Appsense
Location: New York
Amount: $70.00M
Stage: Later Stage
Description: Provides user virtualization solutions for enterprises.
Investors: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Alta Devices Inc.
Location: Santa Clara, Calif.
Amount: $72.00M
Stage: Early Stage
Description: Provides biotechnology research services. Focused on improving the production economics of high efficiency solar PV applications.
Investors: August Capital Management, Crosslink Capital, Dow Chemical Company, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich LLC, Energy Technology Ventures, Good Energies AG, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, Presidio STX , Technology Partners, Undisclosed Investor and AIMCo
CORRECTED AND UPDATED: Company description was corrected. Also, AIMCo was added to the list of investors, per Alta Device’s request.
Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc.
Location: Pleasanton, Calif.
Amount: $75.00M
Stage: Early Stage
Description: Develops owns and operates facilities for converting municipal solid waste and other waste products to a renewable transportation fuel.
Investors: Undisclosed Investor (Company’s $14 million Series B round in 2008 was funded by Rustic Canyon Partners and US Renewables Group HoldCo III LLC, according to Thomson Reuters.)
Coda Automotive Inc.
Location: Santa Monica, Calif.
Amount: $76.40
Stage: Early Stage
Description: Manufactures electric vehicles.
Investors: Aeris Capital AG, Angeleno Group LLC, Riverstone LLC, Undisclosed Investor
Beyond Oblivion Inc.
Location: New York
Amount: $77.00M
Stage: Early Stage
Description: Provides digital music Service.
Investors: Allen & Co., two undisclosed investors
SoloPower Inc.
Location: San Jose, Calif.
Amount: $78.58M
Stage: Expansion
Description: Manufactures thin-film solar cells.
Investors: Convexa AS, Crosslink Capital, Hudson Capital Management
Tabula Inc.
Location: Santa Clara, Calif.
Amount: $108.00M
Stage: Later Stage
Description: Manufactures semiconductors for general-purpose chip.
Investors: Balderton Capital Management (U.K.) LLP, Benchmark Capital, Crosslink Capital, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich LLC, Greylock Partners, Integral Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates
Fisker Automotive Inc.
Location: Irvine, Calif.
Amount: $111.92M
Stage: Later Stage
Description: Designs and manufactures electric vehicles.
Investors: Advanced Equities Capital Partners LLC, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates Inc., Palo Alto Investors
Plastic Logic Ltd.
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Amount: $200.00M
Stage: Later Stage
Description: Develops plastic circuits for mass applications.
Investors: Oak Investment Partners, Undisclosed Investor
BrightSource Energy Inc.
Location: Oakland, Calif.
Amount: $201.69M
Stage: Later Stage
Description: Develops utility-scale solar power plants.
Investors: Chevron Technology Ventures, DBL Investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, VantagePoint Capital Partners, two undisclosed investors
As we previously reported, VCs are increasingly doing bigger deals. More evidence of this appears in today’s Q1 MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters.
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