This morning's First Read takes a look at the popularity stakes of Google, Apple and Facebook and unlocks the secret of Silicon Valley's success.
1 min read · 25 September 2012
UK-based Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has launched its debt advisory practice with the appointment of Ross McDonald as head of debt advisory. McDonald will be focused on developing the debt advisory business, through working with private equity owned, private and listed companies on accessing public and private debt capital markets.
2 min read · 24 September 2012
YapStone, a provider of Web and mobile payment solutions and processing for targeted vertical markets, has hired chief financial officer, Mary Hentges. She will lead the company’s global financial operations and work closely with the management team on the creation and execution of its business strategy, operating plan and corporate development activities. Accel Partners and Meritech Capital Partners made a $50 million minority investment in YapStone last year.
2 min read · 24 September 2012
4 min read · 24 September 2012
Canadian start-up Crowdbase has secured $650,000 in seed financing from Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, and Martin-Luc Archambault (Bolidea) to accelerate product development and expand its team. Crowdbase allows teams to share questions, answers, notes, and Web links in a private social network.
3 min read · 24 September 2012
Online retailer Coterie has launched. Based in San Francisco, California, Coterie is founded by Bare Escentuals, Sephora, Amazon, YSL and L'Oreal alum. The business is venture backed by SoftTech VC, Javelin Venture Partners and other angel investors focused on e-commerce.
3 min read · 24 September 2012
Get up to speed with the latest happenings in PE and VC over the weekend with this morning's First Read which features who you should be following in the life science space and where buyout firms are headed next.
1 min read · 24 September 2012
This week, peHUB thought it would be of interest to showcase the position of senior investment officer, private equity at the $49.2 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM).
3 min read · 22 September 2012
Domestic buyout funds with vintages ranging from 1984 to 2005 account for four of the top ten performers in the private equity portfolio of the $49.2 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, according to its most recent IRR report as of December 31. The top ten also features three more buyouts funds focused on global, European and energy-related deals.
2 min read · 20 September 2012
Headland Capital Partners has appointed George Raffini as chairman and Marcus Thompson as chief executive officer, respectively, of the firm. Raffini and Thompson were previously joint managing partners of Headland. The firm also named Douglas Ng as senior partner, head of corporate development, from his prior role of senior partner, investor relations.
2 min read · 20 September 2012
