Time to catch up on some hot stories you may have missed this week. Here are the 10 most popular posts on peHUB based on number of unique pageviews from our regular readers for May 13 – 17.

1. LPs to VCs: Cut […]

Aspen Aerogels, Inc. said it raised $22.5 million in a convertible note financing and has decided not to pursue an initial public offering. The company said it will withdraw its S-1 registration statement.The new […]

Shares of Tableau Software soared nearly 64% on Friday, promising a massive return for its venture capital backers New Enterprise Associates and Meritech Capital Partners.

Yesterday, Tableau raised $254.2 […]

So, did Yahoo just buy the social blogging site Tumblr? We may find out on Monday.

The IPOs of business software companies Tableau Software and Marketo both soared today, as expected.

SAC says it’s done […]

Jelly Industries, a startup from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, has closed a Series A round led by Spark Capital. SV Angel also invested, according to an announcement on Jelly’s site. Other investors in the company […]

Great Hills Partner said Friday that Charlie Papazian, a Vice President on its investment team, passed away due to complications from an injury. Papazian joined Great Hill in 2001 and returned to the firm after […]

The surging popularity of bitcoin has some brand-name venture capitalists investing real money in the controversial virtual currency.

Just since April, notable firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, […]

Univar, a global chemicals distributor, said on Thursday that it has acquired Quimicompuestos, a leading Mexico-based distributor of commodity chemicals. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. […]

Jung Yeon Son has left Technology Crossover Ventures to join Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s corporate practice group. At Technology Crossover Ventures, which is located in Palo […]

Venture capital  deal-making in Canada shot up in the first quarter of 2013, reports Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB Canada). Dollars invested totaled $460 million, up 55% from the year before, while companies […]

Buyout and related private equity (PE) deal-making in Canada moderated in the first quarter of 2013, reports Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB Canada). Deal volume declined 47% year over year, however, disclosed […]

Net assets of the Canada Pension Plan Fund (CPP) totaled $183.3 billion at the end of its fiscal year in March 2013, increasing $21.7 billion year over year, reports CPP Investment Board (CPPIB). The fund’s […]

Canadian private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group welcomed the recent agreement in which TELUS Corp. will acquire Toronto’s Mobilicity, a.k.a. Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Wireless Inc. for $380 million. The […]

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)’s recent consultation on crowdfunding options received “favourable comments” reports law firm Osler Hoskin & Harcourt. Osler noted 100 responses to the OSC, most of which […]

Tao Liu, managing partner of the Sino-Canada Natural Resources Fund, has been appointed co-chairman and director of Pacific Potash Corp., which is focused on exploration and development of the Amazonas Basin […]

The April acquisition of Vancouver’s Layer 7 Technologies Inc., a provider of application programming interface management and security, by CA Technologies Inc., an Islandia, New York-based software developer, has […]

Summit Investments said on Friday that it has launched Polar System, which is is designed to gather 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day, in Williams County, North Dakota. Summit Investments (or Summit Midstream […]