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IBM TO Buy VC-Backed CoremetricsIBM has agreed to buy Coremetrics Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of Web analytics software. No financial terms were disclosed. Coremetrics has raised around $167 million in VC funding since 1999. Current shareholders include Accel Partners, FTV Capital, Highland Capital Partners, and W Capital Partners.
- PicoChip Raises $20 Million
PicoChip, a Bath, England-based provider of signal processing products for wireless communications, has raised $20 million in sixth-round funding. Return backers include Atlas Venture, Highland Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Pond Ventures, Rothschild, Samsung and Scottish Equity Partners. The company previously raised over $84 million.
- peHUB Wire: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Tuesday Talkback
- peHUB Wire: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Tuesday Talkback
- Executive moves, week of June 14, 2010
Hires and promotions at Carlyle, Highland, Battery Ventures and other PE and VC firms
- Privalia CEO Expects Consolidation Soon Among Private Online Sales Sites
Lucas Carné seems like an unlikely person to launch a private, online sales site. And I’m not trying to disparage his fashion sense. After all, I don’t know the difference between a Manola Blahnik and any other high-heeled shoe. But Carné, an engineer by training, and a onetime Bain & Co. consultant, is CEO of VC-backed Privalia, a Barcelona-based operator of a private online sales club that now operates in four countries, Spain, Italy, Brazil and Mexico, although Carné says that Spain accounts for about 70% of the company’s revenue. Privalia, which boasts at having 4 million active members, offers discounts on fashion apparel, sports wear, electronics, home furnishings and personal care items. Carné visited me in San Francisco this week, on his way to participate in the RBC Capital Markets Conference in New York today. We met over lunch while we talked at length about his company and the growth of the online sales market and VCs’ interest in the sector.
- On Heels of Foursquare Deal, Pepsi Looks to Partner with 10 More Startups
Pepsi, the food and beverage giant, is ramping up the ways it connects technologically with its customers. Toward that end, the company just launched a new contest aimed at involving 10 startups in yearlong pilot programs with one of Pepsi’s dozens of brands, including Frito-Lay, Mountain Dew, and Tropicana. Organized in conjunction with Highland Capital Partners http://www.hcp.com and Mashable http://mashable.com/ Pepsi is also offering winners access to its public relations and branding partners, including Weber Shandwick http://www.webershandwick.com/ and OMD http://www.omd.com/ “The idea is to identify young entrepreneurs with promising technologies but who don’t have a clear business plan to work with marketers,” says Seth Kaufman, PepsiCo’s director of media strategy and investment. Pepsi is hoping such relationships will help itself better connect with consumers -- “which is very important for us to figure out,” says Kaufman -- while serving as a marquee client off which the startups can capitalize down the road.
- Highland's Peter Bell Relocating to Silicon Valley
Peter Bell, a general partner with Highland Capital Partners, is relocating from the firm's Boston-area office to its Silicon Valley office. Bell joined the firm in 2006, and sits on the boards of Desktone, ExaGrid Systems, Gigamon, InXpo, Ocarina Networks, SCVNGR, Virtual Computer and VMTurbo.
- peHUB Wire: Friday, June 4, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Friday, June 4, 2010
Random Ramblings