Trying to get away from relatives this Christmas weekend? Tell them you need to catch up on your reading. Here are the past week’s top 10 posts based on number of pageviews from peHUB’s regular readers.

1. Slideshow: The Year’s Most Prolific PE Buyers – Bernard Vaughan
2. Slideshow: Top 10 PE Fundraising Successes of 2011 – Gregory Roth
3. Romney Still Making Millions from Bain – Reuters
4. A Look At The Angel Market And The Fall In Average Deal Size: Slideshow – Mark Boslet
5. Slideshow: Someone Send Some Love To These Unwanted, CalPERS-Backed Funds (subscribers only) – David Toll
6. U.S. Investor Hellman Dies at 77 – Reuters
7. Triago Claims Le Febvre, Who Is Launching a Competitor, Was Terminated – Luisa Beltran
8. Providence Equity’s Fund VII Hits Fundraising Problems, May Fall Short of $6B Target (subscribers only) – Luisa Beltran
9. Biofuels Winners And Losers: A Look At The Market By Lux – Mark Boslet
10. Remembering Warren Hellman: ‘An Openness To Ideas And To People’ – David Toll

We at peHUB have written about emerging biofuels companies on a number of occasions in the past year, chronicling the rush of these still formative companies to the IPO window. Here is a useful “cheat sheet” courtesy of Lux Research on who the ultimate winners and losers could be. The biofuels and biochemical industries are [...]

The IPO market has been quiet for a couple of months, and the Solyndra bankruptcy has cast a pall over the VC-backed cleantech sector. But that could change soon, as a total of 15 cleantech companies wait in registration for a chance to launch public offerings, including a handful of biofuels developers. Combined, they could [...]