SAP Ventures is joined in the round by venture firms Northgate Capital, Cross Creek Capital, and Mohr Davidow Ventures. The deal brings the total investment raised by Ticketfly since its launch in 2008 to $37m.
Month: July 2012
Intel helps Impinj raise $21m
US-based chip-maker Intel has helped Impinj raise another round of financing which it is pursuing instead of a flotation.
JustFab nets $76m
JustFab has raised the round backed by its parent company Intelligent Beauty and venture firms and is on track to make $100 million in revenue this year, up from $28m in 2011.
Bright, Presidio back Siluria
Bright Capital, the venture unit of Russia-based conglomerate RuCom, and Presidio Ventures, a venture unit of Japan-based conglomerate Sumitomo, have helped Siluria Technologies, a US-based natural gas conversion company, raise $30m. Siluria’s technology converts natural gas into fuel, plastics and chemicals. Bright led the C round alongside Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital. Other backers… Continue reading Bright, Presidio back Siluria
Csiro beams up its industry links
The line between what is a corporation and a research institute can be blurry but synergistic. Australia’s National Science Agency, Csiro (an acronym standing for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), has an enviable track record in innovation and working with corporate partners to commercialise and deliver the ideas into something useful for people. Whereas… Continue reading Csiro beams up its industry links
Polacek looks at distressed clean-tech
GE venture investor Jerry Polacek shifts to being managing director of fixed income and distressed investing at GE Energy Financial Services.
Intematix plans IPO
The lighting company backed by Samsung Ventures and Presidio Ventures is looking to list.
The Big Deal: Box unpacks potential
Salesforce and SAP Ventures look to have picked a financial winner in file sharing company Box. The deal also has interesting strategic options for Salesforce and SAP, given Box’s fast growth amongst mobile users.
Y Combinator companies raise $1bn
Y Combinator, an incubator which has won corporate backing regularly for its portfolio from companies including Tencent and Salesforce, revealed this week its portfolio has raised more than $1bn. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham said in a tweet on Wednesday: “The total amount of funding raised by the 380 companies prior to the current YC… Continue reading Y Combinator companies raise $1bn
News Corp, BSkyB team up at Roku
The two media companies are joined backing the internet streaming company by venture firms Menlo Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners as well as an unnamed strategic investor in the round.
PTC raises $30m
PTC, which is backed by Celgene and Credit Suisse and various venture firms,
Alibaba delists
Alibaba Group privatised ecommerce website Alibaba.com at $13.50 per share today.
BMW energises Coulomb
US-based electric vehicle charging company Coulomb wins BMW investment, making it at least the fourth corporate backer to support Coulomb.
CoDa rounds off B round with $20m
Rusnano MedInvest, part of Rusnano, helps the US-based biopharmaceutical company, previously invested in by Nestle-backed BioPacific Ventures, raise a series B extension.