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Playground nearly doubles target for Fund IIVC firm Playground Global, which was co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, raised $300m for its debut fund last year and is now targeting $500m for its second fund.
- Pennsylvania allocates $50m to private equity
The state employees’ pension system will allocate $25 million each to two funds.
- Just Eat valued at £1.5bn
The Vitruvian-backed restaurant delivery business is expected to raise £360m in an IPO.
- TrueBridge beats target for second FoF
The North Carolina-based firm has collected $342m for its second venture capital and growth equity fund of funds, which has committed to nine managers and is nearly 50% invested.
- Qihoo plans $200m NYSE IPO
CDH, Sequoia, Highland Capital and Redpoint Ventures are among the firms that invested around $39 million in the Chinese internet company.
- A crack in the market
Could it be? Private equity-backed companies seem to be in demand on the public markets
- HomeAway raises $250m venture round
The online marketplace for holiday home rentals has attracted a record financing round from investors amid a difficult funding environment. Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures seeded HomeAway in 2005.
- Index Ventures launches €400m growth fund
The Swiss firm is extending its approach into larger growth capital deals and has recruited two heavyweights to lead the charge.
- Accel closes $520m VC fund
With the closure of its tenth fund on $520 million, Accel Partners is slowly increasing its fund sizes again; post-dotcom crash, the firm downsized its eighth fund by more than half, having originally closed on $1.4 billion in 2000.
- Intel ‘certain’ on mobile TV(3)
The investment arm of the semiconductor giant has gained footholds in a variety of mobile TV technologies around the world, and it’s betting that they can combine to make a solution that will become ubiquitous in just a few years. Dave Keating reports.