Jonathan Marino
Secret Meetings: Is the White House trying to keep Obama administration meetings with lobbyists shielded from the public? Supplier Issues: A screen maker for Apple’s iPhone sees workers sickened at China plant The JPMorgan Network: The mega-bank’s social media fund raises $1.2B already Expanding: Dunkin’ heads to India
Atlantic Street Capital, the Connecticut-based, lower middle market private equity fund, held its first close today, netting about $60 million of an expected $80 million Fund II, according to an individual familiar with the situation. The PE firm is using placement agent Ariane Capital partners and expects its second and final close to come this […]
Back in Business: Fresh off his failure to carpetbag his way into office on behalf of the people of New York state, Harold Ford instead opts to become a senior client manager for Morgan Stanley Speaking Of: Wanna-be politicians, you, too, can play legislator for a day and try and budget-trim our way back to fiscal sanity Not Just PE: A Quora member poses an uncomfortable question about women and seniority at VC firms Getting the Job: How to land a gig at Microsoft, or, though Union Square Ventures
Fliqz’s investors took a loss when the California-based plug-and-play video solution provider was sold in a private foreclosure to video streaming company VBrick earlier this month, multiple sources confirmed to peHUB.com. Two sources confirmed the company was sold for less than its three rounds of funding. One of the sources acknowledged the sale process, run […]
When Amazon revealed it now sells more digital books than print, it represented a permanent shift for the publishing industry. Borders’ bankruptcy filing only drives home the point. More Americans consume daily media online than anywhere else, and, as the tablet business continues to expand, a growing number of people all over the world will […]
Funding Mondays: Spotify raises about $100M at $1B valuation Looming Government Shutdown? It’s something both parties want to avoid On the Block: Blockbuster initiates sale process at $290M with Cobalt Video as stalking horse Throw The Bums Out! Dynegy’s management scatters after the company again fails to sell itself
Funding: Physician social network Sermo nets cash Buying: Nordstrom strikes HauteLook deal Dealing: Affinity Equity in the running for Primo SmallGoods With a Little Patience: DuPont extends $6.1B Danisco bid set to expire next week
peHUB readers tell me they’d like to learn more about potential funding opportunities that might not yet be in their deal pipeline. With that in mind, we've put together a list of companies that are still in the market, based on SEC filings and our own reporting. Know about other companies that should be on this list? Let me know at jonathan.marino@thomsonreuters.com. And if you're on this list and have raised money since your last SEC filing, please shoot me an email so I can update readers. Below this list, you'll find another section about companies that have concluded their fundraising efforts...
Sanofi-Genzyme: A meeting in Davos set the stage for the mega biotech deal ProPublica: Hedge funds’ credibility suffers Fundraising: Social media marketing company Virtue raises $17M Breakin’ Up: Energy company Williams will split its natural gas business from the rest of its pipeline and exploration operations
It’s safe to say the U.S. government won’t be spending $53 billion on railway improvements any time soon, no matter what Vice President Joe Biden says. Lawmakers are ill at ease to launch new projects at a time when the House GOP is on a mission to hack into federal appropriations budgets. State lawmakers, too, […]