Larry Oberfeld
The IPO market starts the year strong with seven debuts from biotech companies, while M&A falters in January
Palantir Technologies, Otonomy, Kaiima and Virtustream were the top deals in tech, healthcare, cleantech and cloud, respectively, during the month
New Enterprise Associates and Maryland Technology Development Corp. each accounted for 10 venture deals in the month
Defense.net announced $9.5 million in funding and an executive team of top DDoS experts including Barrett Lyon as Founder and CTO. The funding for the Belmont, California-based firm that mitigates modern Distribution Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is being led by Bessemer Venture Partners.