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- Week in deals, July 6, 2009
Summary of tech companies and other businesses that raised financing in North America in the past week
- peHUB Rewind
Here’s a look at the past two weeks of scoops, opinions and analysis from the peHUB blogging team. LBO-Backed Bankruptcy List: On Pace to Double Last Year's Total http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/R-KifZzMGtY/ [Quarterly Stuff] Fund Performance Data Dump http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/H-SvZ06BHZw/ [Quarterly Stuff] Fund Performance Data Dump (Part Deux) http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/aomlO2kJNhs/ [Quarterly Stuff] VC-Backed IPOs Rise Infinitely in Q2 http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/PD1Pr4pS6Bc/ [Quarterly Stuff] Private Equity Activity Falls in Q2 [Quarterly Stuff] http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/RvySu2uHR0M/ Global PE Fundraising Rises in Q2 [Quarterly Stuff] http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/npVS97lpWnk/ PCG Pays $2 Million To Escape New York Probe http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/8qaZHO3EuFE/ [Buy Yourself Out of Trouble!] Escape from New York (Part II) http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/43whheG_q28/ [It's That Easy!] 88% of PE Firms Have Cut Portfolio Company Headcount http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/l76zz6n56is/ [Studies] Los Angeles PE Firms To Buy Century-Old Tulsa Pipe Company http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/Zdz7GbZjIjs/ [Deal Scoops] Highland Capital Delays Fund Close http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/7l3Iq1fn3yQ/ [Tough Times] Ashmore: Private Equity Is Deep Underwater http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/__s9kWYbq5c/ [Tough Times] Of Work Ethic and Private Equity http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/5fLSqabPqMo/ [Essays] Bain Capital Offers To Cut Size of Co-Invest Fund http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/wXrJqse4suo/ [peHUB Approves] KKR Proposes A Double Secret Reverse IPO http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/pehub/blog/%7E3/R4gT2lzuRKI/ [About-Faces]
- Week in deals, June 29, 2009
Summary of tech companies and other businesses that raised financing in North America in the past week
- Reductive Labs draws $2M in early stage funding
Open source company latest of several to secure venture rounds in Q2
- The True Story of True Ventures
San Francisco-based True Ventures emerged on the venture scene in 2005 and its way of doing business -- focusing on seed-stage startups that it can afford to back for the long haul -- quickly resonated with LPs. Not only did they give True $155 million back in 2006 but they came back for a second, $195 million, offering last fall. That True had already enjoyed two quick exits helped: In late 2006, it participated in the $850,000 seed round of Maya’s Mom, a social networking site for mothers that BabyCenter bought for an undisclosed amount less than a year later. True was also the first institutional money into blog search engine Sphere, which sold in April 2008 to America Online for $25 million after raising just $4.3 million. True's reputation among entrepreneurs is more notable, though. Whatever it's doing -- be it treating entrepreneurs like customers, as it likes to say, or operating out of a startup-like space (its open, sunny offices at the base of a pier feature little aside from cheap gray carpeting and an array of modest desks) -- has resonated with the digital media community, which seemingly now holds the firm in the same high regard as Union Square Ventures in New York, First Round Capital outside Philadelphia and prominent angel investors like Ron Conway. Yesterday, I visited the firm to find out what all the fuss is about; there, I talked with co-founder Jon Callaghan over the sound of squawking seagulls:
- peHUB Wire: Friday, June 26, 2009
Did VC Fund Size Cuts Work?
- peHUB Wire: Friday, June 26, 2009
Did VC Fund Size Cuts Work?
- Reductive Labs Raises $2 Million
Reductive Labs, a Portland, Ore.-based provider of enterprise It automation solutions, has raised $2 million in Series A funding led by True Ventures.