Recently Announced Venture Capital Deals
Issuer | Round Close | Round # | Amount (M) | Lead Investors |
IOptillion AB Stockholm Manufactures fiber-optic ethernet transceivers | 10/30/2002 | 3 | $15.0 | Cisco Systems Inc.; ITACT; Investor AB; Crescendo Venture Management LLC |
Coriolis Networks Inc. Boxborough, MA Metro optical products | 10/30/2002 | 7 | $6.7 | TL Ventures |
eMotion Inc. Vienna, VA Dgital media management system | 10/30/2002 | 8 | $2.5 | Chartwell Capital Management Co.; Wasserstein Ventures;Constellation Ventures; CrossBow Ventures |
PolyServe Inc. San Francisco Software for Internet data centers | 10/29/2002 | 4 | $19.5 | Greylock; Roda Group; New Enterprise Associates |
SkyWave Mobile Communications Inc. Kanata, ON System for wireless asset tracking, monitoring and control | 10/29/2002 | 1 | $12.4 | Investissement Desjardins; McLean Watson Capital Inc. |
Management Dynamics Inc. East Rutherford, NJ Management systems for ocean transporation companies | 10/29/2002 | 1 | $6.7 | Cross Atlantic Capital Partners;Megunticook Management; New Jersey Technology Council |
Kemia Inc. San Diego Develops drugs to work with protein-protein interactions | 10/29/2002 | 3 | $6.5 | Alta Partners; Texas Pacific Group; Forward Ventures |
Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc. Palo Alto, CA Antiinfectives for treatment of fungal infections | 10/29/2002 | 2 | $4.0 | Aberdare Ventures; Rho Ventures |
LittleFeet Inc. Poway, CA Wireless telecommunication network products | 10/29/2002 | 4 | $3.0 | ComVentures |
Atomic Dog Publishing Cincinnati College textbook publishing Web site | 10/29/2002 | 3 | $2.2 | Blue Chip Venture Co.; River Cities Capital Funds |
Vsource San Diego Business Process Outsourcing | 10/28/2002 | 1 | $7.5 | Capital International Asia CDPQ |
AdvisorPort Plymouth Meeting, PA Online software for financial services firms | 10/28/2002 | 3 | $5.0 | Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. |
Famosa SA Alicante, Spain Toy maker | 10/28/2002 | 1 | $0.1 | AC Desarrollo SGCR SA; Inveralia Group |
Your Pet’s Choice Inc. Belleville, WA Operates veterinary clinics and hospitals | 10/25/2002 | 9 | $5.0 | Northwest Venture Associates Inc. |
Inoveon Corp. Oklahoma City Diabetic-retinopathy evaluation services | 10/25/2002 | 2 | $1.5 | Chrysalis Ventures |
Elliptic Semiconductor Kanata, ON Wireless L AN semiconductors | 10/25/2002 | 1 | $0.3 | Venture Coaches |
Netrake Corp. Plano, TX Help direct traffic on Internet protocol networks | 10/24/2002 | 4 | $20.0 | Austin Ventures LP; Trinity Ventures; TL Ventures |
Remon Medical Technologies Ltd. Caesarea, Israel Acoustic wave technology | 10/24/2002 | 2 | $10.0 | Biomedical Investments; Polaris Venture Partners; Concord Ventures |
Pinpoint Networks Inc. Cary, NC Customized search solutions for the Web | 10/24/2002 | 6 | $4.0 | New Enterprise Associates |
Birthday Express Inc. Kirkland, WA Party supplies and services | 10/24/2002 | 8 | $3.9 | Orix Capital Corp. |
Green Border Technology Inc. Mountain View, CA Software to ensure data integrity for computing environments | 10/23/2002 | 2 | $12.0 | Labrador Ventures; Texas Pacific Group; Sevin Rosen Funds |
SADealTime.com Inc. New York Online shopping search engine | 10/23/2002 | 6 | $3.0 | BV Capital; Bain Capital |
Design2Launch Inc. Stamford, CT Software for collaborative product visualization | 10/23/2002 | 1 | $2.5 | 1 to 1 Ventures LP; Next Generation Ventures LLC; Endeavor Capital Management |
IPC Inc. North Hollywood, CA Physician services, management and information systems | 10/22/2002 | 5 | $15.5 | BA Venture Partners; Bessemer Venture Partners; CB Health Ventures LLC; Morgenthaler Ventures |
Konarka Technologies Lowell, MA Innovations in solar energy | 10/22/2002 | 2 | $13.5 | Ardesta; Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Eastman Chemical Co. ; ChevronTexaco Venture Equities LLC |
Envara Palo Alto, CA Develops wireless LAN chip sets | 10/22/2002 | 2 | $6.5 | Challenge Fund – Etgar; Gemini Capital Fund Mgmt; Evergreen Canada Israel Investments; Giza Venture Capital |
Oasis Technology Toronto E-payment software for financial institutions | 10/22/2002 | 3 | $5.0 | ABN AMRO Private Equity; VenGrowth Capital Funds; HarbourVest Partners LLC |
Transcan Medical Ltd. Migdael HaEmak, Israel Breast cancer detectors | 10/22/2002 | 1 | $2.5 | Denali Ventures LLC |
LaserSight Inc. Winter Park, FL Laser scanning systems for refractive surgery | 10/22/2002 | 1 | $2.0 | Shenzhen Venture Capital Co. |
Natspears Ltd. Ramat Gan, Israel Cancer-killing drugs | 10/22/2002 | 1 | $0.4 | Biomedical Incubator Rad-Ramot Ltd |
Alsius Corp. Irvine, CA Neurobiological circulatory support system equipment | 10/21/2002 | 12 | $29.1 | MPM Capital; New Enterprise Associates; Mayfield Fund; U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Ventures |
Elogex Inc. Charlotte, NC Internet company enabling collaborative commerce | 10/21/2002 | 5 | $17.0 | Fenway Partners Inc. |
PureEdge Solutions Victoria, BC Secure XML e-forms solutions for government | 10/21/2002 | 1 | $9.8 | Bank of Montreal; GrowthWorks Capital; RoyNat Capital; Business Development Bank of Canada |
Data Domain Inc. San Mateo, CA Data backup and recovery storage appliance solutions | 10/21/2002 | 2 | $9.3 | Greylock; New Enterprise Associates |
CambridgeSoft Corp. Cambridge, MA Desktop software, enterprise solutions and consulting services | 10/21/2002 | 1 | $3.2 | Edison Venture Fund |
Netifice Communications Inc. Norcross, GA Fully managed IP-Virtual Private Network | 10/18/2002 | 6 | $8.0 | Boston Millennia Partners; HIG Capital Management; Columbia Capital Group Inc.; Dolphin Equity Partners |
Intelligent Results Bellevue, WA Enterprise products and services for unstructured documents | 10/18/2002 | 3 | $5.0 | Undisclosed Investor |
Natural Convergence Inc. Ottawa Web enabled IP Voice solutions | 10/18/2002 | 3 | $1.2 | Business Development Bank of Canada; Desjardins; Jefferson Partners |
Ember Corp. Boston Wireless embedded networking platform | 10/17/2002 | 5 | $20.0 | Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Polaris Venture Partners; GrandBanks Capital; RRE Ventures LLC; Stata Venture Partners |
Apriso Corp. Long Beach, CA Integrated plant floor and warehouse solutions | 10/17/2002 | 6 | $2.1 | SAP America Inc. |
Elbasa Barcelona, Spain Manufactures printed multilayer circuitboards | 10/16/2002 | 1 | $2.1 | 3i Group PLC |
Iteration Software Inc. Mountain View, CA Real-time reporting and information delivery solutions | 10/15/2002 | 2 | $10.0 | Canaan Partners; Crosspoint Venture Partners |
Savvion Inc. Santa Clara, CA Products and services for e-business management | 10/15/2002 | 3 | $5.0 | Walden International |
Nephros Therapeutics Inc. Lincoln, RI Treatment of acute and chronic kidney failure | 10/15/2002 | 6 | $0.8 | North Coast Technology Investors LP |
IXI Mobile Inc. Palo Alto, CA Wireless devices and services | 10/14/2002 | 6 | $15.0 | Draper Fisher Jurvetson; TI Ventures; Gemini Capital Fund Mgmt Ltd.; TLcom Capital Partners Ltd. |
Spatial Wireless Richardson, TX Wireless software switches | 10/14/2002 | 3 | $10.0 | Austin Ventures LP; Genesis Campus; Dali, Hook Partners; Sequoia Capital |
Zilliant Inc. Austin , TX Software that provides strategic price sensitivity information | 10/14/2002 | 4 | $1.5 | Austin Ventures LP; GE Equity; DB Capital Partners; Trellis Partners |
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. Bethesda, MD Develops new classes of pharmaceuticals | 10/11/2002 | 2 | $4.5 | Diamond Capital; Mizuho Capital Co. |
Aloha Networks San Francisco Wireless telecommunications services | 10/11/2002 | 6 | $4.0 | Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
CapitalStream Inc. Seattle Business automation software for the financial industry | 10/10/2002 | 4 | $10.0 | Banc of America Equity Partners; Mobius Venture Capital; Benaroya Capital Co.; Merrill Lynch Venture Capital |
InterSymbol Communications Champaign, IL Broadband integrated circuit technology | 10/10/2002 | 3 | $1.0 | Intel Capital; Venture Investors Management LLC |
SCTYL Online World Security SA Barcelona, Spain Software security solutions | 10/10/2002 | 1 | $1.0 | Riva y Garcia |
eProject Inc. Seattle Communication management software | 10/9/2002 | 1 | $3.7 | Pinpoint Venture Group; Vault Capital |