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ElevateBio raises $525M to advance its cell and gene therapy technologies

ElevateBio, one of the leading biotech companies focused on gene-based therapies, has raised a massive $525 million Series C round of financing, more than doubling the company’s $193 million Ser

Greycroft has rounded up $678 million in capital across two new funds

Greycroft, the New York and LA-based venture firm founded in 2006 by investors Alan Patricof, Dana Settle, and Ian Sigalow, has closed on two new funds totaling $678 million in capital commitments. On

Meet the final round judges who will decide the winner of this year’s Disrupt Battlefield Competition

It’s never easy, deciding which of the 20 companies that make it into the Disrupt Battlefield Competition will be anointed its winner. There’s just so much at stake each year, and at Disru

As market shifts, Atlas Venture closes a $250 million fund to support its breakaway biotech bets

Atlas Venture, the Cambridge, Mass.-based early-stage, biotech-focused venture firm, has for the first time raised an opportunity fund designed to help it support its most promising, maturing portfoli

Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals

Boston has regained its longstanding place as the second-largest U.S. startup funding hub. After years of trailing New York City in total annual venture investment, Massachusetts is taking the lead in

Online lender Earnest sells to Navient, in a disappointing deal for investors

Earnest, a well-funded fintech startup with bold ambitions to create a modern financial institution, is selling to the student-loan company Navient for $155 million in cash. The WSJ was first to repor

Are Newly Formed Roles In VC Firms Differentiators, Table Stakes Or Total BS?

In the venture capital world, we're about to experience an explosion of hiring around one very specific function. These people won’t invest in startups, nor will they analyze companies. They won’t

Vhoto Launches App Capturing Still Images From Video

Taking the perfect picture is tricky (at least for me). I'm famous for being the world's worst photographer (seriously... there's an award), but a new app called Vhoto which launched for the iOS may o

GrabCAD Raises $8.15M From Charles River Ventures, Yammer Co-Founder & Others For Its ‘GitHub For Mechanical Engineers’

<a target="_blank" href="http://grabcad.com">GrabCAD</a>, which offers an online community and cloud-based collaboration tools for those involved in designing and building physical products, has raise

DocTrackr Secures $2M From Atlas, Polaris, To Help Secure Your Documents Via The Cloud

Sharing a document online has never been easier, but maintaining control over that document once it’s left home, so to speak, is something different altogether. In the enterprise, that potential los

TC50 Finalist DataXu Scores $11 Million More For Online Ad Bidding Platform

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/dataxu-logo.png" class="shot2" />Boston-based <a href="http://dataxu.com/">DataXu</a>, provider of a real-time online ad bidding and optimizat

Atlas Venture Shrinks Back To Boston

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/cp_1263915752_3403v1-max-250x250-215x38.jpg" width="215" height="38" />We all know the crisis in the venture capital community is starting to