Larry Oberfeld

Biotech offerings lift January IPO figures

The IPO market starts the year strong with seven debuts from biotech companies, while M&A falters in January

U.S. deals: Largest investments, September 2013

Palantir Technologies, Otonomy, Kaiima and Virtustream were the top deals in tech, healthcare, cleantech and cloud, respectively, during the month

NEA Leads All Venture Dealmakers in July 2013

New Enterprise Associates and Maryland Technology Development Corp. each accounted for 10 venture deals in the month

Defense.net Raises $9.5 Mln

Defense.net announced $9.5 million in funding and an executive team of top DDoS experts including Barrett Lyon as Founder and CTO. The funding for the Belmont, California-based firm that mitigates modern Distribution Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is being led by Bessemer Venture Partners.