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IPO Acceleration PredictedInvestment banker says he has been deluged with calls from companies seeking to register to go public
M&A Heats UpBig price tags for AdMob, LifeSize Communications, Playfish and Revolution Money raise hopes that acquisition market is coming back
Frazier Tech Goes DownSeattle tech firm gives up on plans for third fund, sister firm Frazier Healthcare Ventures still going strong
- Exit watch, week of Nov. 16, 2009
News briefs about LifeSize, AdMob, MontaVista and other VC-backed companies that were bought in the past week
- peHUB Wire: Monday, November 9, 2009
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Monday, November 9, 2009
Random Ramblings
- MDV, others combine tired portfolio companies
Draper Fisher Jurvetson also recently combined Box.net and Increo
- Frazier Tech goes down in latest VC shakeout
Seattle tech investor had planned to raise a third fund; no impact on Frazier Healthcare Ventures
- Combining Portfolio Companies To Save Them
This week I reported /54508/mohr-davidow/ that Mohr Davidow had combined two of its cancer-fighting biotech startups -- CELLective Diagnostics and The DNA Repair Company -- into a third, new company called On-Q-ity. Last month I reported /53646/boxnets-unannounced-funding/ that Box.net, a Draper Fisher-funded service to share and store content online, had purchased another Draper, Fisher-backed company -- Increo. It turns out that this is a trend. Mohr Davidow's Sue Siegel said she knew of two other venture firms that are talking about ways to combine each other's portfolio companies, and a glance through the tech blogs of the last couple months shows that Softbank Capital and angel investor Ron Conway may be doing the same.