DNA data management and analysis platform, today announced that it has secured $15 million in second-round funding, led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech. Additional participants in this round of financing include institutional investors First Round Capital, SoftTech VC, K9 Ventures, and Felicis Ventures.
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Singapore based social gaming company, announced today the completion of its first round of funding of approximately $13 million from JAFCO Co., Ltd, the largest VC firm in Japan.
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Shawn Landgraf of Magnus Partners Inc and Allan Watson of NYC Trading Floor, LLC led QWiPS' funding. Investors also include several C-level digital advertising, branding and PR executives. QWiPS is the developer of a social voice platform.
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Advanced energy storage company's new round of private funding was led by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and included Vangoo Investment Partners, Idinvest Partners, Asia Clean Energy Limited and another Korean based strategic investment group. The company's existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DT Capital Partners, Northern Light Venture Capital and CEL Partners also participated in the financing.
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Online search portal that helps people find nanny's, babysitters, and other caregivers inked a $20 million round last year from investors including New Enterprise Associates, Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures.
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Provider of filtered water coolers in North America, announced that it has closed on nearly $30 million in equity and debt financing. Element Partners, Virgin Green Fund, Douglas Brown and other existing investors were joined by new backers ORIX Venture Finance, Advent-Morro Equity Partners, Potomac Energy Fund and The Pohlad Companies.
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Black Duck Software is aprovider of strategy, products, and services for enabling enterprise scale adoption of open source software. Black Duck has unnamed 13 backers in the offering.
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