Funding Rounds in October 2005

All 291 funding rounds announced during October 2005, sorted by deal size. Includes lead investors, stage, and total raised.

291
Rounds announced
$3.3B
Total raised
$13.4M
Avg round
$739.0M
Largest
Round-type breakdown
Investment types in October 2005
Series A
75
Series Unknown
54
Series B
53
Series C
29
Series D
13
Private Equity
11
Post Ipo Equity
11
Seed
10
Grant
9
Series E
6
# Company Round Raised Lead Investor Date
1
MetroPCS Communications Inc
MetroPCS is a wireless telecommunications carrier that offers broadban…
Series E $739.0M TA Associates +4 2005-10-05 Round →
2
LQWD Technologies
LQWD Technologies offers a Bitcoin payment solution powered by the Lig…
Post Ipo Equity $80.8M Greenhill Capital Partners +1 2005-10-11 Round →
3
US Renewables
US Renewables is an investment firm focused on the renewable energy in…
Series A $80.0M Rustic Canyon Partners 2005-10-06 Round →
4
Tercica
Tercica, a biotechnology company, develops and commercializes therapeu…
Post Ipo Equity $75.0M 2005-10-14 Round →
5
Cerimon Pharmaceuticals
Cerimon Pharmaceuticals develops and commercializes therapeutics for a…
Series A $70.0M MPM Capital +2 2005-10-26 Round →
6
Raven Biotechnologies
Raven biotechnologies is focused on the development of monoclonal anti…
Series D $48.3M Vulcan Capital +8 2005-10-24 Round →
7
Alinea Pharmaceuticals
Alinea Pharmaceuticals a biopharmaceutical company.
Series A $45.0M MPM Capital +1 2005-10-20 Round →
8
Salmedix
It focuses on the treatment of hematologic malignancies or blood cance…
Series C $45.0M H.I.G. Capital +5 2005-10-19 Round →
9
Lorantis
Lorantis develops products for the selective treatment of immunologica…
Series C $44.0M Apax Partners +5 2005-10-19 Round →
10
Nereus Pharmaceuticals
Nereus Pharmaceuticals engages in the discovery and development of the…
Series D $42.6M HBM Healthcare Investments +9 2005-10-19 Round →
11
OptiScan Biomedical
OptiScan Biomedical develops glucose monitoring systems to assist heal…
Series Unknown $36.0M NGN Capital +8 2005-10-10 Round →
12
R
Radiant Medical
Radiant Medical provides medical devices intended for endovascular tem…
Series Unknown $36.0M Bay City Capital +6 2005-10-05 Round →
13
Light Sciences Oncology
Light Sciences Oncology develops light-activated drug products to trea…
Series A $35.0M Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners +3 2005-10-11 Round →
14
Surface Logix
Surface Logix is a drug development company using biophysical chemistr…
Series Unknown $32.0M CW Ventures +6 2005-10-28 Round →
15
CELLFOR
CellFor is a forest biotechnology company producing somatic embryos of…
Series C $32.0M Credit Suisse +3 2005-10-25 Round →
16
Visiprise
Visiprise offers manufacturing planning, execution, quality management…
Series B $32.0M Canaan Partners +5 2005-10-17 Round →
17
Zillow
Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for finding and sharing in…
Series A $32.0M TCV +1 2005-10-01 Round →
18
Viridos
Viridos develops genomic-driven solutions to address global energy and…
Series Unknown $30.0M Biotechonomy +1 2005-10-11 Round →
19
VIRxSYS
VIRxSYS Corporation is a biotechnology company employing proprietary p…
Series F $30.0M 2005-10-11 Round →
20
Serenex
Serenex is a drug discovery and development company focused on oncolog…
Series C $30.0M Ritchie Capital Management +5 2005-10-06 Round →
21
MForma Group
MForma Group provides marketing communications services to Israeli tec…
Series C $30.0M General Catalyst +2 2005-10-05 Round →
22
Hands-On Mobile
Hands-On Mobile publishes lifestyle, games and personalization product…
Series C $30.0M General Catalyst +2 2005-10-05 Round →
23
Marinus Pharmaceuticals
Marinus Pharmaceuticals reformulates, develops, and commercializes dru…
Series A $29.4M Canaan Partners +3 2005-10-25 Round →
24
Dynavax Technologies
Dynavax Technologies is a biopharmaceutical company discovering and de…
Post Ipo Equity $29.4M 2005-10-03 Round →
25
Soflog
Soflog is a logistics company serving blue chip clients from 50 sites …
Private Equity $27.7M 3i Group 2005-10-01 Round →
26
AGEIA Technologies
AGEIA Technologies develops hardware-accelerated physics solutions for…
Series C $27.5M Notable Capital +6 2005-10-03 Round →
27
CyOptics
CyOptics provides Indium Phosphide optical chips and component technol…
Series F $27.0M Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) +4 2005-10-05 Round →
28
Autonomic Networks
Autonomic Networks provides network access control products for networ…
Series E $26.0M Venrock +6 2005-10-19 Round →
29
HPE Aruba Networking
HPE Aruba Networking provides access management, network infrastructur…
Series D $25.0M Artis Ventures +4 2005-10-24 Round →
30
SHOP.COM
SHOP.COM is a comparison shopping site enabling online shoppers to pur…
Series A $25.0M Oak Investment Partners 2005-10-01 Round →
31
O
Oxford Semiconductor
Oxford Semiconductor provides serial connectivity silicon solutions an…
Series A $23.0M VantagePoint Capital Partners 2005-10-19 Round →
32
WAY Systems
WAY Systems develops and distributes mobile wireless point-of-sale (PO…
Series C $22.0M Austin Ventures +3 2005-10-03 Round →
33
Roxro Pharma
Roxro Pharma offers ROX-888 and ROX-828, drugs developed for the treat…
Series B $21.6M Sutter Hill Ventures +1 2005-10-19 Round →
34
Nay
Nay is a retailer of consumer electronics that offers electronics bran…
Series Unknown $21.2M 2005-10-06 Round →
35
EBR Systems
EBR Systems is a provider of wireless cardiac pacing system for millio…
Series B $21.0M Frazier Healthcare Partners +3 2005-10-01 Round →
36
FreeBorders
FreeBorders provides offshore information technology services and solu…
Series Unknown $20.0M FTV Capital +1 2005-10-27 Round →
37
BelAir Networks
BelAir Networks offers service provider class wireless broadband, with…
Series C $20.0M Comcast Ventures +5 2005-10-26 Round →
38
Alereon
Alereon is a fabless semiconductor company developing Ultrawideband wi…
Series B $20.0M Pharos Capital Partners +2 2005-10-25 Round →
39
PhotoThera
PhotoThera is a medical device company developing laser energy therapi…
Series B $19.0M DeNovo Ventures +4 2005-10-19 Round →
40
SugarAI
SugarCRM is a platform do the work’no blind spots, no busy work, and n…
Series C $18.8M New Enterprise Associates +1 2005-10-01 Round →
41
Xenogen Corporation
Xenogen Corporation is an integrated system of instruments and equipme…
Debt Financing $18.0M Silicon Valley Bank +1 2005-10-19 Round →
42
ForteBio
ForteBio is a venture-capital funded life science company developing a…
Series B $17.3M The Vertical Group +4 2005-10-26 Round →
43
QuatRx Pharmaceuticals
QuatRx Pharmaceuticals Company, a biopharmaceutical company, engages i…
Series D $17.0M Frazier Healthcare Partners +2 2005-10-31 Round →
44
DivX
DivX creates, distributes and licenses digital video technologies that…
Series D $17.0M Insight Venture Management, LLC. 2005-10-26 Round →
45
Ophthonix
Ophthonix manufactures and markets high resolution spectacle lenses fo…
Series C $17.0M InterWest Partners +5 2005-10-11 Round →
46
eASIC
eASIC is a fabless semiconductor company that offers NEW ASIC devices …
Series C $17.0M Crescendo Ventures +3 2005-10-06 Round →
47
Avanir Pharmaceuticals
Avanir Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on provi…
Post Ipo Equity $16.2M Jennison Associates +1 2005-10-18 Round →
48
Hubergroup
Hubergroup offers products for commercial printing, news printing, and…
Post Ipo Equity $15.7M ChrysCapital 2005-10-01 Round →
49
Zalicus
Zalicus discovers and develops novel-target pain therapies, including …
Series E $15.0M TL Ventures 2005-10-20 Round →
50
Netcontinuum
NetContinuum provides web application firewalls, enabling application …
Series Unknown $15.0M Menlo Ventures +3 2005-10-17 Round →