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Fortinet Buys Woven Systems AssetsFortinet Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based network security provider, has acquired certain assets and IP of Woven Systems, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of 10 gigabit Ethernet fabric solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. Fortinet is in registration for a $100 million IPO, and has raised around $83 million in VC funding since 2002, from firms like Redpoint Ventures (15.5%) and Meritech Capital Partners (10.9%), Acorn Campus Ventures, DCM, Defta Partners and WI Harper Group. Woven Systems raised $35 million from Mohr Davidow Ventures , Goldman Sachs and Palomar Ventures.
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, August 20, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, August 20, 2009
Random Ramblings
- VC fund briefs, week of Aug. 17, 2009
Fund-raising news briefs about MDV, Domain Associates and Opus Capital
- Pacific Biosciences Raises $68 Million
Pacific Biosciences, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based company focused on DNA gene sequencing, has raised $68 million in fifth-round funding. Monsanto, the Wellcome Trust and Sutter Hill Ventures came aboard as new investors. Past backers include Deerfield Management, Intel Capital, Morgan Stanley, Redmile Group, T. Rowe Price, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Alloy Ventures, Maverick Capital, AllianceBernstein, DAG Ventures, Teachers’ Private Capital and Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners. Pacific Biosciences previously raised around $185 million.
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, August 13, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, August 13, 2009
Random Ramblings
- MDV Raises Annex Capital for Three Funds
A few months back, we reported that Mohr Davidow Ventures was looking to raise some "annex" capital for its seventh fund. We also noted the irony of bulking up this particular fund, since it had originally closed in 2002 with $850 million, before slimming down to $450 million via a pair of fund size reductions. Today, we noticed a regulatory filing indicating that MDV seems to have closed the annex (or at least part of it), with $27 million in new capital. So the total is now up to around 57% of what MDV raised in the first place for Fund VII, whose active portfolio includes such companies as Nanosolar, PacketMotion and Proofpoint. What we also noticed was that MDV appears to have added annex capital to its two subsequent funds. One filings shows that MDV has raised $25 million for Fund VIII, a $400 million vehicle raised in 2005, and
- Deep Thoughts by Andrew Chen
It’s not every blog that receives a testimonial in the form of a half haiku from Marc Andreessen. One notable exception is Futuristic Play http://andrewchenblog.com/ the two-year-old blog of viral marketing whiz Andrew Chen, about which Andreessen has written, “Marc read Andrew, good blog.” Andreessen isn’t alone. Chen has a small but powerful, and growing, following in Silicon Valley thanks to the smart essays he typically posts once or twice a week. Indeed, other fans include Lotus founder Mitch Kapor, who says at Chen's site that there's "no one who knows more about" the latest methods "for building and retaining Web 2.0 audiences" and Jared Kopf, the CEO and founder of ad network Adroll, who calls the blog "unmissable." Chen is capitalizing on the momentum, too. To wit, Chen, once an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures and previously the director of product marketing at the behavioral targeting startup Revenue Science (now Audience Science), is hard at work on his own “new stealth consumer Internet
- Exit Watch, week of July 13, 2009
VCs get some cash back from failed Pegasus Biologics, August- and MDV-backed Done Right goes to Tree.com