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Entries for 六月 12th, 2009

AlertMe Raises £8 Million

AlertMe.com, the award- winning provider of smart energy saving systems for homes, today announced it has secured £8 million in Series B funding by investors Good Energies, Index Ventures, SET Venture Partners and VantagePoint Venture Partners. The financing will enable AlertMe.com to extend its product development program, continue to ramp up its distribution strategy and [...]

Wimba Raises $6 Million

Wimba® Inc., the education technology company that helps people teach people, announced today that it closed $6 million in a round of Series C venture capital financing led by ABS Ventures. This new funding will drive continued development of innovative collaborative technology and market expansion, leveraging the strength of the award-winning Wimba Collaboration Suite™ [...]

DTT Surveillance Raises $7 Million

Post Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm headquartered in New York, New York, announced today that it has led a $7 million minority growth equity investment in DTT Surveillance Inc, the leading supplier of digital surveillance solutions for the quick service restaurant industry. Gemini Investors also participated in the investment. The funds will be [...]

Answers Corp. Announces Exercise by Redpoint Ventures of $7 Million Second Tranche Warrant

NEW YORK, June 11, 2009– Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW), creators of the leading answer engine offering Answers.com® and WikiAnswers.com™, today announced the exercise of the second tranche warrant, issued by the Company in connection with its June 2008 financing, by Redpoint Ventures, a Menlo Park, CA, based venture capital firm specializing in early stage and [...]

Alios BioPharma, Inc. Closes $32 Million Series A Financing

Company to Develop a Portfolio of Novel Antiviral Agents
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 11, 2009– Alios BioPharma, Inc. announced today that it has closed its $32 million Series A preferred stock financing with $8 million from new investor SR One, the corporate venture fund of GlaxoSmithKline. The first closing was completed in December 2008, led [...]