Scheduling and shift management software firm OnShift Inc. has raised $2.3 million to build its sales and marketing staff. OnShift, which sells its software as a service to hospitals, nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, is hoping to continue growing its market share,

CardiOx Corp., which is developing a noninvasive method for detecting holes in the heart, has raised about $650,000 of an anticipated $2 million in investment funding.

Great Lakes Pharmaceuticals Inc. has completed a $3.1 million Series B equity financing led by Charter Life Sciences, the Palo Alto, California venture capital firm with an office in Cincinnati, Ohio.Early Stage Partners in Cleveland also participated in the round along with existing investors Everett Partners Ltd. in Akron, Ohio TechAngel Fund in Columbus and [...]

Venture firm Early Stage Partners has raised $55 million for its second fund and expects 40 percent of its investments to go to life sciences companies.The firm closed the fund short of its hoped-for $70 million total, Managing Director Jonathan Murray told VentureWire.Early Stage closed its first fund, which totaled $44 million, in 2002. “We [...]