Dan Primack
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals has been otherwise announced: * GridPoint Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based provider of energy management products, has raised $32 million in Series D funding. Listed shareholders include Goldman Sachs, Altira Group and Standard Renewable […]
Updated peHUB has learned that The Active Network has raised $65 million in Series E funding. Canaan Partners led the deal, and was joined by fellow return backers like ESPN, ABS Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, Comdisco and Charles River Ventures. Newbies included Performance Equity and Tao Venture Partners. Active is a San Diego-based online […]
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals has been otherwise announced: Sermo Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based online aggregator of healthcare information, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. Legg Mason was joined by return backers Longworth Venture Partners and […]
Sometimes you can learn something from a regulatory filing, besides just how much money a company raised. Case in point is a recent Form D from Rocketon Inc., a San Francisco-based MMO gaming startup, which has called down $500,000 of an $800,000 Series A commitment. The rub here is that the investor is something called […]
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals has been otherwise announced: ClearEdge Power, a Hillsboro, Ore.-based fuel cell develops, has secured around $6.47 million of a $19.47 million Series C round. The only listed backer is existing shareholder Applied Ventures. […]
Zayo Bandwidth, a Louisville, Colo.-based regional provider of fiber-based network services, today announced that it has raised $225 million in private equity funding. Backers include Columbia Capital, M/C Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Battery Ventures and Centennial Ventures. The company is co-founded by Dan Caruso and John Scarano, who previously ran ICG Communications and its […]
Microsoft yesterday announced that it is acquiring Parlano Inc., a Chicago-based maker of the MindAlign enterprise group chat application. Seems like a typical tech M&A deal, but Parlano has an unusual funding history. The company was originally formed back in 2003, when Golden Gate Capital and Oak Investment Partners acquired the collaboration assets of Divine […]
Corporate venture capital has made a comeback, after years of being dismissed and degraded as an example of bubble-era excess. This is based on new data released this morning by the MoneyTree Three of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial (publisher of peHUB). Corporate VCs invested $1.3 billion into 390 deals during the […]
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals has been otherwise announced: Analogix Semiconductor Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, has raised nearly $14 million in Series B-2 funding. Return backers include DCM, Globespan Capital Partners and Woodside Fund. Analogix previously […]
Spinal implant manufacturer Globus Medical today announced that it has raised $110 million in its first round of institutional funding. That’s a big deal. In fact, it’s the biggest venture capital deal of 2007 — but not by much. Just two months ago, another company also announced that it had raised a $110 million round. That […]