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Exit watch, week of Oct. 12, 2009Briefs about acquisitions of VC-backed companies Increo, The FeedRoom and others from the past week
- NY-based SecondMarket buys InsideVenture
The acquisition should help SecondMarket develop a market for primary investments in private companies
- United BioSource Makes It Official
Earlier this week, we reported /52116/berkshire-buying-into-united-biosource/ that Berkshire Partners had agreed to sponsor a partial recap of United BioSource, a Bethesda, Md.-based company that has raised well over $150 million in VC funding. Neither firm was willing to comment, but United BioSource made it official this morning with a press release. The only new info is that Berkshire paid $125 million for its minority stake. VC backers -- Grotech Capital Group, J.H. Whitney and New Enterprise Associates -- will retain equity positions. Read the press release after the jump...
- Engine Yard Raises $19 Million
Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based provider of Ruby on Rails automation and management technologies, has raised $19 million in Series C funding. New backers include DAG Ventures, Bay Partners and Presidio Ventures, while returning shareholders include Benchmark Capital, Amazon.com and New Enterprise Associates.
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Random Ramblings
- Ten Busiest VCs of 2009
We're still a couple of weeks away from official Q3 venture capital data, so here's a preliminary look at the year's busiest firms to date. The below statistics refer to investments in U.S.-based companies, and rank based on number of companies supported in 2009 (as opposed to investment rounds, which can be higher if certain companies raised multiple rounds). Enjoy: #1. New Enterprise Associates Deals this year: 36 3 recent deals: Serious Materials, Vuclip, Chelsio Communications #2. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Deals this year: 35 3 recent deals: Pacific Bioscience, Booyah, Juvaris BioTherapeutics
- Berkshire Buying Into United BioSource
A couple of months ago, I mentioned that Berkshire Partners had been particularly quiet on the deal-making front. Just one PIPE and a pair of bolt-on acquisitions since October 2007. Pretty slow for a firm investing out of a $3.1 billion fund raised in 2006. Well, it still hasn’t done a traditional LBO (that we know of), but the Boston-based firm has agreed to sponsor a partial recap of United BioSource, a Bethesda, Md.-based company that previously raised well over $150 million from firms like Grotech Capital Group, J.H. Whitney and New Enterprise Associates (closer to $220m, according to VentureXpert database).
- Pentaho Buys LucidEra Assets
Pentaho Corp., an Orlando, Fla.-based provider of commercial open-source solutions for business intelligence, has acquired the technology assets of LucidEra, a business intelligence SaaS provider. NHo financial terms were disclosed. Pentaho has raised around $25 million from firms like Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. LucidEra had raised over $22 million from Benchmark Capital, Crosslink Capital and Matrix Partners.