Dan Primack
The CVCA and Thomson Financial have just released Q1 2007 data on venture capital and buyouts investing in Canada. Here you go: Venture capital: CanadianVenture.pdf Buyouts: CanadianBuyouts.pdf Supplemental materials: CanadaCharts.pdf
peHUB reported yesterday that blog search engine Technorati had expanded its Series C round to $11.52 million, citing a regulatory filing. Some of you have asked for copies of said filing, so here it is: Technorati.pdf The company had held a $7.6 million first close last June, and later expanded the round to $10.52 million. DG Incubation, operator […]
I just spent a few minutes with Anders Hove, a healthcare- focused venture capitalist with Venrock. Neither he nor I have spent much time yet in the exhibitioner hall, but Anders did point out that this convention is about learning internal biotech market issues — not about identifying promising new companies (although there are certainly a […]
The last time Paul Ferri and Todd Dagres backed Jim Dolce, they hit a homerun with communications equipment provider Redstone Communications. So it’s no surprise that the pair is back on board for Dolce’s latest startup – a stealthy endeavor known as VeriVue Inc. Ferri is still a general partner with Matrix Partners, while Dagres […]
Venture capital performance showed modest improvement through year-end 2006, according to new data released this morning by the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial (publisher of peHUB). In particular, five-year performance moved from negative to positive territory (-1.2% to +1%), over data through the end of Q3 2006. No specific explanation is given for […]
Venture capital disbursements reached a six-year high of $7.1 billion in Q1 2007, according to new MoneyTree data released by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial. I’m still going through all the information, but here are some docs: Full data: MoneyTree_data.xls. Press release: Q1_PR.doc; Presentation given yesterday to media members: Moneytree Analyst Call_1Q2007.pdf […]
I was flipping through some regulatory filings last week, and noticed that Centrify Corp. had raised what looked like $15 million in Series C preferred equity funding. But a bit further down, I noticed that the company had listed all $15 million on the “debt” line, instead of on the “equity” line. So what did […]
Curt Schilling wants $48 million. And it has nothing to do with a possible contract extension from the Red Sox. Instead, it’s for a videogame startup he founded last year called 38 Studios. If successful, it would be the largest-ever first round funding for a gaming company. 38 Studios is developing online multiplayer games, with initial […]
Lots of blog chatter this morning about Aggregate Knowledge, a behavioral search company that just scored $20 million in Series B funding from DAG Ventures and Kleiner Perkins. See here, here and below. After all, it’s not too often that a widget company raises double-digit venture dollars. Moreover, it’s not too often that a company seeds […]
Aggregate Knowledge, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of behavioral search solutions within a single website, today announced that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. DAG Ventures led the deal, with return backers Kleiner Perkins and First Round Capital also participating. So we’ve got 5 Questions for Aggregate Knoweledge CEO Paul Martino: 1. […]