Funding Rounds in October 2012 — 1,589 Deals

Round-type breakdown

Investment types in October 2012

Seed

507

Series Unknown

320

Series A

133

Angel

Debt Financing

Grant

Series B

Private Equity

Equity Crowdfunding

Post Ipo Equity

#	Company	Round	Raised	Lead Investor	Date
1	C Commonwealth Bank of Australia Commonwealth Bank of Australia offers a wide range of financial and in…	Post Ipo Debt	$2.1B	—	2012-10-01	Round →
2	C Common Resources Common Resources is an independent oil and gas exploration and product…	Private Equity	$412.7M	EnCap Investments +1	2012-10-09	Round →
3	Z Zalando Zalando is a fashion and technology company, currently transforming in…	Secondary Market	$375.5M	Kinnevik	2012-10-18	Round →
4	M Mood Media Mood Media is a digital marketing firm focusing on the customer experi…	Post Ipo Equity	$350.0M	—	2012-10-19	Round →
5	A Airbnb Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover…	Series C	$200.0M	Founders Fund +3	2012-10-28	Round →
6	S Sparrows Offshore Group Sparrows Offshore Group is a provider of specialist equipment and inte…	Private Equity	$161.0M	AEA Investors	2012-10-26	Round →
7	C Ceva Santé Animale Ceva Sante Animale is a veterinary health company focused on the resea…	Debt Financing	$129.7M	Ardian	2012-10-30	Round →
8	D Deezer Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music …	Private Equity	$128.8M	Idinvest Partners	2012-10-09	Round →
9	m moksha8 Pharmaceuticals Moksha8 is a pharmaceutical company providing therapeutics for the tre…	Series Unknown	$125.0M	Forest Laboratories	2012-10-22	Round →
10	V Virgin Australia Virgin Australia Airlines is Australia's second-largest airline as wel…	Post Ipo Equity	$108.9M	—	2012-10-30	Round →
11	C Castle Trust Castle Trust is a privately held company that provides investment and …	Private Equity	$104.9M	J.C. Flowers & Co.	2012-10-01	Round →
12	S Sonalika Tractors International Sonalika Tractors International develops, manufactures, and markets tr…	Private Equity	$100.0M	Blackstone Group	2012-10-08	Round →
13	R RAIT Financial Trust RAIT utilizes its in-house commercial real estate lending platform to …	Private Equity	$100.0M	Almanac Realty Investors	2012-10-01	Round →
14	B BrightSource Energy BrightSource Energy designs and builds utility-scale solar power plant…	Series F	$80.0M	Alstom +6	2012-10-24	Round →
15	T Trivitron Healthcare Trivitron Healthcare is an integrated healthcare organization providin…	Series Unknown	$60.0M	Eight Roads Ventures	2012-10-13	Round →
16	D Domidep Domidep is provides residential care services.	Private Equity	$58.0M	UI Investissement	2012-10-01	Round →
17	P Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analyti…	Series G	$56.0M	Sozo Ventures +1	2012-10-01	Round →
18	C Calxeda Calxeda offers a software server platform that uses energy-efficient A…	Series C	$55.0M	Vulcan Capital +7	2012-10-09	Round →
19	Z Zalando Zalando is a fashion and technology company, currently transforming in…	Debt Financing	$52.6M	KfW +1	2012-10-02	Round →
20	A Aragon Pharmaceuticals Aragon Pharmaceuticals develops therapeutics for the treatment of horm…	Series D	$50.0M	venBio Partners +3	2012-10-04	Round →
21	Z ZS Pharma ZS Pharma develops ion trap therapies for the treatment of life-threat…	Series C	$46.0M	Alta Partners +5	2012-10-23	Round →
22	F Fibrocell Science Fibrocell Science is an autologous cell therapy company developing pro…	Post Ipo Equity	$45.0M	—	2012-10-15	Round →
23	A Attivio Attivio provides natural language processing, machine learning, text a…	Series D	$41.9M	General Electric Pension Trust +3	2012-10-11	Round →
24	S Souq Souq owns and operates an online retail e-commerce website.	Series Unknown	$40.0M	Naspers +1	2012-10-29	Round →
25	H HouseTrip HouseTrip is an online marketplace enabling individuals and holiday re…	Series C	$40.0M	Accel +2	2012-10-09	Round →
26	T Tinkoff Tinkoff is a mobile app that offers financial and lifestyle services f…	Series D	$40.0M	Horizon Capital	2012-10-01	Round →
27	L Liberty Gold Liberty Gold is an exploration-stage company that engages in the explo…	Post Ipo Equity	$38.3M	Newmont +1	2012-10-10	Round →
28	O Oracle Dyn Dyn is a pioneer in managed DNS and in cloud-based infrastructure that…	Series A	$38.0M	North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity	2012-10-02	Round →
29	T Thrasos Thrasos discovers and develops targeted therapies for the prevention a…	Series C	$35.0M	SR One +6	2012-10-25	Round →
30	S Souq Souq owns and operates an online retail e-commerce website.	Private Equity	$35.0M	Tiger Global Management +2	2012-10-01	Round →
31	M Mirna Therapeutics Mirna Therapeutics researches on and develops miRNA-directed human onc…	Series C	$34.5M	Sofinnova Investments +5	2012-10-24	Round →
32	T The Rainmaker Group The Rainmaker Group provides revenue management and profit optimizatio…	Series Unknown	$33.8M	Norwest	2012-10-30	Round →
33	C Cebix Cebix is a biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for diabeti…	Series B	$33.2M	Sofinnova Investments +2	2012-10-18	Round →
34	S Spartoo Spartoo is an European online retailer engaged in the online retail of…	Series C	$32.4M	Sofina +4	2012-10-24	Round →
35	A Asiri Hospitals Group Asiri is one of Sri Lanka’s leading and most preferred private healthc…	Private Equity	$32.0M	Actis	2012-10-03	Round →
36	G Genocea Biosciences Genocea Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company which is engaged in…	Series C	$30.0M	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation +10	2012-10-10	Round →
37	S SmartFocus SmartFocus empowers you to deliver omni-channel marketing campaigns wi…	Series Unknown	$30.0M	Izurium Capital	2012-10-09	Round →
38	E Emailvision Emailvision is a UK-based email services and cloud-based marketing pla…	Private Equity	$30.0M	Izurium Capital	2012-10-09	Round →
39	D D-Wave Quantum D-Wave Systems designs and manufactures quantum computing and supercon…	Series Unknown	$30.0M	Business Development Bank of Canada +9	2012-10-04	Round →
40	M Mercator Minerals Mercator Minerals is a metal mining company, located in Vancouver.	Post Ipo Equity	$29.5M	Haywood Securities Inc. +5	2012-10-01	Round →
41	N NuPathe NuPathe is a pharmaceutical company developing solutions for diseases …	Post Ipo Equity	$28.0M	—	2012-10-23	Round →
42	N Net Element Net Element is a technology-driven group specializing in mobile paymen…	Post Ipo Equity	$26.5M	Net Element	2012-10-04	Round →
43	F Fancy Fancy curates the most innovative fashion, accessories, art and gadget…	Series C	$26.4M	American Express	2012-10-29	Round →
44	B Borro Private Finance Borro Private Finance provides discreet loans secured exclusively agai…	Series C	$26.0M	Canaan Partners +3	2012-10-11	Round →
45	A Avanza Externalización de Servicios Avanza Externalización de Servicios is a Spanish multinational special…	Series Unknown	$25.8M	AXIS Participaciones Empresariales +1	2012-10-29	Round →
46	j justanswer.com JustAnswer.com, the largest Q&A website that connects people to real, …	Series B	$25.7M	Crosslink Capital +2	2012-10-08	Round →
47	K Kakao Japan Kakao Japan is a free smartphone calling and messenger application.	Corporate Round	$25.4M	Yahoo! Japan	2012-10-15	Round →
48	C Cempra Cempra develops medicines for the treatment of bacterial infections an…	Post Ipo Equity	$25.1M	—	2012-10-30	Round →
49	M Mosaic Capital Mosaic Capita is an investment company based in western Canada that ow…	Post Ipo Equity	$25.1M	—	2012-10-01	Round →
50	B Big Switch Networks Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, offering a …	Series B	$25.0M	Index Ventures +5	2012-10-31	Round →

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