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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, September 1, 2010
Tech across New England
Funding sample of New England technology companies
By Mass High Tech staff
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New England technology companies attract investment in a wide variety of companies during a typical week. Here’s a sample of what showed up in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission “Reg D” filings in mid-August.
GT Solar International Inc.
Merrimack, N.H.
$33 million
Investors include: Not named
Technology: The company develops photovoltaic manufacturing systems.
SilverRail Technologies Inc.
(formerly Anorak Corp.)
Boston and London
$9.6 million (amended Reg D)
Investors include: GrandBanks Capital, PAR Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures
Technology: The company has built a ticketing system designed to integrate the high-speed rail systems criss-crossing Europe.
Avantra Biosciences Corp.
Woburn
$7 million
Investors include: Not named
Technology: Avantra is working on protein biomarker analysis products originally developed by Decision Biomarkers.
Vanu Inc.
Cambridge
$5.2 million
Investors (current or previous) include: Norwest Venture Partners, Tata Capital and Charles River Ventures
Technology: The company offers a software radio to provide RF and cellular coverage over broad or rural areas.
MedNetworks Inc.
Newton
$5 million
Investors include: Excel Venture Management
Technology: Startup provides technology for analyzing real-life social networks of doctors and patients and mapping out “patterns of influence.”
Exogenesis Corp.
Billerica
$4.6 million
Investors (current or previous) include: Inflection Point Ventures, Venture Capital Fund of New England and JDS Uniphase Corp., and individual backers
Technology: The company uses gas cluster ion beam technology to process implantable medical devices.
Myriant Technologies LLC
Quincy
$3 million
Investors (current or previous) include: Camulos Capital LP and Clear Creek Capital LLC
Technology: The company is working on production of bio-based chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
TransEngen Inc.
Norwalk, Conn.
$2.5 million
Investors (current or previous) include: Lemhi Ventures and Carlson Capital LP
Technology: Company develops software systems for healthcare payments.
Basho Technologies Inc.
Cambridge
$2.5 million
Investors include: Friends, family and angels
Technology: Basho offers a high-availability database management system.
Axis Semiconductor Inc.
Marlborough
$1 million
Investors (current or previous) include: Analog Devices founder Ray Stata and Bob Carson of NorthStar Advisors LLC
Technology: Company website says it has technology to increase the efficiency of signal and data processing by orders of magnitude over existing solutions.
Twinstrata Inc.
Natick
$1 million
Investors include: Avalon Ventures
Technology: TwinStrata offers purpose-built architecture and software solutions to enable intelligent storage clouds.
StartDate Labs Inc.
Meridian, N.H.
$750,000
Investors include: Not named
Technology: The company reports that it is building out “game changing technologies” focused on improving job searches.
Marginize Inc.
Boston
$650,000
Investors include: Longworth Venture Partners, Atlas Ventures, and angel investors David Cohen (founder of the Techstars incubator) and Dharmesh Shah (co-founder of Hubspot Inc.)
Technology: Social media technology that grabs Twitter posts about a web page and displays them on the original page.
Unacuna LLC
Belmont
$500,000
Investors include: Not named
Technology: Unspecified technology, believed to relate to pediatrics.
Urban Interactions Inc.
Cambridge
$455,000
Investors include: Not named
Technology: GigBin is an online listing that addresses peoples’ needs for fast, personalized and reliable matching of service seekers and providers.
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