Until They Automate You… Some of the best paid toll booth ticket-takers in the biz So Now there’s no millionaire’s tax? Can Ron Paul take Iowa? Time: Names its person(s) of the year Uncle Ben: Did the refi Twist End of a Goldman Era: Partner Berlinski retires after 26 years with the firm Angel Chase: It's a tough race to enter PowerPoint Watch Out! Prezi stepping up campaign with funding boost Get the Party Started: Punchbowl celebrates funding boost Follower of Fashion: FashionPlaytes gets guardian angel Taking Shape: Alibaba prepares loan for Yahoo
1 min read · 15 December 2011
I’ve made my case, now, readers, we’re putting it to you to make the call. As biotech and life sciences in the Boston area slows, and consumer internet investments become increasingly popular in New York, which city is tops for VC activity—Beantown, or the Big Apple? Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.
1 min read · 14 December 2011
Utah-based Mrs. Fields’ Famous Brands, franchisor of cookie-maker and TCBY, completed a refinancing with Z Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group. Specifics of the transaction were not publicized.
3 min read · 14 December 2011
Leonard Green has done OK on Whole Foods Zagat’s Got a Friend: Google buys Clever Sense Deadspin’s Drew Magary is pretty freakin’ popular Will the White House smackdown the GOP’s payroll tax pitch? Steve Cohen Finds insider trading rules “vague.” Not vague: the thickness of a prison wall. A Peculiar Love Affair: The private equity and pubic pension relationship Would you work here? Bain tops best places to work list Lasting FM: The grandaddy of online music services serenades users with new discovery tool The Glaxo Consumer Assets Race: Thomas H Lee currently in the lead Another Euro Bank gets ready to sell off PE assets Pipe Dreams for Olympus? Ousted CEO says he would favour PE backing for a recapitalisation
1 min read · 14 December 2011
3 min read · 13 December 2011
xAd, the mobile-local advertising network, raised an additional $9 million led by Emergence Capital Partners, a prior investor in the company. Other existing backers including SoftBank Capital and Palisades Ventures, as well as SVB, also participated in the funding. In March, xAd acquired mobile property go2, a mobile Web guide.
3 min read · 13 December 2011
California-based IntegenX Inc., maker of DNA identification technology, raised a $40 million Series C round led by new investor Essex Woodlands. Domain Associates, QuestMark Partners, Greenspring Associates, Cross Creek Capital, RONAholdings LLC, Samsung Ventures, and strategic partner In-Q-Tel also participated in the funding. Joining the company's Board of Directors are Ronald Eastman of Essex Woodlands and Ben Shapiro of QuestMark Partners, the statement said.
4 min read · 13 December 2011
Massachusetts-based Catabasis Pharmaceuticals raised an additional $8 million in its Series A financing, now bringing its total funding for the round to $47.6 million. The company is developing an omega-3 conjugated compound for patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia. SV Life Sciences, Clarus Ventures, MedImmune Ventures and Advanced Technology Ventures all participated in the funding.
1 min read · 13 December 2011
Village Ventures and Contour Venture Partners lead a $2 million seed round in Zipmark, it was announced early Tuesday. NYC Seed, High Peaks Venture Capital and the New York City Investment fund also joined in on the transaction. Zipmark is a New York-based mobile and online payments company.
3 min read · 13 December 2011
So Um What's the real unemployment rate? Oh. So Um What's the most shared links on Tweetminster today? So Folks Are paying how much for Norwegian butter? So Prokhorov wants to run the Nets and Russia Entrepreneurs This is how you throw a holiday party that doesn't piss off your investors Financial Investigator Roddy Boyd lays the smackdown on Neil Shen In a Flash! Apple homes in on venture-backed flash memory company Anobit Anyone for Chinese logistics? Canada Pension Plan says yes! Specialist Advice: Trident Gets the Big Data Expert Back to Private Equity Roots: Chinese sovereign wealth fund real estate head Lau switches to become Euro PE head VIP Treatment: Australian pet food producer subject of private equity duel Australian Funds Flood in: QIC wins billion dollar private equity mandate Gowalla Investors are Cool with $3m Facebook shares deal
1 min read · 13 December 2011
