Funding Rounds in October 2008

All 480 funding rounds announced during October 2008, sorted by deal size. Includes lead investors, stage, and total raised.

480
Rounds announced
$4.0B
Total raised
$10.1M
Avg round
$295.3M
Largest
Round-type breakdown
Investment types in October 2008
Series Unknown
116
Series A
89
Series B
67
Seed
56
Grant
34
Series C
27
Angel
24
Debt Financing
15
Private Equity
15
Post Ipo Equity
9
# Company Round Raised Lead Investor Date
51
Grain Management
Grain Management is a private equity firm focused on investments in th…
Series Unknown $20.0M General Catalyst +2 2008-10-29 Round →
52
Trony Solar
Trony Solar is a solar energy solution and product manufacturer in Chi…
Series A $20.0M Intel Capital 2008-10-28 Round →
53
CardioDx
CardioDx is a cardiovascular genomic diagnostics company providing cli…
Series C $20.0M Kleiner Perkins +2 2008-10-23 Round →
54
Oberon Media
Oberon Media is a multi-platform firm delivering casual games solution…
Series B $20.0M 2008-10-06 Round →
55
Lutonix
Lutonix DCB is a new drug-coated balloon catheter that delivers paclit…
Series B $20.0M Versant Ventures +3 2008-10-01 Round →
56
Cognoptix
Cognoptix develops non-invasive eye tests for the early diagnosis of a…
Series B $18.5M Inventages Venture Capital Investment Inc. +1 2008-10-22 Round →
57
Siva Power
Siva Power develops third generation thin film PV technologies.
Series B $18.2M Trident Capital +3 2008-10-29 Round →
58
Avantium
Avantium Technologies provides high-throughput R&D technologies for ap…
Series Unknown $18.0M Aescap Venture +2 2008-10-29 Round →
59
LucidLogix Technologies
Lucid Technologies provides HydraLogix, a real time distributed proces…
Series C $18.0M Rho Capital Partners +2 2008-10-24 Round →
60
Salient Surgical Technologies
Salient Surgical Technologies is a medical technology company developi…
Series F $17.9M QuestMark Partners 2008-10-23 Round →
61
Playfish
PlayFish creates social games that users can play with others over soc…
Series B $17.0M Index Ventures +1 2008-10-28 Round →
62
Helium Network
Helium is an online writing community enabling writers to submit artic…
Series A $17.0M Signature Capital Securities +1 2008-10-27 Round →
63
ZeroG Wireless
ZeroG develops Wi-Fi chips that enable the 4th age of wireless by usin…
Series B $17.0M Battery Ventures +3 2008-10-01 Round →
64
C
China Diagnostic Medical Corporation (CDMC)
China Diagnostic Medical Corporation is a diagnostic testing reagents …
Series B $16.5M Softbank China & India Holdings +1 2008-10-20 Round →
65
Chemclin
Chemclin Biotech is a Chinese provider that is focused on in-vitro dia…
Series B $16.5M WI Harper Group +1 2008-10-01 Round →
66
Cohera Medical
Cohera Medical develops surgical adhesives and sealants for applicatio…
Series B $16.1M Bradford Capital Partners +1 2008-10-17 Round →
67
Crocus Technology
Crocus Technology provides magnetic random access memory products and …
Series B $15.9M Ventech +5 2008-10-03 Round →
68
AdMob
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that helps app developers moneti…
Series C $15.7M Sequoia Capital +1 2008-10-21 Round →
69
Kineto Wireless
Kineto offers internet protocol-based services and solutions for mobil…
Series D $15.5M Venrock +3 2008-10-07 Round →
70
Arcadia Biosciences
Arcadia Biosciences is an agricultural technology company developing p…
Private Equity $15.0M Saints Capital +2 2008-10-31 Round →
71
Renmatix
Renmatix is a global technology licensor that enables the low-cost pro…
Series B $15.0M Kleiner Perkins 2008-10-30 Round →
72
Zuora
Zuora provides cloud-based software on a subscription basis that helps…
Series B $15.0M Shasta Ventures +3 2008-10-28 Round →
73
Intransa
Intransa provides video appliance and IP solutions for video surveilla…
Series Unknown $15.0M Entrepia Ventures +4 2008-10-21 Round →
74
Echo360
Echo360 combines all of the video capabilities into a single, smart so…
Series B $15.0M Court Square Ventures +2 2008-10-14 Round →
75
Apreso Classroom
Apreso Classroom offers an automated lecture capturing and web publish…
Series B $15.0M SoftBank Group +2 2008-10-14 Round →
76
Evrotek
Evrotek operates a network of supermarkets, mini-markets and home-base…
Series Unknown $15.0M IFC Venture Capital Group +1 2008-10-03 Round →
77
Comat Technologies
Comat empowers rural citizens by creating local economies and giving t…
Series C $15.0M Elevar Equity +1 2008-10-01 Round →
78
Orteq
Orteq is a medical device company that develops and commercializes bio…
Series B $14.0M Matignon Technologies 2008-10-07 Round →
79
Olista
Olista provides customer experience analytics solutions that enable mo…
Series Unknown $14.0M Evergreen Venture Partners +1 2008-10-28 Round →
80
Movidius
Movidius is a fabless semiconductor company and the leader in mobile v…
Series A $14.0M Celtic House Venture Partners +6 2008-10-17 Round →
81
LxDATA
LxDATA creates reliable photonic solutions that help reservoir and pro…
Series Unknown $14.0M Fonds de solidarité FTQ +2 2008-10-07 Round →
82
ChaCha
ChaCha is a free mobile Q&A service in the U.S. enabling advertisers a…
Series C $14.0M 2008-10-01 Round →
83
Neomobile
Neomobile is a leading Digital Mobile Group operating globally.
Series Unknown $13.5M 2008-10-14 Round →
84
Onestop Internet
Onestop Internet is a full-spectrum eCommerce partner backed by blue-c…
Series A $13.3M Bessemer Venture Partners 2008-10-14 Round →
85
InSound Medical
InSound Medical is a California-based venture-backed company that deve…
Series E $13.0M DeNovo Ventures +1 2008-10-17 Round →
86
Apitope
Apitope is a European biotech company
Series A $12.9M Vesalius Biocapital Partners +1 2008-10-30 Round →
87
Transave
Transave is a biotechnology company developing inhaled pharmaceuticals…
Series Unknown $12.5M CIT Healthcare Finance 2008-10-02 Round →
88
Leyden Energy
Leyden Energy manufactures advanced lithium-ion batteries for the cons…
Series A $12.3M Lightspeed Venture Partners 2008-10-16 Round →
89
Darkstrand
Darkstrand provides services to help companies collaborate, particular…
Series A $12.0M 2008-10-28 Round →
90
Nimsoft
Nimsoft provides SaaS-based IT monitoring and service desk software an…
Series B $12.0M Goldman Sachs +2 2008-10-13 Round →
91
MyShape
MyShape is an online retail store specializing in customized tailoring…
Series C $12.0M Lehman Holdings +2 2008-10-06 Round →
92
SCI Marketview
SCI Marketview develops the SCI ResponseDRIVER, a user-friendly lead m…
Series Unknown $12.0M VentureLink LP 2008-10-02 Round →
93
VBrick
VBrick offers a cloud-native platform that allows enterprises to strea…
Series F $11.9M Menlo Ventures +3 2008-10-29 Round →
94
Phenex Pharmaceuticals
Phenex Pharmaceuticals is a drug discovery and development company foc…
Series B $11.4M KfW +3 2008-10-02 Round →
95
GupShup
Billions of global conversations, powered by one purpose
Series C $11.0M CRV +1 2008-10-14 Round →
96
Gigya
Gigya offers a Customer Identity Management Platform that businesses c…
Series C $11.0M DAG Ventures +3 2008-10-01 Round →
97
T2 Biosystems
T2 Biosystems is a biotechnology company that develops diagnostic prod…
Series B $10.8M Mass General Brigham +4 2008-10-17 Round →
98
Nomad Digital
Nomad Digital is a provider of wireless connectivity and ICT solutions…
Series Unknown $10.4M SEB Venture Capital +2 2008-10-16 Round →
99
WideOrbit
WideOrbit provides advertising management software for major media com…
Series D $10.0M Mayfield Fund +3 2008-10-20 Round →
100
Eventful
Eventful is a digital media company that powers the online ecosystem o…
Series C $10.0M Bay Partners 2008-10-15 Round →