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- PE Week Wire: Friday, October 31, 2008
Private Equity as Footwear
- PE Week Wire: Friday, October 31, 2008
Private Equity as Footwear
- Sale of AIG's PE assets in the offing
AIG's private equity business could be sold to a single buyer in early November
- PE Week Wire: Monday, October 27, 2008
Random Ramblings
- PE Week Wire: Monday, October 27, 2008
Random Ramblings
- LinkedIn Raises Additional $22.7 Million
LinkedIn, a San Francisco-based operator of a professional networking platform, has raised $22.7 million in additional Series D funding. It had previously held a $53 million first close at a valuation of just over $1 billion. The new tranche came from Goldman Sachs, McGraw-Hill Cos., SAP Ventures and return backer Bessemer Venture Partners. The original tranche had been led by Bain Capital Ventures.
- peHUB First Read
* Al Qaeda monitors the U.S. financial crisis http://blogs.reuters.com/global/ * Sankaty Advisors, the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, is suffering major writedowns in its latest funds http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122472657432961253.html This is actually worse for Bain than it appears at first blush, because Bain took $200 million /2068/bain-capital-funds-itself/ out of its ninth buyout fund to help bolster one of the Sankaty vehicles in question. * Goldman Sachs plans to cut 10% of its workforce /21331/goldman-sachs-cutting-10-of-workforce/ * LinkedIn raises more money, which gives Rafat an opportunity to introduce us to a new buzzword http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-linkedin-going-for-hydrogen-winter-raises-another-27-million-from-mcgra/ : Hydrogen Winter. * Hollywood and Silicon Valley need eachother, but Spark Capital partner Dennis Miller says that the current relationship is "wildly dysfunctional." http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/hollywood-and-silicon-valleys-awkward-dance/?dbk * Sequoia Capital's portfolio companies keep laying off. Yesterday it was Mahalo http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/jason-calacanis-mahalo-fires-a-third-of-its-u-s-staff Today it's Imeem, a streaming music company that may also be on the auction block http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/the-note/the-note/report-imeem-lays-off-25-of-st.php