Redpoint Ventures

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.

The Silicon Valley venture capital firm has closed its fourth fund, which will focus on more developed technology companies than those in which it typically invests.

VC 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.

The state employees’ pension system will allocate $25 million each to two funds.

The Vitruvian-backed restaurant delivery business is expected to raise £360m in an IPO.

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.

Could it be? Private equity-backed companies seem to be in demand on the public markets

The Swiss firm is extending its approach into larger growth capital deals and has recruited two heavyweights to lead the charge.

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.

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.