News from Our Portfolio

December 2009

Xirrus Raises $20 Million in Venture Round

November 2009

Ocera Therapeutics, Pursuing New Drug for Liver, Hopes to Help People Stay Mentally Sharp

November 2009

Big Pharma Willing to Pay for Biotech Innovation

November 2009

Enterprise software maker CubeTree grows with $8M

November 2009

CubeTree picks up $8 million

October 2009

Offerpal hits more than 160 million consumers with special offers

October 2009

Venture Capital Flows to Biotech as Public Financing Takes a Breather

October 2009

Blood Test Offers More Accurate Picture of Health

October 2009

Damballa locks up about $8.2M of $9M round for botnet security tech

October 2009

Lee Hood's New Company Snags $30M to Spot Cancer and Alzheimer's in Early Days

September 2009

PrimeraDx Gathers $20M Series C For Molecular Diagnostics

September 2009

Marketo raises third round for marketing automation solutions

September 2009

Primera closes $20 million venture round

September 2009

Calypso Medical Gets $50 Million Injection

September 2009

How Did Calypso Raise $50M? The Story Behind Seattle's Biggest VC Deal of 2009

September 2009

Alvine closes $21.5M 1st round extension

September 2009

Primera pulls in $1.15M in debt funding

September 2009

Neuronetics, maker of device that treats depression with magnetic pulses, raises $30M

August 2009

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals adds to board

August 2009

Stanford Spinout Eiger Biopharma Licenses Hep Drug Targets from School

August 2009

Eiger licenses Stanford hepatitis technology

August 2009

Transcept Forms New Purdue Deal For Sleep Drug Sales

July 2009

One out of three doctors choose Epocrates Rx for the iPhone

July 2009

Goldman Sachs vet joins online ad network

July 2009

Vendavo's Price Optimization Software Helps Seagate Boost Profits

July 2009

New funds puff up Cloud9 for business intelligence software

June 2009

BioMimetic Therapeutics president and CEO discusses how the sale of $8 million of stock to InterWest Partners will impact the company

June 2009

DirecTV Sets Stage For Local, Targeted Ads; Satellite Service Inks Deal With Invidi For Set-Top Ad-Insertion Technology

June 2009

Geo Semiconductor Announces Launch of Operations

May 2009

Follica names new president and CEO

May 2009

Autonomic snags $20M to treat headaches

May 2009

AGTC raises $11.8M from VCs to help gene therapy programs

April 2009

Spinoff Lycera raises millions; Auto-immune disease drugs being developed

April 2009

Epocrates says 10% of U.S. doctors use its iPhone app

April 2009

BioMimetic Therapeutics plans to raise $25 million

March 2009

LensX Lasers nabs $22M for eye surgery lasers

March 2009

SuperSecret Funded To Launch Tween Game

March 2009

DEMO: Avaak lets you deploy Vue webcams anywhere you want

February 2009

Startup Eiger biopharm raises $7.1M in 1st round

February 2009

RedShift Systems Adds $6 Million

February 2009

Exalt Clears $15 Million in Funding

February 2009

Offerpal Media Raises $15 Million to Peddle In-Game Ads

February 2009

Harris: Rolling out 'the Internet of things'

February 2009

Dell gets the finger from Pivot3

February 2009

Vendavo finds profits in downturn

February 2009

Busting bots: Defending against botnets

January 2009

Morgenthaler And NEA Fund Moximed

January 2009

SpectraLinear gets $10M in funding

January 2009

Saints Joins Spiration's Investors

January 2009

NewCo News Satori Names New CEO, Hauls in $22M for Alzheimer's Candidates

January 2009

InterWest funds Exalt to meet rising backhauling demand

September 2008

InterWest's Michael Sweeney discusses $22.5 Million in Financing for Microfabrica

September 2008

Microfabrica raises $22.5 million in Series B

September 2008

Microfarad closes $22.5M

September 2008

Transcept Merging with Novacea

September 2008

Wireless News

Brand.net Secures $10 Million in Funding

September 2008

Staccato Ships Second Gen UWB Chips

August 2008

Brand.net raises funds from InterWest Partners and Norwest Venture Partners

August 2008

Brand.net Wins $10 Million in Series B Funding

August 2008

Brand.net gets $10M in 2nd round

August 2008

Brand.net Raises $10 Million

August 2008

Brand.net, Another Online Ad Network, Raises $10 Million

August 2008

Ex-Yahoo execs take on brand ad network, raise funds

August 2008

Follica Raises $11M in a Series B Round

August 2008

Damballa comments on cyberattack on Georgia

August 2008

Muscogee (Creek) Nation Deploys Pivot3 High-Definition Storage For State-Of-The-Art IP Video Surveillance Installation

August 2008

Pivot3 Announces "Serverless Computing"

August 2008

Follica fights baldness with new $11 million round

August 2008

The Daily Deal reports on Marketo and Follica news

July 2008

CVRx raises $84M in 5th round of financing

July 2008

Intel invests in CMP pad startup

May 2008

KAI, BMS Join Forces in $227M Heart Drug Deal

May 2008

Bristol-Myers to develop KAI heart-attack drug

April 2008

Nuventix's SynJet device solves major problem with overheating LED technology

March 2008

Damballa research identifies surge in cyber crime

March 2008

Invidi Technologies transforming TV advertising industry

March 2008

Gear6 raises $10M in Series B Financing

March 2008

Spiration Raises $18.5 Million More From Its Investors

March 2008

Trius raises $30M in Series B Financing

March 2008

Trius raises $30M in Series B Financing

March 2008

NeuroPace treats epilepsy with electrodes

March 2008

Damballa comments on botnet problem

March 2008

InterWest's Bruce Cleveland, discusses Marketo's on-demand marketing applications

March 2008

Insomnia-drug maker, Transcept Pharmaceuticals, raises $40 million

March 2008

Motorola invests in Invidi Technologies

March 2008

Ehrlich discusses Follica, and hair loss investments

February 2008

Solace Pharmaceuticals CEO, Eliot Forster, discusses recent studies on neuropathic pain.

February 2008

InterWest Partners' Linda Grais Joins Ocera Therapeutics' Board of Directors as the Company Closes $35.5 Million Series C Financing

February 2008

Damballa traces roots of the infamous Storm worm back to a computer worm

February 2008

Damballa tracks new botnet infecting thousands of hosts nationwide

February 2008

Pivot3 acquires $24 million in latest round of funding

February 2008

Nash discusses Pivot3 Inc.'s latest round of venture capital funding

January 2008

EnteroMedics Inc. uses electricity to fight obesity

January 2008

Kajeet ends kids' phone wars

January 2008

Nash discusses Pivot3 Inc.'s latest round of venture capital funding

January 2008

Achates Power is developing a fuel-efficient, light, clean diesel engine

January 2008

Campbell of InterWest pursues pain reliever as founder and CEO of Arcion

January 2008

Cell phone service Kajeet gets $10 million financing deal

January 2008

Arcion Therapeutics has raised $8.8 million in a Series A round of financing, led by CMEA Ventures and InterWest Partners

January 2008

Austin's Nuventix raises $8.5 million

January 2008

InterWest leads $5.5 Million First Round for Follica; Ehrlich Joins Board

December 2007

Nilesen Inks Multi-Year Pact With INVIDI

December 2007

WPP funds Invidi

December 2007

WPP leads $25 mln round of financing for Invidi Tech

October 2007

2007
Top Mobile Application Awards

Spring/Summer 2007

IDC Report Highlights
10 Emerging Wireless
Entertainment Companies

Spring/Summer 2007

Small-cap Summer Blockbusters
BioMimetic Therapeutics
most Impressive IPO

June 2007

Strategy of a chip start-up

June 2007

QuatRx AND Intarcia featured in
Fierce 15

February 2007

Cell Phones for the SpongeBob Set — kajeet, a Maryland start-up...

January 2007

Vision-Correction Rivals to Unite - AMO, IntraLase Together Will Focus On 'All-Laser Lasik'

January 2007

AMO's IntraLase Acquisition Applauded By Analysts

January 2007

Bladeless surgery seen as way to boost Lasik appeal - Advanced Medical Optics plans to buy IntraLase and set a new, all-laser standard.

January 2007

Advanced Medical Optics to Buy IntraLase Vision Laser Maker for $808 Million Cash

January 2007

Advanced Medical to buy IntraLase for $808 mln

January 2007

AMO Buying IntraLase for $808M

January 2007

Laser-surgery firms merge - Santa Ana's Advanced Medical Optics is buying Irvine's IntraLase for $808 million in cash.

October 2006

China's AMEC Raises $35M: Chip equipment developer may fill a gap in China's plan to develop homegrown semi industry.

October 2006

Alvine Pharmaceuticals Closes a $21 Million Series A Financing

August 2006

Emulex to buy Sierra Logic, expects charge

August 2006

Emulex Picks Up Sierra Logic

August 2006

Emulex Agrees to Acquire Sierra Logic

July 2006

Kajeet listed as a "Company to Watch" in NVCA's 2006 Yearbook
(PDF on page 19)

July 2006

Gear6 Revs up

June 2006

Devax Initiates Enrollment in the DIVERGE Clinical Trial with the AXXESS(TM) Drug Eluting Bifurcation Stent System

June 2006

Biomimetic in Business Week

March 2006

A clearer future for eyewear: A fusion of technologies results in ultrafine diagnosis and correction

July 2005

Midsize Companies Beginning to Mature