Private Equity
San Francisco-based video chat company Rabbit has raised a $3.3 million seed round. Michael Birch, founder of Bebo, CrunchFund and Google Ventures all participated in the investment, as well as angel investors.
2 min read · 01 March 2013
Stitch Fix, the San Francisco-based personal shopping platform, raised $4.75 million in its Series A. Investors Baseline Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round and Western Technology Investment also participated.
3 min read · 01 March 2013
Here's how you start your Friday morning--with great news for comedy fans, good advice... and JOURNEY. Tune into the First Read, and rock out.
1 min read · 01 March 2013
News from this week was big--major funding announcements, a big investigation and even bigger news, it seems, for job seekers!
1 min read · 25 February 2013
The results are in--so who are the big winners & losers among listed LBO shops? peHUB tracks the earnings calls.
2 min read · 25 February 2013
Kicking it off Friday, we've got reasons to check the sushi, making sense of LivingSocial, and why it's OK to look at the sun.
1 min read · 22 February 2013
Two years after Sun Capital Partners' minority investment, and less than a year after major executive turnover in its ranks, the Scooter Store is in hot water as investigators conduct a Medicare fraud probe.
2 min read · 21 February 2013
Every year, trade rags like peHUB are inundated with a boatload of private equity studies, venture capital surveys, statistical reports and analytical whatzits. Rather than take ‘em all on, this year the Hub decided to make private equity survey casserole—which is sanguine in big chunks, but perhaps a little less tasty for the middle market.
3 min read · 19 February 2013
This past week at peHUB, we had big news on personnel moves, fundraisings and guest columnists for our readers--check out the hits!
1 min read · 18 February 2013
Leaning into the long weekend, we've got the big hoops upset pick, electric cars and the NYT/Tesla debate raging on. See you Tuesday!
1 min read · 15 February 2013