American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: APEI) – parent company of online learning provider American Public University System (APUS), which operates through American Military University (AMU) and American Public University (APU), today announced that it has made a $4 million minority investment in Fidelis Education. ... read more

Senesco Technologies, Inc. (“Senesco” or the “Company”) (OTCQB: SNTI) announced today that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors to raise $1.255 million in gross proceeds through the sale of 41,833,335 shares of its common stock. The common stock was priced ... read more

Extreme Reach, Inc., the leading video platform for integrated TV, online and mobile advertising, announced today a significant investment by Spectrum Equity, a leading growth equity firm focused on the information economy. Spectrum Equity’s investment is in excess of $50 million for a minority stake in ... read more

Petaluma, Cailf.-based Cyan, a global supplier of software defined networking (SDN) solutions, opened for trading today on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “CYNI” after its initial public offering. Barclays is the Designated Market Maker (DMM) for the company’s stock. Chairman and ... read more

U.S.-based TorchStone Global LLC and U.K.-based Page Group Ltd. have formed a new company, TorchStone Page Inc., to design and provide comprehensive security services to governments, corporations, NGOs and individuals. TorchStone Page combines TorchStone Global’s North American presence, ... read more

PerspecSys Inc., the leader in cloud data protection solutions for the enterprise, today announced it has raised $12 million in funding co-led by new investors Paladin Capital Group and Ascent Venture Partners, and joined by return backer Intel Capital and other existing institutional ... read more

YCharts raised a third investment round of $3.875 million to fund accelerated growth of the company’s Financial Terminal of the Web, with Morningstar Inc. (MORN) and Reed Elsevier Ventures (ENL) as lead investors. This brings the total investment in the company to $8.625 million. ... read more

Trevena Inc., (Trevena) a clinical stage pharmaceutical company and the leader in the discovery and development of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) biased ligands, and Forest Laboratories Holding Limited (Forest), a subsidiary of Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:FRX), an international pharmaceutical company, announced today that they have entered ... read more

Forsythe Technology, Inc., an information technology (IT) infrastructure integrator, announced today that it has acquired the virtualization business of Synnefo Technology Solutions, Inc., an IT virtualization and cloud services provider headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois. The acquisition expands Forsythe’s capabilities and resources to help ... read more

Quintiles today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 23,684,210 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $40.00 per share. The shares of Quintiles common stock are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the single-letter symbol ... read more

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) and ANIP Acquisition Company d/b/a ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that each company will hold a special meeting of its stockholders on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 to consider and vote on certain matters in connection with the proposed merger of a ... read more

The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) and the Milken Family Foundation announced the winners of the 2013 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC), held on May 7-8 on the Penn campus. Raise Labs was the big winner of the day, earning ... read more

Techulon, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a Phase II contract to advance its therapeutic program for multi-drug resistant bacteria, or ‘superbugs.’ This award drives Techulon’s development of a nanotherapeutic agent that will give the ... read more

Today the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the Nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children, will participate in Marine Corps Day at Nationals Park and honor the service and sacrifices of our country’s heroes. During the ... read more

AppThwack today announced the launch of a complete mobile experience testing solution for iOS, Android and mobile web, leveraging their cloud-based device lab of more than 200 phones and tablets. AppThwack, which began offering Android testing tools last fall, ... read more

Juniper Networks, Ciena, Brocade and Internet2 today announced the Call for Proposals for the 2013 Innovative Application Awards program. The program will award cash prizes to the best open source end-user applications that make use of OpenFlow-enabled software defined networking (SDN) capabilities of switches and controllers ... read more

Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs), creator of AISight®, the first artificial intelligence system for video surveillance that detects suspicious behavior, today announced a Preferred Funding Round. This new level of investment will directly support research and development for significant new capabilities and performance ... read more

Zalicus Inc. (Nasdaq Capital Market: ZLCS), a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops novel treatments for patients suffering from pain, today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (“Lincoln Park”) an ... read more

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the second phase of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI). For this phase, SRC and NIST will provide a combined $5 million in annual funding for three multi-university research centers tasked with demonstrating ... read more

Haystax Technology, Inc. (Haystax), a portfolio company of the Edgewater Funds, today announced the acquisition of FlexPoint Technology, LLC. Haystax provides multi-source information integration, big data analytics and visualization to address the challenges posed by exponential increases in data volume to customers in the intelligence, ... read more