GoCoin has closed a $1.5 million Series A equity financing led by Bitcoin Shop and former Facebook COO, Owen Van Natta. Crypto Currency Partners also participated in the round.
3 min read · 27 March 2014
RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund has backed ShareTracker, a provider of communications and telecom market share measurement products. ShareTracker was formed in 2003 and is headquartered in Ashland, Mo.
3 min read · 27 March 2014
Split, a company dedicated to helping people avoid awkward encounters, has raised a $1 million seed investment from high-profile private investors, including entrepreneur, investor, and real estate and fashion mogul, Christopher Burch; Warner Music Group director and PERFORM board member, Jorg Mohaupt; international designer, actress and fashion icon, Dodo Bar Or; CEO and co-founder of acclaimed advertising and branding agency Zarmon Goldman DDB, Hadar Goldman; private venture capitalist and board member of several internet businesses, Alex Zubillaga; and PERFORM joint CEO and board member, Oliver Slipper. The Split apps work by gathering a person’s existing contact and social information (as they permit) as well as public social network data from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare.
4 min read · 27 March 2014
Circle Internet Financial, a digital currency company has closed $17 million in Series B financing, bringing its total raise to date to $26 million. Breyer Capital, Accel Partners and General Catalyst Partners were joined by new investor Oak Investment Partners to lead the round.
3 min read · 27 March 2014
SAP has acquired Fieldglass from Madison Dearborn Partners. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Fieldglass is a technology provider for procuring and managing contingent labor and services.
5 min read · 27 March 2014
TPG Specialty Lending closed its initial public offering of 7,000,000 shares of its common stock on March 26, 2014. Concurrently with the initial public offering, TSL sold $50 million of its common stock to certain existing investors, including TSL Advisers, LLC, the company’s investment adviser and administrator, through a separate private placement at the initial public offering price per share.
4 min read · 27 March 2014
3i has realized 29 million pounds in Quintiles’ secondary public offering. These proceeds take 3i’s cash return to date from its original investment in Quintiles to 1.4x and, including remaining value, to 2.6x in sterling terms.
2 min read · 27 March 2014
This morning catch up on the latest private equity and venture capital updates including a study of venture returns in cleantech IPOs, why more women in venture are needed and whether or not you can learn entrepreneurship.
1 min read · 27 March 2014
Indix Corporation has closed $8.5 million of a $9 million Series A-1 round of financing, co-led by Avalon Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. Founded in 2010, Indix is a SaaS and big data product intelligence platform based in Seattle with a product development and engineering team in Chennai, India.
3 min read · 26 March 2014
Embrane has raised $14 million in Series C funding, led by Cisco. The round also includes new investor Presidio Ventures and participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates and North Bridge Venture Partners. Embrane is a provider of application-centric network services.
3 min read · 26 March 2014
