Services

Startup incubator io/LA's Cozy, makes it's venturing debut with financial input from Google and others.

Enterprise data management company Rainstor continues expansion and product development with financial banking from venture companies and several multinational corporations including Credit Suisse and Dow Chemical.

Be braced for Workday, or another IPO to pop, to see the market heat up again. Until, of course, investors are sold another extraordinarily over-priced listing, like Facebook turned out to be, at least for those investing over the short-term.

The Techsparks India 2011 winner, Capillary Technologies, has closed its Series A round raising $15.m led by Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners and with investment from Qualcomm's corporate venturing unit.

The new programme is also supported by the Mayor of London [whose office is pictured], the City of London Corporation, and the Technology Strategy Board.

The online content optimiser, Ramp has raised $15m in a C round led by Starvest Partners, bringing the total capital raised by the company to $40m.

Perhaps one should be perusing the marriage updates section of old media dealmaking, instead of harping on about those venerable old things that have died?

Google Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount in maths start-up website Desmos.com, a site which allows user to plot graphs online

Electronic commerce and internet company Rakuten heads the B round of online marketplace site, Daily Grommet.

A large patent portfolio bought by iRobot in its acquisition of Evolution, doubtless has been of interest to its corporate venturing unit backer Vodafone Ventures.