Radius Adds $15M to Series C (1)
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VC, Life Sciences, Biotech Ryan McBride wrote: Radius Health, a Cambridge, MA-based developer of drugs for osteoporosis and women’s health, says it has added $15 million more to its Series C round of venture capital, which now totals $82.5 million, with investments from MPM Capital, the Wellcome Trust, HealthCare Ventures, Oxford Bioscience Partners, BB Biotech Ventures, and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. The company has raised a total of $106.5 million in venture capital. Comments | ...
Atlas Venture Raising Half a Billion (1)
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VC, funds, venture Wade Roush wrote: Waltham, MA-based Atlas Venture has embarked on fundraising for a new venture capital fund, and hopes to raise $500 million, according to reports today in VentureWire and PE Hub. It’s the eighth fund the firm has raised since its founding in 1980; the seventh fund, closed in 2006, totaled $385 million. Comments | Permalink | Share | E-mail UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS
Vlingo Upgrades Blackberry App (1)
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speech recognition, Mobile, wireless Wade Roush wrote: Cambridge, MA, startup Vlingo today launched a drastically improved version of its voice command and speech-to-text interface for RIM Blackberry smartphones, first released in June. The free vlingo 2.0 software, which works on Blackberry Pearl, Curve, and 8800 series phones, not only allows users to compose text messages and e-mails by speaking into their phones, but also lets them create status updates for Facebook and Twitter and launch ...
