AAA April 2013 – Page 2

Radius glows with $43m

Radius Health, a US-based developer of drug therapies for osteoporosis and women’s health backed by Switzerland-based peer Novartis, has raised $43m after pulling its planned stock market flotation at the end of last year. Novartis’s pharmaceutical business unit invested in Radius’ latest round through its joint programme with venture capital firm MPM Capital’s MPM Bio… Continue reading Radius glows with $43m

GE invests $104m in Pivotal

General Electric (GE), a US-listed industrial conglomerate, has invested $104m for 10% of Pivotal, a spin-out from data and cloud services provider EMC/VMware. A GE insider said the deal was struck by its software centre’s business development team, which does venture capital, mergers and acquisitions and major partnerships, but, “since it was such a large… Continue reading GE invests $104m in Pivotal