Cavendish Kinetics of San Jose CA, USA, which provides RF MEMS tuning solutions for mobile and wearable wireless devices, has closed a $7m funding round, co-led by Tallwood Venture Capital and Wellington Partners, with participation from ...
Tags: MEMS, LTE Smartphones, Electronics
Threadflip, the fashion marketplace for women to refresh their closets, announced it received $13 million in Series B funding to double down on its rapidly growing Concierge Full Service business model. Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) ...
Tags: Threadflip, Service, Textile
MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics. It's the ambitious mission powering her fast-growing startup littleBits, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Avedro (Waltham, MA) landed a CE Mark in the European Union for its non-surgical myopia treatment device. The device, dubbed KXL II, can perform a photorefractive intrastromal cross-linking procedure, allowing for the correction of myopia. ...
Tags: Myopia Treatment Device, CE Mark
An AC-LED partnership between Lynk Labs and Thomas Research Products; funding announcements from Ledzworld, EcoSense, and Once Innovations; and new large-diameter patterned sapphire substrates from Rubicon top the recent SSL news space. ...
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK has secured £1m in funding to help it speed the development and commercialization of its silicon carbide (SiC)-on-silicon technology for power devices. The benefit of SiC-based devices is ...
Tags: SiC power converters SiC-on-silicon driver ICs, Electrical, Electronics
Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden has completed a total of $15.6m (SEK102m) in new funding by adding $9.4m in an equity round to the $6.2m (SEK41m) loan (announced in June) from the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), Sweden's national authority for ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
Adore Me, a lingerie e-Commerce site offering designer-crafted, perfectly fitting styles at affordable price points, announces the closing of its B Round of venture capital, raising $8.5 million from Upfront Ventures, Mousse Partners, and ...
Tags: Adore Me, VC Funding
Speciality glass company Corning is leading a $60 million investment in View Inc, a maker of energy-saving glass that automatically adjusts the amount of heat and light glare that passes through it, the companies said Tuesday. Corning, ...
Tags: Construction, glass
Lyft, the ridesharing service known for its fleet of pink mustache-festooned cars, is eyeing international expansion supported by its biggest funding round yet. The company will be looking at entering new markets, including overseas, ...
Tags: Lyft, Computer Products, Anniversary
Walkbase, the retail analytics company, announces launch as a beta product of their new service integrated with Google Analytics that allows retailers, agencies and brands to not only measure click-through for online campaigns, but to match ...
Greater Manchester-based LED lighting manufacturer MHA Lighting aims to double turnover by the end of the year following a £750,000 investment from The North West Fund for Energy & Environmental, managed by CT Investment Partners, as ...
Tags: MHA Lighting, LED lighting, LED, lighting
Daily 'flash sales' start-up website Casabu wants to reach one million members by the end of 2013. The news comes after the ten-month-old company secured £900,000 in funding. The site saw new sign up soars shortly after launching ...
Tags: Sales site, toys, toy industry
Biotechnology company Dezima Pharma has secured €14.2m ($18.6m) for the development of its cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor, DEZ-001(previously TA-8995). The company received €9.8m capital in a Series A ...
Tags: Dezima Pharma, Biotechnology, therapies
Leading oncology company Incanthera has launched a partnership with global investment group Technomark Life Sciences. The two businesses will work together to prepare ICT2588 - Incanthera’s revolutionary treatment for solid tumours ...
Tags: Life Sciences, clinical trials, medical