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- Sakti3 Gets $4.2M From General Motors Ventures, Itochu Technology Ventures
Sakti3 Inc., an Ann Arbor-based developer of lithium-ion batteries, received a $4.2 million investment from General Motors Ventures and Itochu Technology Ventures. Sakti3 plans to use the capital to advance its manufacturing capabilities.
- Angels Aid Early Stage Cleantech
VCs are putting more money into later stage cleantech companies, motivating angels to fill the void in seed and early stage, where valuations have dropped
- Chegg Buys CourseRank
Chegg, an online textbook rental company, has acquired CourseRank, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of an online platform for college students to create and share their course schedule and write reviews of professors. No financial terms were disclosed. Chegg has raised around $144 million in private equity and debt, from groups that include Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Insight Venture Partners.
- peHUB Wire: Friday, August 20, 2010
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- peHUB Wire: Friday, August 20, 2010
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* Paul Graham: What happened to Yahoo http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html Laurence Kotlikoff: The U.S. is bankrupt and we don't even know it http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html * Megan McArdle argues that the public equity premium may be gone forever http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/the-great-stock-myth/8178/ : "Once everyone believes that the stock market offers high returns for relatively little risk, that notion stops being true." * Morning Call: U.S. futures mixed http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A15320100812 London rises early http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE67B0KN20100812 European shares stay static http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE67B0G220100812 and the Nikkei hits a 13-month low http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE67B05F20100812 * Are the Barclays layoffs just the first axe to fall? http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/08/11/barclays-layoffs-the-first-of-many-axes-to-fall * Pav Jordan: CPPIB and the mathematics of explosive growth http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A46G20100811 * Christopher Mims: Why we need the giant tablet computer known as Kno http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25590/ * Inside the Babson summer venture program, from a student's perspective http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/08/12/inside-the-babson-college-summer-venture-program-a-student%e2%80%99s-perspective/ * Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins says that CEOs are like different breeds of dogs http://www.fastcompany.com/1674779/randy-komisar-kleiner-perkins-caufield-byer-leadership-management-entrepreneurship
- VC-Backed IPO Pipeline: Lots of Inflow and Outflow
The VC-backed IPO pipeline got a bit more clogged since the last time we checked in, with six new issuers filing to raise around $616 million. Four companies priced offerings during the same period, meaning that the pipeline now holds 40 companies seeking to raise around $3.4 billion. The new filers are: Demand Media, JHorizon Pharma, Complete Genomics, SiGe Semiconductor, MakeMyTrip and Epocrates. I also considered including Skype, but that's more of a buyout-backed offering (despite the involvement of Andreessen Horowitz). Those that priced over were: Green Dot, Envestnet, Trius Therapeutics and RealD. The full pipeline is after the jump...
- peHUB Wire: Friday, August 6, 2010
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