Private Equity
Khosla Ventures invested in a $3 million round for Bidgely, a service for consumers monitoring their power bills.
4 min read · 29 October 2012
Gemini Israel Ventures led a $5.5 million round in WalkMe, an online guidance system based in San Francisco. VCs Mangrove Capital Partners and Giza Venture Capital also participated in the round.
3 min read · 29 October 2012
Sharp Freight Systems Inc., an intermodal and truckload brokerage headquartered in California, has been absorbed into Echo Global Logistics, a Chicago-based supply chain management service provider.
1 min read · 29 October 2012
Prospect Global Resources, the Colorado based potash exploration and extraction firm, has entered into an agreement with New York-based, listed private equity firm Apollo Global Management in which Apollo will lend the company $100 million in the form of 10% convertible second lien notes with an option to purchase stock.
4 min read · 29 October 2012
Bluebird bio, the gene therapy company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took in an award of $9.3 million for the first round of its strategic partnership with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
3 min read · 29 October 2012
Forget Facebook’s face-plant: its enterprise service firms and semiconductor companies that have institutional investors’ ears at IPO time, now. 2012’s fourth quarter showcased some successful IPOs, so far. PeHUB tracks the latest companies to try to mint VCs millions on public markets with today's slideshow.
2 min read · 29 October 2012
Leading off Monday morning, we've got bad news for a life sci VC, a new job opening in DC and Girardi playing Mr. Nice Guy.
1 min read · 29 October 2012
For Friday First Read, we'll just keep it to a simple warning for those of you out West: There's been a panda loose in San Francisco the last two nights, and he's killin' Tigers all over the place!
1 min read · 26 October 2012
Thomson Reuters' Venture Alpha 2012 event Thursday in San Francisco, we heard from investing and entrepreneurial legends including Benchmark GP Bill Gurley, DCM founder Dixon Doll and AOL founder Steve Case. Visiting the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill, VCs, entrepreneurs and dealmakers gathered for a day-long series of talks and meetings on the state and future of the venture capital industry.
1 min read · 19 October 2012
How are we wrapping it up this week? Today's peHUB First Read has wolverine frogs (yes, you read that right), GitHub down but not out and Yelp dealing out scarlet letters.
1 min read · 19 October 2012
