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Active-Semi International Adds $6M Debt Financing from SVBChip maker Active-Semi International Inc. has sealed $6 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The money will help Active-Semi to finance its account receivables in Hong Kong, as well as support company growth efforts. The company is backed by venture capital firms U.S. Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital and Selby Ventures.
- TriplePoint Leads $5M Series B for Kaiam
Newark, Calif.-based Kaiam Corp. has sealed $5 million in Series B funding. TriplePoint Capital led the round, with participation from existing investor U.S. Venture Partners. The company, which develops high performance photonic integrated circuits, will use the money to expand its infrastructure.
- Act-On Software Adds $10M
Beaverton, Oregon-based Act-On Software has closed $10 million in Series C financing with Trinity Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of $14 million. Act-On, which is developing cloud-based integrated marketing platforms, will use the funding for product development and expansion.
- To Have and Have Not
Fundraising is up but so is capital scarcity and the gulf between success and failure
- Job Moves: Vivo Promotes Two, TA Goes to Hong Kong, Obama Appointee Joins Venrock, More
This is the first installment of a new feature that looks at who’s moving in, up (or out) in venture capital and private equity circles. In this week's column, Vivo Ventures promotes two doctors to managing partner, BlackRock makes the first three of an expected 20 new appointments, TA associates announces its first hire for a new Hong Kong office, Venrock adds a partner for health care IT, and a U.S. Venture Partners staffer joins a startup. VIVO ADDS TWO Vivo Ventures, a life science-focused venture firm based in Silicon Valley, announced promotions of two to managing partner this week, one of whom will be based in Palo Alto, Calif., and the other in China. The first is Chen Yu, who joined Vivo as a partner in 2007. Prior to Vivo, Yu was an early employee at aQuantive, which listed on Nasdaq in 2000 and ultimately was acquired for $6.5 billion by
- Slide Show: Top IPO Pops By Venture-Backed Companies-Updated
LinkedIn is the darling of the market, pricing its IPO Wednesday at $45 and trading late today at $97.83, up 117%. But this is a big yawn compared to the days of the dotcom bubble. To put this in perspective, we thought we would look back at the top first-day pops by venture capital-backed IPOs, dating back to 1990. This slide show is a countdown, presented ranked by first-day percentage gain.
Ex-USVP Partner Tim Connors Raises $35M for New FundMicro fund PivotNorth raises $35M to make initial bets of $100K to $3M
- NVCA Elects Paul Maeder Chairman
The National Venture Capital Association has elected Paul Maeder, a co-founder and general partner of Highland Capital Partners, chairman of its board of directors for 2011-2012. Paul Maeder was preceded by Kate Mitchell, managing general partner of Scale Venture Partners. The NVCA also announced that the chairman-elect for 2012-2013 term is Ray Rothrock, general partner of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Venrock. NVCA also added six new members to four-year terms on its board: Jon Callaghan of True Ventures; David Douglass of Delphi Ventures; Bob Goodman of Bessemer Venture Partners; Ray Leach of JumpStart Inc.; Jonathan Leff of Warburg Pincus; and David Lincoln of Element Partners.