Funding Rounds in March 2003

All 183 funding rounds announced during March 2003, sorted by deal size. Includes lead investors, stage, and total raised.

183
Rounds announced
$2.1B
Total raised
$13.3M
Avg round
$200.0M
Largest
Round-type breakdown
Investment types in March 2003
Series A
37
Series B
37
Series Unknown
34
Series C
25
Grant
11
Seed
8
Private Equity
6
Debt Financing
5
Series D
5
Post Ipo Equity
3
# Company Round Raised Lead Investor Date
1
Flex
Flex designs, manufactures, and supplies electronics products for the …
Post Ipo Equity $200.0M Silver Lake 2003-03-03 Round →
2
Pluspetrol
Pluspetrol specializes in the exploration and production of oil and ga…
Debt Financing $75.0M Credit Suisse First Boston 2003-03-28 Round →
3
Panda
Panda is a internet-based company that offers consumers the best produ…
Series A $73.0M LeafHouse Financial 2003-03-01 Round →
4
NewSouth Communications
NewSouth Communications is a South Carolina-based broadband internet c…
Private Equity $62.5M Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. +2 2003-03-06 Round →
5
Gyre Therapeutics
Gyre Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that offers protease …
Series Unknown $60.0M Bison Capital Asset Management +2 2003-03-20 Round →
6
Matrix Semiconductor
Matrix Semiconductor manufactures and develops 3D memory devices.
Series Unknown $52.0M Nintendo +6 2003-03-17 Round →
7
SCP Global Technologies
SCP Global Technologies is a U.S.-based company that develops and supp…
Series Unknown $50.0M 3i Group +1 2003-03-17 Round →
8
United Platform Technologies
United Platform Technologies is a China-based company that offers tele…
Series A $50.0M Walden International +8 2003-03-04 Round →
9
Hypnion
Hypnion is a neuroscience drug discovery company.
Series B $47.5M MPM Capital +8 2003-03-17 Round →
10
Peptimmune
Peptimmune is a drug company focused on the rare skin disease pemphigu…
Series B $41.2M New Enterprise Associates +4 2003-03-12 Round →
11
Cytokinetics
Cytokinetics is a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for d…
Series E $40.0M Vulcan 2003-03-31 Round →
12
Corus Pharma
Corus Pharma Inc., a Seatle-based biotech and specialty drug company f…
Series B $40.0M Novo Holdings +4 2003-03-07 Round →
13
Shanda Games
Shanda Games, an online game developer, operator, and publisher offeri…
Series A $40.0M SAIF Partners 2003-03-01 Round →
14
Groove Networks
Groove networks provided a virtual office through software that allowe…
Series F $38.0M Accel +1 2003-03-06 Round →
15
Excellerx
ExcelleRx is a Philadelphia-based medication management company that p…
Private Equity $37.0M Wachovia Corporation +3 2003-03-04 Round →
16
CellZome
CellZome is a pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and com…
Series C $32.0M Advent International +3 2003-03-17 Round →
17
Masergy Communications
Masergy is a managed services and cloud communications provider delive…
Series B $31.0M Centennial Ventures +1 2003-03-07 Round →
18
Gevity HR
A professional employer organization, provides human resource outsourc…
Post Ipo Equity $30.0M Frontenac Company 2003-03-07 Round →
19
Visto
Visto provides wireless messaging solutions to mobile operators for pe…
Series Unknown $30.0M 2003-03-01 Round →
20
Evergreen Solar
To provide products for reliable and environmentally clean electric po…
Post Ipo Equity $29.5M Perseus +13 2003-03-24 Round →
21
Silicon Optix
Silicon Optix is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and manu…
Series B $27.0M Polaris Partners +3 2003-03-18 Round →
22
Endius
Endius provides less traumatic and more effective surgery for the pati…
Series B $26.5M The Carlyle Group +1 2003-03-26 Round →
23
Sopherion Therapeutics
Sopherion has the US and Canadian rights to this liposomal nanotechnol…
Series A $26.0M TL Ventures +6 2003-03-10 Round →
24
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Acadia Pharmaceuticals develops and commercializes small molecule drug…
Series F $25.0M Oxford Bioscience Partners +6 2003-03-31 Round →
25
Cedar Point Communications
Cedar Point Communications provides VoIP and multimedia switching tech…
Series B $25.0M Star Ventures +4 2003-03-07 Round →
26
BayPackets
BayPackets is a communications software company providing IP multimedi…
Series C $21.7M Investcorp +7 2003-03-10 Round →
27
Aristos Logic
Aristos Logic provides RAID solutions for original equipment manufactu…
Series C $20.0M Woodside Fund +2 2003-03-17 Round →
28
Lefthand Networks
LeftHand Networks is a provider of data storage systems and IP-based s…
Series C $20.0M Sprout Group +7 2003-03-17 Round →
29
Packet Design
Packet Design offers an integrated suite of IP traffic and route analy…
Series Unknown $20.0M Foundation Capital 2003-03-01 Round →
30
Omni Consumer Products
Omni Consumer Products (OCP) is a corporatocratic megacorporation that…
Series B $19.5M 2003-03-05 Round →
31
Neoteris
Neoteris develops an instant virtual extranet platform for the SSL VPN…
Series C $17.5M Battery Ventures 2003-03-31 Round →
32
SavaJe Technologies
SavaJe Technologies provides an operating system called 'SavaJe OS' to…
Series B $17.5M Innovacom +4 2003-03-17 Round →
33
COVEGA
Covega provides opto-electronic components and subsystems with a wide …
Series A $17.0M New Enterprise Associates +5 2003-03-06 Round →
34
Infocrossing
Infocrossing is a provider of selective IT infrastructure, enterprise …
Series A $16.0M 2003-03-17 Round →
35
Action Engine
Action Engine is a software services.
Series C $15.5M Baker Capital 2003-03-01 Round →
36
TargetRx
TargetRx provides pharmaceutical and biotech companies with unique ins…
Series C $15.5M Acacia Venture Partners +2 2003-03-03 Round →
37
NewStep Networks
NewStep Networks provides service convergence and fixed-mobile converg…
Series A $15.0M VenGrowth Asset Management +3 2003-03-07 Round →
38
Silverback Systems
Silverback Systems engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing o…
Series C $15.0M Pitango VC +3 2003-03-31 Round →
39
Incipient
Incipient develops enterprise-class storage, SAN storage virtualizatio…
Series B $15.0M Globespan Capital Partners +2 2003-03-31 Round →
40
Hotelevision
Hotelevision distributor of cable television to luxury hotels.
Series A $15.0M WS Investments 2003-03-31 Round →
41
Equallogic
EqualLogic products are iSCSI-based storage area network (SAN) systems…
Series B $15.0M CRV +1 2003-03-26 Round →
42
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AudioAudit
AudioAudit is a business solutions provider to the Advertising and Bro…
Series A $15.0M Polaris Partners +2 2003-03-20 Round →
43
NATCO Group
NATCO Group is a medium-sized company that provides process equipment,…
Convertible Note $15.0M Lime Rock Partners 2003-03-17 Round →
44
iWatt
iWatt designs, develops, and manufactures power supply control integra…
Series B $14.5M VantagePoint Capital Partners +3 2003-03-06 Round →
45
Packet Design
Packet Design offers an integrated suite of IP traffic and route analy…
Series A $14.3M Mayfield Fund +1 2003-03-28 Round →
46
L
Leapstone Systems
Leapstone Systems, Inc. provides communication software solutions to n…
Series B $14.1M Accel +3 2003-03-31 Round →
47
Intercytex Group
Intercytex Group is a biotechnology company developing cell-based ther…
Series Unknown $14.1M Scottish Equity Partners 2003-03-21 Round →
48
SentitO Networks
SentitO Networks provides open and distributed VoIP switching and serv…
Series B $14.0M TELUS Global Ventures +5 2003-03-07 Round →
49
Terawave Communications
Terawave Communications is a global manufacturer of GPON solutions for…
Series E $14.0M Walden International 2003-03-04 Round →
50
Adnexus
Adnexus Therapeutics engages in the development of Adnectins biologics…
Series A $13.0M Flagship Pioneering +2 2003-03-01 Round →