San Diego-based ecoATM , a developer of automated kiosks for recycling cell phones and other electronics, said this morning that it has raised a first institutional round of funding. The round came from TAO Venture Partners, the new venture firm run by Tom Clancy. Amount of funding was not disclosed. As part of the funding, ecoATM said that Jens Molbak, founder of Coinstar, has joined the company's board and also invested in the round. TAO's Clancy also joins the board.

No details on the funding have been released. Breach has previously raised venture funding from Enterprise Partners, RBA No. 5, and Evergreen Venture Partners. in funding. Carlsbad-based security software firm Breach Security has raised $2.0M more in a convertible debt financing, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week.

Carlsbad-based Breach Security , a developer of IT security tools, announced this morning that it has raised $5M in additional funding, from existing investor Sid R. The funding brings the company's total raised to somewhere around $37.5M. The firm did not say if prior investors Enterprise Partners, RBA No. Bass Associates. The firm said the expansion financing would go towards product development and further market expansion.

funding round, according to a filing from the firm today. Details on the new funding round were not disclosed by the company. The firm now lists Enterprise Partners, Venrock, and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation as investors in the company. ...Tags: La Jolla-based Celladon , a developer of treatments for heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases, has raised $21.8M out of a $24.6M

in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. The filing shows representatives from JK&B Capital, Mission Ventures, ATA Ventures, and Enterprise Partners--all prior investors in the firm--remain on the board of directors. The funding brings San Diego-based VMIX , which provides software-as-a-service for video hosting, has raised $2.0M READ MORE>> ...Tags:

Other details on the funding have not been released, however, the firm is backed by Enterprise Partners and Vista Ventures, and Drew Senyei of Enterprise sits on the firm's board of directors. According to the firm's filing, the funding will go towards general working capital purposes and payroll. Enterprise and Vista invested a small, $0.5M San Diego-based Scoperta , which is developing fabless specialty steel technology utilizing scrap materials, has raised $1.4M out of a $1.875M round, according to a regulatory filing.

Details on the new funding have not yet been released by the firm. Quartics has previously raised capital from Enterprise Partners, Focus Ventures, Foundation Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, and Integral Capital Partners. Irvine-based Quartics , the digital media processing chip firm headed by former AST founder Safi Qureshey, has raised $13.3M as part of an ongoing, $21.7M

in what it is calling a "Series AA" funding round. According to the firm, investors in the new round included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Enterprise Partners, DAG Ventures, Gund Investment Corporation, InterWest Partners, Trex Enterprises and Wasatch Advisors' Cross Creek Capital Fund. The firm said the funding will go to rollout of its products in the U.S. Vista-based Ophthonix , which is developing high definition vision correction products, announced Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $25.9M Ophthonix develops the iZon lens system, which

The round came from Menlo Ventures, as well as prior ivestors Bay Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV), Tao Venture Partners and Walden International. Jarve has joined the board with the funding. ParAccel said the funding will go towards product development, sales and marketing, and to ramp up services and support. San Diego- and Cupertino-based ParAccel , a developer of software for massively parallel databases used for data warehousing analytics, announced today that it has raised $22M in a venture capital round. According to ParAccel, Menlo's John W.

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are not far off from socalTECH's totals from last quarter, which totaled up around $932M in investment activity. terms of venture firms, the most active The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total. San San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with