(Reuters) – Workday Inc. has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, several sources told Reuters, putting the Silicon Valley business software company on track for the largest market debut since Facebook Inc.’s problem-ridden May coming-out party chilled demand for U.S. IPOs.

Castlight Health, a provider of health care transparency solutions for employers and payers, has appointed John Driscoll as president. Castlight Health is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by investors including Allen & Company, Cleveland Clinic, Maverick Capital, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Oak Investment Partners, Redmile Group, T. Rowe Price, U.S. Venture Partners, Venrock, Wellcome [...]

Workday has raised $250 million from Greylock Partners, New Enterprise Associates, T Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus Capital Group Inc. and Bezos Expeditions, Jeff Bezos’ private investment fund.

One of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley isn’t someone who appears frequently in the tech press. He isn’t a venture capitalist or an entrepreneur. He doesn’t tweet or live in California. (And no, he isn’t Russian.) He’s 39-year-old Henry Ellenbogen, manager of the oldest small cap mutual fund in the country, T. Rowe [...]

Odesk, a Redwood City, Calif., platform for finding and hiring remote freelance workers, has received $15 million in Series D funding led by T. Rowe Price Associates. Other investors in the round include Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. The nine-year-old company has now raised a total of $44 million in funding. PRESS RELEASE: [...]

Apptio, a five-year-old, Seattle-based company that sells enterprise software as a service to manage IT and operations at large companies, has closed a $50 million Series D round led by T. Rowe Associates. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Madrona Venture Group and Shasta Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings Aptio’s funding to date [...]

(Reuters) – Angie’s List debuted on Nasdaq at $18.01, or 39% above its offering price, on Thursday after pricing its IPO at the high end of its expected price range. The stock rose as much as 44 percent to $18.75. It was later trading up 30% at $16.85. The Indianapolis-based company, which provides consumer reviews [...]

(Reuters) – Angie’s List Inc., which provides consumer reviews of local professionals and businesses, priced its initial public offering at $13 a share, the higher end of the expected price range, according to an underwriter. The offering consisted of about 6.3 million shares being sold by the company, with the rest by certain stockholders, including [...]

About 11 months after they made headlines for investing “like a billion dollars” in Groupon, 14 venture firms, mutual funds and other investors are looking pretty clever. As a group, the investors own 120.2 million Class A shares, which are valued at $3.14 billion at today’s closing price of $26.11 per share. That’s a return [...]

Workday Inc., a maker of software-as-a-service products for enterprise human resources, payroll and financial management, has raised $85 million in Series F financing. T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus Capital Group Inc. and Bezos Expeditions contributed to the round. Workday was formed in 2005, and focuses on a cloud-based alternative for HR software. Allen & Co. acted as financial adviser to Workday for the financing.