Round-type breakdown
Investment types in December 2008
Series Unknown
113
Series A
82
Seed
75
Series B
45
Grant
29
Angel
19
Private Equity
18
Series D
17
Debt Financing
16
Series C
16
| # | Company | Round | Raised | Lead Investor | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Shriram Transport Finance Company
Shriram Transport Finance Company specializes in financing pre-owned c…
|
Post Ipo Debt | $420.0M | GuarantCo | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 2 |
Solyndra
Solyndra manufactures cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells…
|
Series E | $220.0M | Kleiner Perkins | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 3 |
Banca Transilvania
Banca Transilvania is one of the leading banks in Romania, consistentl…
|
Post Ipo Debt | $143.2M | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 2008-12-17 | Round → |
| 4 |
Hudbay
Hudbay is an integrated mining company.
|
Post Ipo Equity | $135.8M | — | 2008-12-11 | Round → |
| 5 |
Lundin Mining
Lundin Mining operates as an exploration company that mines base metal…
|
Post Ipo Debt | $110.2M | Hudbay | 2008-12-11 | Round → |
| 6 |
Palm
Palm is a mobile products company enabling people to better manage the…
|
Post Ipo Equity | $100.0M | Elevation Partners | 2008-12-23 | Round → |
| 7 |
Luca Technologies
Luca Technologies uses microorganisms that reside in subsurface hydroc…
|
Series C | $75.9M | Kleiner Perkins | 2008-12-23 | Round → |
| 8 | Series Unknown | $65.9M | — | 2008-12-22 | Round → | |
| 9 |
Arts Alliance Media
Arts Alliance Media develops software and solutions for the digital ci…
|
Private Equity | $57.2M | Econocom | 2008-12-11 | Round → |
| 10 |
IO.com
IO.com provides modular data center technology and services.
|
Private Equity | $56.0M | Sterling Partners | 2008-12-10 | Round → |
| 11 |
Nuziveedu Seeds
Nuziveedu Seeds is an agricultural production and biotechnology compan…
|
Private Equity | $52.0M | Blackstone Group | 2008-12-30 | Round → |
| 12 |
Ascribe
Ascribe allows users to create, register, manage, and share digital in…
|
Private Equity | $49.9M | ECI Partners | 2008-12-18 | Round → |
| 13 |
South Beauty Group
South Beauty Group is a Chinese company focused on catering operation …
|
Series A | $43.6M | CDH Investments | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 14 |
D
Deepak Cables
Deepak Cables provides power transmission and distribution products.
|
Series Unknown | $41.8M | IDFC Private Equity | 2008-12-16 | Round → |
| 15 |
TDX Group
Providing businesses with technology
|
Private Equity | $41.7M | Investcorp | 2008-12-08 | Round → |
| 16 |
Gyre Therapeutics
Gyre Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that offers protease …
|
Post Ipo Equity | $40.0M | Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners | 2008-12-03 | Round → |
| 17 |
Broncus Technologies
Broncus Technologies is a medical technology company developing minima…
|
Series G | $38.0M | Ares Life Sciences | 2008-12-04 | Round → |
| 18 |
Metallkraft
Metallkraft is a waste management company specialized in slurry recycl…
|
Series A | $32.5M | Capricorn Partners | 2008-12-18 | Round → |
| 19 |
Solarflare Communications
Solarflare Communications develops application-intelligent 10GbE serve…
|
Series Unknown | $32.0M | Anthem Venture Partners | 2008-12-28 | Round → |
| 20 |
Reata Pharmaceuticals
Reata Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that develops dru…
|
Series F | $30.7M | — | 2008-12-04 | Round → |
| 21 |
CloudPay
CloudPay provides global payroll, treasury, and on-demand pay solution…
|
Series A | $30.0M | Rho Ventures | 2008-12-17 | Round → |
| 22 |
Thunnus Overseas Group
Thunnus Overseas Group is a tuna processing and distribution group tha…
|
Private Equity | $28.9M | Emerging Capital Partners | 2008-12-28 | Round → |
| 23 |
Luxtera
Luxtera uses silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-opt…
|
Series D | $26.8M | Freescale Semiconductor | 2008-12-24 | Round → |
| 24 |
Prosensa
Prosensa provides RNA-based therapeutics for the treatment of genetic …
|
Series B | $25.8M | Idinvest Partners | 2008-12-17 | Round → |
| 25 |
Fallbrook Technologies
Fallbrook Technologies is a provider of a technology intended to offer…
|
Series D | $25.4M | NGEN Partners | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 26 |
Chegg
Chegg is a student media learning platform offering services to univer…
|
Series C | $25.0M | Kleiner Perkins | 2008-12-17 | Round → |
| 27 |
Better Place
Better Place develops and sells battery-charging and battery-switching…
|
Series A | $25.0M | Lend Lease Ventures | 2008-12-09 | Round → |
| 28 |
International Battery
International Battery, a green tech company, produced environment frie…
|
Series Unknown | $25.0M | Digital Power Capital | 2008-12-06 | Round → |
| 29 |
Roquette America
Roquette America is a food & beverages company offering renewable raw …
|
Series Unknown | $25.0M | Rural Development Partners | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 30 |
HuffPost
HuffPost, an online news aggregator and blog, publishes content on pol…
|
Series C | $25.0M | Oak Investment Partners | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 31 |
ATS Medical
ATS was originally founded to develop the ATS Open Pivot® Heart Valve …
|
Private Equity | $20.0M | Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners | 2008-12-23 | Round → |
| 32 |
Roundbox
Roundbox is a provider of mobile broadcast software solutions for mobi…
|
Series C | $20.0M | Greenspring Associates | 2008-12-15 | Round → |
| 33 |
Kosmix
Kosmix is a search engine that allows users to perform advanced search…
|
Series D | $20.0M | Warner Media | 2008-12-08 | Round → |
| 34 |
GOOGLE LLC Surawut Paratek
Paratek designs and manufactures adaptive RF front-end component solut…
|
Series Unknown | $20.0M | Polaris Partners | 2008-12-02 | Round → |
| 35 |
Mavenir
Mavenir is a provider of cloud-native network infrastructure that deve…
|
Series C | $17.5M | North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity | 2008-12-17 | Round → |
| 36 |
Vaprema
Vaperma is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of advanced gas sepa…
|
Series B | $17.2M | BDC Venture Capital | 2008-12-10 | Round → |
| 37 |
Bivio Networks
Bivio provides DPI technology solutions for government agencies, fortu…
|
Series Unknown | $15.8M | Silver Creek Ventures | 2008-12-09 | Round → |
| 38 |
Contour Energy
Contour Energy is a company of portable power that offers customizable…
|
Series A | $15.2M | U.S. Venture Partners | 2008-12-29 | Round → |
| 39 |
Galleon Pharmaceuticals
Galleon Pharmaceuticals is engaged in the discovery and development of…
|
Series Unknown | $15.0M | — | 2008-12-30 | Round → |
| 40 |
Cash4Gold
Cash4Gold serves as a mail-in refinery that buys gold, silver and plat…
|
Series A | $15.0M | General Catalyst | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 41 |
Opower
Opower is a SaaS-based customer engagement and energy efficiency compa…
|
Series B | $14.0M | New Enterprise Associates | 2008-12-29 | Round → |
| 42 |
Interactive Fitness
Interactive Fitness offers indoor workout equipment with virtual reali…
|
Series D | $14.0M | Silicon Valley Bank | 2008-12-08 | Round → |
| 43 |
Aria Systems
Aria Systems offers a cloud-based monetization platform for subscripti…
|
Series B | $14.0M | Venrock | 2008-12-08 | Round → |
| 44 |
OLX Brazil
OLX empowers Brazilians to achieve their dreams by re-inventing consum…
|
Series B | $13.5M | General Catalyst | 2008-12-01 | Round → |
| 45 |
Awarepoint
Awarepoint provides workflow automation, tracking solutions and real-t…
|
Series D | $13.3M | Cardinal Partners | 2008-12-08 | Round → |
| 46 |
Pixim
Pixim is a semiconductor company that manufactures chips for video cam…
|
Series Unknown | $13.0M | Mayfield Fund | 2008-12-17 | Round → |
| 47 |
Infinite Power Solutions
Infinite Power Solutions is a clean-technology company developing soli…
|
Series B | $13.0M | D. E. Shaw & Co. | 2008-12-12 | Round → |
| 48 |
Lightwave Power
Lightwave Power is focused on developing novel solar energy products b…
|
Series A | $13.0M | 21Ventures | 2008-12-12 | Round → |
| 49 |
RightScale
RightScale cloud management and cloud cost optimization solutions help…
|
Series B | $13.0M | Index Ventures | 2008-12-08 | Round → |
| 50 |
Globant
Globant is a digitally native company that helps organizations reinven…
|
Series B | $13.0M | Riverwood Capital | 2008-12-02 | Round → |
