Vancouver and Toronto stand out as central hubs for cleantech investing, though venture-backed startups are clustered in metropolitan areas nationwide. Vancouver, which is the home base of hydrogen fuel cell developer Ballard Power Systems, has attracted many startups specializing in alternative battery technologies. Vancouver, the Canada’s largest metro area on the West Coast, is also […]
The strength of the country’s dollar is messing with VCs, effecting stage allocations, portfolio valuations and a firm’s ability to syndicate.
$500M fund is the largest pool raised for biofuel investments.
Sunnyvale, Calif. • 408-716-4600 www.accuray.com Exchange and Ticker: Nasdaq: ARAY Filing Range: 7.33M shares @ $14.00 to $16.00 Offering Price: $18.00 Close on First Day: $28.47 Offering Size: $288M Shares Outstanding: 52,212,444 Underwriters: JP Morgan/ UBS Investment Bank Co-manager: Jefferies & Co. Inc. Company Counsel: Latham & Watkins Manager Counsel: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati […]
Cambridge, Mass. • 617-492-5554 • www.molecularinsight.com Exchange and Ticker: Nasdaq: MIPI Filing Range: 5M shares @ $14.00 to $16.00 Offering Price: $14.00 Close on First Day: $14.09 Offering Size: $70M Shares Outstanding: 24,639,622 Underwriters: RBC Capital Markets/ Jefferies & Co. Inc. Co-managers: AG Edwards & Sons Inc./ Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Company Counsel: Foley & […]
San Diego, Calif. • 858-909-0736 • www.optimerpharma.com Exchange and Ticker: Nasdaq: OPTR Filing Range: 5.25M shares @ $12.00 to $14.00 Offering Price: $7.00 Close on First Day: $8.50 Offering Size: $49M Shares Outstanding: 21,747,659 Underwriters: Piper Jaffray Cos./ Jefferies & Co. Inc. Co-managers: JMP Securities LLC/ Rodman & Renshaw Inc. Company Counsel: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich […]
Waltham, Mass. • 781-464-7300 • www.salary.com Exchange and Ticker: Nasdaq: SLRY Filing Range: 4.2M shares @ $8.00 to $10.00 Offering Price: $10.50 Close on First Day: $12.50 Offering Size: $59.90M Shares Outstanding: 15,014,577 Underwriter: Thomas Weisel Partners LLC Co-managers: William Blair & Co./ Needham & Co. Inc./ Wachovia Securities Inc./ Pacific Crest Securities Inc. Company […]
Lexington, Mass. • 781-274-8200 • www.syntapharma.com Exchange and Ticker: Nasdaq: SNTA Filing Range: 6M shares @ $14.00 to $16.00 Offering Price: $10.00 Close on First Day: $9.09 Offering Size: $50M Shares Outstanding: 33,817,434 Underwriters: Bear Stearns & Co. Inc./ Lehman Brothers Co-managers: Lazard Capital Markets/ Montgomery & Co. Company Counsel: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky […]
When you're on a mission to prevent your industry from repeating a big mistake, you can get a little overzealous. That appears to be what happened to superstar VC Vinod Khosla. During a talk in which he denounced the hype surrounding nanotech and warned of a bubble, Khosla criticized plans by profitless venture-backed startup Nanosys to go public. He later took the unusual step of issuing an apology to the company.
Vinod Khosla, one of the industry’s most respected technology investors, has warned of an impending nanotechnology “bubble” and criticized plans by venture-backed Nanosys Inc. to become the first publicly traded nanotech company. Khosla, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, made the comments at the MIT/Stanford/UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum at Stanford University on […]