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Elemental Secures $13M to Ignite Business Expansion

Company Will Accelerate Market Share Gains and Product Development in IP Video Delivery. Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced that it raised $13 million in Series C financing led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).


Belly Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding by Andreessen Horowitz

Expands to New York and Boston; Adds Jeff Jordan to Board of Directors Belly, a rapidly-growing start-up that is effectively redefining customer loyalty for small businesses, announced today that it has received a $10 million Series B round of venture capital financing from Andreessen Horowitz.

Penta, Eastbridge up bid for EM&F again to $136 mln

Czech private equity group Penta Investments and investment fund Eastbridge raised their joint bid for Polish retailer Empik Media & Fashion (EM&F) to 10.45 zlotys per share.

China move to tighten funding to hit foreign buyout firms

China yuan funds of overseas PE firms to be treated as foreign. China plans to treat local money raised and managed by global private equity firms as foreign funds, industry sources said on Tuesday, restricting their access to sectors such as media and mining in the world's second-biggest economy.


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Credit Suisse Group AG intends to increase capital at its Chinese joint venture and apply for a stock trading permit in the country.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has hired Christophe Florin to head its emerging markets private equity team, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd is close to acquiring a Silicon Valley-based mobile advertising startup.
Total capital proceeds of recent investment round increased to $53 million. Celladon Corp. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative treatments for cardiovascular diseases, announced the receipt of additional capital proceeds from a second close of its recent venture financing to advance the Company's lead investigational product candidate MYDICAR® for the treatment of advanced heart failure.
Bregal Private Equity Partners has announced today that Giselle Bright andSarah Claypool have joined the firm with a focus on private equity funds and co-investments.
The Intelligent Language Learning Company Also Appoints New Board Members and Readies for Rapid Growth in 2012.
The Paliwoda Group Announces its Health Tech Fund to Provide Seed-Stage Investments in Innovations That Lower Healthcare Costs.
Women Have Made Huge Strides in Executive Ranks, but IPOs Still Appear to be a Man’s Game When it comes to a company’s critical stock market debut, investors are less likely to trust their money to an enterprise led by a female CEO, a University of Utah researcher says.
Revenues for the worldwide Hadoop-MapReduce ecosystem software market are considered to be $77 million in 2011 and are expected to grow to $812.8 million in 2016 for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 60.2%.
The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) has signed two agreements to sell a substantial majority of its businesses in China for $134 million in total aggregate proceeds.