{"id":212353,"date":"2010-01-22T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T15:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=59710"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T15:33:45","slug":"time-inc-scoops-up-stylefeeder-ironwood-sets-sights-on-potential-266-7-m-ipo-flodesign-reveals-34-5m-financing-more-boston-area-deals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212353","title":{"rendered":"Time Inc. Scoops Up StyleFeeder, Ironwood Sets Sights on Potential $266.7 M IPO, FloDesign Reveals $34.5M Financing, & More Boston-Area Deals News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roundup<\/a>, deals<\/a>, VC<\/a><\/div>\n

\t\tRebecca Zacks wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a short week, but the list of deals that New England’s tech and life sciences firms inked in that span is a long one. Let’s dive in:<\/p>\n

—StyleFeeder, the Cambridge, MA-based personalized shopping website, was acquired by New York magazine publishing giant Time Inc.<\/a> for an undisclosed sum. Lexington, MA-based Highland Capital Partners and Boston-based Schooner Capital have put $4 million in seed and Series A funding into the four-year-old startup.<\/p>\n

—IkaSystems, a maker of software for healthcare payers, sealed back-to-back investment deals with deep-pocketed private equity funds<\/a>. Essex Woodlands Health Ventures and Providence Equity Partners reportedly plowed a combined $120 million into the Southborough, MA-based company.<\/p>\n

—North Andover, MA-based Nexamp, formerly known as NexGen Energy Solutions, raised $6.5 million in equity-based financing<\/a>, according to a regulatory filing. Nexamp helps its customers design, finance, build, and analyze clean energy projects.<\/p>\n

—Cardiorobotics, a startup founded by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, reported to the SEC that it has raised $5 million in equity investments<\/a>. The Middletown, RI-based firm makes robots for surgery and other uses.<\/p>\n

—Research-tool giant Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO<\/a>) of Waltham, MA, announced it would pay $145 million for Ahura Scientific<\/a> of Wilmington, MA. The deal also entitles Ahura’s investors to potential payments based on sales of Ahura products in 2010.<\/p>\n

—FloDesign Wind Turbine, a Wilbraham, MA-based developer of a new, jet-engine-like type of wind turbine, revealed it closed a $34.5 million Series B funding round last month<\/a>. Return investor Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers and new investors Goldman Sachs, Technology Partners, and VantagePoint Venture Partners contributed to the round.<\/p>\n

—Acton, MA-based Lumigent Technologies, a maker of automated governance, risk and compliance software, said it …Next Page »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Roundup, deals, VC Rebecca Zacks wrote: It was a short week, but the list of deals that New England’s tech and life sciences firms inked in that span is a long one. Let’s dive in: —StyleFeeder, the Cambridge, MA-based personalized shopping website, was acquired by New York magazine publishing giant Time Inc. for an undisclosed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}