ChinaBio® Partnering Forum 2012 In Suzhou Brings Big Pharma Companies to China

Conference program features panels and a fireside chat with top-name executives. The international biotech and pharma community will converge upon the city of Suzhou, China, a rapidly growing base for life science industries, at ChinaBio® Partnering Forum 2012 at the Kempinski Hotel Suzhou, May 23–24.


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.


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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.
The Paliwoda Group Announces its Health Tech Fund to Provide Seed-Stage Investments in Innovations That Lower Healthcare Costs.
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%.
Funding Directed to Expand Development of New Technology Platforms Throughout North America. Monteris Medical Inc. , a privately held medical device company dedicated to the development of innovative MRI guided, laser-based cancer treatments has secured $9 million in financing to support the continued commercialization of the company's NeuroBlate™ System (formerly AutoLITT®) within the North American neurosurgery market.
Financing Led by Braemar Energy Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Joined by Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Rho Ventures.
Investment will support rapid customer base expansion of the biopharma industry’s only collaborative cloud-based investigator site payment ecommerce platform.
Community Choice Financial Inc lowered the expected price range of its planned initial public offering of 10.7 million shares to $10 to $12 per share.