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peHUB Wire: Friday, September 11, 2009The High Bid That Wasn't
- peHUB Wire: Friday, September 11, 2009
The High Bid That Wasn't
- LEO Pharma Buying Peplin
LEO Pharma AS has agreed to acquire Peplin Inc. (ASX: PLI) for approximately US$287.5 million in cash. Peplin raised a $24 million PIPE last October from GBS Venture Partners, Asia Union Investments, MPM Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Orbis Funds Management.
- peHUB Wire: Friday, September 4, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Friday, September 4, 2009
Random Ramblings
- Glacier Bay Adds $10 Million
Glacier Bay Inc., a Union City, Calif.-based developer of system-integrated DC power and thermal management technologies, has raised $10 million in Series C funding. The Westley Group led the round, and was joined by return backers Quercus Trust and New Enterprise Associates. The company previously raised over $30 million.
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, September 3, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, September 3, 2009
Random Ramblings
- Should VC Funds Be Regulated? Let's Start By Redefining "VC Funds"
The big news this morning is that eBay has agreed to sell a 65% stake in Internet calling company Skype to a group of private investors, at an enterprise value of $2.75 billion. The buyers include Silver Lake Partners, Canada Pension Plan, Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Here’s my question: Does this mean that Index and Andreessen Horowitz are no longer venture capital firms? This might sound like an academic question, but I mean it as a follow-up to Alan Patricof’s op-ed from Sunday’s NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/opinion/31patricof.html?_r=3&ref=opinion For the uninitiated, Patricof and former regulator Eric Dinallo argued that venture capital firms should be excluded from proposed requirements to register as investment advisors. They argued that VC firms do not pose the types of systemic risks that the rules are designed to guard against, and that imposition of such requirements could damage venture capital firms from a cost perspective. It’s also a case that the NVCA has been making on Capitol Hill. I agree with Patricof and the NVCA, that venture capital does not pose systemic risk. It is true that the economy would be severely harmed if most VC firms went belly-up tomorrow, but there is no