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Exit watch, week of Oct. 12, 2009Briefs about acquisitions of VC-backed companies Increo, The FeedRoom and others from the past week
- Ten Busiest VCs of 2009
We're still a couple of weeks away from official Q3 venture capital data, so here's a preliminary look at the year's busiest firms to date. The below statistics refer to investments in U.S.-based companies, and rank based on number of companies supported in 2009 (as opposed to investment rounds, which can be higher if certain companies raised multiple rounds). Enjoy: #1. New Enterprise Associates Deals this year: 36 3 recent deals: Serious Materials, Vuclip, Chelsio Communications #2. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Deals this year: 35 3 recent deals: Pacific Bioscience, Booyah, Juvaris BioTherapeutics
- Box.net Buys Increo Solutions
Box.net, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of an online filing system, has acquired Increo Solutions, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of collaborative online document and media viewing tools. No financial terms were disclosed. Box.net has raised $12.5 million from U.S. Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, while Increo raised a small amount of seed funding from DFJ.
- Forte Design Buys Arithmatica
Forte Design Systems, a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of software design products, has acquired Arithmatica Ltd., a UK-based provider of IP and datapath synthesis. No financial terms were disclosed. Forte Design has raised over $40 million in VC funding, from firms like 3i Group, Infinity Capital, U.S. Venture Partners and Saints Capital. Arithmatica has raised over $2 million from firms like Spark Ventures.
- Seed Investing A New Emphasis For CMEA
Per Dan's post /51334/cmea-scraps-green-growth-fund/ this morning that early-stage VC shop CMEA Capital has scrapped plans to raise a $500 million green growth fund, the firm also has gotten more aggressive about seed-stage investing. It started the strategy 18 months ago after it raised its $400 million seventh fund, according to managing director Faysal Sohail, who spoke to peHUB earlier this month. "We've been given a lot of opportunities that normally would have gotten funded by angels and others but have not been getting funded," he said. "We're also finding a lot of deals coming to us from returning entrepreneurs." CMEA has done seven seed investments from Fund VII so far and may do one more, because, Sohail said, "they take longer to bake and exit so these are not deals you want to be doing
- Week in deals, Sept. 21, 2009
Summary of North American tech companies and other businesses that raised venture financing in the past week
- New Details on Factery's Funding & Product
Yesterday we spotted /49688/from-the-filings-akorri-qsecure-gear6-more/ a regulatory filing from something called Factery.net, which had raised $1.25 million in VC funding. No investor info on the document, and the only listed executive was search marketing vet Paul Pedersen. We described it as an "online answer engine," based on the alpha product up on Factery's website http://www.factery.net Now a source has filled us in with additional details, including how Factery's current website isn't really representative of its product plans.
- New Details on Factery's Funding & Product
Yesterday we spotted https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/49688/from-the-filings-akorri-qsecure-gear6-more/ a regulatory filing from something called Factery.net, which had raised $1.25 million in VC funding. No investor info on the document, and the only listed executive was search marketing vet Paul Pedersen. We described it as an "online answer engine," based on the alpha product up on Factery's website http://www.factery.net Now a source has filled us in with additional details, including how Factery's current website isn't really representative of its product plans.
- peHUB Wire: Friday, September 11, 2009
The High Bid That Wasn't
- peHUB Wire: Friday, September 11, 2009
The High Bid That Wasn't