Seattle-based Juno Therapeutics announced it has closed Series B round of funding with $134 million. The new funding came from previous investors including ARCH Venture Partners, Alaska Permanent Fund, Bezos Expedition, the personal investment company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Venrock. Also participating in Series B are 10 other mutual funds and healthcare-related funds that wish to remain anonymous.
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Vectra Networks managed to raise additional $25 million in its Series C funding from existing investor Accel Partners and other investors, including AME Cloud Ventures, IA Ventures and Khosla Ventures participating in the round, Intel Capital and Juniper Networks, through its Junos Innovation Fund. The new investment will be used to boost sales, marketing efforts as well as engineering.
Metanautix has received $7 million in initial funding from Sequioa Capital, the Stanford University Endowment Fund and Shiva Shivakumar, a former VP of engineering at Google. The company plans to release its first product for general availability before the end of 2014. At present, there are half a dozen beta customers using the software, with the largest being Hewlett-Packard.
Seoul-based Spoqa has raised $3.9 million in Series B funding from Daesung Private Equity Group and Bokwang Investments, and plans to use the investment for expansion in Japan.
Response Genetics recently closed a credit agreement with SWK Funding for a multi-draw loan term of up to $12 million. The creditor has advanced the company $8.5 million, which is due on July 30, 2020, while the rest can be withdrawn once predetermined revenue milestones are reached.
Leonardo DiCaprio will be producing the film "Under the Bed," and the actor has just gotten his current girlfriend, Toni Garrn, a featured part in the film.
According to the latest rumors, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes may have split, citing an embarrassing bedroom issue.
The Foo Fighters have just wrapped up their eighth studio album, and sources say they may be planning a tour just after the album's release in November 2014.
As filming for “Terminator Genesis” is currently on process, new behind-the-scene clip was revealed, Enstars reports. The clip was shot in San Francisco where the filming took place on August 4 and 5.
Ariana Grande has recently called it quits with now ex-boyfriend Jai Brooks, and rumors are circulating that she's now going out with collaborator Big Sean.
