{"id":382423,"date":"2010-03-03T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=66195"},"modified":"2010-03-03T00:01:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:01:04","slug":"marathon-and-zafgen-add-to-series-b-rounds-athenahealth-and-sermo-announce-partnership-sensata-sets-ipo-terms-more-boston-area-deals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382423","title":{"rendered":"Marathon and Zafgen Add to Series B Rounds, Athenahealth and Sermo Announce Partnership, Sensata Sets IPO Terms, & More Boston-Area Deals News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roundup<\/a>, deals<\/a>, VC<\/a><\/div>\n

\t\tErin Kutz wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early round venture funding dominated the deals news this week, but there were still announcements of partnerships, acquisitions, and IPOs to mix it up.<\/p>\n

—Newton, MA-based energy storage company General Compression announced it had closed more than $17 million in commitments to its Series A round<\/a>, but did not reveal how much of that money was in new equity investments. The funding came from U.S. Renewables Group<\/a> and Duke Energy, and will go to building the company’s first commercial-scale wind power storage unit.<\/p>\n

—Marathon Technologies, a Littleton, MA maker of fault-tolerance software, brought its Series B funding round up to $13.5 million<\/a>, thanks to a third close, a regulatory filing\u00a0revealed last week.<\/p>\n

—Stealthy life sciences startup Ra Pharmaceuticals raised $10.3 million of a planned $27.6 million round of equity-based financing<\/a>, according to an SEC filing. The company is incubated at the Boston office of Morgenthaler Ventures and is lead by Doug Treco, who co-founded former Transkaryotic Therapies, a Cambridge, MA company acquired by Irish drugmaker Shire in 2005.<\/p>\n

—Intrinsic Therapeutics raised $18 million of a $20 million round that included equity, options, and warrants<\/a>. An SEC filing listed New Enterprise Associates, Spray Venture Partners, and New Leaf Venture Partners as directors of Woburn, MA-based Intrinsic, which develops\u00a0spinal implants to treat disc herniation.<\/p>\n

—-Athenahealth, a Watertown, MA-based maker of Internet software for medical practices, and doctors-only social networking company Sermo announced a partnership<\/a> early this week, but didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal. Athena plans on …Next Page »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Roundup, deals, VC Erin Kutz wrote: Early round venture funding dominated the deals news this week, but there were still announcements of partnerships, acquisitions, and IPOs to mix it up. —Newton, MA-based energy storage company General Compression announced it had closed more than $17 million in commitments to its Series A round, but did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382423","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\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}