LeadPoint, a Los Angeles-based online leads exchange operator, has raised $6 million in Series E funding from Silicon Valley Bank Ventures. The company has now raised $15.5 million in total VC funding since 2004. Past backers include Redpoint Ventures. PRESS RELEASE LeadPoint (www.leadpoint.com), the world’s first and largest online leads exchange, today announced it has […]
Nuon Therapeutics Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based developer of drugs for treatment of autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases and pain, has raised $27 million in Series B funding. Frazier Healthcare Ventures and Domain Associates co-led the round, and was joined by return backers GBS Venture Partners (Australia). PRESS RELEASE Nuon Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage […]
Local Insight Media LP, a publishing portfolio company of Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe, has completed its acquisition of a collection of online directories from L.M. Berry & Co., a subsidiary of AT&T. No financial terms were disclosed. ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE AT&T and Local Insight Regatta Holdings, Inc. today announced the execution of a […]
Lead Media Partners, a South Jordan, Utah-based provider of online lead generation services to the higher education market, has raised an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from Peterson Partners. PRESS RELEASE Peterson Partners, a leading Intermountain West investment firm, has made an equity investment in Lead Media Partners. Chandler Horsley, CEO of Lead Media, […]
TCR Capital, a French buyout firm focused on the lower middle-markets, has closed its third fund with over EUR 160 million in capital commitments. www.tcrcapital.com
East West Capital Partners of Singapore is targeting $400 million to invest in healthcare companies in Asia and other emerging markets, according to LBO Wire. www.eastwestcap.com
Claus Peter is leaving Societe Generale, where he runs the firm's German leveraged buyout group. Dow Jones reports that Peter will join German Private Equity Partners, a buyout firm formed by former Deutsche Telekom CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke.
Jobster Inc., a Seattle-based provider of online recruiting tools and services, has raised $7 million in Series D funding. Return backers include Ignition Venture Partners, Mayfield, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Jobster has now raised around $53.5 million in total VC funding since 2004. www.jobster.com
SurgRx Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of laparoscopic vessel fusion tools for surgical hemostasis, has raised around $20 million in Series G funding, according to a February regulatory filing. The company has now raised around $83 million in total VC funding since 2003, from firms like Alta Partners, New Enterprise Associates, California Technology Ventures, […]
Xunlight Corp., a Toledo, Ohio-based developer of low-cost and flexible thin-film silicon solar modules, has raised $22 million in Series B funding. Trident Capital led the round, and was joined by return backers Emerald Technology Ventures and NGP Energy Technology Partners. The company had raised $7 million in Series A funding last July. PRESS […]