The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan said it will acquire San Francisco-based proxy advisory firm Glass, Lewis from Xinhua Finance for $46 million.
That’s about the $45 million that the Chinese company paid for the company last year.
But the WSJ …
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Danish microscopy company Visiopharm gets funding — Copenhagen’s Visiopharm, a developer of image-analysis hardware and software for microscopy, raised an undisclosed sum from Northcap Partners. The …
Vidyo is the latest company to offer high-definition video conferencing software, and has raised $12 million in a second round of funding.
It joins a number of other companies challenging the entrenched leader in this area, WebEx, recently bought by …
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A secretive Silicon Valley company called Calera says it can stop global warming and ocean acidification by pulling greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere.
It is building a way to grab carbon dioxide from its surroundings during the manufacturing …
UK’s phone giant BT has invested in the WiFi router start-up FON, in an effort to cover the UK with what they proclaim will be the “world’s largest WiFi community.”
BT has more than 3 million broadband customers. Under the …
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APT Pharma raises $22M for transplant and heart drugs — Burlingame, Calif.’s APT Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharma currently focused on a drug to fight organ-transplant rejection, …
Asoka USA, a Foster City, Calif. maker of equipment that turns home electrical outlets into Internet broadband network endpoints, has raised a $7 million in a first round of capital.
The company says it has $6 million in revenue last …
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Heart-diagnostic maker Aviir raises $11.3M — Palo Alto, Calif.-based Aviir, a biotech developing cardiovascular diagnostics based on Stanford research, raised $11.3 million of an expected $25 million second funding round, PE Hub …
Reply.com, a San Ramon company that provides online business leads, said it has raised $4.5 million in debt from ATEL Ventures.
It will be used to pay off Orix Venture Finance, a previous investor.
The announcement is here.
Reply had …
[This story originally ran on Monday, Oct. 1, 2007]
LedEngin, a Santa Clara, Calif. company making components for cleaner and more efficient lighting technology called LEDs, has raised $11 million in a third round of financing.
The round …
EverPower Renewables, a New York developer of wind power farms, today announced it has closed a $55 million in financing from Good Energies, an investor the renewable energy industry.
It follows news yesterday that competitor Nordic Windpower raised a significant …
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Change:healthcare raises $1M for health 2.0 sites — Nashville, Tenn.-based change:healthcare, a provider of Web-based health information, raised $1 million in a first funding round. The investment firm Solidus, also based …
Nordic Windpower, a San Rafael, Calif. maker of two-blade, utility scale wind turbines, has received a “significant investment” from Goldman Sachs.
Here’s the statment.
Nordic Windpower says the wind market is $20 billion annually. The company has operations in Sweden, …
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Diffusion Pharma raises $4.5M for vascular-disease and brain-cancer drug — Charlottesville, Va.-based Diffusion Pharmaceuticals, a biotech focused on drugs that enhance oxygen diffusion, raised $4.5 million in a private placement. …
Things are starting to get crowded in the race to sequence entire human genomes quickly and relatively cheaply — usually meaning somewhere in the territory of $1,000 per genome, compared to the $100,000+ it costs with current technology. At least …
Guardian Analytics, a Los Altos, Calif company focused on helping financial institutions prevent online fraud, said it has raised $4.5 million in a second round of financing.
Foundation Capital led the investment, and follows the firm’s earlier $1.25 million seed …
Wikinvest, a site that allows investors to collaborate by editing pages about stocks and other opportunities, has raised $2.5 million in a first round of capital.
The San Francisco company launched two months ago. The investment was made by Silicon …
Xoom, a company that lets you go online to transfer money internationally, has raised $20.29 million in a fifth round of funding.
It’s just the latest in a wave of companies using the Web to shake up the payment-lending industry.…
OpTrip, a Sunnyvale, Calif. online travel information company that is yet to launch, has raised $500,000 in a first round of financing.
We first mentioned the company here.
Investors include Amidzad Partners and Peter Thiel.…
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Sagent Pharmaceuticals draws in $53M for injectable generics — Sagent Pharmaceuticals, proving that there’s still life in the apparently lucrative but boring specialty-pharmaceuticals business, raised $53 million in …
