November 2010

RingRevenue Closes $4M Funding Round

November 30, 2010

RingRevenue, Inc., a Santa Barbara, CA-based provider of call performance marketing solutions, closed a $4m round of funding. The investment, which was led by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners, brings the total amount raised by the company to date to $7.5m. RingRevenue intends to use the capital to expand its customer development and support [...]

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JMI Equity Closes $875M Fund

November 30, 2010

JMI Equity, a Baltimore, MD, and La Jolla, CA-based growth equity firm that invests in software, internet, business services and healthcare IT companies, closed an $875m fund. JMI Equity Fund VII, L.P. will continue the company’s longstanding investment strategy of providing capital to fund growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and buyouts. The new vehicle will invest primarily [...]

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KPCB Adds Technology Analyst Mary Meeker as Partner

November 30, 2010

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) added technology analyst Mary Meeker as a partner. Meeker, who will be based in Silicon Valley, will help guide social, mobile and new commerce internet companies worldwide. She comes from Morgan Stanley, where she led the Global Technology Research Team and covered Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Microsoft and other [...]

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nfon Raises €4M

November 29, 2010

nfon AG, a Munich, Germany-based provider of outsourced telephone systems, has raised €4m in additional funding. Investors include existing backers High-Tech Gründerfonds, Earlybird Venture Capital GmbH &Co. KG, MIG Fonds, Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft and the company’s management. nfon intends to use the funds to expand its distributor channel through a partner programme. The company, which has [...]

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ClickFox Raises $18M in Financing

November 29, 2010

ClickFox, an Atlanta, GA-based provider of customer experience analytics (CEA) software and solutions, has raised $18m in financing. The round was led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). The company intends to use the proceeds from the financing to expand: – sales and marketing efforts globally, mainly into European and Latin American markets, – [...]

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CloudBees Raises $4M in Series A Financing

November 29, 2010

CloudBees, a Lewes, DE-based provider of Java Platform as a Service for both enterprises and ISVs, from development to production, has raised $4m in Series A financing. The round was led by Matrix Partners, with participation from individual investors, including Marc Fleury, the JBoss founder, and Bob Bickel. The company intends to use the funds [...]

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FXecosystem Completes Series A Funding Round

November 29, 2010

FXecosystem, a New York-based low latency trading infrastructure provider to the world’s global foreign exchange market, has completed a Series A funding round of undisclosed amount. Investors include New York based telecom investment bank Richfield Capital Partners and a European-based private equity consortium. According to Jock Percy, CEO of the company, the proceeds from the [...]

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SuperSonic Imagine Closes €34M Series C Financing

November 29, 2010

SuperSonic Imagine, an Aix-en-Provence, France-based ultrasound medical imaging company, has closed a €34m Series C financing. The round was led by new investors Mérieux Développement, followed by Canon, Inc. and InnoBio, which committed a total of €15.5m. Existing backers including Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Auriga Partners, Crédit Agricole Private Equity, NBGI Ventures, BioAm (managed by [...]

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Kineto Wireless Raises $3M in Debt and Equity Financing

November 28, 2010

Kineto Wireless, a Milpitas, CA-based supplier of smart offload solutions for smartphones, recently raised $3m in debt and equity financing. According to a regultuary filing, investors include Venrock, Seapoint Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures. The company’s solutions are designed to enable mobile operators to use existing Wi-Fi in subscriber’s homes and offices to offload mobile [...]

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Seoul Semiconductor Corporation and Vertex Venture Management Agree to Invest in LED Companies

November 28, 2010

Seoul Semiconductor Corporation (CEO: Chung Hoon LEE), a global market-leader in Light-Emitting Diode (LED) technology, and Singapore-based Vertex Venture Management have recently agreed to jointly seek and invest in companies with advanced capabilities in the areas of LED technology development. Within the framework of the deal, Seoul Semiconductor will seek out companies and combine them [...]

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