Funding Rounds in September 2009

All 725 funding rounds announced during September 2009, sorted by deal size. Includes lead investors, stage, and total raised.

725
Rounds announced
$9.0B
Total raised
$15.6M
Avg round
$4.0B
Largest
Round-type breakdown
Investment types in September 2009
Series Unknown
215
Seed
121
Series A
87
Debt Financing
65
Post Ipo Equity
45
Series B
43
Angel
34
Series C
24
Private Equity
24
Grant
20
# Company Round Raised Lead Investor Date
1
Barrick Mining
Barrick Mining operates mines and advanced exploration and development…
Post Ipo Equity $4.0B 2009-09-10 Round →
2
Fisker Automotive
Fisker Automotive specializes in the production of luxury plug-in hybr…
Debt Financing $529.0M US Department of Energy 2009-09-22 Round →
3
Crucell Holland BV
Crucell researches and develops products and markets vaccines, protein…
Post Ipo Equity $443.0M Johnson & Johnson 2009-09-28 Round →
4
Solyndra
Solyndra manufactures cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells…
Series F $286.0M 2009-09-01 Round →
5
Dealer Tire
Dealer Tire helps auto manufacturers and dealers grow their tire and l…
Private Equity $157.9M TA Associates 2009-09-28 Round →
6
Enduring Resources
Enduring Resources specializes in the acquisition and exploitation of …
Private Equity $130.0M Trilantic Capital Partners 2009-09-09 Round →
7
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is focused on the discovery and development of …
Post Ipo Debt $120.0M 2009-09-30 Round →
8
X (formerly Twitter)
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and re…
Series D $100.0M Insight Venture Management, LLC. +5 2009-09-25 Round →
9
Northgate Minerals
Northgate Minerals together with its subsidiaries, engages in explorin…
Post Ipo Equity $93.7M 2009-09-22 Round →
10
Tesla
Tesla is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides el…
Series F $82.5M Mercedes-Benz Group AG +4 2009-09-16 Round →
11
Regency Energy Partners
Regency Energy Partners is a growth-oriented, midstream energy partner…
Post Ipo Equity $80.0M Harvest Partners 2009-09-03 Round →
12
Mercator Minerals
Mercator Minerals is a metal mining company, located in Vancouver.
Post Ipo Equity $75.6M Scotia Capital +3 2009-09-17 Round →
13
Arizona Public Service
Arizona Public Service provides electricity, power and energy services…
Grant $70.5M US Department of Energy 2009-09-16 Round →
14
Serious Energy
Serious Energy sells, manufacturers and delivers acoustical and therma…
Series C $60.0M Mesirow Financial +5 2009-09-22 Round →
15
Helicon Therapeutics
Helicon Therapeutics discovers therapeutics to treat disorders of cogn…
Series F $50.0M 2009-09-29 Round →
16
Airswift
Airswift provides recruitment, employer of record and workforce soluti…
Private Equity $49.9M Palatine Private Equity 2009-09-10 Round →
17
Momenta Pharmaceuticals
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing …
Post Ipo Equity $49.0M 2009-09-01 Round →
18
Copper Mountain Mining
Copper Mountain Mining Corp (TSX:CUM) is a Canadian based, high growth…
Post Ipo Equity $45.9M 2009-09-04 Round →
19
GLO
GLO is focused on the development and commercialization of advanced LE…
Series B $44.2M Provider Investor Partners +1 2009-09-03 Round →
20
Deem
Deem is a technology platform for the business travel industry focusin…
Series F $40.0M JP Morgan Chase 2009-09-09 Round →
21
Xueersi
Xueersi is a Beijing-based educational training site focused on primar…
Series B $40.0M KTB Ventures 2009-09-08 Round →
22
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is focused on the discovery and development of …
Post Ipo Equity $35.0M Janssen Belgium 2009-09-30 Round →
23
Sandstorm Gold Royalties
Sandstorm Gold Royalties is a gold streaming and royalty company that …
Post Ipo Equity $34.4M 2009-09-22 Round →
24
Bosideng
Bosideng is a Chinese enterprise that exclusively sells down jackets a…
Post Ipo Equity $31.3M IDG Capital +1 2009-09-01 Round →
25
Seaside Therapeutics
Seaside Therapeutics is a biotech company developing treatments for pa…
Series Unknown $30.0M 2009-09-17 Round →
26
Neotract
NeoTract develops surgical devices for urological and gynecological di…
Series B $28.1M New Enterprise Associates +3 2009-09-15 Round →
27
Metagenics
Metagenics, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, is a global life science…
Series Unknown $28.1M 2009-09-18 Round →
28
Star Diamond
Star Diamond is a Canadian natural resource company focused on explori…
Post Ipo Equity $27.5M 2009-09-23 Round →
29
Evernote
Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to captu…
Series A $26.0M DoCoMo Capital +1 2009-09-09 Round →
30
Satiety
Satiety is a medical device company focused on the development of less…
Series E $25.3M 2009-09-30 Round →
31
Wananchi Group
Wananchi Group is a home entertainment operator.
Private Equity $25.0M Emerging Capital Partners 2009-09-22 Round →
32
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals is a company leveraging a dynamic drug engi…
Series B $25.0M Mediphase Venture Partners +4 2009-09-22 Round →
33
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is an entrepreneurial pharmaceutical company,…
Series Unknown $25.0M Polaris Partners 2009-09-04 Round →
34
katena
katena is a U.S.-based company that provides ophthalmic surgical instr…
Debt Financing $23.5M Golub Capital 2009-09-30 Round →
35
Agendia
Agendia provides molecular diagnostics and personalized treatment plan…
Series E $23.0M ING Group +3 2009-09-23 Round →
36
Santen Pharmaceutical
Santen sells ophthalmic products.
Post Ipo Equity $22.0M Bpifrance +6 2009-09-26 Round →
37
ValenTx
ValenTx is a development-stage medical device company that focuses on …
Series B $22.0M SV Health Investors +4 2009-09-08 Round →
38
Candescent Healing
Candescent Healing’s exclusive business mission is the development and…
Debt Financing $21.5M 2009-09-08 Round →
39
Eddingpharm (Cayman)
Eddingpharm, a specialty pharmaceuticals company, focused on clinical …
Series A $20.1M Merrill Lynch 2009-09-01 Round →
40
SoftLayer
SoftLayer is a cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service provider integr…
Series Unknown $20.0M DH Capital +1 2009-09-30 Round →
41
Ensequence
Ensequence provides solutions that enable programmers, advertisers and…
Series Unknown $20.0M Clay Mathile 2009-09-18 Round →
42
Verivue
Verivue provides digital content delivery solutions to help network op…
Series C $20.0M Matrix +4 2009-09-09 Round →
43
PipGame
PipGame is a developer, operator, and publisher of mobile games and en…
Series B $20.0M DT Capital Partners +1 2009-09-01 Round →
44
Koolanoo Group
Koolanoo Group is an internet company based in China that licenses int…
Series D $20.0M East River Capital 2009-09-01 Round →
45
SiTime
SiTime is an analog semiconductor company that offers MEMS-based silic…
Series Unknown $20.0M 2009-09-03 Round →
46
Compact Power Equipment
Compact Power Equipment operates as a national provider of equipment r…
Series Unknown $18.9M Main Street Capital +1 2009-09-01 Round →
47
NeuroMetrix
NeuroMetrix is a medical device company focused on the diagnosis and t…
Post Ipo Equity $18.7M 2009-09-22 Round →
48
Ionix Medical
Ionix Medical, Inc. (formerly OncoStim, Inc.) is a privately held medi…
Series Unknown $18.3M 2009-09-20 Round →
49
Xambala
Xambala is an electronic liquidity provider to capital markets, enabli…
Series Unknown $18.3M 2009-09-30 Round →
50
Sigma Healthcare
Sigma Healthcare engages in the wholesale distribution of pharmaceutic…
Post Ipo Equity $18.2M 2009-09-23 Round →