Biopharmaceutical firm Verastem Inc. climbed in early trading after boosting the size of its deal.

The company's stock opened at $11 a... read more

PowerVision, which is developing intraocular lenses that can change shape in order to focus, added $4 million over the summer to its Series C... read more

Two projects aim to harness renewable energy using cutting-edge technology and engineering. AltaRock's Susan Petty discusses plans to turn hot... read more

PowerVision Inc. sold equity to raise $12.5 million, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from... read more

Zeltiq Aesthetics CEO Gordie Nye appeared on Tuesday's "Mad Money."

The executive told Cramer about his company's FDA approved... read more

ActiFio, a stealth-mode startup based in Weston, MA, has collected $4 million of a planned $8 million equity financing round, according to... read more

Hydra Biosciences Inc. and Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: CBST) said they plan to start a Phase 1 clinical trial for an experimental pain... read more

Water innovation has been picking up steam with investors for nearly a decade, but some still refer to the field as the biggest energy problem no... read more

In a survey of venture capitalists and CEOs, 58% predict reduced investment.
 
The biopharma IPO market is showing some signs of... read more

Unlike 2010, which ended with a liquidity pop for venture investors, 2011 fizzled away with acquisitions tumbling and fewer than a dozen IPOs in... read more

We brought you some predictions about the smart grid market in 2012, but what are some of the startups you should be keeping an eye on next year?... read more

Bill Roe, CEO, Coskata
Moving up to #44 this year after filing its $100M IPO, Coskata is moving towards commercialization in Alabama, and is... read more

The market for biopharma IPOs this year has hardly restored to its mid-2000s heyday. Investors continue to shun trading in many life science... read more

As 2011 comes to a close, we asked several venture capital investors to reflect on the past year and give us their outlook for 2012. Continuing... read more

Cambridge, Mass.-based Acceleron Pharma Inc. has raised $30 million in financing. The company said that strategic partner Celgene contributed to... read more

Here’s one more reason that retail sales indicate we are leaving the recession behind. ChannelAdvisor, a global e-commerce software provider... read more

Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc. said it has increased its Series A round to $47.6 million and given itself the ability to advance treatments for... read more

Whether you purchase a toaster oven, execute a stock trade, or hire someone, you probably have never thought about how many digital records are... read more

To make the most of solar wind power, utilities need an affordable way to store energy for later use.  Aquion of Pittsburgh says it has... read more

When you purchase a toaster oven, execute a stock trade, or hire someone new for your department, you've probably never thought about how many... read more

It's time for the IN VIVO Blog's Fourth Annual Deal of the Year! competition. This year we're once again presenting awards in three categories to... read more

Success in biotech often requires flexibility--a willingness to move to new jobs, new cities, and sometimes new professions. For Susan Molineaux,... read more

It’s Cyber Monday and servers are humming as shoppers head to their PCs, tablets and smartphones to find the best deals available. At... read more

Deep Discounts, Early Openings Pay Off
Retailers were cheered that their mix of deep discounts, early openings and website... read more

Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. has surpassed $300 million in venture funding with the closing of an $89 million Series D round that will fund the... read more

As chief financial officer at Host Analytics Inc., Kelly Battles is the top finance person at a rapidly growing company that makes decision-making... read more

Online tools let you get going fast and pay as you go, two factors that appeal especially to SMBs. From productivity to analytics, these 10 apps... read more

Beginning today, Android mobile device owners from across the globe will be able to rent, purchase and play games for free through... read more

When Mitch Levinson was a boy growing up in Sacramento, he enjoyed learning about everything.

"I had trouble focusing on any one thing,"... read more

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is putting the spotlight on the emerging health and fitness market during its annual Fall Forum, which... read more

As the new Hot 50 looms, we look at how much hotter, colder the current Hot 50 have been this year. Who will stay on the island, who is waiting in... read more

Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. has struck a deal worth up to $553.5 million with Biogen Idec Inc. to help fund its plan to push its lead... read more

After Jill Milne and Michael Jirousek left their positions at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals in 2008, they decided to pursue a titillating but still... read more

The initial public offering of Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. Wednesday indicated that investors might be willing to take a chance on new U.S. stocks... read more

* Zeltiq shares jump as much as 26 pct
* Co could see profit in near future - analyst
* Zeltiq, Ubiquiti successes to draw back... read more

In Pennsylvania, Coskata this week marked 15,000 run hours of operation, using wood biomass and municipal solid waste, at their cellulosic ethanol... read more

Experts Predict Ten Emerging Technologies that will Shape Health Care Next Year

From wearable bionic devices to a concussion management... read more

T-Mobile USA announced that the WildTangent Games service is now live, offering subscribers with Android devices the option to buy or rent mobile... read more

Moving into enterprise video communications, on-demand disk publisher Rimage has agreed to acquire Qumu for $52 million in cash and stock.read more

Cambridge biotech startup Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc. has begun a Phase 1 clinical trial of CAT-1004, the company’s lead product... read more

The distributed object file system virtualizes the core primitives of data management -- copy, store, move and restore -- and enables instant... read more

The IPO market might be looking a little frosty, but the M&A market so far this year has been positive enough to warm VCs’... read more

Actifio Reexamines Data Protection, Disaster Recovery

Appliance reduces the amount of data stored, eliminates backup... read more

A gadget that could free millions of women from a painful condition could soon be in widespread use.

It seeks out and zaps fibroids... read more

A Pittsburgh company says its battery has the long life and cheap cost needed to be practical for energy storage.

Utilities need cheap,... read more

TranS1's public offering rounds up $18.3 of a hoped-for $20 million funding round.

Lumbar spine surgery company TranS1 Inc. (NSDQ:TSON)... read more

Venture capital investors and the companies they support closely watch what’s happening at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency... read more

Earlier this year, Lexington, MA-based GI Dynamics faced a challenge that’s all too common these days in life sciences: It needed to raise... read more

Acceleron Pharma Inc., a Cambridge-based biomedical company, said it has launched a Phase 1 clinical trial of its ACE-536 anemia treatment... read more

Acme Packet is featured at #25 on Fortune's list of fastest growing companies.  This list, which represents all industries, is... read more

Valeritas Inc., a Bridgewater, N.J.-based developer of drug delivery systems for the diabetes market, has raised $150 million in Series C... read more

Advanced Technology Ventures said Tuesday that it had backed four new companies: Aquion, a developer of battery and energy storage systems, which... read more

Aquion Energy, a developer of nontoxic batteries, announced today it has raised $30 million in venture capital funding.

Investors in this... read more

GI Dynamics Inc. has raised 80 million Australian dollars ($84.2 million) by going public in Australia as it prepares to expand the international... read more

Peter Hirth is showing the pharmaceutical industry a nimbler way to come up with breakthrough medicines.

When K. Peter Hirth had his first... read more

Investors say the FDA's approval process of medical devices is inefficient and opaque. The maker of a non-invasive device that's proven to... read more

Warrensville, Ill.-based Coskata raised $20 million of a targeted $40 million round, according to a regulatory filing. Providing the first tranche... read more

--Zelboraf Improves Survival in Patients With BRAFV600E Mutation-Positive Metastatic Melanoma, a Deadly Form of Skin Cancer--

Plexxikon... read more

Venture capitalists are taking exception to recent comments by Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, who said in an Aug. 1... read more

Cedexis Inc., a player in the cloud-computing space, said it has secured $6 million in a financing that included Advanced Technology Ventures and... read more

U.S. regulators are moving quickly with Roche's (ROG.VX: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) application for targeted melanoma drug vemurafenib,... read more

Second Genome Inc., a company that has developed a platform to map the microbes in the body in a bid to further personalize medicine, says it has... read more

An implanted sleeve that looks like a giant sausage skin is being used to tackle the most common form of diabetes.

The 2ft-long device,... read more

Amgen became the biotech industry’s biggest company largely because of a drug it developed in the 1980s for treating anemia. Plenty have... read more

Biofuels Digest announced that Coskata has landed the top seed for the East Region, in its Transformative Technologies 2011 Knock-out Tournament.... read more

Cambridge, MA-based Acceleron Pharma is broadening its anemia research partnership with Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG), the Summit, NJ-based biotech... read more

While the IPO window is slowly creaking open, biopharma start-ups and their investors are likely to get a better deal from an acquisition, as the... read more

Renewable chemicals developer Genomatica took the #1 spot in the 2011-12 “30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Materials”... read more

Having received FDA approval last December, Valeritas of Bridgewater, NJ has followed up with the European CE Mark for its V-Go disposable... read more

Many cosmetic treatments performed today are surgery-free. The options are increasing.
Dr. W. Grant Stevens calls it his fire and ice room.... read more

Online game service WildTangent has rounded up a trio of game publishers to provide titles for its upcoming Android games launch, the company... read more

PowerVision Inc. said Friday medical technology company Medtronic Inc.   Medtronic Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Survey: MBA... read more

Zeltiq Aesthetics filed for a $115 million initial public stock offering Wednesday, hoping its noninvasive process to reduce love handles and... read more

Verastem Inc., a Cambridge start-up seeking to develop treatments against cancer stem cells, said today that it has raised $32 million through a... read more

Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. is planning an initial public offering of up to $115 million of its shares to raise funds for its expansion and other... read more

On July 12, San Bruno, Calif.-based business video platform provider Qumu announced new capabilities and enhancements to its product portfolio... read more

Drop-in fuels all the rage? Not smart, says Coskata CSO Rathin Datta, ethanol is the champion for biomass-based fuels.
In Washington DC later... read more

Lawmakers from the state of Minnesota, where some 400 medical technology companies are headquartered, have added to the chorus of voices claiming... read more

Last week, the one thing that was really clear after Zynga filed for an IPO was its dependence on Facebook as the primary way for... read more

This year looks a lot like last year, the latest liquidity data for venture-backed companies show, but the mood in the industry is more... read more

Corporate use of video webcasting is growing dramatically, and Qumu is planning to raise a $25 million to $40 million investment round to grab... read more

While it is common for the business community to complain that government regulators are slowing the pace of commerce, a group of venture... read more

The Food and Drug Administration has long drawn the ire of medical-technology start-ups and their investors, frustrated by a product approval... read more

Give your love handles the cold shoulder.

In our never-ending quest to be slim, human beings try just about everything, from the sensible... read more

Calisolar has become the fourth solar manufacturer to receive a federal loan guarantee offer. The company, which turns lower-grade silicon into... read more

PolyRemedy Inc., a maker of an IT-enabled system that provides customized wound care treatments, expects that the system will be used by home... read more

Health care-focused venture capitalists have long been telling anyone on Capitol Hill who will listen that problems at the Food and Drug... read more

We’ve chronicled the state of Android development and the various solutions aimed at helping the developer community squeeze more money out... read more

New cancer drugs are showing very promising results. Some say it’s the beginning of a new era in cancer treatment — and... read more

PolyRemedy, a Concord, MA- and Mountain View, CA-based healthcare startup, has secured $20 million in a new Series C funding to fuel what... read more

In September 2009, doctors told Taylor Chance she had melanoma -- a dangerous form of skin cancer that would kill her in six months. But nearly... read more

Saying that there’s a funding gap for entrepreneur-driven, potentially innovative medical technology companies isn’t news. News... read more

Medical device venture capitalists came to Washington Wednesday with a clear message: The FDA is nearly driving us out of... read more

Thoma Bravo has completed its buy of Tripwire. Financial details were not announced. Tripwire, of Portland, Ore., provides network security and... read more

Acme Packet is among the top ten in the 2011 Globe 100, the Boston Globe's annual spotlight feature on the top 100 publicly held... read more

Bariatric surgery and novel, non-surgical devices for weight loss were among the most popular topics at the 2011 Digestive Disease Week (DDW,... read more

Security and compliance firm Tripwire has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, a move that executives... read more

>> Company Description: Coskata Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company with a platform technology that enables the low-cost... read more

Silicon Valley entrepreneurship is known to celebrate bravado and success. An example is the so-called “PayPal Mafia.” It’s been... read more

Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy Tripwire, a Portland provider of audit software for businesses and government agencies. Financial terms... read more

You've heard of fat blasting and liposuction but did you know you can cool your podgy parts to get rid of that unwanted flab?

The... read more

Feature article on Altura Medical's development of a percutaneous, low-profile endovascular stent-graft for the treatment of AAAs (abdominal... read more

Aperio, the global leader in providing digital pathology solutions that improve patient care, announced today that the United States Patent and... read more

To unlock the potential of seawater, the energy used in desalination has to be reduced, argues Oasys Water.

With its rapid economic... read more

The CPV chip startup is on a bit of a roll.

Solar Junction, the compound semiconductor startup, just set an NREL-validated world-record... read more

Mike Carusi is featured on the 2011 Forbes Midas list of "Tech's Top Investors."

Healthcare investor is single-handedly... read more

Venture capitalists are struggling to steer biotechnology holdings to strong initial public offerings, a trend that undercuts their ability to... read more

GI Dynamics Inc., a Lexington medical device firm, has announced results of three studies of its EndoBarrier Gastrointestinal Liner in treating... read more

NEW YORK - Medical device maker TranS1 Inc. said Thursday it received Food and Drug Administration clearance for a spinal implant... read more

In November, the prestigious Cleveland Clinic hailed a “scar-less” weight-loss surgery as one of the top 10 medical innovations... read more

Investment is picking as sales of gene sequencing machines surge

On Feb. 28, Japanese pharmaceutical maker Daiichi Sankyo agreed to pay... read more

Fining-tuning your figure has never been this effective - or this painless.

(Feature article on CoolSculpting by... read more

A group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, angel investors, corporations and health-care providers have banded together to invest in companies... read more

The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies

Start-ups with potential for technological breakthroughs in health care, mobile communications and... read more

The former Navy diver was dismayed by how much energy it takes to desalinate seawater. So he developed a more efficient process
Floating on... read more

Plexxikon Inc., which last week said it will be sold to Daiichi Sankyo Co. for as much as $935 million, has started treating Hodgkin lymphoma... read more

The ClickToSecure cloud platform for Web application security allows users to test their sites for vulnerabilities.
 
Web... read more

Mike Carusi is having a very good year. In the last three months, the Advanced Technology Ventures GP has sold two portfolio companies –... read more

Bridgewater, NJ-based Valeritas has cleared another regulatory hurdle. The venture-backed firm said this week it has garnered FDA clearance for... read more

Alfalight Inc., a developer of high-performance laser diodes and hand-held infrared and visible laser systems, has sealed a strategic investment... read more

Plexxikon raised $67 million in venture capital on the way to discovering a potential breakthrough treatment for melanoma. Now those venture... read more

Plexxikon Inc., which raised $67 million in venture capital on the way to discovering a potential breakthrough treatment for melanoma, plans... read more

Foreign oil imports have skyrocketed from 24 percent in 1970 to over 65 percent. Domestic industries could change that, argues Coskata’s... read more

A startup says it can beat the performance of the most efficient solar cells on the market today.

A startup called Solar Junction says its... read more

Solar Junction's solar cell is like a tiny layer cake able to crank out more power per inch than most cells.

The 4-year-old company... read more

A radical new technology kills fat cells by freezing them. 

View the ABC Nightline feature segment on Zeltiq's CoolSculpting, which... read more

WildTangent believes it has found the winning formula for advertising in social games, and surprise, surprise, it goes against what others are... read more

More advertising is inevitable as social gaming increases in popularity and the number of people who are willing to pay for virtual goods... read more

New Medical Treatments Lets You Freeze Extra Fat and Tighten Your Skin

Barbara Knuth, a schoolteacher, is like a lot of women... read more

Acme Packet Inc.’s gain of 20 percent gave it the biggest increase in the Russell 2000 index. Quarterly earnings and revenue at the maker of... read more

In only a few short years, it could be fueling cars and trucks while producing 90 percent less greenhouse gas, providing energy security for the... read more

The venture financing stats from the fourth quarter of 2010 continue to trickle in. Here are the 10 biggest equity financing deals of the quarter... read more

(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday it has awarded Coskata Inc with a $250 million loan guarantee to build and operate... read more

Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental drug aimed at a particular mutation in their tumors lived longer than patients who did not... read more

Until a few years ago, Thule Group's North American division would have been considered a "classic spreadsheet-driven" company, according to Vice... read more

Good news just crossed the wire from one of the Bay Area’s emerging cancer drug developers. Berkeley, CA-based Plexxikon said its... read more

A Barometer of the Changing Face of Global Cleantech Innovation

Three ATV portfolio companies - Coskata, CaliSolar, Oasys... read more

Interventional Therapy Addresses Uncontrolled Hypertension with Renal Denervation

MINNEAPOLIS & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- January 13,... read more

 Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) has completed the purchase of California-based Ardian, a developer of catheter-based therapies for hypertension... read more

40.9 percent NREL-certified efficiency from a standard production triple-junction solar cell.

2011 could be the year that Concentrating... read more

Berkeley, CA-based Plexxikon, the developer of a novel treatment for a deadly skin cancer, said today it has exercised its right to co-promote the... read more

Acceleron Pharma, which is backed by firms including Advanced Technology Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Polaris Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and... read more

Inserts virtual images or replications of products within games

Brands are increasingly interested in getting their products into social... read more

Guest Commentary by Russell Herndon

With six world championships over the past decade, including three Super Bowls, two World Series, and... read more

A Bay Area company is hoping to transform the way doctors treat high blood pressure. Instead of medication, they hope to use heat to disable nerve... read more

New York-based online targeting company [x+1] has raised $10 million in Series B financing. Intel Capital led the round, which included... read more

The year wrapped up with a robust amount of deal activity, bringing some much-needed liquidity to U.S. venture funds.

The fourth quarter... read more

We can't live without it. Much of the world doesn't have enough. And most of what we do have, we can't use.

The "it," of course, is water... read more

Blackstone Group LP's (BX) clean-technology fund is betting that Rive Technology Inc., a start-up technology firm, can help refiners squeeze... read more

Valeritas, Inc., a medical technology company committed to the development and commercialization of innovative drug delivery solutions,... read more

Catabasis Pharmaceuticals said that it has achieved development milestones for its lead drug candidate that trigger a second tranche of $14.5... read more

ShareMicrobial fermentation is ruling the roost this year, with four of the five top companies featuring synthetic biology working off algae,... read more

Tripwire Inc. disclosed third-quarter financial performance figures showing the IT security company's revenue reaching its highest level on... read more

CoolSculpting by Zeltiq was featured on WHDH Channel 7 News.   The segment, which featured a patient demonstation and clinical... read more

Medtronic Inc. (MDT) said Monday it will acquire Ardian Inc., a private company that makes a catheter-based tool for treating severe cases of high... read more

Wash. PRNewswire -- WildTangent and interactive entertainment company Ludia today announced an exclusive deal that will result in the deployment... read more

New treatment may be a way to control hypertension when drugs don't work.

A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood... read more

Venture capitalists often say the best start-ups are funded during recessions because these companies know how to keep operations lean and... read more

Calisolar Inc. CEO Sandra Beach Lin has been on the job for more than two months, but the goal is clear — lead the company from startup to... read more

* Confirmed response seen in 52 pct of patients

* 3 patients with complete response, 66 with partial

* Median progression-free... read more

Acceleron Pharma has received grants for five projects under the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project (QTDP) program, enacted as part of the... read more

The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a... read more

WildTangent, which distributes casual games on the majority of PCs shipped in the U.S., has inked a pact with CrowdStar, one of the largest... read more

It’s now possible to freeze your fat away. A non-invasive, non-surgical procedure called Zeltiq kills off fat cells by exposing them to very... read more

TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Suntech Power Holdings Co. (STP) has signed a letter of intent with Calisolar Inc. to build a solar silicon manufacturing... read more

For EndoGastric Solutions, the road to a billion-dollar market runs through an unlikely place: the patient’s mouth.

The Redwood... read more

Software that can spot leaks, improved recycling—and other innovations to keep things flowing

Can technology solve the... read more

The Top 100 People in Bioenergy poll results announced

by Jim Lane, BiofuelsDigest.com

In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom... read more

PowerVision Lens Inc., which is developing a new type of accommodating intraocular lens, is gearing up to begin European clinical trials... read more

Netezza Corp. this week became the latest in a wave of billion-dollar-plus data storage company acquisitions, selling to IBM Corp. for $1.7... read more

Acceleron Pharma is in an enviable position among its biotech peers. Instead of relying on venture capital in a time when the VC well has been... read more

$273 million deal creates major player across all part of content delivery chain

Transmission and compression vendor... read more

In the red-hot market for new data storage technology, ActiFio Inc. has a handful of big-name customers and a CEO and founder who has done this... read more

Growing up in California’s rural Central Valley, the two cousins spent summers racing dirt bikes and Christmases at their... read more

New Treatment Freezes Unwanted Fat Cells, Doctors Say It Won't Replace Diet and Exercise

If you can't diet or exercise it off, you can now... read more

Welcome to the eighth annual Fierce 15, FierceBiotech's snapshot of 15 up-and-coming private companies that are swinging for the bleachers in the... read more

Two medical procedures tout the ability to rid the body of fat without the need for surgery. Here's an overview of how they work.

With... read more

NBC Nightly News story on treating advanced melanoma with Plexxikon's PLX4032.  Video: read more

EndoGastric Solutions (Redwood City, California), a player in the emerging field of natural orifice surgery (NOS), said that Canaan Partners and... read more

Calisolar raised $10 million in new funding, according to a regulatory filing with the SEC.  Calisolar builds multi-crystalline silicon solar... read more

Zeltiq wins Food & Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its CoolSculpting fat-cell-killing device that reduces love handles and other... read more

Irish drugmaker Shire PLC will pay $45 million upfront to Acceleron Pharma Inc. to codevelop and market some potential treatments for muscular and... read more

Genetically tailored approach could slow disease progress.
 
Patients with advanced melanoma rarely live for more than a year after... read more

Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its partner Novartis AG will begin final-stage testing of the experimental blood thinner... read more

Five Prime Therapeutics is one of those companies built on the old school biotech business model. Take a cutting-edge scientific concept, mix in... read more

Drug reduced tumors in 80 percent of patients, study says, but effect may be fleeting

BOSTON — An experimental targeted cancer drug... read more

Acceleron Pharma Inc. has won financial incentives and enhanced protection from generic competition, for its drug candidate to treat... read more

Calisolar Inc. on Thursday named Sandra Beach Lin CEO.

The Sunnyvale company -- which makes solar silicon, wafers and cells -- said the... read more

You may not know a company called [x+1] Inc., but it may well know a lot about you.

From a single click on a web site, [x+1] correctly... read more

Acceleron Pharma Inc., a privately held Cambridge biopharmaceutical company, said it has been granted fast-track designation for a potential... read more

NEW YORK - Privately held drug developer Five Prime Therapeutics Inc. said Tuesday it entered a partnership with GlaxoSmithKline PLC that... read more

Big ideas, meet Susan Molineaux.

After leading Proteolix Inc. from inception through mid-stage development of a potential blockbuster... read more

San Diego-based Illumina has acquired an intriguing startup from southern California with a vision of putting low-cost genetic analysis systems on... read more

Onyx Pharmaceuticals' liver and kidney cancer drug Nexavar is closing in on a billion dollars in sales. But to succeed as a stand-alone biotech... read more

Casual gaming network WildTangent announced WildTangent Games, a new online service and application that features social games and premium flash... read more

Calisolar, maker of cheaper, high-efficiency solar cells, has raised a fresh $15 million to get it closer to its goal of producing more than... read more

Calithera Biosciences, a South San Francisco-based developer of oncology therapeutics, has raised $40 million in Series A funding. Morgenthaler... read more

Packet Design, the pioneer and leader in the field of route analytics solutions for managing large IP networks, today announced that it has been... read more

Cambridge biopharmaceutical Acceleron Pharma Inc. has raised $8.4 million of a planned $11.5 million securities offering, according to a... read more

Host Analytics, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of on-demand corporate performance management solutions, has raised $15 million in Series C... read more

California-based Altura Medical has rounded up $20 million in Series A financing. The early-stage manufacturer is developing devices and methods... read more

Zeltiq Inc. said it has snapped up $25 million in Series D financing to ramp up sales of a system that helps consumers lose their love handles... read more

Computerized pathology slides may help doctors make faster and more accurate diagnoses

In the late 1990s Dirk G. Soenksen imagined a new... read more

JMP securities recently named ChannelAdvisor as one of the ‘100 Best Privately Held Internet Companies.'

Coskata, which develops technology to produce biofuels and other biochemicals, said it has closed a round of equity financing including an... read more

Just days after raising its first tranche, Cambridge, MA-based Catabasis Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has completed a $39.6... read more

By RACHEL METZ 

SAN FRANCISCO — Venture capitalists invested more money in U.S. startups during the first three months of... read more

CBS News -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attended a Tuesday morning ribbon-cutting ceremony at a Sunnyvale solar cell company, where he highlighted... read more

SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - Startups focused on treatments for metabolic disorders - one of the key contributing factors in obesity -... read more

As the CTO and VP of Engineering at Cenzic, Lars Ewe has a broad background in (web) application development and security.
In this... read more

Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) Thursday said it may launch up to ten new drugs over the next few years that could become blockbusters, adding more clout... read more

Returning investors have given solar cell developer Solar Junction Inc. a $13.3 million Series C round as the company prepares to... read more

Redmond game company WildTangent is pushing its "BrandBoost" ad platform into social gaming starting with Facebook hit "Tiki Farm," where players... read more

Portola Pharmaceuticals and Acceleron Pharma are featured in the Wall Street Journal's Next Big Thing Report: The Top 50 Venture-backed... read more

To date, online games — from Facebook games to massively multiplayer online games — have been monetized not through ad revenue but... read more

WildTangent, which has built a sizable footprint in the casual game space, is making a push into the exploding world of social games with the... read more

You’ve probably heard that the New York Times is planning to put up a pay wall next year that will shut off its content to all but paying... read more

By AMY HARMON
ORLANDO, Fla. — On a sunny afternoon last June, Dr. Keith Flaherty stood before a large room packed with oncologists from... read more

To select the 50 most innovative companies in the world, the editors of Technology Review looked for those that over the last year have... read more

By Ian King

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, and a group of 24 venture-capital companies will... read more

By AMY HARMON
For the melanoma patients who signed on to try a drug known as PLX4032, the clinical trial was a last resort. Their bodies were... read more

By AMY HARMON
PHILADELPHIA — His patient, a spunky Italian-American woman in her 60s, was waiting in an exam room down the hall for the... read more

Calisolar, maker of high-efficiency solar cells made out of cheaper, scrap silicon, has brought in $23.5 million in new equity, according to a... read more