The Daily Deal articles from June 2001

The Daily Deal archives from June 2001

AOL Time Warner.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... New York-based AOL Time Warner Inc. confirmed Thursday the formation of the AOL Time Warner Opportunity Investment Fund, a new initiative that will invest about $100 million in a three-year period in companies owned or managed by minorities...

Aberdeen Scots Trust.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... The C$235 million initial public offering of Aberdeen Scots Trust closed Thursday. The company sold 9.4 million shares at C$35.25 ($23.25) per share. Aberdeen Asset Managers Ltd., a subsidiary of Aberdeen, Scotland-based money management firm...

AlphaCell.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Israeli handset manufacturer AlphaCell has secured $6.4 million in equity financing in a round that valued the startup at approximately $32.3 million, Internet Wire reported. Emblaze Systems Ltd. of New York, which makes technology to allow...

Altrec.com.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Kirkland, Wash.-based outdoor and travel retailer Altrec.com closed a $1.43 million round of venture funding from new investors Fortuna Investments and Sabey Corp. Previous investors Matthew Upchurch, CEO of Virtuoso; Bill Ferry, former vice...

Boston Private takes Borel.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. said Thursday it is buying San Mateo, Calif.-based Borel Bank & Trust Co. for $113.2 million in stock. The deal follows Boston Private's acquisition of Sand Hill Advisors Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif.,...

Capital North-East.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... New Castle, England-based Northern Enterprise Ltd. plans to launch a $21 million venture capital fund targeting high-growth, small- and medium-sized businesses in Northeast England later this year, the Northern Echo news service said. The...

Captus Networks.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Hardware and software security device maker Captus Networks of Woodland, Calif., has captured an additional $1.5 million in second-round funding, bringing the round's total to $17.6 million. The funding was provided by Miami-based H.I.G....

Castek Software Factory.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Toronto-based Castek Software Factory Inc. reported Thursday it has received $10 million in a third round of funding from p3Technology Partners of the Netherlands and CIBC Capital Partners and Altamira Management Ltd., both of Toronto. The...

Constellation to close $1B nuclear plant purchase.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Baltimore utility Constellation Energy Group said Thursday it expects to close its $1 billion purchase of the Nine Mile Point nuclear station in Scriba, N.Y., this summer after receiving license transfer approval from the U.S. Nuclear...

Cruise411.com.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Newtown Square, Pa., Internet cruise information and reservation service Cruise411.com has received $7 million in Series B equity financing from TL Ventures. Proceeds from the financing will be used to fund the expansion of the company's...

Deal Dynamics.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... E-learning software company Deal Dynamics has completed a funding round for [Euro]1.27 million ($1.07 million). The round was led by HotOrigin, an Ireland-based accelerator for early-stage software ventures, along with a private investor....

EOP pumps $74.3M into JV.(Equity Offices Property Trust joint venture with Maguire Partners)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Equity Office Properties Trust said Thursday it would invest $74.3 million in a joint venture with Maguire Partners of Los Angeles to develop the Water's Edge office complex as part of the 450,000 square feet Playa Vista community development...

Fenwick buying Bentalls.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Privately owned U.K. department store chain Fenwick Ltd. agreed Thursday to buy Bentalls plc for [pound]70.8 million ($100 million) in cash. Fenwick's offer of 173 pence a share is 46.6% higher than Bentalls' closing share price June 7, the...

Havok.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Dublin-based Havok raised [Euro]3.4 million ($2.9 million) in a second financing round led by Ireland's ICC Venture Capital. State funding body Enterprise Ireland also contributed to the funding round, which will be used to market the company...

InStranet.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Software developer InStranet Inc. has secured $14.7 million in Series C financing. New investors Benchmark Capital and Donald L. Lucas led the round, with support from existing shareholders Business Objectives SA, Apollo Invest, RSA SA and...

Interactive Services.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Dublin-based Interactive Services Ltd., an Internet training specialist for the telecommunications industry, raised [Euro]10 million ($8.6 million) in its first funding round since it was founded in 1993. Ireland's ACT Venture Capital,...

Keystone Property selling distribution center.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Keystone Property Trust, a REIT in West Conshohocken, Pa., said Thursday it was selling a 332,352-square-foot distribution center it owns in Teterboro, N.J., for $35 million to a buyer it declined to disclose. The building, in the...

LDMI Telecommunications.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Hamtrack, Mich.-based LDMI Telecommunications has secured $10 million in new funding from six VCs from the Great Lakes region. Participating in this round were Alpha Capital Partners Ltd., Wind Point Partners, Primus Venture Partners, PNC...

Nestle in talks to buy Sedzucker's Scheller unit.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Nestle SA, the Swiss food maker, is in talks with German sugar refiner Sudzucker AG to buy its ice-cream division Scholler. A Nestle press official would not say whether the talks were exclusive. But he said Scholler, which makes Movenpick...

Noranda reaches deal to buy Argentina copper mine.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Canadian miner Noranda Inc. said Thursday it has reached agreement to buy the El Pachon copper deposit in west-central Argentina for $30 million from Cambior Inc. of Montreal and Minera SA (Comsur) of La Paz, Bolivia, following a two-month...

Rouse Co. retains Merrill Lynch as adviser.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... The Rouse Co. announced Thursday that it retained Merrill Lynch & Co. to explore strategic alternatives, including the possible sale of the Hughes Center, a 115 acre mixed-use business park in Las Vegas. Rouse, a Columbia, Md.-based real...

Sangamo BioSciences is getting rival Gendaq.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Sangamo BioSciences Inc., a Richmond, Calif., biotech company that specializes in human genome research, said Thursday it has agreed to buy Gendaq Ltd., its privately held London counterpart for about $40 million in stock. Under the terms,...

Surgical Sealants.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Woburn, Mass.-based Surgical Sealants Inc., a maker of adhesive sealers preventing fluid or air leaks during complex surgery procedures, said Thursday it raised an undisclosed sum in a third round of financing led by Deutsche Bank and...

Terex acquires rival CMI.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Terex Corp., a Westport, Conn., construction equipment manufacturer, said Thursday it would buy its smaller Oklahoma City-based rival CMI Corp. for $74.79 million in stock. Terex will issue 0.16 of a share of its common stock for each share...

Going Under - Week of June 25, 2001.(bankruptcy reorganizations)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Matthew V. Haas New twists and turns involving Washington regulators, murder intrigue and mergers-of-bankrupts marked a busy week in bankruptcies. Indeed, Washington regulators had a big hand in two major events last week....

FCC appeal of General Wireless case rejected.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Charles Sisk WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up the Federal Communications Commission's appeal in a case dealing with a bankrupt company's wireless phone licenses. Despite similarities, however, the...

Bankrupt Drug Emporium cuts price of stores.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Terry Brennan Bankrupt Drug Emporium has reduced its price -- from $25 million to $21 million in cash -- in the sale all 77 of its outlets to Snyder's Drug Stores, Drug Emporium CFO Terry Moore said Friday. Powell, Ohio-based...

Bankruptcy may dissolve 360networks.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Leon Lazaroff With few steady customers and a partially built global fiber-optic network, telecommunications carrier 360networks Inc. is unlikely to emerge from bankruptcy court, say industry observers. Instead, the Vancouver,...

American Eagle Tankers sinks offering.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Heidi Nasr As predicted, the energy companies that were the recent rage of the initial public offering market appear to be falling by the wayside like the dot-coms before them. The most recent death knell was rung by American...

EU rejects new bid for GE merger clearance.(European Union)(General Electric Co.)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Victorya Hong in Brussels European Union regulators informed General Electric Co. late Thursday night that the company's latest offer of concessions for its $41 billion acquisition of Honeywell International Inc. was deemed...

SAP pumps $222M into Commerce One.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Tyson Freeman SEATTLE -- German business software giant SAP AG has announced an additional $222 million investment in its faltering business-to-business software partner, Commerce One Inc. SAP will acquire 46.7 million newly...

Panel deals blow to foreign investors in Russia.(Archangel Diamond Corp.)(Arkhangelskgeoldobycha)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: John Helmer in Moscow MOSCOW -- An international arbitration panel in Stockholm dealt a stunning blow June 29 to foreign shareholders and lenders in Russian oil, gas and mining ventures. A three-man panel, chaired by Gunnar...

Saint Louis Sucre a sweet buy for Sedzucker.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Jonathan Braude BERLIN -- German sugar company Sudzucker AG agreed June 29 to buy France's second-largest sugar producer, Saint Louis Sucre SA, or SLS, from a group of private equity investors for [Euro]1.6 billion ($1.4 billion)...

O'Brien heats up bidding war for Eircom.(Denis O'Brien)(eIsland consortium)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Siobhan Almond DUBLIN -- In an 11th-hour move June 29 to snatch Eircom plc from a high-powered private equity consortium, telecom entrepreneur Denis O'Brien announced an informal [Euro]3.04 billion ($2.57 billion) offer for the...

Novirio cashes in on infectious disease interest.(Novirio Pharmaceuticals)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Kevin DeGeeter Drugs to treat infectious disease, once thought a mature business, have suddenly become hot -- and the deals are beginning to gestate. While drugs for oncology, central nervous system disorders and...

Fiat, EDF prepare joint bid for Montedison.(Electricite de France)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Heather O'Brian in Milan and Victorya Hong in Brussels Italian automaker Fiat SpA and French utility Electricite de France are preparing to launch a takeover bid for diversified holding company Montedison SpA, according to a...

GE-Honeywell deal at death's door.(European Union. European Commission)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Scott Stuart The European Commission is expected to meet Tuesday to officially reject General Electric Co.'s $42 billion merger with Honeywell International Inc. The Commission vote follows days of speculation that GE would...

Barr Laboratories to buy Duramed for $571M.(Duramed Pharmaceuticals Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Kevin DeGeeter Generic-drug maker Barr Laboratories Inc. of Pomona, N.Y., is laying the groundwork for a push into drug development by returning to its roots. The company June 29 announced a definitive agreement to acquire...

Tommy Hilfiger buys European licensee.(Tommy Hilfiger Europe B.V.)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Katie Anderson Hong Kong-based apparel maker Tommy Hilfiger Corp. said June 29 it will acquire all the outstanding shares of Tommy Hilfiger Europe BV, the owner of its European licensee, for $200 million in cash. Tommy Hilfiger...

Clarin deal would boost Hicks, Muse in Argentina.(Argentine companies Grupo Clarin SA and Cablevision SA; Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Kelly Holman Regardless of the outcome of merger talks between Argentine companies Grupo Clarin SA and Cablevision SA, buyout shop Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. should remain plugged into the Argentine cable market. ...

Dealflow -- June 29, 2001.
June 29, 2001... Byline: George White COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE Meridio Belfast-based software company Meridio has landed [pound]11.3 million ($16 million) in funding, the Belfast Newsletter reported. Funding came from QUBIS, the Queen's...

InStranet valuation soars in Series C round.
June 29, 2001... Byline: Lou Whiteman After two years spent building its product and marketing it overseas, a New York-based software company has raised $14.7 million to turn its attention toward winning customers at home. InStranet Inc. raised the...

UpShot nabs $17M fifth round.
June 29, 2001... Byline: Clifford Carlsen Online sales automation pioneer UpShot Corp. took $17 million in a fifth venture capital round it had hoped to avoid, but expects the money to help it break even within a year. All but one of the company's...

Germany's Target Partners launches sidecar fund.(Brief Article)
June 29, 2001... Byline: Joshua Jaffe In a sign of a maturing European venture market, Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners GmbH has raised money from 25 individual investors in the German and American IT industry for a separate fund that...

PwC close to Barings settlement.(PricewaterhouseCoopers)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Nicola Hobday LONDON -- Ernst & Young llp, the liquidator of defunct British merchant bank Barings, said June 28 it is close to a settlement, with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) over claims that the bank's former...

Court clears rules for sale of PSINet units.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Charles Sisk WASHINGTON -- A New York bankruptcy court June 28 approved the bidding procedures for PSINet Inc.'s Canadian subsidiaries, including a breakup fee and a $2 million initial overbid for the units. PSINet filed for...

Laidlaw files for bankruptcy in U.S., Canada.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Laura King in Toronto Transportation giant Laidlaw Inc. said June 28 it has filed for bankruptcy protection in both Canada and the U.S. after more than a year of spinning its wheels under its $3.5 billion debt. The...

First Wave Marine could exit bankruptcy soon.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Ivan Castano First Wave Marine Inc., a bankrupt shipyard maintenance company, filed a proposed reorganization plan June 28 that will significantly reduce the Houston-based company's debt and hasten its emergence from Chapter 11...

360networks files for bankruptcy.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Emily Burg and Leon Lazaroff After facing a severe funding shortfall, 360networks Inc., the Canadian long-haul fiber-optic provider, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late June 28. In a statement, the company said...

Bookseller Libro staves off bankruptcy.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Jonathan Braude BERLIN -- Viennese bookseller and media company Libro AG averted collapse June 28 when its creditor banks agreed to a loan that will help bring it out from under its crushing Sch3 billion ($184 million) in debt....

Layoff Roundup: week of June 25.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Kurt Schulitz As the Fed tries to light a fire under the economy by cutting interest rates for the sixth time this year, the job cuts continue. This week saw an increase in layoff activity from the weeks prior, yet, according to...

Nordsee blames markets for delay of float.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Nicola Hobday in London Blaming deteriorating market conditions, German fast-food fish restaurant Nordsee AG postponed its initial public offering, which had already been scaled back. The company said Thursday that no new...

Monolithic jumps with a double-digit gain.(Monolithic System Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Heidi Nasr Technology companies, the prodigal sons of the initial public offerings market, are being greeted with a fatted calf. Consider the Wednesday debut of chipmaker Monolithic System Technology Inc., known by its biblical...

EU, GE officials to meet, but problems remain.(European Union/ General Electric)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Victorya Hong in Brussels Representatives of General Electric Co. are expected to resume talks with European Union regulators today in a bid to resuscitate the company's $41 billion acquisition of Honeywell International Inc. ...

EU, GE officials meet despite problems.(European Union)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Victorya Hong in Brussels Representatives of General Electric Co. resumed talks with European Union regulators Thursday in a bid to resuscitate the company's $41 billion acquisition of Honeywell International Inc. But GE's...

Allianz closer to controlling Rosno.(Allianz Aktiengesellschaft Holding)(People's Insurance Company of Russia)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: John Helmer MOSCOW -- Russia plans to lift limits on foreign control of domestic insurers, which would allow Germany's Allianz AG to gain control of People's Insurance Company of Russia, or Rosno. Allianz, Germany's largest...

NTT DoCoMo in talks with SK Telecom.(NTT Mobile Communications Network Incorporated, in talks about equity stake)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Charles Smith in Tokyo Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo is in talks with South Korea's SK Telecom about buying an equity stake in the peninsula's largest mobile phone operator. An SK Telecom spokesman said further talks...

SocGen pays $1.02B for No. 2 Czech bank.(Societe Generale, Czechoslovakia, Komercni Banka)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Brian Cattell In a deal that marks one of Central Europe's last major bank privatizations, the Czech government decided June 28 to sell Komercni banka a.s. to France's Societe Generale SA for Kcs40 billion ($1.02 billion). ...

Koor Industries may have savior.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Neal Sandler TEL AVIV -- If Canadian billionaire Charles Bronfman is lucky, Israel's Poalim Investments Ltd. may help rescue poorly performing Koor Industries Ltd., in which Bronfman holds a 33% stake. Poalim Investments told...

General Mills sees closing Pillsbury deal soon.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Soma Biswas General Mills Inc.'s long-delayed $10.5 billion takeover of Pillsbury Co. dough and dessert company from Diageo plc may hinge on who gets custody of Pillsbury's famous doughboy trademark. Despite seeming delays in...

Vivendi trumps DT in Warsaw.(Vivendi Universal, Deutsche Telekom AG, telecommunications industry)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Patricia Koza in Warsaw WARSAW -- The board of Polish telecom and power conglomerate Elektrim SA agreed Thursday to sell a controlling stake in its telecom assets to Vivendi Universal, apparently ending an 18-month battle for...

Jamestown buys Boston trophy property.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Jonathan Berke Jamestown, an investment firm backed by German institutions, on Thursday pulled off one of the largest real estate deals ever in Boston by acquiring a trophy office building, One Federal Street, from Clarion...

Heyman tightens grip on Hercules.(Samuel Heyman)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Ira Breskin New top management at Hercules Inc., a troubled U.S. specialty chemical maker, is beginning to assert itself. On Thursday, Hercules directors unanimously elected Gloria Schaffer, former Connecticut secretary of...

Lee fund pockets $180M in TransWestern recap.(Thomas H. Lee Partners)(TransWestern Publishing Co.)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: David Carey Thomas H. Lee Partners led a $900 million leveraged recapitalization of TransWestern Publishing Co. llc, a San Diego-based phone directories publisher, buying out a controlling stake the private equity firm already...

Austin city limits.(technology investing in Texas)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Clifford Carlsen Venture capitalists everywhere are hunkered down amid the wreckage of the capital markets and playing down their recent overexuberance. Yet folks practicing technology investing in Texas have managed to...

Dealflow -- June 28, 2001.(companies' finance)
June 28, 2001... Byline: George White COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE InStranet Software developer InStranet Inc. has secured $14.7 million in Series C financing. New investors Benchmark Capital and Donald L. Lucas led the round, with support...

Mediasurface nabs $16.3M fifth round.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Erin Ferrell Content management software provider Mediasurface plc has tallied up [pound]11.5 million ($16.3 million) in fifth-round funding to fine tune its product suite. The London-based company picked the fresh cash from...

VitaGen clinches $14M for liver research.(dialysis machine)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Lou Whiteman A California biotech working on a way to use manufactured human cells to filter the bloodstream of patients suffering from liver failure has secured $14 million in funding to continue trials of its device. ...

Turbo Squid takes $5.1M round.(digital marketplace for three-dimensional images)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Byline: Katherine Goncharoff Whether it's a closeup of a computer-enhanced washing machine or a silicon-enhanced swimsuit model, Web sites are gearing up for growing demand for 3D images on the Web. That's also the expectation of New...

ABS Capital Partners Fund IV.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Private equity firm ABS Capital Partners of Baltimore has raised $450 million for ABS Capital Partners Fund IV, its fourth private equity fund. The new fund will invest in software, services and infrastructure companies that serve global...

B2B Trust.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Toronto-based B2B Trust, a wholly owned subsidiary of Laurentian Bank of Canada, has completed an IPO of 5.56 million shares at C$9 each for a total of C$47 million. The company said the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes....

BSCH is buying rest of Banesto unit for $151M.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Banco Espanol de Credito SA, or Banesto, a unit of Banco Santander Central Hispano SA, said Wednesday that BSCH will pay [Euro]14.07 a share for the 2% of Banesto that it doesn't already own. The purchase will cost BSCH a total of [Euro]175...

Claims Direct founder launches $27.4M buyout bid.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... The founder of personal injury compensation group Claims Direct plc on Wednesday launched a bid to regain control of the company, saying its "business model is no longer viable." Tony Sullman, the company's chairman and founder, together with...

CustomerAsset.com.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Bangalore, India-based Customer-Asset.com, which develops customer relationship management software, has closed a $5 million second round. The funding was provided by Antfactory, a U.K.-based investment firm that focuses on India....

DigiLens.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Sunnyvale, Calif.-based DigiLens Inc., a developer of optical components for the telecommunications industry, closed a $14.5 million credit facility, Asia Pulse reported. Participating in the round were European Venture Partners, GATX...

El Sitio, Ibero American revise merger terms.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Latin Internet portal El Sitio Inc. and Ibero American Media Partners II Ltd. have revised terms of a merger announced in October creating new firm Claxson Interactive Group. IAMP is a joint venture of Venezuela's Cisneros Group and buyout...

GE, DTE Energy to invest $10M in Plug Power.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Plug Power Inc., a fuel cell developer in Latham, N.Y., said Wednesday that units of General Electric Co. of Fairfield, Conn., and Detroit utility DTE Energy Co. have tentatively agreed to invest another $10 million in the company. -- Claire...

Green Fusion wants candy.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Green Fusion Corp. has a sweet tooth. The Blaine, Wash. company said Wednesday it's buying House of Brussels Holdings Ltd., the Vancouver, British Columbia, parent of Brussels Chocolates Ltd., for $15.42 million in stock. Under the terms,...

Invesco acquires Grand Pacific.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... British fund manager Amvescap plc said Wednesday its Invesco Global division agreed to buy 70% of Taiwanese fund manager Grand Pacific from a consortium led by Taiwan's Koos Group. The purchase, which values Grand Pacific at $115 million,...

Knobias.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Jackson, Miss., over-the-counter stock research firm Knobias.com has closed its $4.9 million second round of funding from a group of undisclosed private investors. The capital will be used for product development, sales and marketing and a...

Kourion Therapeutics.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Dusseldorf, Germany-based Kourion Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup of Heinrich-Heine University, has tapped [Euro]12 million ($10.3 million) in financing led by The BioVentures II-Group of Funds managed by MPM Capital, in exchange for a...

LeftHand Networks.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Boulder, Colo.-based LeftHand Networks, a provider of computer data storage products, said Wednesday it secured $3 million in addition to a $10 million first round of venture capital funding announced April 10. With the new investment,...

Mediasurface.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 28, 2001... U.K.-based content management software and services provider Mediasurface plc has pulled in [pound]11.5 million ($16.3 million) in funding from Goldman Sachs Private Equity, GE Equity, Reuters Greenhouse Fund, 3i Group plc, Index Ventures,...

Nanotron.(Brief Article)
June 28, 2001... Berlin-based Nanotron GmbH, a wireless data transmission firm, has received an investment of [Euro]6.5 million ($5.6 million) from PolyTechnos' Funds and myQube SA, together with Danfoss Innovations A/S, the investment arm of the Danish...