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- Qualtré Nets $10M Investment
Qualtré Inc., the motion sensor supplier, has taken in an additional $10 million in financing from a group of VC investors. Pilot House Ventures and Matrix Partners participated in the financing. Specifics of the investment were not publicized. Stan Reiss, a general partner with Matrix, worked on the investment for the VC.
- eBay Strikes Zong Deal
Listed, California-based online retailer eBay has acquired Zong, the mobile carrier billing firm, for about $240 million, the company announced early Thursday. Zong is based in Menlo Park with offices in Geneva, Paris and Dusseldorf, and is backed by Matrix Partners, Advent Venture Partners and Newbury Ventures.
- Scoop: BuyWithMe to Seek VC Bucks Amid M&A Spree
Daily deals website BuyWithMe.com will conduct a new round of fundraising in the next few months, according to a senior source. BuyWithMe has big competitors, clearly: Groupon raised $950 million earlier this year after spurning a Google offer and is expected to raise about $750 million more through its IPO; LivingSocial took in nearly $600 million across two rounds of fundraising in six months’ time. Gilt Groupe sought and secured nearly $140 million en route to a $1 billion valuation. And some of BuyWithMe’s well-capitalized competitors are dispensing money to build scale and quickly develop a merchant roster....
- IPO Profiles from April 2011
Profiles of 7 VC-backed companies that debuted in April 2011
- LinkedIn Leads Latest IPO Surge
The social network for professionals, which has a market cap of more than $9B, is one of 15 VC-backed companies to go public in April and May
- To Have and Have Not
Fundraising is up but so is capital scarcity and the gulf between success and failure
- Slide Show: Top IPO Pops By Venture-Backed Companies-Updated
LinkedIn is the darling of the market, pricing its IPO Wednesday at $45 and trading late today at $97.83, up 117%. But this is a big yawn compared to the days of the dotcom bubble. To put this in perspective, we thought we would look back at the top first-day pops by venture capital-backed IPOs, dating back to 1990. This slide show is a countdown, presented ranked by first-day percentage gain.