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peHUB Wire: Thursday, July 30, 200954,000 and Counting…
- Stratim Buys Stake in Linden Lab
Stratim Capital, a San Francisco-based direct secondaries firm, has acquired an equity stake in Linden Lab, maker of the Second Life virtual world, peHUB has learned. Details are scarce, except that the seller is not one of Linden Lab’s institutional investors. “It is true,” said Stratim managing partner Zach Abrams, when I called him for confirmation. “We bought almost the entire position of an existing shareholder... I don’t think this is a company that anyone will be able to put new money into, because it doesn’t look like it will need to raise another VC round.” Linden Lab has raised around $19 million in VC funding, from firms like Benchmark Capital, Catamount Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners and Omidyar Network.
- Exit watch, week of June 8, 2009
Recaps of venture-backed companies, such as PayCycle, Keibi and others, that were bought last week
- Lithium Technologies Buys Keibi
Lithium Technologies, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of on-demand solutions for enterprise communities, has acquired Keibi Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of automated content discovery, analysis and moderation for online communities. No financial terms were disclosed. Lithium has raised $21 million in VC funding from Benchmark Capital, Emergence Capital and Shasta Ventures. Keibi had raised around $9 million from firms like Catamount Ventures and Hunt Ventures.
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Random Ramblings
- H20 Prize Aims To Cultivate Water Startups
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tamin Pechet is a young venture capitalist who wants to invest in water start-ups, but has found a dearth of opportunities even as the world searches for solutions to widespread water scarcity. So to lead entrepreneurs to water, Pechet co-founded the not-for-profit Imagine H2O (www.imagineh2o.org/ http://www.imagineh2o.org/ ) and launched a prize competition this week aimed at sparking innovation and new business for the water market. Water is a $500 billion business worldwide, but draws a mere 0.5 percent of venture capital, or about six or seven investments a year. "I think there is a pervasive lack of awareness, not only of water problems, but of water opportunities," said the 30-year-old Pechet, a principal at Catamount Ventures in San Francisco who previously worked at Goldman Sachs investing in private energy companies.
- Week in deals, March 23, 2009
Summary of tech companies and other businesses that raised financing in North America in the past week
- Exit watch, week of March 16, 2009
News briefs about ForHealth, SezWho and other VC-backed companies that were bought in the past week
- peHUB Wire: Monday, March 16, 2009
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