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peHUB Wire: Friday, January 8, 2010Friday Feedback
- Jive Software Buys Filtrbox
Jive Software Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based maker of social business collaboration software, has acquired Filtrbox, a Boulder, Colo.-based provider of social media monitoring solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. Jive Software has raised over $27 million from Sequoia Capital, while Filtrbox has raised seed funding from Flywheel Ventures and True Ventures.
- Venture is Back, Baby
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen extremely high activity in new venture investments. Starting in September, we witnessed the return of multiple term sheet deals, short fuse situations, and a renewed urgency to most fund-raisings. I heard last week of a hot late stage deal attracting ten (yes 10) term sheets. It’s a really great company, but just one quarter ago that number would have been much lower. FastCompany’s Q3 Venture Capital Activity Report picks up some of this, with Q3’s activity marking a high for 2009, and growing 14% from Q2. The same report shows Series A internet sector deals totaled 66 in Q3, up from 20 in Q1 of 2009. Our sense is that Q4 will show similarly high numbers. The same VCs who hunkered down in January were back in the game in September, and they were back in force. We call the rise in new investment activity, “back to school investing”, and it represents a significant return to health after the prolonged hiatus that started in Q4 2008 with the infamous “RIP Good times” slide deck. Venture is back. And it’s back because of one word: Exits.
- Week in deals, Nov. 30, 2009
Summary of North American tech companies and other startups that raised venture financing in the past week
- Shopping-related search engine Milo lands $4M
True Ventures and returning angel investors back the startup
- Milo.com Raises $4 Million
Milo.com, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based online shopping engine focused on local merchants, has raised $4 million in Series A funding. True Ventures led the round, and was joined by a group of individual angels that included Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Jeff Clavier, Aaron Patzer and Aydin Senkut.
- peHUB Wire: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB First Read
* Mark Suster: Are business plans still necessary? http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/03/are-business-plans-still-necessary/ * Will Jon Corzine return to Wall Street? http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2009/11/corzine_to_return_to_wall_stre.php (my bet is a private equity firm, but I'm thematically biased) * Microsoft lays off Don Dodge http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/11/goodbye-microsoft-the-next-chapter.html who was basically the software giant's flesh-and-blood ambassador to startups big and small. Arrington nails it http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/04/microsoft-loses-don-dodge-this-is-a-huge-mistake/ * Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower http://www.reuters.com/article/usMktRpt/idUSL541313520091105 London falls early http://www.reuters.com/article/londonMktRpt/idUSL544032620091105 European shares drop in anticipation of BoE and ECB decisions http://www.reuters.com/article/eurMktRpt/idUSL538331120091105 the Nikkei loses 1.3% http://www.reuters.com/article/tokyoMktRpt/idUSTKW00663320091105 and China shares hit one-month high http://www.reuters.com/article/hongkongMktRpt/idUSHKG16337220091105 * CNBC's 15 most embarrassing bloopers http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-best-cnbc-screw-ups-2009-11 * Recession's Dividend: A bumper crop of corporate tax credits http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1934813,00.html * Does the Yankees' victory portend a stock market rally? http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/yankee-win-may-favor-wall-streets-bulls/?ref=business Well, maybe not. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aR3tbzFn5d9A * What's a few million between cronies? WSJ discovers that private equity firms paid ARVCO $65 million to secure business with CalPERS http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125736310036828679.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter rather than the originally-reported $50 million.