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Exit watch, week of Aug. 16, 2010News briefs about IPOs of RealPage and MediaMind and acquisitions of Arbor Networks, GameLogic, MSpoke and OptiMedica
- Scientific Games Buys VC-Backed GameLogic
Scientific Games Corp. (Nasdaq: SGMS) has acquired GameLogic Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of solutions that help casino operators enchance customer relationships and attract new players. No financial terms were disclosed. GameLogic had raised around $28 million from Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst Partners and Maveron.
- peHUB Wire: Friday, August 6, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Friday, August 6, 2010
Random Ramblings
- Zulily Raises $6 Million
Zulily, a Seattle-based private shopping site for children's items, has raised $6 million in Series B funding. August Capital led the round, and was joined by return backer Maveron LLC.
- Kwedit Shifts Gears, Rolling Out PayNearMe Next Month
VC-backed startup Kwedit http://www.kwedit.com/ is best known for three things: for enabling people to pay for digital goods online through small amounts of virtual credit; for its silly name; and for the viciously funny lambasting http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/265469/march-02-2010/the-word---kid-owe it received by Stephen Colbert for both of these things. But Kwedit’s founders and investors have had a bigger ambition for the company almost from the start: to enable at least one-quarter of the U.S. population to make remote cash transactions -- from global remittances to bill paying to catalog shopping to the purchase of virtual goods in social media games. “Basically, if you want to use cash to pay a vendor but can’t hand it to them directly, we’re building a set of services to do that for you,” Shader told me back in March /67396/kwedit-founder-danny-shader-on-why-his-highly-hyped-company-isnt-what-you-think/ Apparently, those services are nearly ready. In August, peHUB has learned, the company rolls out PayNearMe http://www.paynearme.com According to its site, the service is targeting “25 percent of American households that don’t have a credit or debit card” along with the “75 percent who do, [but] don’t want to use them online for security, privacy, or budgeting reasons.”
- Week in deals, May 10, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- TheWrap Secures $2 Million
TheWrap.com, an online news site focused on the entertainment and media markets, has raised $2 million in Series B funding led by return backer Maveron Capital. The company was founded Sharon Waxman, former Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times.
- Week in deals, April 12, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- peHUB First Read
* Ben Horowitz explains Ron Conway http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/07/ron-conway-explained/ * Martha White: How the iPad could revolutionize healthcare http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/0s-1s-and-s/2010/04/07/apple-day * The placement agent issue gets political in Massachusetts http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2010/04/07/placement-agents-and-politics-perfect-together/ Meanwhile, California's proposed placement agent ban takes a baby step forward http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/07/2662093/placement-agent-bill-expected.html * Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6341EA20100408 London falls early http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6341EA20100408 European shares drop http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6370F520100408 the Nikkei sheds 1.1% http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE63705120100408 and Hong Kong shares slip http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSHKF00229720100408 * Do behavioral funds work? http://www.psyfitec.com/2010/04/do-behavioral-funds-work.html * The SEC details its new asset-backed securities regulations http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/credit/the-sec-details-its-new-asset-back-securities-regulatory-proposa/19429997/ * Cleveland Fed: Is it time for an overhaul of the Community Reinvestment Act? http://www.clevelandfed.org/Forefront/2010/04/ff_20100401_1.cfm * One of the best posts I've read so far on the value of certain startups remaining in stealth mode http://trada.com/blog/2010/03/31/the-stealth-mode-trada%E2%80%99s-position-on-staying-stealth/