upcoming issue of Venture Capital Journal. In the meantime, […]