Gregg Fergus has joined Baird Venture Partners as an executive-in-residence in the firm's life sciences group. He also will serve as senior vice president of corporate development with Baird portfolio company Caden Biosciences. He has spent the past nine years with Affymetrix, where he most recently served as senior vice president of sales and global […]
Emma Thorpe has joined The Carlyle Group as director of European communications. She previously was with PR firm Penrose Financial. Thorpe succeeds Katherine Elmore-Jones, who has moved over to Carlyle's investor relations group. www.carlyle.com
Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH, a Tuebingen, Germany-based developer of immunotherapies for cancer treatment, has raised Euro 40 in second-round funding. Dietmar Hopp, the National Technology Enterprises Co. and KfW were joined by return backers 3i Group and Wellington Partners. www.immatics.com
Axiom Microdevices Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of metal oxide semiconductor power amplifiers, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. Tallwood Venture Capital led the deal, and was joined by fellow return backers U.S. Venture Partners, Anthem Venture Partners and VentureTech Alliance. www.axiom-micro.com
LaGarde, a Kansas City-based provider of an ecommerce platform, has raised $6 million in Series A funding from Shasta Ventures. www.storefront.net
SolBeam Inc., a Laguna Niguel, Calif.-based developer of solar concentration concentration solutions, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from NGEN Partners, according to a regulatory filing. A VentureWire report puts NGEN's total commitment to SolBeam at closer to $1 million.
BioLineRx Ltd., an Jerusalem-based drug company, has priced 28.69 million common shares at $1.74 per share, for an IPO take of approximately $50 million. It will trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under ticker symbol BLRX, while Clal Finance Underwriting and Leader Capital Markets served as co-lead underwriters. IPO buyers included existing BioLineRx shareholders […]
NXP Semiconductors BV of The Netherlands has agreed to acquire the mobile phone equipment business of Austin, Texas-based Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq: SLAB). The deal is valued at $285 million, plus a possible $65 million earn-out based on performance over the next three years. NXP is the former semiconductor division of Royal Philips Electronics, which […]
Halyard Capital has completed its sale of Dallas-based community newspaper publisher American Consolidated Media to Macquarie Media Group for $80 million. www.halyard.com
Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based firm focused on late-stage tech deals, is targeting $1.2 billion for its sixth fund, according to VentureWire. Fund-raising is slated to wrap up by the end of March, although it's unclear if the firm will be able to close at such a heady pace. Its fifth fund closed with […]