Funding Rounds in October 2010

All 957 funding rounds announced during October 2010, sorted by deal size. Includes lead investors, stage, and total raised.

957
Rounds announced
$7.4B
Total raised
$9.5M
Avg round
$551.2M
Largest
Round-type breakdown
Investment types in October 2010
Series Unknown
246
Seed
184
Series A
97
Debt Financing
65
Grant
60
Series B
59
Angel
54
Private Equity
52
Post Ipo Equity
36
Series C
32
# Company Round Raised Lead Investor Date
1
FriendFinder Networks
FriendFinder Networks, a social networking company, provides adult ent…
Debt Financing $551.2M 2010-10-28 Round →
2
A
ADMI Holdings
ADMI Holdings is an investment management company based in Los Angeles…
Series Unknown $367.6M 2010-10-20 Round →
3
Biosensors
The Biosensors International group of companies develop, manufacture a…
Post Ipo Equity $219.1M Hony Capital 2010-10-14 Round →
4
IO.com
IO.com provides modular data center technology and services.
Debt Financing $200.0M Cat Financial +1 2010-10-11 Round →
5
Five Below
Five Below, Inc. operates a chain of retail stores in the United State…
Private Equity $194.0M Advent International 2010-10-29 Round →
6
Northgate Minerals
Northgate Minerals together with its subsidiaries, engages in explorin…
Convertible Note $170.0M 2010-10-05 Round →
7
Fieldglass
Fieldglass provides SaaS-based solutions that help firms procure and m…
Private Equity $162.3M Madison Dearborn Partners 2010-10-26 Round →
8
ZeniMax
ZeniMax is a media company connecting game developers, artists, design…
Private Equity $150.0M Providence Equity Partners 2010-10-06 Round →
9
The Nuance Group
As a leading travel retailer, Nuance operates over 350 outlets spannin…
Private Equity $147.3M PAI Partners 2010-10-29 Round →
10
Vivint
Vivint offers an integrated smart home system along with in-home consu…
Debt Financing $125.0M Goldman Sachs 2010-10-04 Round →
11
SMS Holdings
SMS THL Holdings offers technology consultancy services.
Undisclosed $111.3M 2010-10-21 Round →
12
Agennix
Agennix is a biopharmaceutical firm focused on creating innovative the…
Series Unknown $104.6M 2010-10-01 Round →
13
The Engine Group
A creative community that provides clients with best-in-class communic…
Private Equity $100.1M H.I.G. Capital 2010-10-15 Round →
14
Nobao Renewable Energy
Nobao Renewable Energy provides clean energy management solutions base…
Private Equity $100.0M Silver Lake 2010-10-22 Round →
15
Acision
Acision is a mobile communications network infrastructure company spec…
Series Unknown $100.0M Access Industries +2 2010-10-05 Round →
16
Privalia
Privalia is an e-commerce website that trades fashion and household pr…
Series E $95.0M Index Ventures +2 2010-10-04 Round →
17
Merkle
Merkle is a customer relationship management agency that designs, exec…
Private Equity $75.0M TCV 2010-10-14 Round →
18
Bavarva Estate
A sustainable technological company, since 1988 fighting for the clima…
Series Unknown $69.5M 2010-10-30 Round →
19
Pearl Therapeutics
Pearl develops a combination of products for the treatment of respirat…
Series C $69.0M Vatera Healthcare Partners +2 2010-10-19 Round →
20
Revo Round
Revo Round develops products and services aimed to preserve the charac…
Series Unknown $69.0M 2010-10-05 Round →
21
Comstock
Comstock is a producing, Nevada-based, gold and silver mining company.
Post Ipo Equity $65.1M 2010-10-28 Round →
22
NanoInk
NanoInk is specialized in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applicatio…
Series Unknown $65.0M 2010-10-18 Round →
23
Sandstorm Gold Royalties
Sandstorm Gold Royalties is a gold streaming and royalty company that …
Post Ipo Equity $55.9M 2010-10-19 Round →
24
Sandspring Resources
Sandspring Resources is a intermediate natural resource exploration an…
Post Ipo Equity $50.9M 2010-10-14 Round →
25
IMC
IMC is a terminalling and infrastructure company and offers bulk liqui…
Private Equity $50.0M Warburg Pincus 2010-10-12 Round →
26
XO Communications
XO Communications is a telecommunications company providing IP communi…
Private Equity $50.0M 2010-10-08 Round →
27
AppNexus
AppNexus operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and opt…
Series C $50.0M Venrock +3 2010-10-05 Round →
28
IDEV Technologies
IDEV Technologies is a medical device company focused on the developme…
Series D $46.0M Piper Sandler +4 2010-10-07 Round →
29
Dynavax Technologies
Dynavax Technologies is a biopharmaceutical company discovering and de…
Post Ipo Equity $42.0M 2010-10-27 Round →
30
Hoyos
Hoyos is an identity management technology solution company focused on…
Series B $40.0M 2010-10-12 Round →
31
GlycoMimetics
GlycoMimetics is a biopharmaceutical company designing and developing …
Convertible Note $39.0M 2010-10-27 Round →
32
99Bill
99Bill provides bank and prepaid card processing, account refilling, m…
Series Unknown $37.5M 2010-10-22 Round →
33
Convergence Pharmaceuticals
Convergence Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company focused on the …
Series A $35.4M New Leaf Venture Partners +2 2010-10-05 Round →
34
PaxVax
PaxVax is a start-up developing candidate oral vaccines for key infect…
Debt Financing $35.1M 2010-10-11 Round →
35
Thriveni Earthmovers
Thriveni Earthmovers engages in the business of mining natural resourc…
Private Equity $33.7M Samara Capital 2010-10-01 Round →
36
Vista Gold Corp
Vista Gold Corp is a gold mining, development and exploration company.
Post Ipo Equity $33.7M 2010-10-22 Round →
37
NinePoint Medical
NinePoint Medical is a transformational medical device company develop…
Series A $33.0M Third Rock Ventures +1 2010-10-14 Round →
38
ProteinSimple
ProteinSimple is part of the Protein Platforms division of Bio-Techne …
Series F $33.0M Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners +6 2010-10-13 Round →
39
Cleversafe
Cleversafe is the leading provider of Cloud Object Storage, acquired b…
Series C $31.4M New Enterprise Associates +3 2010-10-27 Round →
40
Intersect ENT
Intersect ENT provides therapy solutions that enable ENT physicians to…
Series C $31.0M Norwest +4 2010-10-28 Round →
41
Nanosys
Nanosys specializes in the development of quantum dot technology for d…
Series D $31.0M Venrock 2010-10-26 Round →
42
SemiSouth Laboratories
SemiSouth Laboratories is a semiconductor company that manufactures an…
Series Unknown $30.0M Power Integrations +1 2010-10-22 Round →
43
Prolong Pharmaceuticals
Prolong Pharmaceuticals develops and markets biopharmaceutical product…
Series Unknown $30.0M 2010-10-14 Round →
44
Ozura World
Ozura World is an investment company specializing in commercial-stage …
Series Unknown $30.0M Inovisi Infracom 2010-10-12 Round →
45
Synosia Therapeutics
Synosia Therapeutics develops and commercializes products for unmet me…
Series C $30.0M Union Chimique Belge +6 2010-10-12 Round →
46
GC Aesthetics
GC Aesthetics designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and offers med…
Series Unknown $30.0M Montreux Equity Partners 2010-10-11 Round →
47
Pathwork Diagnostics
Pathwork Diagnostics develops and delivers molecular diagnostic soluti…
Series C $30.0M Alta Partners +7 2010-10-06 Round →
48
moksha8 Pharmaceuticals
Moksha8 is a pharmaceutical company providing therapeutics for the tre…
Series C $30.0M Watson Pharmaceuticals 2010-10-05 Round →
49
Endgame
Endgame's endpoint protection platform protects the world’s data from …
Series A $29.0M Bessemer Venture Partners +3 2010-10-28 Round →
50
Uranium Energy
Uranium Energy specializes in acquiring exploration databases and leve…
Post Ipo Equity $27.6M 2010-10-22 Round →