PLANO, TEXAS — LaserComm, an innovator of photonic components and modules and a leader in managing chromatic dispersion in optical networks, today announced it has secured $21 million in fourth-round funding from internal investors, led by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and Index Ventures. The new capital will allow LaserComm to support its growing customer base, […]
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BOSTON — Advent International, the global private equity investor, today announced that it has raised $1.9 billion for its Global Private Equity IV fund (GPE IV), a sector-focused fund expected to invest 70 percent of its capital in Europe and 30 percent in North America. The new fund brings total capital managed by Advent to […]
SALT LAKE CITY–Wasatch Venture Fund (Wasatch), an affiliate office of Silicon Valley’s Draper Fisher Jurvetson, today announced that Matt Mosman has joined Wasatch as a managing director. Mosman will work out of Wasatch’s Bay Area office, located in San Mateo County and will focus on developing strategic partnerships and follow-on financing for Wasatch’s portfolio companies […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Financial Technology Ventures (FTVentures), a San Francisco-based leading private equity investor in financial technology, announced that it has closed FTV II, a $423 million venture capital and private equity fund. FTV II will enable FTVentures to continue its strategy of investing in companies that develop technologies that are transforming the financial services […]
MENLO PARK, CALIF. And GREENWICH, CONN. — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that The Barksdale Group has decided to shut it doors. Founded in 1999, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based firm tried, unsuccessfully, to raise a second fund last year. Former Barksdale Partner Peter Currie will join General Atlantic Partners LLC as a partner. Currie […]
BOSTON — Dr. Peter Barrett, a co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Celera Genomics, will join Atlas Venture, the leading international venture capital firm investing in life sciences, information technology and communications companies. The firm announced today that Dr. Barrett will join Jean-Francois Formela in Boston to lead its investments in U.S. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — MPM Capital announced today the closing of the MPM BioEquities Fund to new investors. The Fund raised over $400 million since its inception March 23, 2001 and now stands at over $450 million in assets. The MPM BioEquities Fund invests primarily in publicly traded biotechnology stocks. The fund is supported by […]
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Mercantile Bank Corp. (Nasdaq: MBWM), one of the nation’s fastest growing banking organizations, announced that it has privately placed 180,000 shares of common stock with a small number of individual investors, including a member of Mercantile’s Board of Directors and members of his family, an organizer of the Bank, and several […]
SAN DIEGO — MitoKor today announced that it has raised over $25 million in its latest private equity financings. RBC Capital Markets acted as a placement agent. New investors include Federated Kaufmann Fund, Orbitex Health and Biotechnology Funds, Palladin Group, China Development Industrial Bank, First Bio Venture Capital, Emerging Growth Management Funds, and DRW Venture […]