Ancestry.com Inc (ACOM.O), the family-history research website, is exploring a sale to private equity firms and is hoping to solicit revised bids from them in early August.
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United Tech sells industrial units for $3.46 bln
United Technologies Corp has agreed to sell industrial businesses of its Hamilton Sundstrand subsidiary to Carlyle Group LP and BC Partners Ltd for $3.46 billion.
Australia's Coates considering IPO to raise up to $821 mln - sources
Australian equipment hire company Coates Hire is considering an IPO to raise up to A$800 million ($821 million) to help repay debts, sources said.
Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners Invest $11.2 Million in Meteor
Meteor Development Group today announced $11.2 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Meteor Development Group, the company behind the Meteor open-source project, which produces a platform for building software applications, today announced $11.
bluebird bio Secures $60 Million in Oversubscribed Financing
bluebird bio today announced the successful completion of a $60 million Series D financing. bluebird bio today announced the successful completion of a $60 million Series D financing.
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GE Antares served as administrative agent on a $405 million senior credit facility to support the acquisition of Tank Holdings Corp.
Sterling Partners has led an additional $18 million growth equity investment in SecureNet. SecureNet Payment Systems, a leader in payment processing technology, announced today that Sterling Partners, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm with approximately $5 billion in assets under management, has led an additional $18 million growth equity investment in SecureNet.
SensiQ Technologies, Inc. has been acquired by private equity firm TechVen Partners, and will seek to aggressively expand the market reach of its Label-Free Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) devices for biomolecular interaction analysis.
California-based NantWorks, LLC, announced today that leading investment firm Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has invested US$125 million in NantPharma.
South Korea's Woongjin Holdings Co has opted to team up with a local private equity fund to buy a 31 percent stake in water purifier maker Woongjin Coway Co Ltd.
Asana, a Silicon Valley start-up, has lined up $28 million in a financing round led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and his Founders Fund.
U.S. network equipment maker Cisco (CSCO.O) won unconditional EU regulatory approval on Tuesday for its $5 billion takeover of TV software developer NDS.
Private equity firms Carlyle Group LP (CG.O) and BC Partners Ltd have joined forces and are in advanced talks to buy United Technologies Corp's (UTX.N) industrial businesses.
