9-18-03
Originally posted by acdwcom
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9-18-03
Fabless Chips Firm RFco Tunes In $16.5M in Series A
LOS GATOS, CALIF. -- RFco, a fabless semiconductor company developing RF ICs for the wireless market, is expected to announce it has raised $16.5 million in its Series A round. [full story]
http://www.rfcosemi.com
Cancer Biopharm Reata Discovery Raises $5.2M Series A
DALLAS -- Reata Discovery, a biopharmaceutical company that develops drugs for cancer and neurodegenerative disease, said it completed a series of exclusive patent licenses from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in addition to closing $5.2 million in Series A financing. [full story]
http://www.reatadiscovery.com
Avista Labs Fuels Up with $5M More in Series A
SPOKANE, WASH. -- Avista Labs, a provider of fuel cell products for backup power, said it has secured an additional $5 million from Enterprise Partners Venture Capital (EPVC). Avista Labs was formed in July as a private offshoot of the Avista Corp., a public energy company involved in the production, transmission, and distribution of energy [full story]
http://www.avistalabs.com
EPac Closes $12.8M Series B
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF. -- EPac Technologies, a developer of digital printing automation technology, said it closed an oversubscribed $12.8 million Series B round. [full story]
http://www.epac.com
Technologic Names Top Ten at Datacenter Ventures
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. -- Technologic Partners, the publisher of VentureWire, announced the winners of its Investors' Choice award at the conclusion of its two-day Datacenter Ventures private equity conference held this week in Redwood City, Calif. The event startups working in storage, security, and systems and server management products. The Investors' Choice award goes to the ten privately held companies presenting at the conference judged most likely to succeed. The winners, in alphabetical order, are: Azul, a Mountain View, Calif.-based early stage stealth mode startup focused on specialized data center infrastructure products (
www.azulsystems.com); Centrata, a Redwood, Calif.-based provider of XML-based software to manage computing infrastructure with a central focus on the services to be delivered from it (
www.centrata.com); CreekPath Systems, a Longmont, Colo. -based developer of storage operating support systems for large enterprises and service providers (
www.creekpath.com); Decru, a Redwood City, Calif.-based a provider of security storage appliances (
www.decru.com); [full story]
Luidia Spins Off from Electronics for Imaging and Receives Funding
SAN CARLOS, CALIF. -- Luidia, a manufacturer of products to digitize analog workplace information, said that it spun off of Electronics for Imaging (EFI), a publicly held provider of software and hardware imaging applications for network printing, and received its first round of financing. [full story]
http://www.luidia.com
AppIQ Acquires XStormTech
BURLINGTON, MASS. -- AppIQ, a provider of enterprise software that enables storage infrastructure to be managed as a utility, said it acquired XStormTech, a developer of advanced storage research management (SRM) software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. [full story]
http://www.appiq.com
http://www.xstormtech.com
Air2Lan Appoints MeshNetworks CEO Richard Licursi to Advisory Board
JACKSON, MISS. -- Air2Lan, a provider of broadband Internet access with a focus on wireless local area networks, Wi-Fi roaming services, and additional Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses, said it has appointed to its advisory board Richard Licursi, president and chief executive officer at start-up MeshNetworks, a Maitland, Fla.-based developer of ad hoc peer-to-peer wireless networking technology [full story]
http://www.meshnetworks.com
http://www.air2lan.com
Mitsubishi Adds $10M to Burrill's Life Science Capital Fund
SAN FRANCISCO -- Burrill & Company, a life sciences merchant bank, said that it raised $10 million from Mitsubishi for its Life Sciences Capital fund. [full story]
http://www.mitsubishi.co.jp
http://www.burrillandco.com