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peHUB Wire: Wednesday, April 28, 2010Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Random Ramblings
- VC-Backed IPO Pipeline Keeps Growing
Tengion priced its IPO last Friday, becoming the 11th VC-backed company to go public on a U.S. exchange in 2010. It also was the sixth to do so since we last looked /66353/vc-backed-ipo-pipeline-remains-full/ at the VC-backed IPO pipeline (the other newbies were Calix, China Lodging, MaxLinear, Meru Networks and SS&C Technologies). There also have been eight new additions to the pipeline in the past month. That works out to a total of 42 VC-backed companies currently in registration to go public on U.S. exchanges, representing more than $4.6 billion in targeted raise (a net increase of just over $100m). The full pipeline is after the jump...
- Week in deals, April 12, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- Telecom Infrastructure Is Hot Again
For years, communications networking has been pretty much a one-way investment bet. That is, money went into startups, but very little came back out. In recent weeks though, that’s been changing. At least three companies in the sector have gone public in the past three weeks, and others are waiting in the wings. Overall, market reception has been warm. Shares in wireless network provider Meru Networks closed up 28% in first-day trading on March 31, with shares trading in a narrow range since. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Meru which sells wireless LAN equipment, raised $66 million in a Nasdaq offering. Principle shareholders include Clearstone Venture Partners (21% stake), Vision Opportunity Master Fund (19%), NeoCarta Ventures (18%) Bluestream Ventures (16%) and D.E. Shaw (16%). Meru has raised $171 million in venture funding since 2002. Telecom equipment maker Calix Networks also posted double-digit gains in its debut a week earlier. Calix, a Petaluma, Calif.-based provider of communications access systems and software, priced its 6.3 million shares offering at $13 per share, the high end of its proposed range. The stock closed up 16% in first-day
- Week in deals, April 5, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- LP corner, week of April 5, 2010
News briefs about LPs in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and North Carolina
- peHUB Wire: Monday, April 5, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Monday, April 5, 2010
Random Ramblings
- Sakti3 Raises $7 Million
Sakti3 Inc., an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based developer of lithium-ion batteries, has raised $7 million in Series B funding. Beringea was joined on the deal by return backer Khosla Ventures.