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VANCOUVER, Aug. 2 - Lignol Energy Corporation (TSX-V: LEC) (the "Company" or "Lignol") today announced that it has closed a brokered private placement of 11,500,000 common shares of the Company at a price of $1.25 per share for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $14,375,000.

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Proceeds will be used to continue to expand its leadership in the market for behavioral targeted online advertising

Vancouver, British Columbia and San Francisco, California - August 1, 2007, Adzilla Inc. is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed a USD $10.25 million Series A financing from two Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Norwest Venture Partners and Alloy Ventures.

Vancouver, B.C. and New York, NY – July 30, 2007 – NowPublic.com, the world’s largest participatory news network, today announced that it closed a $10.6 million Series A financing, led by Rho Ventures, based in New York and Palo Alto and its affiliate Rho Canada, based in Montreal. The round also includes two other venture firms, Brightspark and the Working Opportunity Fund, managed by GrowthWorks Capital Ltd., both of which participated as seed investors.

VANCOUVER, July 23 /CNW/ - Response Biomedical Corporation (TSX-V: RBM,
OTCBB: RPBIF) today announced that the Company has closed the financing
announced July 9, 2007, raising gross proceeds of $12 million. The financing
was a bought deal private placement, under which the Company issued 12,000,000
common shares at a price of $1.00 for each common share.
Haywood Securities Inc., the sole underwriter for this offering, was paid
a commission of seven percent of the gross proceeds in connection with the
financing. The common shares issued under the private placement will have a

VANCOUVER, B.C.—July 23, 2007—Strangeloop Networks ™ Inc., creator of the first network appliance for accelerating dynamic web applications based on Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework, today announced the infusion of $11.5 million in Series A funding from a private investment group.

Vancouver, BC, July 16, 2007--(T-Net)--MIV Therapeutics Inc. (OTCBB:MIVT; FWB:MIV), a developer of next-generation biocompatible coatings and advanced drug delivery systems for cardiovascular stents and other implantable medical devices, announced today that the unregistered private placement of 25,100,000 units referenced in its news release of July 6, 2007 has closed.

Boston, MA, and Vancouver, BC – July 16, 2007 – Apparent Networks Inc., a leading provider of network performance diagnostic solutions, today announced that it has raised $13.6 million in Series B financing. Bain Capital Ventures and JMI Equity led the round, which also included current investors, Business Development Bank of Canada and Aden Investments. These funds will be used to expand the Company’s sales and marketing, business development, and R&D initiatives.

Vancouver, BC, July 10, 2007--(T-Net)--Response Biomedical (TSX-V: RBM, OTCBB: RPBIF) today announced that the Company has entered into an agreement with Haywood Securities Inc. pursuant to which the Company has agreed to issue and sell, by way of a bought deal private placement, an aggregate of 12,000,000 common shares of the Company at a price of $1.00 for each common share.

Vancouver, BC, July 6, 2007--(T-Net)--Tantalus Systems announced that it has raised $20 million CAD in equity proceeds via a private placement to a consortium of international institutional funds led by two major European investors. Proceeds from the financing will be used to accelerate product development of Smart Grid applications and market expansion.

Vancouver, BC, July 6, 2007--(T-Net)--MIV Therapeutics (OTCBB:MIVT; FWB:MIV), a developer of next-generation biocompatible coatings and advanced drug delivery systems for cardiovascular stents and other implantable medical devices, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with various institutional investors for the unregistered private placement of an aggregate of 25,100,000 units at a price of $0.50 per unit for a total purchase price of $12.55 million, before deducting placement agent fees and offering expenses.