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Amazon to buy VC-backed Zappos in $900m dealThe US’ biggest online retailer has agreed its largest-ever add-on deal with Zappos, whose backers include VC firms Sequoia and Venture Frogs and direct secondaries firm Millennium.
- Millennium bolsters portfolio as it raises $300m
The Blackstone spin-out has already held a first close on its second fund to focus on direct venture capital secondaries. It recently acquired stakes in nine new companies including Facebook, Zappos and eHarmony.
- A unique investment strategy
Sam Schwerin says venture investment managers are hungry for a significant source of liquidity, and his firm is poised to provide it to them. Dave Keating reports.
- Facebook Plans to Raise $10.6 Billion in Mega IPO
The 8-year-old social network that began as Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room project indicated an IPO price range of $28 to $35 a share on Thursday, which would value the company at $77 billion to $96 billion.
- Facebook e-commerce: The Next Big Thing?
Facebook's IPO is days away... but the company's ability to attack online retailers with its massive scale has the potential to turn the social network into an online shopping mall.
- Secondary Market to Have Record Year, Forecast Says
Don’t start counting it out, now that Facebook, Zynga and Groupon are, or will soon be, public. The market is likely to see record dollar volume in 2012, predicts Millennium, and solidify its role as at least a temporary alternative to the IPO market for a broad range of companies.
- Millennium Technology Announces Investments
Millennium Technology Value Partners announced 18 portfolio companies that received new or follow-on investment in the last 18 months. The companies include Chegg, Twitter, Good Technology, Tumblr, BeachMint, IronPlanet, ETF Securities, Tremor, Acronis, HootSuite and Yodle, among others.