Star Trek Timelines image courtesy Disruptor Beam
Caption: Concept art from Disruptor Beam's "Star Trek Timelines" mobile game. File image.
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.406 Ventures, Boston
- Amount: $80 million
- Investors: Unknown
- Details: According to the Form D, this is a part of an "Opportunities Fund, L.P."--likely a special-purpose fund to go alongside the main Fund III. Full story here with additional updates as BostInno receives them.
Disruptor Beam, Framingham
- Amount: $2.08 million
- Investors: Unknown
- Details: Video game developer Disruptor Beam is reporting they've raised a new round totaling $2.1M. Founded by Jon Radoff and Angela Bull in 2010, the studio is known for its work on the Star Trek Timelines and Game of Thrones Ascent games. Last month, Radoff told the games-industry site, develop, about his plans: "Someday, we'll have grown to the point where we have this network of fans who both like the individual games that we've created but also understand the kinds of games that we make, which are very story-based, social and hit these vertical themes and what-not." Michael Dornbrook (ex-Harmonix) is off the list of directors in the new filing, replaced by Tim Wright of GrandBanks Capital, which has been an investor in Disruptor Beam since 2014. Rizwan Virk of Midverse Studios remains, part of a partnership between Midverse and Disruptor Beam also announced in the fall of 2014.
CampusSIMS (Boston)
- Amount: $2.5 million
- Investors: Nauta Capital, NXT Ventures, Launchpad Venture Group and Sidecar Angels
- Details: CampusSIMs started out as CampusTVs, renting televisions to college students. As it turned out, providing wireless service was a more compelling opportunity. The last time we wrote about them, founder Scott Pirrello had raised a $1.5 million seed with Nauta Capital and a business renting SIM cards to international students for $25 to $55 a month. According to an emailed press release and an article in The Boston Globe, they're now operating as a mobile virtual network operator and have raised a Series A led by Nauta. Of note: Sean Ford of LogMeIn is on the board.
Desktop Metal (Lexington)
- Amount: $33.8 million
- Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital and NEA invested in Desktop Metal's previous round.
- Details: Kleiner, Lux and NEA are back at it again in a $33.8 million round for Desktop Metal, the 3D-printing startup founded by A123 Systems co-founders Ric Fulop and Yet-Ming Chiang along with MIT Materials Science head Chris Schuh. The three firms put together $14 million for Desktop Metal back in October. A new filing lists the same three directors (Wen Hsieh for Kleiner, Bilal Zuberi for Lux and Dayna Grayson for NEA). Doesn't look like there's anyone new in the round, but A round investors Founder Collective and Bolt both returned to participate, Fulop said.
- Form D
Zaius (Boston/Leesburg, Va.)
- Amount: $8 million
- Investors: Six investors are listed in its Form D filing.
- Details: Zaius provides a behavorial marketing platform that helps clients analysze customer behavior on an individual level and lets them engage customers through the appropriate channel, whether it be email, paid advertising or mobile. The company filed a Form D on Monday indicated that it has raised the entirety of an $8 million equity offering. It had previously raised a $6.3 million Series A round in 2014 from Matrix Partners.
- Form D
