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Mariner Health

Mariner Health is the leading provider of sub-acute medical services.

Public (MHCA)
Marinus Pharmaceuticals

Marinus is creating a new class of neurologic drugs that may revolutionize the treatment of epilepsy in women and infants.

Private  |  Branford, CT
Match.com

Match.com is the most popular online dating site in the world.

Acquired by InterActiveCorp (IACI)
Matrix Pharmaceutical

Matrix Pharmaceutical develops novel local and systemic cancer treatments that may improve or extend the lives of people living with cancer.

Public (MATX)
mCarbon

mCarbon is a mobile VAS (Value Added Service) company that provides network technology, content aggregation and service management.

Private  |  India
Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc. (MID)

MID has developed the FloShield system, a franchise of products that substantially improve visualization during laparoscopic surgery.

Private  |  Columbus, OH
MiNO Wireless

MiNO is a leading provider of managed alternative roaming services that enable mobile operators to capture voice, text and data revenue from subscribers when they travel internationally.

Private  |  Sunnyvale, CA
Mobilitec, Inc.

Mobilitec develo the most commercially deployed content platform in the industry.

Acquired by Alcatel-Lucent (ALU)
Motionbox

Motionbox makes it easy to upload, organize, enhance, and share your personal videos with family, friends & groups.

Acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N)
N-trig

N-trig is the provider of DuoSense™ technology which combines pen, zero-pressure touch and multi-touch for mobile and fixed computers into a single device.

Private  |  Kfar Saba, Israel
Naaptol

Naaptol is India’s leading comparison based social shopping portal.

Private  |  Navi Mumbai, India
NeedFeed

NeedFeed is the best way to get recommendations on products & services from people you trust.

Private  |  San Francisco, CA
Nellcor

Nellcor introduced the first clinically and commercially viable pulse oximeter and has grown to become the world’s foremost supplier of pulse oximetry.

Public. Acquired by Tyco International, Ltd. (TYC)
Network Engines

Network Engines provides the engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and technical services required to deliver software applications as network appliances.

Public (NENG)
Northstar Neuroscience

Northstar Neuroscience is a medical device pioneering the development of cortical stimulation therapies to treat neurological injuries, disorders and diseases.

Public (NSTR)
Novare Surgical Systems

Novare Surgical Systems develops and markets RealHand, a platform technology representing an entirely new category of High Dexterity (HD) instruments for minimally invasive surgery.

Private  |  Cupertino, CA
Novira Therapeutics

Novira is an antiviral drug discovery company focused on the development of its capsid-targeting antivirals for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) and HIV infections.

Private  |  Radnor, PA
nTouch Research

nTouch Research Corporation is a leading provider of Phase II-IV clinical trials services delivering investigator selection, patient recruitment and study management services for pharmaceutical, CRO, and biotechnology industries.

Acquired by Accelovance
Octel Communications

Octel Communications is the leading manufacturer and provider of voicemail products and services.

Public. Acquired by Lucent (LU)
ON24

ON24 is the global leader of webcasting and video communications solutions.

Private  |  San Francisco, CA
OnDemand

OnDemand provides relationship management software that enables organizations and their branch and independent channels to increase sales and reduce costs by maximizing customer relationships.

Acquired by Chordiant Software (CHRD)
onefinestay

onefinestay offers an "unhotel" experience, giving you the chance to stay in someone's place while they're out of town.

Private  |  London, UK
OneSource Services

OneSource Services is a medical equipment repair and service provider.

Acquired by General Electric (GE)
ONI Systems

ONI Systems Leader in the revolutionary merging of the metro area voice and data communication that is the basis of Ciena’s current offerings.

Public. Acquired by CIENA (CIEN)
OpenSky

OpenSky is a social shopping platform that helps consumers discover and buy great products that fulfill their interests in Food, Style & Beauty, Healthy Living and Home & Design.

Private  |  New York, NY
OraPharma

OraPharma is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused therapeutics for oral health.

Public. Acquired by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
ORTHOCON

ORTHOCON develops bioabsorbable drug delivery products for surgical patients with pain.

Private  |  Irvington, NY

News

DIGITAL MEDIA

June 18, 2013
THE WATCHERS (Skybox)

June 7, 2013
With rising revenues, Lending Club CEO plans expansion (Q&A)

June 6, 2013
Fashion Brand Cuyana Lands $1.7M From Canaan Partners To Get Women To Buy Fewer, Better Things

May 22, 2013
Zoosk Reports Record Revenue in Q1 2013

May 17, 2013
Going Solo (Loylty Rewardz

COMM + MOBILITY

June 4, 2013
Xirrus Appoints Veteran Industry Executive as Vice President of Sales

May 27, 2013
mCarbon Announces Availability Of Global USSD Interactive Services Suite

May 24, 2013
Xirrus Wins Innovation in Enterprise Wireless Solutions Award at Ethernet Innovation Summit

May 17, 2013
Small Telecom 'Disruptors' Defying the Odds (LiveU News)

May 7, 2013
Xirrus Delivers on the Promise of Enterprise Mobility With New Products That Unite the Wired and Wireless Network, Offering Fast Deployment and Consistent Application Performance

ENTERPRISE

June 10, 2013
Echopass Launches Cloud Contact Center - Enterprise Channel on TMCnet

June 6, 2013
WibiData’s open-source libraries, models and tools make it easier to store, extract and analyze data on HBase

May 23, 2013
Cloudera Founder’s Enterprise Data App Management Startup WibiData Raises $15M From Canaan Partners, Eric Schmidt And Others

May 2, 2013
iYogi launches cloud CRM service for remote PC support

April 30, 2013
ShopKeep POS Wins Technology Innovation of the Year Award from Electronic Transactions Association

CLEAN TECH

May 14, 2013
Power Technology Innovator Enpirion acquired by Altera Corp.

April 4, 2013
Enstorage Goes Live with A 50 KW, Grid Connected HBr Flow Battery

February 27, 2013
Enpirion Wins Top Honor at embedded world 2013

December 13, 2012
Enpirion Expands Executive Team to Drive its Leadership in Enterprise Server Power Market

December 4, 2012
Enpirion and Digi-Key Corporation Announce Global Distribution Agreement

BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

June 11, 2013
Dermira scores $35M venture round for dermatology pipeline

June 6, 2013
CytomX Announces Global Strategic Collaboration with Pfizer to Develop and Commercialize Multiple Probody™-Drug Conjugates in Oncology

June 5, 2013
Novira Therapeutics Expands Management Team with Appointment of Klaus Klumpp, Ph.D., the Former Global Head of Roche's Virology Discovery Initiatives, as Vice President Discovery Research

June 3, 2013
CytomX Therapeutics Named a 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup

May 21, 2013
Liquidia Technologies Announces Extension of Collaboration with PATH to Develop Next Generation Pneumococcal Vaccine 

MEDICAL DEVICES

June 17, 2013
Minimally Invasive Devices Raises Another $2.5 Mln (MID)

May 13, 2013
European study shows positive results for inlay in emmetropic presbyopic patients (ReVision Optics)

April 10, 2013
Relievant Medsystems Achieves Completion of Interim Safety Data Analysis of Intracept in SMART Pivotal Study and Expands Senior Leadership Team

March 25, 2013
Canaan Partners leads $9m Series B round for Minimally Invasive Devices

February 28, 2013
Transcend Medical Completes Enrollment in Landmark Glaucoma Study Evaluating the CyPass® Micro-Stent 

DIAGNOSTICS

October 1, 2012
LiveU makes the connection

August 25, 2012
Blurb at Clerkenwell Design Week

August 13, 2012
DSI Launches PhysioTel™ Digital: The First Fully-Digital Telemetry System for Large Animal Physiologic Monitoring

November 30, 2011
Data Sciences International Appoints New CEO to Lead Market Expansion Plans

September 10, 2009
Cylex, Inc. Appoints Brad L. Stewart as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board