HomeAway Inc., an Austin, Texas-based operator of an online vacation rentals website, has acquired the publisher of Brazilian vacation rental site AlugueTemporada.com.br. No financial terms were disclosed. HomeAway has raised over $480 million in VC funding, from firms like Technology Crossover Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Trident Capital and Austin Ventures.
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Omthera Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Bedminster, N.J.-based developer of dyslipidemia therapies, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Sofinnova Partners.
4 min read · 08 March 2010
PlumWillow, a New York-based developer of a social shopping site, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed capital led by Crossbar Capital.
1 min read · 08 March 2010
Broadcom Corp. has acquired Teknovus Inc., a Petaluma, Calif.-based provider of broadband-access semiconductor chipsets, for $123 million in cash. Teknovus had raised around $66 million in VC funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Galleon Crossover Funds, Vision Venture Capital, Technology Alliance Investment, Itochu Technology Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Partech International, Focus Ventures, Samsung and Mitsubishi.
2 min read · 08 March 2010
Tilera Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of multicore processors, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. New backers include Broadcom Corp., Quanta Computer and NTT Financing Corp. The company previously raised $39 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital and Walden International.
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Samer Hamadeh has joined Lightspeed Venture Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence. He is the former co-founder and CEO of Vault.com.
1 min read · 08 March 2010
Smartdate, a Paris-based online dating site, has raised $2.2 million in first-round funding led by 360 Capital Partners. It previously raised $400,000 in angel funding.
2 min read · 08 March 2010
