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Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Tempur World Inc., a Lexington, Ky.-based mattress and pillow producer, has been acquired for approximately $350 million by TA Associates and Friedman, Fleischer & Lowe. Equity capital for the purchase will be provided approximately $95 million by TA and $50 million by […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Insulet Corp., a Beverly, Mass.-based developer of wireless insulin pumps for diabetes patients, is expected to announce Monday that it has raised $22 million in its third round of venture capital funding. New investor Pequot Capital Management led the Series C deal, […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. MicroMed Technology Inc., a Houston-based cardiac medical device company, announced today that it has raised $23 million in a private placement of its Series D Preferred Stock. Existing investors participating in the round included Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Charterhouse Group International, Oxford […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email . Sightward, a predictive analytics software and services provider, today announced it has appointed Will Hodgman as President and Chief Executive Officer and secured an additional $2.5 million in funding from Northwest Venture Associates. The funding will enable Sightward to focus operations […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. EPCglobal Ltd., a San Francisco-based staffing and solutions company that specializes in servicing the engineering and construction industries, has secured a $11 million investment from Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC). The funding will allow the company to continue its international growth, and […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Terion Inc., a leading provider of trailer monitoring systems announced that its reorganization became effective on August 30, 2002. Terion’s investor group has supported the reorganization and has funded the company with an additional $10.8 million. Terion has restructured its business to […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. PE Week has learned that Boston-based TA Associates returned $38 million to investors in late August to avoid eventual clawback obligations. In addition, TA has chosen not to draw approximately $15 million worth of scheduled management fees from investors on three separate funds. […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. SupplyScience Inc., a provider of store-based demand forecasting and replenishment software, has closed on its Series C Round of financing. Investors in the round include; Israel Seed Partners, Israel Infinity Venture Capital, and Millennium 3 Opportunity Fund, as well as private investors. […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Inkra Networks, a Fremont, Calif.-based switch developer, announced today receipt of $30.1 million in it’s second round of institutional funding. Morgenthaler Ventures led the oversubscribed round, with repeat participation from Inkra’s existing investors Battery Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, and Greenstone […]

Get The Wire in your inbox each morning! Just send us an email. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that Agilent Ventures (AV) has participated in the Series B-1 Preferred Stock funding round for Big Bear Networks Inc., a privately held company that designs and manufactures highly integrated, optoelectronic interface solutions for next generation high-speed […]