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Executive moves, week of Jan. 11, 2010Hires, promotions and other personnel changes at Rho Canada and various PE and VC firms
- Week in deals, Jan. 11, 2010
Summary of North American tech companies and other startups that raised venture financing in the past week
- The VC-Backed IPO Pipeline
There has been lots made /59667/vc-backed-ipos-up-ma-down-in-2009/ of the past year's anemic VC-backed IPO market, but let's leave the past behind and look at what could be coming up over the liquidity horizon. Our records indicate that there are 28 VC-backed companies currently in registration to price IPOs on U.S. exchanges, representing more than $3.75 billion in targeted raise. More than half of the registrations occured last quarter, but there's one from 2008 and even a pair from 2007. Also worth noting that for all the talk of 2010 being the year of the social network-related IPO (Facebook? LinkedIn? Zynga?), no such company is currently in registration. Closest we get are a pair of online marketing/advertising companies. Get the full lot of them after the jump...
- Intuity Medical Raises $64 Million
Intuity Medical Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of blood glucose monitors, has raised $64 million in Series D funding. Venrock and Emergent Medical Partners were joined by return backers Investor Growth Capital, Thomas, McNerney and Partners, U.S. Venture Partners and Versant Ventures. The company previously raised around $28 million.
- Best Buy Backs SiBEAM
SiBeam Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of semiconductor systems solutions for wireless communications platforms, has raised an undisclosed amount of strategic funding from Best Buy Capital. The company previously raised over $80 million, from Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates, U.S. Venture Partners, Panasonic and Samsung.
Year in Review: IPOsThe VC-backed IPO market is improving, but it has a long way to go to get back to historical levels
- Most Active VC Firms of the Aughts
Venture capitalists entered the decade on a dotcom high, and this week will end it on an exit-starved low. In between, they invested in over 16,000 U.S.-based companies. What follows is a list of the 10 most active VC firms, based on our VentureXpert database (which, coincidentally, is being retired at year-end). The rankings are based on the number of U.S.-based companies in which a firm invested over the past decade -- regardless of number of financing rounds. And, just as a reminder, putting lots of money out the door doesn't necessarily correlate to the amount that comes back in...
- Top VC Recipients of 2009
When the final numbers come out next month, it's likely that venture capitalists will have invested less money in 2009 than in any year since 1997. It's currently tracking at just over $16 billion for U.S.-based companies, with the only silver lining -- from a deal volume perspective -- being that Q3 and Q4 figures were improvements over Q1 and Q2. But the investment slowdown didn't affect everyone. peHUB has compiled a list of the 10 companies that got the most VC love over the past year. It includes five cleantech companies (broadly-speaking), some social network-related plays, a biotech startup, a wireless networker and a private aviation company. Two of them have already filed for IPOs, while some of the others are considered prime candidates. Get the full list after the jump...