Hansen Medical, a medical robotics co., raises $75M in IPO
Hansen Medical, a Mountain View medical robotics company, raised $75 million in its initial public offering, after pricing its 6.25 million shares at $12, within its $11 to $13 forecast. The shares represent about 30 percent of the company.
Hansen will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol HNSN.
The company had raised more than $50 million in funding from Prospect Venture Partners, Skyline Ventures, Thomas Weisel Healthcare Partners, De Novo Ventures and Vanguard Ventures.
ClickFacts, a new company countering click-fraud
(Updated with response from Google, and a counter-response from ClickFacts)
ClickFacts, a San Francisco start-up, may be worth looking at if you’re an advertiser plagued by click-fraud.
Click-fraud is the bane of the Internet: Web site owners and others with ulterior motives have incentives to click on ads.
Ask Nate McKelvey, chief executive of Jets.com, who was paying $5 to $20 per click when someone clicked on his ad beside Google search results. He caught a competitor,… Continue Reading