• Venture Capital News Digest – 23 July 2012

    by  • July 23, 2012 • News

    This Week in Venture Capital

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    86 deals, $780m invested last week

    Tech Venture Capital

    Aryaka Networks closes $25m Series C
    Trinity Ventures brings in Interwest Partners on their fourth co-investment in 5 years.

    Flash-sale site Totsy raises $18.5m
    Children’s merchandise site closes Series B as an insider round.  Existing investors wanting to keep the deal to themselves, or new investors being put off by recent flops in daily deals businesses?

    Google Ventures joins Egnyte Investors
    $16m series C led by Google Ventures, with Kleiner and Polaris providing continued support, marking the 6th co-investment with Egnyte’s shareholders by Google in the last 18 months.

    See a round-up of recent IT Venture Capital news here

    Life Science Venture Capital

    Agile Therapeutics Raises $40m
    Aisling Capital leads Agile’s “Series C” (although this is the company’s 6th round of funding, having raised over $118m since 1997). 

    Juventas Therapeutics Closes Series B
    Second largest biotech funding round in the Midwest region in 2012 raising $22.2m.

    $16.5m for Weight Loss medical device company
    Interwest Partners joins Obalon Therapeutics’ existing shareholders Domain Associates marking their 7th West Coast med-tech co-investment in recent years.

    See a round-up of recent Life Science Venture Capital news here

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