Funding Rounds in April 2008

All 568 funding rounds announced during April 2008, sorted by deal size. Includes lead investors, stage, and total raised.

568
Rounds announced
$6.6B
Total raised
$15.3M
Avg round
$1.1B
Largest
Round-type breakdown
Investment types in April 2008
Series Unknown
109
Series A
105
Seed
81
Series B
64
Series C
42
Private Equity
40
Angel
37
Series D
18
Debt Financing
13
Grant
12
# Company Round Raised Lead Investor Date
1
Philip Morris International
Philip Morris International is a tobacco company that sells and manufa…
Post Ipo Debt $1.1B 2008-04-01 Round →
2
SymBio Pharmaceuticals
SymBio Pharmaceuticals develops therapeutic products for cancer, hemat…
Corporate Round $618.0M Cephalon 2008-04-03 Round →
3
Moatable
Moatable offers businesses with management expertise, support services…
Private Equity $430.0M SoftBank Group +1 2008-04-30 Round →
4
OptiSolar R&D
OptiSolar R&D utilizes a proprietary thin-film amorphous silicon techn…
Series B $132.0M Richardson Capital 2008-04-11 Round →
5
eSolar
eSolar is focused on the development of concentrating solar power plan…
Series Unknown $130.0M Google.org +2 2008-04-21 Round →
6
Spring Energy Norway
Spring Energy Norway is explores, extracts, develops, and produces oil…
Private Equity $120.0M HitecVision 2008-04-24 Round →
7
Range Fuels
Range Fuels is a venture capital firm focusing on alternative, clean e…
Series B $100.0M Passport Capital +5 2008-04-01 Round →
8
Deem
Deem is a technology platform for the business travel industry focusin…
Series E $100.0M American Express +3 2008-04-01 Round →
9
GS Solar
Junshi (China) Energy researches and develops HDT heterojunction solar…
Series A $100.0M IDG Capital +1 2008-04-01 Round →
10
Coremetrics
Coremetrics provides digital marketing optimization and web analytics …
Series E $60.0M 3i Group +2 2008-04-04 Round →
11
Ning Interactive
Ning is a SaaS-based platform for deploying vibrant social communities…
Series D $60.0M Allen & Company 2008-04-01 Round →
12
Tudou
Tudou is a Chinese video sharing website that enables young users to g…
Series C $57.0M IDG Capital +3 2008-04-28 Round →
13
ACT (Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.)
ACT (Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) is a triple play servic…
Private Equity $50.1M True North 2008-04-01 Round →
14
Federated Media
Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement …
Series C $50.0M Omidyar Network +1 2008-04-01 Round →
15
Move Networks
Move Networks is a streaming tech platform delivering live and multi-c…
Series C $46.0M Benchmark +6 2008-04-14 Round →
16
China InterActive
China InterActive is an interactive entertainment group in China offer…
Series Unknown $43.0M SAIF Partners 2008-04-01 Round →
17
Apogenix
Apogenix is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel protein thera…
Series B $42.9M dievini Hopp Biotech Holding 2008-04-30 Round →
18
ThermaSource
ThermaSource provides geothermal drilling and consulting services worl…
Series B $41.5M Rustic Canyon Partners +2 2008-04-18 Round →
19
Turbine
Turbine is a privately-held online gaming studio in North America crea…
Series C $40.0M Notable Capital +5 2008-04-29 Round →
20
Mainstream Energy
Mainstream Energy offers integrated solar solutions to develop clean a…
Series Unknown $40.0M REC Group 2008-04-15 Round →
21
SiBEAM
SiBEAM is a fabless semiconductor company, develops intelligent millim…
Series C $40.0M New Enterprise Associates +2 2008-04-07 Round →
22
G10 Entertainment
G10 is an entertainment company based in Korea.
Series Unknown $38.0M The9 2008-04-23 Round →
23
Concert Pharmaceuticals
Concert Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that uses deuterium…
Series C $37.0M GSK +11 2008-04-30 Round →
24
Angi
Angi is a technology-based tool that helps homeowners find home improv…
Series Unknown $35.0M Battery Ventures 2008-04-10 Round →
25
Transave
Transave is a biotechnology company developing inhaled pharmaceuticals…
Series D $35.0M Bessemer Venture Partners +6 2008-04-02 Round →
26
SomaLogic
SomaLogic is a protein biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics co…
Series Unknown $35.0M 2008-04-03 Round →
27
Edeniq
Edeniq is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for …
Series A $33.1M Advanced Equities +7 2008-04-21 Round →
28
Coastal Projects
Coastal Projects is a construction company that specializes in undergr…
Private Equity $32.8M Peak XV Partners +1 2008-04-01 Round →
29
Truphone
A global leader in digital connectivity software
Series B $32.8M Acton Capital +3 2008-04-17 Round →
30
EverSpin Technologies
Everspin Technologies develops and manufactures integrated magnetic pr…
Series A $32.5M Lux Capital +3 2008-04-22 Round →
31
Constellation Pharmaceuticals
Constellation Pharmaceuticals develops drugs in the field of epigeneti…
Series A $32.0M Venrock +2 2008-04-29 Round →
32
Xactly
Xactly is the pure-play provider of cloud-based, incentive compensatio…
Series D $30.0M Cheyenne Capital +6 2008-04-30 Round →
33
Mediaocean
Mediaocean provides software platforms for the advertising community.
Series B $30.0M New Enterprise Associates +1 2008-04-18 Round →
34
BridgeLux
Bridgelux develops eco-friendly light emitting diodes that reduce ener…
Series D $30.0M VentureTech Alliance +5 2008-04-08 Round →
35
DataCore Software
DataCore delivers software-defined storage solutions to solve data inf…
Series Unknown $30.0M Insight Venture Management, LLC. +1 2008-04-04 Round →
36
Excelsoft
Excelsoft offers value added products and services in the e-Learning d…
Private Equity $30.0M MAPE Advisory Group 2008-04-01 Round →
37
Range Fuels
Range Fuels is a venture capital firm focusing on alternative, clean e…
Series C $28.2M Morgan Stanley +3 2008-04-21 Round →
38
Nuon Therapeutics
Nuon Therapeutics develops therapies for inflammation and neurological…
Series B $27.0M Frazier Healthcare Partners +1 2008-04-28 Round →
39
Tideway
Tideway Systems is a software company offering data centre optimizatio…
Series C $27.0M Scottish Equity Partners +1 2008-04-08 Round →
40
Sharda Cropchem
Sharda Cropchem is a distributor of formulations and generic active in…
Private Equity $25.0M Henderson Global Investors 2008-04-01 Round →
41
ECI Engineering & Construction
ECI Engineering & Construction is an EPC company in the energy and inf…
Equity Crowdfunding $25.0M Sabre Partners 2008-04-03 Round →
42
Meebo
Meebo is a consumer internet company that offers a social media platfo…
Series C $25.0M Icon Ventures +3 2008-04-30 Round →
43
GENBAND
GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controller…
Series Unknown $25.0M Notable Capital +5 2008-04-25 Round →
44
P
PetroLatina Energy Ltd
PetroLatina Energy is a company that provides oil and gas exploration …
Private Equity $25.0M Tribeca 2008-04-25 Round →
45
Retail Convergence
Retail Convergence is a portfolio of e-commerce companies that include…
Series A $25.0M General Catalyst +2 2008-04-24 Round →
46
Paradigm Spine
Paradigm Spine is a medical device company developing spinal implants …
Series E $25.0M Healthcor Management 2008-04-23 Round →
47
Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals
Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals develops therapeutics with small molecule lip…
Series B $25.0M QVT Financial +5 2008-04-22 Round →
48
Stromedix
Storemedix is a biomedical company focused on drugs for fibrosis, orga…
Series B $25.0M New Leaf Venture Partners +4 2008-04-21 Round →
49
Cuil
Cuil is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displa…
Series B $25.0M Madrone Capital Partners +2 2008-04-15 Round →
50
Visible World
Visible World provides targeted television advertising solutions for b…
Series C $25.0M AllianceBernstein +4 2008-04-14 Round →