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Benchmark Wagers on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million

VC Firm Benchmark Capital is betting heavily on Ruby on Rails with a Series A funding of startup Engine Yard. Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular Web application programming environment because it more...
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Alder Biopharmaceuticals Gets $40M Series C Financing

Alder Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., an antibody therapeutics startup, today announced the its Series C financing. Delphi Ventures and TPG Biotech led the $40 million round. Also participating in the round more...
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Cisco Invests in SoonR

Two year old startup, SoonR, which is based in Campbell, CA has landed a Series B funding of a nice $9.5 million by a group of investors led by Cisco which is looking to bank on the convergence of mobile more...
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JobFox Received $20 Million for Jobs Site

JobFox, which provides job seekers with the ability to seek for employment and be found by potential employers while maintaining control has raised $20 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Menlo Ventures more...
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HiWired raises $9M for technical support

HiWired, which provides technical support to both business customers and individual customers has raised money again. The $9 million round was the company’s second, led by North Hill Ventures. The investors more...
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Tesla says it will raise $40M more

Tesla Motors, the hot company making an electric sports car originally scheduled to hit the market next quarter, is now saying the first release of cars won’t have the promised performance and will actually more...
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Corthera Closes a $23 Million Financing Round

In this series C funding, new investor Caxton Advantage Life Sciences Fund, a fund focused on development-stage public and private companies in the life sciences field, joined existing top-tier investors more...
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Startup Purfresh raises $15 M to make food safer

Purfresh is the new name of Novazone, a Livermore, Calif., company that disinfects and protects water and fresh produce and which has raised $42 Million upto now is raising new funding. It was led by more...
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Juice Wireless, into mobile content sharing, gets more funding

Investment company 21Ventures led a round of funding (about $6 Million) into Juice Wireless, a company that lets you send photos, videos and other content to your social network pages from your mobile more...
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TVtrip.com gets $4.8M funding

Series A financing from Balderton Capital (the newly named London-based European team of Benchmark Capital) and Partech International has funded TVtrip.com which is an online search engine for travel in more...
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