Ventures News
2011
- Five9 Named to Inc. Magazine's Fifth Annual List of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies -
Leader in cloud-based call center software more than doubles revenue
from marketwatch.com
The Next Billion Dollar Company? (Amyris)
from Forbes Video
- Study Shows Enphase, an ATEL Portfolio company, Installations Outperforming PVWatts Estimates by 8%
from mfrtech.com - Sequencing Kids' Genomes To Learn How Cancer Grows (Complete Genomics)
from fastcompany.com - Complete Genomics, an ATEL Portfolio company, to sequence 1500 whole genomes for pre-term birth study
from Genomes Unzipped - FierceBiotech's 2011 Fierce 15 - Forma Therapeutics
from FierceBiotech.com - 2-1-1 California Selects Five9, an ATEL portfolio company, for Network Call Center Operations
from StreetInsider - Trash-to-fuel company Enerkem, an ATEL portfolio company, raises another $30M
from Venturebeat - Enerkem President and CEO a Finalist for Entrepreneur Of The Year Award by Ernst & Young
from PRNewswire - Genentech Scoops Up Tumor-Starving Drug Program From Forma Therapeutics In Rare Deal
from Xconomy - Aspen Aerogels, an ATEL portfolio company, files for $115M IPO
from Mass Hightech - Aspen Aerogels, an ATEL portfolio company, raises $30 million for advanced insulation
from Boston Business Journal - Top 50 Cloud Computing Services Highlighted in New Report
from Web Host Industry Review - Microinverter Firm Enphase, an ATEL portfolio company, Files to Go Public
from Greentechsolar - ON24, an ATEL portfolio company, Recognized as Best Business Application
from MarketWire - Intel aids MiaSolé, an ATEL portfolio company, with CIGS solar thin-film manufacturing
from Renewable Energy Focus - Complete Genomics, an ATEL portfolio company, Shipped 600 Genomes in Q1; Plans to Expand to Asia in 2013
from GenomeWeb - Boingo Wireless, an ATEL portfolio company, Prices 5.77M Shares at $12-$14
from StreetInsider.com - U.S. Venture Funds Raised $7.7 Billion In First Quarter, Highest Influx In A Decade
from TechCrunch - The Apple of Solar Energy? Enphase Applies Silicon Valley Smarts to Solar's Neglected Plumbing
from xconomy | San Francisco - Forma, After Building Cancer Drug Discovery Engine, Makes First Big Bet on Starving Tumors
from xconomy | Boston - The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies (RecycleBank #4)
from The Wall Street Journal - FierceBiotech's 2010 Fierce 15
from FierceBiotech - Enerkem was named one of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2011 by Fast Company Magazine
from Enerkem Press Release - The Institute for Systems Biology Places a Third Order for Sequencing Services With Complete Genomics, Includes 615 Genomes
from Complete Genomics - IPierian, Kyoto University patent deals clear path for drugs using induced pluripotent stem cell technology
from San Francisco Business Times - Enerkem awarded loan guarantee from U.S. Department of Agriculture for its Mississippi waste-to-fuel biorefinery
from Enerkem Press Release
2010
- ATEL portfolio companies Amyris and Enerkem named top Bioenergy companies in 2010
from Biofuels Digest - We've Acquired Silicon Valley Moms Group and Launched Technorati Women
from Technorati - Forma collaborating with Eisai in $20M+ deal
from Mass High Tech - ABC Calls on LONGBOARD Marketing to Create Integrated Marketing Campaign with Google & Boingo Wireless
from i-newswire - Deeya Energy Selected as 2010 Global Cleantech 100, Asia-Pac Top 10 Company
from Deeya Energy - Enerkem Successfully Meets Federal Environmental Assessment Requirements for its Mississippi Waste-to-Ethanol Plant
from Enerkem - SolFocus and Vision Electro Mechanical Company to Build the Largest Solar Power Plant of its Kind in Saudi Arabia
from SolFocus - Stem Cells That Save Big Pharma a Bundle
from BusinessWeek - Innovalight Chief Awarded For Making Solar Cells (And Industry) More Efficient
from GreenTech - SolFocus powers up U.S.-Mexico border with concentrated solar
from GreenBeat - Venture Firms Look Beyond Embryonic Stem Cells
from The Wall Street Journal - GangaGen: StaphTAME is Ready to Tame Supberbugs
from Technology Review - Solar cell maker Calisolar raises $15M to bump up capacity
from GreenBeat - iPierian Inc. Closes $22 Million Series B Financing Led By Google Ventures
from Biospace - ATEL Ventures portfolio company Neophotonics files S1 to go public.
from Reuters - Solaria to Accelerate Growth with $45 Million in Financing
from Solaria Press Release - iPierian Awarded Basic Biology Grant by California Institute of Regenerative Medicine to Study Cellular Reprogramming
from iPierian Press Release - Bay Area wins $8.7M in stem cell cash
from San Francisco Business Times - ATEL Ventures Provides $3 Million Capital Credit Line to Solar Technology Developer, SolFocus
from ATEL Press Release - ATEL Ventures Invests $3.5 Million in Semiconductor CMP Pad Technology, NexPlanar
from ATEL Press Release - ATEL Ventures portfolio company Reply.com files S1 to go public
from DigitalBeat
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Recycle Bank Part of the Top 10 Clean-Tech Companies from The Wall Street Journal |
2009
- Fast-growing Forma nabs $25.5M Series B
from Fierce Biotech - Forma Therapeutics, Novartis team on cancer drugs
from Mass High Tech Business News - Five Technologies Set to Change The Decade
from Forbes
2008
- Report: VCs on track to raise more funds than last year, bucking economic trends
from Mass High Tech - ATEL Ventures Invests $1.8 Million of financing in GangaGen, Inc.
from ATEL Press Release - Silent Killers: Fantastic Phages?
from CBS News - Clinical Data deals a potential $66M for Adenosine
from The Journal of New England Technology - 'Second Life' enters the world of mobile phones
from Download.com - iReport: 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction
from CNN/Health
2007
- Alba Therapeutics Corporation and Shire plc Enter Into $325 Million ex-US, ex-Japan Licensing Agreement to Develop and Commercialize AT-1001
from Alba Therapeutics - Adenosine Therapeutics goes the route more and more biotech’s do, a big pharma deal
from TechJournal South - A boost for biotech
from Baltimore Business Journal - Rubicon Technology, Inc. Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
from Rubicon Technology, Inc. - Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC
from CNNMoney.com - CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life
from CNN - Boingo buys Sprint's 7 airport hotspots
from FierceWireless - 'CSI: New York' killer will get a Second Life sentence
from San Francisco Chronicle - EchoStar Announces Agreement to Acquire Sling Media, Inc.
from slingmedia.com - ARYx Therapeutics Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering
from aryx.com - Sling Media, DirecTV to Enable Place-Shifting of NFL Games
from digitalmediawire.com - Second Life: Why Millions Are Living Virtual Lives Online
from Newsweek International - Venture Capital Investments Rise in 1Q
from San Francisco Chronicle - Alveolus, Inc. Launches AERO(™) Hybrid Tracheobronchial Stent System in U.S.
from Alveolus, Inc. - Second Life: It's Not a Game
from CNNMoney.com - Vodafone to Expand its Second Life
from silicon.com
2006
- Cedar Point Launches Subsidiary across the Pond
from Mass High Tech - LR Awards Cedar Point
from Light Reading's Cable Digital News - Motorola Buys Wireless Email Firm
from The Wall Street Journal - Get a Life and Leave the Real You at Home in Virtual Online World
from San Francisco Chronicle - Private Equity Fund Raising Reaches $177.89 Billion, Breaks Year 2000 Record, According to Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst
from Yahoo! Finance - Danger, Inc. Named Rising Star in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 Program
from Danger, Inc. - Boingo Named Fastest Growing Tech Company in Los Angeles — among Top Ten in North America — for Second Straight Year from Boingo
- Inc. Magazine Names Convio Among Fastest Growing U.S. Private Companies
from Convio - Living a Second Life
from The Economist -
OpenPages Positioned as Fastest-growing Private Software Company on 2006 Inc. 500 List
from OpenPages.com - Now, Virtual Fashion
from The Wall Street Journal - Living in the Virtual World
from CBS News Video - U.S. Venture-Capital Investing Is on the Rise
from The Wall Street Journal - Cedar Point Helps Bring VoIP to Trinidad
from Mass High Tech - Aspen Aerogels™ Opens Edmonton Laboratory, Targets $1B Insulation Market in the Athabasca Oil Sands
from Aspen News - Boingo Targets Airports for WiFi
from The Deal.com - Key Challenger in Smart-Phone Battle
from San Francisco Chronicle - Going Safely into the Night - S.F. Startup Offers Hip Virtual Place for Teens to Gather
from San Francisco Chronicle - VC Investors Warm Up to Tech Again
from San Francisco Chronicle - OpenPages Ranks 29th on Annual Inc. 500 List with Three-Year Sales Growth of 1,876%
from OpenPages.com - Technorati among 50 Best Web Sites
from Chicago Tribune - Dow Agrosciences Extends Research Collaboration with Locus Pharmaceuticals
from Locus Pharmaceuticals - Locus Pharmaceuticals Announces Research Agreement with Eli Lilly and Company
from Locus Pharmaceuticals
2005
- Cold Feet Now a Thing of the Past Thanks to Nanotechnology
from Aspen Aerogels - Aspen Aerogels makes Fortune's 25 Breakout Companies
from Fortune - Nextel Launches National Hot-Spot Service
from InformationWeek.com - Boingo Takes to the Air
from CNET News.com - Cedar Point Communications' SAFARI C³ Named "Product of the Year" Finalist by MTC
from Cedar Point Communications - Cedar Point Communications' SAFARI C³ Selected for Voice Deployment with Bresnan Communications' Grand Junction System
from Cedar Point Communications
2004
- Arbinet-thexchange, Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering at $17.50 Per Share
from Arbinet-thexchange, Inc. - Boingo Wireless and Tropos Networks Partner to Bring Roaming Services to Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Networks
from Yahoo! Finance

