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A Quarter to ForgetVC have dramatically slowed their investment pace, faced with an unfriendly exit market and ugly fund-raising environment
peHUB Wire: Thursday, April 23, 2009Dear Comptroller DiNapoli: Thanks for Trying, But…
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, April 23, 2009
Dear Comptroller DiNapoli: Thanks for Trying, But…
- Ex-Tessera CEO Joins USVP
Bruce McWilliams has joined U.S. Venture Partners as an executive-in-residence. He is the former CEO of miniaturization technology developer Tessera Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRA).
No Stemming the TideStem cell startups see surge in interest and capital
- VC fund briefs, week of March 30, 2009
Fund-raising shorts about GCube, ATA Ventures, Spark Capital, 5AM, Industry Ventures, and Merck
- They’re Playing Taps for VC-Backed TapaTap
Venture-backed LimeLife has bought the assets of TapaTap Inc. in what apparently amounts to a shutdown of VC-backed TapaTap. You can read the full story here http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-women-focused-limelife-acquires-tapatap-for-community-features/ which has also posted Tuesday’s press release announcing the transaction by LimeLife. LimeLife is not hiring TapaTap’s seven employees, according to the news report. San Mateo, Calif.-based TapaTap, which developed Web applications for its women-oriented mobile sites, had raised more than $2.5 million from Gabriel Venture Partners since 2007. Menlo Park, Calif.-based LimeLife, which develops mobile phone games and lifestyle applications for women, has raised more than $26 million from U.S. Venture Partners, i-Hatch Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, Core Capital Partners and Monitor Venture Management, according to Thomson Reuters.
- Stem cell investment activity perks up
Stemgent one of the stem cell companies anticipating boost from Obama policy change
- Exit watch, week of March 16, 2009
News briefs about ForHealth, SezWho and other VC-backed companies that were bought in the past week
- Stardoll Merges with Piczo
Stardoll, a Sweden-based online entertainment site for young women, has merged with Piczo, a San Francisco-based social networking company focused on teenagers. No financial terms were disclosed. Stardoll has raised over $9 million in VC funding from firms like Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, while Piczo had raised around $19 million from Catamount Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners, Sierra Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners.