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New Venture Partners opens Silicon Valley office(2)Lucent Technologies spin-out New Venture Partners will bring its corporate technology spin-out model to Silicon Valley, a move enabled by the addition of former Intel research director David Tennenhouse.
- New Venture Partners opens Silicon Valley office
Lucent Technologies spin-out New Venture Partners will bring its corporate technology spin-out model to Silicon Valley, a move enabled by the addition of former Intel research director David Tennenhouse.
- NVP closes $275m tech spin-outs fund
New Venture Partners, established through secondaries specialist Coller Capital’s MBO of Lucent’s New Ventures Group in 2001, has closed its fourth fund.
- Guidelines go global
A new set of private equity valuation guidelines have been endorsed in the farthest corners of the world - but not in the US. By Judy Kuan.
- Coller buys into Lucent venture portfolio
The London-based secondaries specialist has bought an 80 per cent stake in Lucent’s corporate venturing arm.
- Adaptive Planning Adds CFO
David Pefley is joining California-based Adaptive Planning, a corporate performance management software tool, as CFO. Adaptive Planning is funded by by Norwest Venture Partners, Royal Bank of Canada, ONSET Ventures, Monitor Ventures, and Cardinal Venture Capital.
- Topo Athletic Launches with $5M A-Round
Topo Athletic is being launched in Massachusetts by Tony Post, the former CEO and president of Vibram USA. Norwest Venture Partners funded the startup. Topo is an athletic gear company.
- Norwest Backs Former Vibram CEO As He Steps Forward With New Startup
Tony Post, the guy behind the minimalist shoe effort and former president and CEO of Vibram, has launched Topo Athletic, an atheltic gear company. The company is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, which invested $5 million in a Seris A round.
- ScaleIO Raises $12M From Greylock, Norwest, Others
ScaleIO said it raised $12 million from Greylock IL Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and other private investors. The company also came out of stealth and released ScaleIO ECS v. 1.1 of its storage software. ScaleIP will use the new money to expand its field operations.
- Rainmaker Group Raises $33.8M
The Rainmaker Group, a provider of revenue management software, has raised $33.8 million in new financing from Norwest Venture Partners. The company will use the infusion to bolster its sales force and continue product development. The firm takes a minority stake in The Rainmaker Group. NVP’s Jon Kossow and David Su have joined Rainmaker’s board.