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Dealflow summary for 11/7/2014:  61 deals  /  172.5 million

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faceplusplus.com

China

Industry: Scientific, Engineering Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

Face++ is a new vision platform built by Megvii aiming at providing compact, powerful, and cross-platform vision service. Face++ uses the cutting-edge technology of computer vision and data mining to provide 3 core vision services (Detection, Recognition, and Analysis). With the service and huge database of celebrity from Face++, the developers can apply the face technology into their own website, mobile apps, and smart TVs, increasing incredible user experience.

Amt: 22.00M

Round: Series B

Investor(s)

QiMing Venture Partners, Innovation Works (China)

Vicarious Systems

vicarious.com

Union City, California

Industry: Scientific, Engineering Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

Vicarious is an artificial intelligence research company that uses the computational principles of the brain to build software designed to think and learn like a human. Leveraging a new computational paradigm called the Recursive Cortical Network, the company has developed a visual perception system that interprets the contents of photographs and videos in a manner similar to humans. The research at Vicarious is expected to have applications for robotics, medical image analysis, image and video search, and many other fields.

Amt: 12.00M

Round: Series B

Investor(s)

ABB Technology Ventures

Showpad

showpad.com

Belgium

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Customer Relationship Management

Showpad is a mobile sales enablement application that improves sales effectiveness of any company with a sales team. Showpad's cloud platform hosts sales content uploaded by sales staff and administrators, which can then be accessed via the corresponding iPad software.

Amt: 8.50M

Round: Series B

Investor(s)

Dawn Capital, Hummingbird Ventures

Shippable

shippable.com

Seattle, Washington

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics

Shippable is a containerized continuous delivery platform that helps companies accelerate their software development lifecycle. The SaaS platform runs on AWS and leverages Docker to bring the full power of containerization to enterprises and makes their delivery pipeline faster, more efficient, and cost effective, without needing to change anything in their current development process. Shippable is available as a hosted service and Dedicated Hosts hybrid model and is free for unlimited public and private repositories.

Amt: 8.00M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Founders Co-op, Divergent Ventures

Confluent

confluent.io

Mountain View, California

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Application & Data Integration

Confluent offers a real-time data platform built around Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka, an open source technology created by the founders of Confluent, acts as a real-time, fault tolerant, highly scalable messaging system. It is widely adopted for use cases ranging from collecting user activity data, logs, application metrics, stock ticker data, and device instrumentation. It's key strength is its ability to make high volume data available as a real-time stream for consumption in systems with very different requirements-from batch systems like Hadoop, to realtime systems that require low-latency access, to stream processing engines that transform the data streams as it arrives.

Amt: 6.90M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Benchmark Capital, LinkedIn, Data Collective

Gemr

gemr.com

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Industry: Mobile Commerce

Sub-Industry: Mobile Commerce enablement

Gemr brings together collector enthusiasts to a single community where they can buy, sell, trade or simply show off their passion for collecting. Gemr uses CrowdScore technology to provide sellers and buyers with real-time market feedback and valuation on items they post. It's currently in beta tests of its online community and mobile app with plans to launch in early 2015.

Amt: 4.93M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

James Hawkes, The NH Millworks Fund

ChartCube

chartcube.com

Burlingame, California

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Collaboration & Project Management

ChartCube is creating a new way for people to review, share and discuss data on mobile. Most of enterprise data is reviewed in Excel, shared through Excel or Powerpoint and discussed on Email. ChartCube allows business users to review data by playing with the ChartCube on small touch screensΓÇª users are able to quickly share and discuss data.

Amt: 4.00M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Shasta Ventures

YourCause

yourcause.com

Carrollton, Texas

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Customer Relationship Management

YourCause was founded with a passion to champion a personal cause and developed technology to empower individuals and companies alike with powerful online tools to connect them with their favorite nonprofits, facilitate fundraising/volunteer activities, and ultimately harness the web to make a positive impact in communities. Outside of the YourCause.com community, YourCause provides corporations of all sizes with the CSRconnect Employee Engagement Platform. CSRconnect is a fully-hosted, managed and highly customizable community tool that centralizes employee engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programs including: volunteerism, fundraising, grants, disasters and more.

Amt: 4.00M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Vocap Investment Partners

Q Factor Communications

qfcomm.com

Burlington, Massachusetts

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Application & Data Integration

Q Factor Communications focuses on practical applications in wireless technology. The company's Dynamic Packet Recovery recovers information that is lost in transmission, resulting in faster, more reliable wireless connections.Q Factor's technology is well-suited to follow the variability in signal throughput that is inherent in wireless network, and does not drive additional variability into the network.

Amt: 3.34M

Round: Series B

Investor(s)

Sigma Partners, Venrock

StratusLIVE

stratuslive.com

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Industry: Accounting & Finance Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

StratusLIVE offers low-risk fundraising software built on Microsoft technology and designed to help nonprofits: manage and grow relationships; increase fundraising results; and streamline operations. The company's core business is delivering product based software which helps nonprofits track and manage relationships and interactions, create more efficient processes, and make clear, data-driven, stragetic decisions. StratusLive's solutions are designed to be customizable for each user's preferences and are delviered in Outlook, web browser or mobile devices.

Amt: 3.00M

Round: Undisclosed

Watchup

watchup.com

Menlo Park, California

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Video

Watchup is an iPad application that will help people find high-quality news videos. While identifying relevant content is often time-consuming, Watchup speeds the process with a curated playlist that aggregates news reports from a variety of networks into a simple interface.

Amt: 2.75M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Knight Foundation, The McClatchy Company, Tribune Company, StartX, Ned Lamont

Civergy

civergy.com

Englewood, Colorado

Industry: Security Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

Civergy is a national leader in smart grid technologies and cyber-security products and services to clients including U.S. Federal Government agencies, State, local and Tribal government and commercial clients.

Amt: 2.53M

Round: Convertible Note

Past Investor(s)

Mount Knowledge Holdings

Zen99

zen99.co

San Francisco, California

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Accounting & Finance

Zen99 provides free tax and insurance tools that make it simple for America's rapidly growing independent workforce to streamline tax and insurance forms, 1099 expenses and more to ensure they don't miss out on tax savings. Zen99 now offers affordable health insurance plans to qualified contractors and their families nationwide, and provides a way to manage all types of tax credits, which can substantially reduce monthly insurance premiums. Zen99 offers educational support and informative content for the freelance workforce through Zen99 University. Based in San Francisco, California, Zen99 is backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel, CrunchFund, Upside Partnership and Collaborative Fund among others.

Amt: 2.50M

Round: Seed VC

Investor(s)

Y Combinator, SV Angel, Collaborative Fund, CrunchFund, Upside Partnership

Parenthoods

parenthoods.co

San Francisco, California

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Social

Parenthoods is a local community where parents relate with each other beyond the highlight reels of smiling kids at birthday parties.

Amt: 1.32M

Round: Seed VC

Investor(s)

Paul Buchheit, Y Combinator, Oliver Jung, Lowercase Capital, 500 Startups, Slow Ventures, Justin Kan, Clara Shih, Liberty City Ventures, Eugen Miropolski, David Breger, Ole Ruch

cortical.io

cortical.io

Austria

Industry: Scientific, Engineering Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

cortical.io has developed semantic fingerprinting technology. Its Retina API (api.cortical.io) allows users to create semantic fingerprints of any piece of text, in any language. As examples, fingerprints of product descriptions in English can be compared to LinkedIn profiles in German, documents in Spanish compared to reading preferences of French readers, multi-language twitter messages filtered by their content and job profiles related to CVs.

Amt: 1.25M

Round: Seed

Royalty Exchange

royaltyexchange.com

Raleigh, North Carolina

Industry: eCommerce

Sub-Industry: Marketplace

The Royalty Exchange (TRE) started after identifying the need to create a centralized online platform for royalty owners seeking liquidity and buyers seeking alternative assets. The exchange is open to all types of royalty streams including music, film, TV, books, solar energy, pharmaceutical, intellectual property, oil/gas and more.

Amt: 1.20M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Grotech Ventures, IDEA Fund Partners

Convercent

convercent.com

Denver, Colorado

Industry: Compliance

Sub-Industry: N/A

Convercent brings culture and compliance together in an integrated cloud application so that companies can promote the good and manage the bad in an intelligent and productive way. Companies rely on Convercent to systematically align corporate values with individual behavior to create thriving, productive and compliant cultures of engaged, high-performing employees.

Amt: 1.00M

Round: Convertible Note

Past Investor(s)

City National Bank, Rho Capital Partners, Mantucket Capital, Azure Capital Partners, Sapphire Ventures

MotiveFlow

motiveflow.com

Fort Worth, Texas

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Retail & Inventory

Motiveflow is a Fort Worth technology startup developing a web technology platform that will lead the automotive dealership industry into serving the new consumer paradigm.

Amt: 1.00M

Round: Undisclosed

Platinum Data Solutions

platinumdatasolutions.com

Aliso Viejo, California

Industry: Accounting & Finance Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

Platinum Data is a provider of technologies that have answered the need for faster, more accurate, more comprehensive, more efficient and more intuitive collateral valuation and risk assessment. Platinum has specialized in creating sophisticated, dynamic and automated solutions that maximize data reliability and operational efficiency and minimize time and cost spent on outdated methods. The company's RealView is a component-based business-rules engine that has automated and simplified the appraisal verification process. Collateral Expert and Collateral Expert Retro provide extensive risk assessment and analysis and fraud detection for better lending decisions, and its 18 premier Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) bring transparency and objectivity to the valuation process.

Amt: 0.90M

Round: Undisclosed

Meekan

meekan.com

Israel

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Collaboration & Project Management

Meekan is the best way to schedule meetings for individuals and teams no matter which calendar is used. Meekan removes all friction from calendars, saving time and money. The platform helps schedule and shift meetings to optimize agenda, maximizing effectiveness and minimizing commute ΓÇô all in a smart and seamless way.

Amt: 0.87M

Round: Seed VC

Investor(s)

Horizons Ventures

Odysee

odysee.com

San Francisco, California

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Storage & Systems Management

Odysee is a storage agnostic technology platform for videos and photos that lets users easily archive, access, and share them. Available now for iOS, Odysee is designed for people who take tons of photos and videos and need easy archiving and sharing using any storage they choose. Odysee's technology brings high availability and performance to content on personal storage.

Amt: 0.75M

Round: Angel

CloudScreener

cloudscreener.com

France

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Information Providers & Portals

CloudScreener offers cloud computing comparison and evaluation services. 100% neutral and transparent: CloudScreener.com does not have any link with compared cloud computing providers and commit to never single out one. Offers are compared with measurement tools developed by CloudScreener.com and results are presented in an impartial way.

Amt: 0.74M

Round: Angel

HashCube Technologies

hashcube.com

India

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Gaming

HashCube is a creator of casual games on the social web that aim to improve logical thinking, concentration and memory. The company offers games on Facebook, Myspace, and Orkut. HashCube makes puzzle games such as Sudoku Battle and Sudoku Quest on social networking sites and mobile platforms.

Amt: 0.68M

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Indian Angel Network, Blume Ventures, Nazara Technologies, ah! Ventures, Perry LaForge

POPxo

popxo.com

United Kingdom

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: News & Discussion

POPxo is a content+e-commerce concept that curates style inspiration for South-Asian women across domains of fashion, food, culture, beauty, health, fitness and philanthropy. POPxo delivers the best in fashion and lifestyle from around the world. The company covers fashion, food and drink, travel and culture, beauty and health.

Amt: 0.48M

Round: Angel

Investor(s)

Hussein Kanji, Rajan Anandan, Chennai Angels

nVoq

nvoq.com

Boulder, Colorado

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Scientific, Engineering

nVoq is a privately held software company based in Boulder, Colorado. nVoq's main product is SayIt, a speech-to-text solution designed to improve workflow. SayIt is a hosted service built on the Microsoft Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI). SayIt is used across the U.S. by a variety of customers including major communications companies and health care organizations.

Amt: 0.46M

Round: Undisclosed

Past Investor(s)

StartingPoint Venture Partners

LumaStream

lumastream.com

Saint Petersburg, Florida

Industry: Electronic Components

Sub-Industry: Lighting & LED

LumaStream designs, builds, and installs custom LED fixtures for restaurants, retail displays, stages, hotels, landscapes, and residential architectural applications. The company's systems feature the LumaStream Intelligent Lighting System and a broad array of compatible LumaStream approved fixtures and controls.

Amt: 0.41M

Round: Undisclosed

HearHere Radio

rivetnewsradio.com

Chicago, Illinois

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: News & Discussion

HedarHereRadio, dba Rivet News Radio, delivers personalized audio news to smartphones. The company brings a mix of local, national, and world news based on interests and listening history.

Amt: 0.38M

Round: Angel

Investor(s)

IrishAngels

PBworks

pbworks.com

San Mateo, California

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Website hosting

PBworks, formerly PBwiki, provides highly vertical solutions that help businesses work more efficiently and effectively. The company's products serve markets such as advertising and marketing agencies, law firms, and education, as well as the broader business market. Millions use PBworks each month for partner/client collaboration, new business development, project management, social intranets, and knowledge management. Notable customers include Landor Associates, CMS Legal, and ESPN.

Amt: 0.36M

Round: Convertible Note

Past Investor(s)

Ron Conway, Chris Yeh, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Seraph Group

ExpressPigeon

expresspigeon.com

Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Email

ExpressPigeon is an intelligent yet simple email marketing program. Create beautiful email newsletters in a snap and present message to audiences in a personalized way.

Amt: 0.35M

Round: Seed

Investor(s)

Incrementum Capital Partners

Switchmate

myswitchmate.com

Pleasanton, California

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Green/Environmental

Switchmate is the simplest way to automate home lighting. Snap it on to a light switch and control lights from a phone. Use Switchmate to wake yourself up in the morning, turn the lights off without leaving the bed, and set timers to save energy.

Amt: 0.35M

Round: Undisclosed

UpCity

upcity.com

Chicago, Illinois

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Domain & SEO Services

UpCity, formerly DIYSEO, is a robust SEO Software and education platform that gives users reporting and insights and a step-by-step plan to guide to internet marketing success. UpCity is powered by the Pathway platform. Pathway assesses the online visibility of businesses, and provides a simple, step-by-step process to raise online visibility through search engine optimization, reputation management, blogging, and local listings optimization.

Amt: 0.30M

Round: Angel

Investor(s)

IrishAngels

Content Checked

contentchecked.com

Santa Monica, California

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Information Providers & Portals

Content Checked is a one touch mobile shopping assistant for people living with food allergies and intolerances. Users can tailor food preferences on a personal profile, scan a product's bar code and immediately find out if it's safe to purchase. If not approved the company's advanced technology further aids users by suggesting alternatives they can eat with specified allergies or intolerances.

Amt: 0.25M

Round: Convertible Note

Graphenix Development

graphenedev.com

Buffalo, New York

Industry: Electrical Product Distribution

Sub-Industry: Power Generation & Storage

Graphenix Development, formerly Graphene Devices, develops commercial-scale production processes for advanced graphene-based energy storage, photovoltaic, conductive ink, and composites for game changing applications.

Amt: 0.23M

Round: Undisclosed

ScoreMore

Barrington, Illinois

Industry: Stealth Mode

Sub-Industry: N/A

ScoreMore is a stealth company offering mobile fan engagement solutions.

Amt: 0.10M

Round: Undisclosed

Hurdle

hrdl.io

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Industry: eCommerce

Sub-Industry: Events & Ticketing

Hurdle operates a platform that makes it easy to self-manage, promote and monetize endurance race events.

Amt: 0.05M

Round: Debt

Kinems

kinems.com

Boston, Massachusetts

Industry: Education & Training Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

Kinems aims to make special education engaging by proposing innovative games designed based on well proven educational practices using just the Microsoft Kinect camera. The company offers games that can be easily adapted by the teacher, health care professional and parent to the individual needs of each child.

Amt: 0.05M

Round: Debt

reView30

reviewdeos.com

Tampa, Florida

Industry: Mobile Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Information Providers & Portals

reView30, dba reViewdeos, exists to help people find better products and services, and to help companies provide better products and services. reViewdeos facilitates the essential discussion between customers and vendors to improve the customer experience.

Amt: 0.03M

Round: Undisclosed

Cognitive Code

cognitivecode.com

Sherman Oaks, California

Industry: Scientific, Engineering Software

Sub-Industry: N/A

Cognitive Code Corporation is a privately-held company specializing in the development and deployment of practical conversational artificial intelligence systems, based on their proprietary patented SILVIA technologies. SILVIA is a complete system for the development and deployment of intelligent applications to almost any computing platform or operating system, with a technological core that allows humans to interact with computers in completely natural and intuitive ways.

Amt:

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

Channel Mark Ventures

HarukaEdu

harukaedu.com

Indonesia

Industry: Internet Software & Services

Sub-Industry: Education & Training

HarukaEdu provides a turn-key solution to enable universities to offer quality online education with minimum investments and risk. The company's vision is to provide a brighter future for Indonesians through affordable, quality online degrees and education.

Amt:

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

CyberAgent Ventures

Healthcare Deals        La Lumiere

illumask.com

Bedford, Ohio

Industry: Elective & Aesthetic Medicine

Sub-Industry: N/A

La Lumiere is a skin care device company whose mission is to democratize advanced skin care technologies for home use. It has developed a proprietary line of light based phototherapy devices for the personal care market under the brand illuMask.

Amt: 20.00M

Round: Private Equity

Investor(s)

SWaN & Legend Ventures

OrthAlign

orth-align.com

Aliso Viejo, California

Industry: Medical Devices & Equipment

Sub-Industry: Surgical Devices

OrthAlign is a privately held, U.S. based, medical device company committed to providing orthopedic surgeons with user-friendly, cost-effective, precision alignment technology and products. The company's technology raises the standard of care in Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty surgeries by making consistent and measurable results accessible to all surgeons, hospitals, and patients. Its strategy is to leverage this technology to provide simple and precise alignment solutions for a broad range of orthopedic procedures.

Amt: 15.00M

Round: Series C

Investor(s)

River Cities Capital Fund, Mutual Capital Partners Fund

Trevi Therapeutics

trevitherapeutics.com

New Haven, Connecticut

Industry: Drug Development

Sub-Industry: N/A

Trevi Therapeutics is a development-stage biotechnology company focused on developing Nalbuphine ER for chronic pruritus (itch). Pruritus develops in various dermatologic, metabolic, hematologic and neuropathic conditions. The Company is pursuing two conditions for clinical development: uremic pruritus and prurigo nodularis. Uremic pruritus is a persistent and debilitating itch in patients on dialysis that has been associated with increased mortality. Prurigo nodularis is a chronic dermatologic condition characterized by severely pruritic nodules on the skin that are independent of underlying etiology. There are no approved therapies in the US or EU for either condition.

Amt: 11.00M

Round: Series B

Past Investor(s)

TPG Biotech

Stroma Medical Corp

stromamedical.com

Laguna Beach, California

Industry: Elective & Aesthetic Medicine

Sub-Industry: N/A

Str┼ìma Medical Corporation is a late-stage research and development company located in Laguna Beach, CA. The company has developed and patented a non-invasive procedure to change eye color from brown to blue. It is Stroma's intent that the procedure will be performed in the doctor's office with only a topical anesthetic and will take less than 20 seconds to complete. The permanent eye color change will occur gradually over the following two to four weeks and its clinical studies are designed to confirm these results. The procedure is suitable for people of all races and nationalities.

Amt: 3.37M

Round: Debt

Prostate Management Diagnostics

St. Louis, Missouri

Industry: Disease Diagnosis

Sub-Industry: N/A

Prostate Management Diagnostics is commercializing breakthrough discovery research being conducted by The Genome Institute (TGI) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSM). The company is developing a test to differentiate between indolent and aggressive disease in patients newly diagnosed with early stage disease. Of the nearly 200,000 men diagnosed in the US each year, approximately 90% receive some form of invasive treatment when almost 80% do not require such an intervention. A second assay will be developed to monitor patients diagnosed with indolent disease to determine if they are at risk of conversion to a more aggressive form. A final goal will be to develop a simple fluid-based screening tool to identify at-risk men who have no prior symptoms or diagnoses of prostate cancer.

Amt: 1.06M

Round: Series A

Biogened

biogened.pl

Poland

Industry: Drug Manufacturing

Sub-Industry: N/A

Biogened features a holistic approach to human being, health and beauty. In cooperation with doctors, innovative products and cosmetics for dermatology are being developed and launched, and also properly formulated dietary supplements which function is to balance the shortages of vitamins, minerals and nutritious ingredients in every day diet.

Amt: 0.88M

Round: Debt

Investor(s)

Bank Zachodni

Axxess Compounding

Pacific Palisades, California

Industry: Pharmaceuticals / Drugs

Sub-Industry: N/A

Axxess Compounding is a stealth pharmaceutical company.

Amt: 0.36M

Round: Undisclosed

Convalo Health International

convalohealth.com

Vancouver, British Columbia

Industry: Medical Facilities & Services

Sub-Industry: N/A

Convalo Health International aims to develop luxury outpatient addiction treatment centers.

Amt: 0.22M

Round: Undisclosed

iSense CGM

isensecgm.com

Wilsonville, Oregon

Industry: Medical Devices & Equipment

Sub-Industry: Patient Monitoring

iSense is a development stage company dedicated to the development and manufacture of a minimally-invasive continuous glucose monitor. Over the past thirteen years, iSense has built a portfolio of intellectual property through a combination of licensing agreements, partnerships and self-funded research. This has included the development of an advanced polymer membrane, a highly flexible miniature biosensor, and a unique automated manufacturing process.

Amt: 0.05M

Round: Undisclosed

Energy Deals        Pacific Hunt Energy

pacifichuntenergy.com

Singapore

Industry: Oil & Gas Production & Exploration

Sub-Industry: N/A

Pacific Hunt Energy is an integrated exploration and production (E&P) company with drilling and technological capabilities targeting the Pacific Rim region. The company maximizes value for shareholders through inΓÇÉhouse exploration, the pursuit of farmΓÇÉin opportunities, field development and the commercialization of gas processing technologies. Pacific Hunt focuses on acquiring and developing low marginal cost assets and its experienced management team brings with them the wealth of industry experience, the access, resources and the tools to be successful in the exploration, development and production activities.

Amt: 0.54M

Round: Debt

Electrochaea

electrochaea.com

Denmark

Industry: Energy Storage

Sub-Industry: N/A

Electrochaea is developing a disruptive grid-scale energy storage technology known as power-to-gas. The company's process converts low-cost and stranded electricity into pipeline-grade renewable gas for direct injection into the existing natural gas grid. The core of its power-to-gas system is a selectively evolved microorganism - a methanogenic archaea - that excels through unprecedented catalytic ability and industrial robustness. The technical advantages of our solution translate into lower capital and operating costs and greater operational flexibility than conventional thermochemical methanation processes.

Amt:

Round: Series A

Investor(s)

b-to-v, Sirius Venture Partners, Munich Venture Partners

Other Deals        North American Membership Group

scout.com

New York, New York

Industry: Publishing

Sub-Industry: N/A

North American Membership Group, dba SCOUT, is a digital media network focused primarily on male enthusiasts. SCOUT operates web, print and television properties in categories including NFL, college football, basketball, baseball, outdoor enthusiast sports such as hunting and fishing, as well as other enthusiast-based channels.

Amt: 10.50M

Round: Private Equity

Investor(s)

Pilot Group

Brevena Laboratories

93dashone.com

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Industry: Personal

Sub-Industry: Personal Care Products

Brevena Laboratories is the manufacturer of 93dashONE, a skin care product using oat beta-glucan.

Amt: 2.97M

Round: Undisclosed

Shoes For Crews

shoesforcrews.com

West Palm Beach, Florida

Industry: Clothing & Accessories

Sub-Industry: Footwear

Shoes For Crews has developed a unique compound to produce non-slip shoes which drastically reduces slip-and-fall accidents and has a proven track record of reducing workers' compensation claims.

Amt: 2.58M

Round: Private Equity

Investor(s)

AEA Investors

SBG Energy Services

sbgdisposal.com

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Industry: Water

Sub-Industry: N/A

SBG Energy Services is a full service water disposal company serving the Bakken and beyond. The company can fill all of Fresh Water needs with an 'unlimited' supply of Hot Water up to 150 degrees. This can eliminate heating sources while SBG delivers water quickly with its large 200 BBL trailers. The SBG Energy Services fleet can help you transport production water, fresh water and crude to one of its many disposal locations. Side dumps also available to service other needs. Additionally, the comapny can store salt and waste water until it can be properly disposed.

Amt: 1.98M

Round: Undisclosed

AquaSpy

aquaspy.com

San Diego, California

Industry: Water

Sub-Industry: N/A

AquaSpy Group, formerly Agrilink Holdings, has developed a range of next-generation water saving devices including soil moisture and weather sensors for agricultural and turf industries using technology that closely monitors water usage and weather conditions to ensure crops, turf and plants are only watered when needed.

Amt: 1.93M

Round: Debt

Past Investor(s)

Centre for Energy and Greenhouse Technologies, Gresham Rabo Management, Emerald Technology Ventures, Cultivian Ventures, Cleantech Ventures, Colonial First State Private Equity, Nanyang Ventures, WHEB Partners, Esp├¡rito Santo Ventures

Choice Pet Supply

choicepet.com

Stamford, Connecticut

Industry: Other Retail

Sub-Industry: N/A

Choice Pet Supply offers an outstanding selection of superior pet products, specializing in natural, organic and holistic foods for dogs and cats, as well as small animals. The carefully chosen products combined with a staff expertly trained to assist customers with their selections, discuss their pet's nutritional needs, and provide the information required to make the best choices for their pet's health and happiness, set Choice Pet apart from other pet suppliers. Choice Pet actively supports community rescue and animal welfare groups, and Choice Pet's Rescue Me program provides ongoing support to adoption groups and new pet parents. Currently, there are 13 Choice Pet locations in the Connecticut and New York area, and steadily expanding in the Northeast.

Amt: 1.00M

Round: Private Equity

Investor(s)

Centripetal Capital Partners

United Silicon Carbide

unitedsic.com

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey

Industry: Aerospace & Defense

Sub-Industry: N/A

United Silicon Carbide is a company that received a Department of Defense SBIR/STTR grant for a project entitled: Optically Gated, Silicon Carbide Semiconductors for Aircraft Electrical Actuator Motor Drives. The abstract given for this project is as follows: We propose an optically controlled power switch based on 4H-SiC TI-VJFETs for applications in EHA and EMA actuator motor drives for air platforms. It comprises a UV LED light source driver, an integrated gate buffer driver and a high power 4H-SiC TI- VJFETs as power switch. The UV LED light source driver includes a driver circuit and UV LED light source with a wavelength of 375nm or less. The integrated gate buffer driver includes a unipolar Darlington structure formed by two or more stages of 4H-SiC TI- VJFETs. The integrated gate buffer driver and the power switch are designed to be able to operate at temperatures up to 200C and are suitable for 600-1200V, 10-100A applications. In phase I, we propose to experimentally demonstrate a prototype of the proposed optically controlled power switch using the integrated gate buffer driver. In phase II, we propose to perform the major R&D work, fabricate and characterize multiple batches of the proposed optically controlled power switch, improve the design and push up the voltage and current of the optically-controlled switch to 1.2kV-100A, build SiC- based UV LED driver so that the entire switch can be operated at temperatures up 200C. Phase III will focus on commercialization development. BENEFIT:Anticipated benefits include a new power switch with inherent immunity to dynamic electromagnetic events, having high-reliability and harsh-environment operability, capable of high temperature operation, having improved component efficiency with reduced on-state and switching losses, and having higher frequency switching capability. A successfully developed optically controlled EHA or EMA flight surface control subsystem based on the optically- controlled switch could dramatically increase the survivability of air and other DoD platforms. An additional benefit is the possibility of reducing the volume and weight associated with conventional filters used to protect low-voltage control devices from the inherent radiated EMI associated with switching large voltages and currents. Commercial applications would include HV DC transmission, over-voltage protection systems and circuit breakers. United Silicon Carbide is a company that received a Department of Defense SBIR/STTR grant for a project entitled: High-Voltage and High-Frequency Power Switch for Next Generation Transmit Receiver Module Power Supplies. The abstract given for this project is as follows: In response to SBIR topic MDA 08-029, USCI proposes to develop a unique 4H-SiC super- junction lateral JFET (SL-JFET), based on a novel and simple design, to solve all of the remaining problems facing the development of 4H-SiC power switches for resonant high- frequency power converter in radar applications, including the problems of high output coupling capacitance of vertical SiC MOSFETs that lead to low resonant frequency and efficiency, low channel electron mobility that leads to a high specific resistance and hence low resonant switching frequency and efficiency,low gate oxide reliability under high-temperature and high electric field which lead to MOSFET gate threshold voltage drift, and a lack of reliable passivation for GaN power switches. In Phase I, we plan to design and optimize the device structure, simulate and predict the performance characteristics of the device, develop a circuit model for high frequency inverter simulations, design the layout and masks, develop the critical processing technologies needed for the device fabrication. In Phase II, we propose to fabricate multiple batches of the optimized device targeting the high-voltage and high-frequency required for the inverter, demonstrate high-frequency switching with packaged devices. We will focus on commercialization development under privately funded Phase II.

Amt: 1.00M

Round: Venture Capital

Investor(s)

GHO Ventures

Mountview Creative

mountviewfilms.com

Brentwood, Tennessee

Industry: Film & Video

Sub-Industry: N/A

Mountview Creative is a full service video production company and creative agency. Mountview Creative specializes in Design and Development of Video and Brand. Its team strives to provide truly outstanding work to our clients by bringing together a group of Innovative and Inspired professionals to craft each of its projects with the highest caliber of excellence.

Amt: 0.06M

Round: Undisclosed

Sarah Lauter

sarahlauter.com

San Francisco, California

Industry: Clothing & Accessories

Sub-Industry: Children's Clothing

Sarah Lauter is a manufacturer of unique knits for children, offering sweaters, blankets and hat sets.

Amt: 0.02M

Round: Debt

Jottnar

jottnar.com

United Kingdom

Industry: Clothing & Accessories

Sub-Industry: N/A

Jottnar manufactures premium technical clothing for skiers, climbers and mountaineers.

Amt:

Round: Angel

Solidor

solidor.co.uk

United Kingdom

Industry: Home Furnishings & Accessories

Sub-Industry: N/A

Solidor is a manufacturer of hardwood core composite doors.

Amt:

Round: Private Equity

Investor(s)

NorthEdge Capital

* Funding Amount Not Disclosed

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