Private Equity
New Wave Group, of Sweden, has acquired Paris Glove of Canada, according to a Dec. 1 statement. Financial terms weren't announced.
3 min read · 27 January 2012
Checkpoint Surgical has raised $3 million. This includes a $1.7 million series B investment round led by NDI Healthcare Fund. The neurodevice firm also secured non-dilutive funding of over $1.3 million, including a $1.065 million Innovation Ohio loan and a $245,000 federal grant.
2 min read · 27 January 2012
IGLOO Software said Thursday that it has raised $5 million in series B financing with RBC Venture Partners leading the round. Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund also participated. IGLOO provides social business software in the cloud.
3 min read · 26 January 2012
The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund has invested $585,000 in three companies: Clean Emission Fluids, which provides patent pending clean energy technologies; Estrakon, which designs, develops and makes LED Edge-Lit signs and displays; and, Ix Innovations, a provider of electrical test and measurement instrumentation.
4 min read · 25 January 2012
Bain Capital has led a $238 million growth equity investment in SquareTrade. Other financial terms weren't disclosed. San Francisco-based SquareTrade is a consumer warranty provider. Prior investors include Weston Presidio Capital and JP Morgan Partners. Financial Technology Partners provided financial advice to SquareTrade.
3 min read · 25 January 2012
LanzaTech has closed a Series C round with $55.8 million in investments. Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund led the round which includes new investors PETRONAS Technology Ventures Sdn Bhd, the venture arm of PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia, and Dialog Group. Existing investors Khosla Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners and K1W1 also participated. LanzaTech has raised more than $85 million to date.
3 min read · 23 January 2012
2 min read · 18 January 2012
2 min read · 17 January 2012
Venture Capital funds last year raised the most since 2008, but it's unclear whether the industry has actually rebounded. In 2011, 169 funds collected about $18.17 billion. The total is up nearly 32% from 2010 when the same number of funds, 169, raised roughly $13.8 billion, according to data from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. Thomson Reuters is the publisher of peHUB.
2 min read · 09 January 2012
Dr. Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, has joined the board of Tobbi Technology. Arne Almerfors, who was most recently CEO of Flir Systems Sweden, was name Tobbi's chairman of the board. Tobbi, of Sweden, provides eye tracking and eye control technology.
3 min read · 03 January 2012
