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Silver Spring Networks signaled its determination to complete an initial public offering by announcing a planned $12-million private placement with its largest shareholder, Foundation Capital.
Funds by IVP and Sofinnova score the best multiples in the city pension fund
The firm closed its third fund, which at $225 million is exactly the same size as its second and first funds. Foundry Venture Capital 2012 will follow the same strategy as the earlier funds, also.
The Angel Capital Association named David Verrill, co-founder of Hub Angels Investment Group, as its board chair. ACA also elected three new directors, Mike Eckert of Atlanta Technology Angels, Christopher Mirabile of LaunchPad Venture Group, and Jean Peters of Golden Seeds.
Facebook stock is likely an attractive long-term buy, Y Combinator might be seeing stress signs from its expansion, and Greylock Partner’s Discovery Fund is now three-quarters through its $20 million in capital. So says Reid Hoffman.
Adaptive Planning said it has acquired myDIALS. The acquisition will allow the company to expand its corporate performance management offerings to include cloud-based visualization and business intelligence. No deal terms were released. PRESS RELEASE Adaptive Planning Acquires myDIALS – Ushers in New Era of Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Delivers SaaS Data Visualization to Enable Robust BI […]
Institutional Venture Partners had one of the top performing funds in the San Francisco pension fund
The fund was oversubscribed and attracted most of its LPs from the United States, said Nexus co-founder Naren Gupta. “We had a lot of demand.”
Sierra Ventures said it has added Aaron Tong as partner and Ayden Ye as analyst. Tong joins the firm from TCL Capital where he was a vice president and board member. Ye comes to Sierra from InnoSpring, the US-China incubator based in Silicon Valley. PRESS RELEASE SIERRA VENTURES EXPANDS INVESTMENT TEAM WITH TWO NEW HIRES […]
Big company innovation is an oxymoron, right? Maybe not. Innovation expert Scott Anthony argues that a dramatic shift is underway in corporate innovation with significant ramifications for venture capitalists.
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