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- M&A Heats Up
Big price tags for AdMob, LifeSize Communications, Playfish and Revolution Money raise hopes that acquisition market is coming back
Highland Reaches Target for Fund VIIINew England firm raises $400 million, but it is half the amount it raised for its seventh fund
Giving Gamers Best of Both WorldsStartups such as Groundspeak, SCVNGR and Stray Boots blend online and mobile technology with real life games, like scavenger hunts
Tales from the Fund-Raising TrailVCs share their war stories about raising money in the worst fund-raising market in 15 years
M&A Heats UpBig price tags for AdMob, LifeSize Communications, Playfish and Revolution Money raise hopes that acquisition market is coming back
- HBS Biz Plan Winner Gets Venture Capital Funding
Winning Harvard Business School's annual business plan competition is officially worth $50k and a silver fruit bowl (sans fruit). For this past April's winner, it also helped foment a VC feeding frenzy. "We almost immediately began getting a lot of interest from VC firms around the world," says Matthew Prince, president and CEO of CloudFlare, an Internet security startup focused on website access control. "We were in a really luxurious position to be able to look around to see who made the most sense for us to work with, from both an expertise and personality perspective." CloudFlare went with Venrock and UV Partners, which recently provided a $2.05 million Series A round. Ray Rothrock of Venrock and Carl Ledbetter of UV Partners joined the CloudFlare board of directors.
- PicoChip Raises $20 Million
PicoChip, a Bath, England-based provider of signal processing products for wireless communications, has raised $20 million in Series E funding. Backers include Atlas Venture, Highland Capital Partners, Pond Venture Partners, Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild, AT&T, Intel and Samsung The company previously raised over $64 million.
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, November 19, 2009
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