Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, a Canada-based fertilizer provider named after the pagan goddess for Spring, has raised $13m from a consortium led by Wheatsheaf Investments, set up last year to invest in food water and energy technologies by UK property manager Grosvenor Estate. This round of funding also included Fredric “Fritz” Corrigan, Ostara chairman since… Continue reading Wheatsheaf fertilizes Ostara
Month: May 2013
Compositence makes new round
Compositence raised its prior, seed round in June 2011.
Ingenuity Systems exits to Qiagen
Qiagen, a Nasdaq and Frankfurt-listed healthcare services provider, has acquired Ingenuity Systems, a US–based provider of software to analyse genomic data and has been backed by database company Oracle, for $105m in cash. Ingenuity Systems, which posted net sales of $20m last year, has raised money from a wide group of investors, including a $15.3m… Continue reading Ingenuity Systems exits to Qiagen
FireEye picks four for IPO
The investment banks for the flotation are: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Barclays.
Regado looks at Nasdaq
Investment banks Cowan and BMO Capital Markets are advising the initial public offering (IPO), with legal counsel from Lowenstein Sandler and Goodwin Procter.
QualySense adds $1.2m
QualySense is testing its QSorter Explorer with multinational companies.
XAnge exits RunMyProcess
Japan-listed electronics company Fujitsu has acquired RunMyProcess, a France-based cloud platform provider backed by the local post office’s corporate venturing unit, for a reported €18.5m ($22m). Founded in 2007, RunMyProcess raised $2.2m in its series A round in July 2010 from a consortium led by XAnge Private Equity, which was sponsored by La Poste’s financial unit.
Romo Wind blows into $6m
Romo Wind, a Switzerland -based wind farm optimization company, has raised €4.8m ($6m) from a consortium including local industrial technology company ABB’s corporate venturing unit. Alongside ABB Technology Ventures in Romo’s round were Yellow&Blue Investment Management, the corporate venturing unit of energy group Vattenfall’s Nuon subsidiary and which led the round, and B-To-V Partners, a… Continue reading Romo Wind blows into $6m
Datahug cuddles up to Salesforce
News provider TechCrunch said the A round was now $4m.
MercadoLibre raises fund
The MercadoLibre Commerce Fund will look for early-stage technologies based at least in part on the MercadoLibre ecosystem.
BuzzTable searches out Bing
BuzzTable, a US-based customer relationship management tool for restaurants, has raised an undisclosed amount of corporate angel funding from software provider Microsoft’s Bing Fund. The company said it had raised money from strategic angel investors, ERA and Bing Fund, and “we are currently raising our first major growth-round of financing”. Warner Siebert, chief executive of BuzzTable,… Continue reading BuzzTable searches out Bing
Ambit details IPO plans
Ambit plans to list 4.645 million shares at between $13 and $15 each when it floats on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Vivify Health revives with $3.4m
Ascension Health Ventures (AHV), the $550m corporate venturing unit of eponymous US-based medical services provider, has joined a consortium investing $3.4m in remote care platform Vivify Health, which was formerly known as Intuitive Health. The other named investor was Heritage Group, a venture capital firm created by a group of US healthcare services firms to… Continue reading Vivify Health revives with $3.4m
FeedHenry applies itself to $9m
Alongside Intel Capital in the round were online data storage company VMware and venture capital firms.