Lawrence Aragon
While we’ve been blathering about Kleiner Perkins’ new sFund, frothy valuations and all things social, many of us failed to notice a stunning occurrence in October: The VC-backed IPO market surged back with a vengeance. No fewer than 12 VC-backed companies went public in October, raising in excess of $1.2 billion (click on table below). […]
Every month I compile a list of the top 10 largest tech, health care and cleantech deals for the prior month for Venture Capital Journal. VCJ subscribers can click on the following links for our top 10 lists.
Top 10 Tech Deals
Top 10 Cleantech Deals
Top 10 Health Care Deals
For peHUB members, here’s a taste from each of the categories, based on preliminary data gathered by Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB).
Three U.S. VCs tied for most active investor for October, according to preliminary data from Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB). Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates and Venrock Associates each backed five companies last month.
Subscribers to peHUB sister publication Venture Capital Journal can see the entire Top 10 list here.
If you want to get inside the head of one of the world’s most successful angel investors, take 12 minutes out of your day to watch the following video of Reid Hoffman. Hoffman is a partner with Greylock Partners, co-founder of LinkedIn and an angel investor in more than 80 startups, including Facebook and Zynga. […]
Former professional football player Harris Barton has stepped down as a managing director at Capital Dynamics to start an angel investment firm called Barton Asset Management, according to Private Equity Insider. We were unable to find a website for Barton Asset Management or contact information for Barton. We’ll update this story if we’re able to […]
Zynga Game Network, the maker of popular social networking games such as Farmville, has raised $6.3 million in equity, according to a Form D filed with the SEC today. The filing shows that three investors participated in the funding, but it did not name any of them. The capital is unlikely to be from new people, […]
A Series A semiconductor deal is pretty rare these days, so it caught our attention when we saw a regulatory filing today showing that Memoir Systems has raised $5.12 million in first-round funding. “We’re probably one of the few semiconductor companies funded in the last year or so,” says Sundar Iyer, a repeat entrepreneur and […]
Fund-raising news about Forbion Capital Partners, Octopus Investments, Barclays Private Equity, Verdane Capital Advisors, Montagu and a successor fund to Italy’s Valiance
As part of its 10% staff reduction this week, hedge fund D.E. Shaw has cut “most ofthe firm’s venture capital group,” according to Dan Primack of Fortune. Primack says D.E. Shaw has decided to “halt all future investments in venture capital, due to its long-term investment horizons.” Three senior staffers remain on board in the venture […]
GigaOm is reporting that AOL is “on the verge” of buying TechCrunch, the tech blog founded by attorney-turned-blogger Michael Arrington. GigaOm founder Om Malik reports that “the deal is at a sensitive stage and might fall apart just yet, but I don’t think so. Sources familiar to both entities says that the announcement is likely […]