http://www.dealhorizon.com/deal_horizon_news.xml Latest funding news headlines from leading news sources and venture capital information portals. en-us Fri, 18 May 2012 17:12:20 GMT http://pevc.dowjones.com/article?an=DJFVW00020120518e85inm7ie&from=alert&pid=32 In a stock debut that some felt didn't impress, Facebook Inc. still found a way to make history. More than 460 million shares in the social network traded Friday, the day of its public listing, setting a new record for a stock debut. In just ... Fri, 18 May 2012 19:43:16 GMT http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/05/18/on-ipo-day-facebook-finds-time-to-buy-social-gifting-site-karma/?mod=WSJBlog The start-up was backed by heavyweight venture firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Fri, 18 May 2012 16:56:50 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/4jsPuIfJ5T0/ Facebook released the amount of shares allocated to each of its underwriters today, following its less than stellar IPO day. The company went public on the Nasdaq today, to an EKG-like performance, ending in a .38 cent gain today. Along … Fri, 18 May 2012 15:57:12 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/_RM1xHKodOI/facebook-stock-closes-slightly-above.html Social media giant Facebook Inc. saw its stock close slightly higher after one day of trading on the NASDAQ since completing its initial public offering. Facebook sold shares of common stock in its IPO at $38 per share. The company's stock closed... Fri, 18 May 2012 15:42:16 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/bKtRsH_yfyo/ Mark Zuckerberg and his employees aren't the only ones making it big in Silicon Valley. Former Facebook employees who have struck out on their own to startup their own company - referred to as the Facebook Mafia - have collectively … Fri, 18 May 2012 14:48:17 GMT http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/05/18/the-1-billion-start-up-club-list-minus-facebook/?mod=WSJBlog As Silicon Valley becomes more frothy, the club becomes less exclusive. Fri, 18 May 2012 14:18:44 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/-BgtxQm4OBE/filing-shows-3k-more-in-funding-for.html A Friday regulatory filing by Twitter curator Mass Relevance Inc. provided additional details about the company's financing announced earlier this week. Austin-based Mass Relevance previously announced a $3.3 million Series A round of funding but... Fri, 18 May 2012 13:52:03 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/pGLcp2Bjgz4/facebook-jumps-12-on-ipo-debut-then.html Now it is Nasdaq investors' turn to weigh in on what Facebook Inc. stock is worth. The stock (NASDAQ:FB) jumped 12 percent in the opening minutes of trading on Friday before slipping back from $43 to close to the $38 price IPO investors paid on... Fri, 18 May 2012 13:25:55 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sSCWK7-uYGo/ If only Facebook IPO day were a little less of a snoozefest than it is now. If only it had Zuckerberg impaling investors while riding a bull rampaging through a city. Or an elevator to space. Or Zuckerberg bouncing Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar... Fri, 18 May 2012 12:35:27 GMT http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/051712-facebook-sets-ipo-share-price-259414.html?source=nww_rss With Facebook's long-anticipated IPO expected to hit on Friday morning, the company set its initial share price at $38 today. Fri, 18 May 2012 12:10:30 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pehub/news/vc/~3/twY0t3oyHGw/ Solar startup Solexel has raised $25 million in new capital, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No other details about the funding were available. The company received Series A financing in 2007 and a Series B round... Fri, 18 May 2012 11:58:29 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/M32DYqb5-bo/ While most of the tech industry is watching Facebook's historic IPO day unfold, data startup Visual.ly is taking advantage of the situation by showing off the capabilities of its infographics service. Today Visual.ly launched a new interactive... Fri, 18 May 2012 11:20:51 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Re0-nVcJuRs/ There are lots of different approaches to the amorphous market of 'e-learning' but only a handful ever feel much like fun. I think amongst the best of these are sites like MangaHigh which teaches Math, or Moshi Monsters which has subtle learning... Fri, 18 May 2012 11:02:33 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/hRbmoLb8wC8/ Zynga's share price plummeted 11.4 percent from $8.09 to $7.19 in the eight minutes after Facebook's IPO went live, and down 13.3 percent since yesterday. Trading has been halted to stem further losses. While we can't know the exact reason why this... Fri, 18 May 2012 10:52:00 GMT http://feeds.vator.tv/~r/vatortv/news/~3/7jmK0hncTQY/2012-05-18-facebook-opens-at-42-13-above-ipo-price The wait is over, Facebook debuts on NASDAQ with a big bang, now investors wait to see where it goesFacebook hit the public markets at $42, with the share price rising 12.7% in the few minutes of trading. The shares came onto the NASDAQ around 11:30... Fri, 18 May 2012 10:48:00 GMT http://feeds.vator.tv/~r/vatortv/news/~3/7jmK0hncTQY/2012-05-18-facebook-opens-at-42-13-above-ipo-price The bang wasn't as big as many hoped but Facebook still closed above IPO priceFacebook hit the public markets at $42.05, with the share price rising 12.7% in the few minutes of trading before it finally closed at $38.37 (just shy of 1% above the $38... Fri, 18 May 2012 10:48:00 GMT http://www.socaltech.com/promojam_facebook_ipo_celebrated_in_drinks_/s-0042833.html Planning on celebrating that Facebook IPO tonight? Los Angeles-based PromoJam just posted an amusing list of tech-themed mixed drinks to celebrate the occasion, which is now the biggest technology IPO on record, ever. PromoJam posted its list of... Fri, 18 May 2012 10:41:00 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LN6dbhvDMdQ/ Facebook shares opened at $42.05, a 10.5 percent increase from its final price last night at $38. Shares are actually currently almost flat at $39.16, which is 3.6 percent higher than $38 the price that underwriters settled on last night. While it... Fri, 18 May 2012 10:30:53 GMT http://www.pr-inside.com/deutsche-b-rse-goldrooster-ag-ipo-r3189065.htm (PR-inside.com) Goldrooster AG (ISIN: DE000A0AYYU6) joined the Entry Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 18 May. The IPO comprised a total of 720,000 shares (excluding greenshoe) at a fixed price of EUR4.00. The initial listing price... Fri, 18 May 2012 10:22:50 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/EH6fPmN0YwY/facebook-ipo-is-a-math-learning.html Deep in the Facebook IPO hype something very interesting is happening -- everyone who is a minor is getting a math lesson. Children who are barely middle schoolers through high schoolers are asking their parents to invest in Facebook stock or... Fri, 18 May 2012 10:12:58 GMT http://feeds.foxbusiness.com/~r/foxbusiness/technology/~3/lk0BPWOsDt4/ Facebook's shares met with mixed reviews in their long-awaited debut Friday, closing for the day up just 23 cents or less than 1%. Analysts cited the massive scale of the deal for the lack of 'pop.' Volume broke records. Fri, 18 May 2012 09:43:14 GMT http://feeds.genomeweb.com/~r/genomeweb/genomeweb-daily-news/~3/Mm482nAo7iI/sqi-raises-23m-private-placement read more Fri, 18 May 2012 09:38:48 GMT http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/cancer-genetics-ipo-delayed-amid-facebook-frenzy/2012-05-18 Cancer Genetics has nixed plans to launch an initial public offering this week, having planned to raise $48 million to advance a pipeline of molecular diagnostics for cancer, Renaissance Capital reported Thursday. Last week Rib-X Pharmaceuticals... Fri, 18 May 2012 09:34:52 GMT http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=c3620428c2c5c3ba87d43f1e8bc4b541 After all the buildup, the day of Facebook's public stock offering arrives, finding the team camped out to celebrate and investors watching expectantly. Fri, 18 May 2012 09:28:00 GMT http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/kleiner-perkins-back-early-stage-biotechs-525m-fund/2012-05-18 Beth Seidenberg, Investment Partner--Source: KPCB Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers has closed the books on a new $525 million fund. And a chunk of that treasure is earmarked for early-stage life science companies... Fri, 18 May 2012 08:09:01 GMT http://pevc.dowjones.com/article?an=DJFVW00020120518e85i642c0&from=alert&pid=32 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said it closed a new fund sized at $525 million, smaller than its prior $650 million fund that it raised in 2010. Fri, 18 May 2012 07:36:03 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/I8PilJ3Iq2I/facebook-ipo-shares-sell-at-38.html Facebook Inc. sold its shares in an initial public offering Thursday afternoon at $38 a share, raising $16 billion in the biggest tech IPO in history, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reports. The price values the Menlo Park,... Fri, 18 May 2012 07:35:04 GMT http://www.socaltech.com/facebook_ipo_hits_markets_today_will_it_spur_socal_ipo_activity_/s-0042827.html As Mountain View-based social networking site Facebook hits the market today, in what is the largest tech initial public offering in history, one question is if it will spur what has, so far, been a lackluster IPO market for Southern California... Fri, 18 May 2012 07:29:00 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/lcEi5AcQ7i8/how-facebook-influenced-boston-tech.html Facebook didn't stay in Boston, but its influence certainly did. I polled a handful of young Boston startup entrepreneurs and employees this week to see what sort of role, if any, Facebook played in inspiring them to take the tech startup route... Fri, 18 May 2012 07:11:34 GMT http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/industry_7/~3/Yxy9S5pxbD0/facebook-ipo-set-at-38-per-share.html Signaling that investor demand is exceptionally strong for Facebook, the world's largest online social network Thursday set its initial public offering of stock at the high end of its expected range, at $38 per share. FB and its early investors... Fri, 18 May 2012 05:54:37 GMT