Private Equity
Like many venture firms that surfaced in the go-go days of the late ‘90s, Blueprint Ventures, a South San Francisco based firm that focused on IP spinouts, eventually failed to continue attracting sufficient LP interest and began winding down three years ago.
2 min read · 05 March 2013
Almost exactly two years after John Battelle stepped aside as the CEO of Federated Media Publishing -- the San Francisco-based digital media firm that helps companies market their brands through Websites, blogs and social networking applications -- he is returning to the post, the company announced moments ago.
2 min read · 01 March 2013
Dallas-based SunTX Capital Partners has sold its portfolio company, Huron, a Lexington, Mich.-based supplier of tubular assemblies and precision-machined products. Terms of the sale, to a "financial sponsor," were not disclosed.
3 min read · 28 February 2013
Julep Beauty, a Seattle-based beauty brand, has raised $10.3 million in Series B funding led by the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and including Western Technology Investments and Version One Ventures. Previous investors in the company, including Maveron; Lady Gaga's manager, Troy Carter; and Precedent Investments also participated in the new round.
5 min read · 28 February 2013
CardioKinetix, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based medical device company, has completed the $23 million second-tranche of its Series E financing, bringing the total round to $48 million. Panorama Capital is the company's newest investor. It joins previous investors U.S. Venture Partners, JPMorgan Partners, New Leaf Venture Partners, SV Life Sciences, H&Q Healthcare Investors, and H&Q Life Sciences Investors.
3 min read · 28 February 2013
Health Catalyst, a Salt Lake City-based data warehousing company that's focused on healthcare, has added $8 million to its Series B round, care of Kaiser Permanente Ventures and CHV Capital. Previously, the company had raised $33 million for its Series B, from investors that include Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Sorenson Capital.
4 min read · 28 February 2013
Plastiq, a Boston-based online payments company, has raised $6 million in financing. The round was led by Atlas Venture and Flybridge Capital Partners and also included investors in an earlier, $2.3 million financing sewn up last spring. Those other investors include NextView Ventures, Greenoaks Capital Management and individual investors such as Harvey Golub, the former chairman and CEO of American Express.
2 min read · 28 February 2013
This week, the research company Nielsen published a new report on mobile consumers, and it's rich with data that highlights how very differently people use their phones across Australia, Brazil, China, India, Italy, South Korea, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.
2 min read · 27 February 2013
With all the brainiacs pouring out of America’s top universities and into startups and accelerator programs, it’s no wonder that U.S. investors don’t tend to look far when scouting for talent. But Oxford University would like these investors to know that some of its own brainiacs have begun to found companies – and that the 800-year-old institution is doing more than ever to prepare them for success in their endeavors.
4 min read · 27 February 2013
Codenvy, a San Francisco-based cloud environment for coding, building, and testing apps, today announced it has closed $9 million in Series A led by Toba Capital with Auriga Partners and a number of angels participating.
3 min read · 26 February 2013
