今日VC

汤森路透旗下风投网站Pehub日前评出了截止到目前的美国2009年融资金额前十名公司案例。其中最高金额达到1.46亿美元，所属行业为医疗健康；第十名的融资金额为6000万美元，主要业务为绿色建筑材料。前十名名单如下
#1: Clovis Oncology Inc.
Amount: $146 million
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Business: Anti-cancer therapeutics
Investors: Domain Associates, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Versant Ventures, Aberdare Ventures, Abingworth, Frazier Healthcare Ventures and ProQuest Investments
#2: Twitter
Amount: $139 million (including approx. $4m in pro rata re-ups on Feb round, according to SEC filing)
Location: San Francisco, California
Business: Micro messaging platform
Investors: Benchmark Capital, Insight Venture Partners, [...]

Leader in Predictive Scoring for Online Advertisers Expanding Market Presence
ST. CLOUD, MN–09/29/09 – eBureau, a leading provider of predictive scoring and information services for online advertisers, today announced it has closed a $10 million round of Series C financing led by venture capital firm Tenaya Capital, with participation from existing Series A and B [...]

SEOUL, South Korea, Sep. 28 — Nesscap Inc., a South Korean-based ultracapacitor manufacturing and power storage solutions company, announced today that it has closed a bridge financing round in the amount of $9 million.

The round was led by a London-based venture capital fund, I2BF Venture Capital, with other local and international co-investors also participating. I2BF [...]

Pan-European VC leads $16 million funding round
LONDON—-Livebookings, with customers, partners and employees in 19 countries is Europe’s largest online marketing and reservations service for the restaurant industry. Today the company announces the closure of a financing round of $16 million led by pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners and backed by existing investors.
The investment [...]

CLEVELAND, September 28, 2009– Evolution Capital Partners (“Evolution”), a Cleveland, Ohio-based private equity firm, in partnership with management, is pleased to announce the equity investment in American Eagle Mortgage (“AEM”). AEM represents the fifth platform investment in Evolution’s current fund.
AEM, based in Lorain, OH, is a premier mortgage lender providing loans in Ohio, Kentucky [...]