Weekly Venture Capital Activity Week Sep. 12, 2005 Through Sep. 18, 2005
Companies based in California operating in the software industry and that have raised their Series B financing round led the pack in the amount of venture financing raised this week. There were once again no initial public offerings this week.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) September 23, 2005
www. CapitalHunter. com was able to verify that $342 million of venture capital was invested in 38 U. S.-based companies during this weekÂ’s reporting period. The average deal size was approximately 9.00 million. The amount of venture capital invested this period decreased by 21% compared to last periods $431 million.
Geographically, eleven California companies raised $93.32 million in new equity financing which was 29% of the total venture capital invested this reporting period. The largest private venture financing in California this period was invested into Freeborders. Freeborders raised $20 million and is a San Francisco based provider of technology solutions and outsourcing from China.
The software sector raised 34% of the venture capital this period. Sixteen software companies raised $112.8 million in venture financing. The largest private venture financing in the software sector this period went into Verid Software. Verid is a Ft. Lauderdale based provider of real-time identity verification and authentication solutions for companies in the financial services, telecommunications, retail, online-services and payment-processing sectors.
Companies raising theirSeries B financing round led this weekÂ’s venture capital activity. These financings represented 39% of the total venture capital deployed this period. The largest Series B private venture financing was placed into GlobeImmune. GlobeImmune is an Aurora, Colorado based pharmaceutical company developing immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases.
The three largest venture deals this period are as follows:
1 GlobeImmune Biotechnology $34.3 million
2 FreeBorders IT Services $20 million
3 Stoke Telecommunications $19.8 million
The following twelve and other unnamed investors funded the above mentioned top three venture capital investments for $74.1 million:
1 Adams Street Partners
2 Biogen Idec
3 GC&H Investments
4 Genentech
5 HealthCare Ventures
6 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
7 Lilly Ventures
8 Medica Holdings
9 Morgenthaler Ventures
10 Partners Healthcare
11 Sequel Venture Partners
12 Sequoia Capital
A total of 67 equity financings of private and public companies occurred during this reporting period. Each of the 67 equity financings are profiled in a weekly report which include venture financings, private placements, secondary offerings, PIPEÂ’s, and IPOÂ’s.
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