VENTURE CAPITAL POST

RenovoRx Inc, a privately-held medical device maker, closed its series B funding round with $1.15 million. The financing was led by one of the largest angel groups in the US, Golden Seeds.

Vint was able to secure seed funding worth $1.8 million led by Nordics VC Creandum and joined in by other venture capital firms and angel investors, including Zumba investor David Giampaolo.

FundersClub, the online network that links accredited investors with promising startups globally, has launched a community news site for private investors called "Venture News," VentureBeat reported.

Marijuana entrepreneurs were given the chance to pitch their products to a group of investors in a conference organized by angel investor firm ArcView Group, Bloomberg reported.

Angel funding in Russian companies were 4.5 times more than funding from angel investors in 2012, according to a joint study by National Association of Business Angels (NABA), Atom Partners and RVC.

Friends and family of startups were found to be its biggest supporters, shelling out USD23,000 in a business on average, totaling USD60 billion in fresh capital annually, based from data collected by online crowdfunding platform Fundable.

A report by Agence France-Presse (AFP)recounted the difficulties of curbing the links between corporate Japan and the yakuza, and how some of the country's major banks adopted a laissez-faire compliance in eradicating mob ties.

A survey done by Worthworm showed the frustrations of angel investors who regretted making investments in 2013. Angel investors also gave their thoughts about overly optimistic financial projections.

MKTG INC and angel investors provided USD 1.7 in investment capital to Bonfyre, an application that enables brands and organizations to link with their audiences via private, experience-based micro social networks.

Espresso Logic's first reactive logic programming based database backend merits seed funding in the amount of USD1.6 million from renowned Silicon Valley angel investors such as Inventus Capital.

Lime&Tonic raises EUR1.0 million in angel investments for its funding round.

After AngelList was allowed to list companies and their backers to publicly solicit funds last week, venture capitalists flock to syndicate the site for venture capital.

Angel investors pledged USD 1 million in funds to VIPorbit Software International.

MediSafe closes funding from known investors.

The launch of Lift Labs was done recently to unveil its latest product the Liftware, which is a product that used grant money for its design and creation.