StarVest News
07.07.08
Firm Cultivates Online Communities for Feedback
Remember the focus group?
Companies may still put people ni a room to watch them try their products while marketing executives watch from behind one-way glass. But the old-fashioned marketing concept is quickly turnnig virtual.
07.02.08
Private Equity HUB - StarVest Buys Iron Solutions
StarVest Partners has led an acquisition of IRON Solutions LLC, a Fenton, Mo.-based data provider for the farm and construction equipment industry. The total deal is valued at $15 million for a 90% ownership stake, with StarVest joined by Dublin Capital Partners, Spring Mountain Capital, and GVIC Communications Corp. Company management will retain the other 10%.
07.01.08
ebiz - StarVest Partners Acquires IRON Solutions
StarVest Partners announced today its expansion into the "Data-as-a-Service" market by leading the acquisition of Fenton, MO-based IRON SOlutions, LLC with an $8.5 million investment.
06.30.08
The Deal - VC StarVest Buys Iron Solutions
Venture capitalists don't often make acquisitions-- especially not of companies that cater to farmers. But that's not stopping StarVest Partners LP from planting its capital in a business that it expects to bloom from the Internet's rich soil.
04.19.08
Venture Capital Still Loves The Net
VC firms doubled their investment in U.S. Web outfits in the first quarter, but a weak IPO market means they'll have to keep injecting cash
01.24.08
Deborah A. Farrington #44 VC on the Forbes Midas Touch
Top female VC. First institutional investor in Larry Ellison's NetSuite, which had a $1.8 billion IPO last year.
01.24.08
Forbes-Farrington on Trends VCs Want to Fund
We'll see more businesses marketing on social networks. We'll also see more investments outside Silicon Valley and Boston...
01.24.08
Forbes-Venture Firms Peek Out from Silicon Valley
In 2000, when John Neis, co-founder of Madison, Wis.-based Venture Investors, tried to convince venture capitalists on the West and East Coasts to fun TomoTherapy, a Wisconsin cancer-radiation company he had seeded, they weren't interested...
12.20.07
StarVest Portfolio Company NetSuite IPO Opens with Market Capitalization of $1.55 billion
Underscoring its position as a leading venture capital investor in the technology-enabled business services sector, StarVest Partners announced today the initial public offering (IPO) of portfolio company NetSuite. NetSuite, a vendor of on-demand, integrated business management application suites for small and medium-sized businesses, will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “N.” NetSuite sold 6.2 million shares in the offering at a price of $26.00per share.
12.20.07
NetSuite IPO Prices at $26 Per Share
Net Suite Inc. priced its initial public offering at $26 per share Wednesday, raising $161 million for its online business software service and showering its largest stockholder, billionaire Larry Ellison, with still more riches.
12.20.07
NetSuite's IPO: How Sweet It Is
The offering may validate the on-demand software model -- and make another $1 billion for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
12.20.07
NetSuite prices IPO at $26 share, raising $161m
SAN FRANCISCO - NetSuite Inc. priced its initial public offering at $26 per share yesterday, raising $161 million for its online business software service.
12.20.07
NetSuite IPO Wins Fair-Value Fans
SAN FRANCISCO -- While NetSuite's (N - Cramers's Take - Stockpickr) newly minted shareholders may feel first-trading-day blues, look for the company's Dutch auction-style IPO process to be repeated more in 2008.
12.20.07
NetSuite IPO Demonstrates Risk & Reward of Auction IPO
Netsuite went public today, via an auction IPO at $26 a share. At this writing, lead underwriter CSFB appears to be desperately trying to keep the stock price above water so as to dissuade observers from concluding that the company is a piece of junk.
12.17.07
NetSuite IPO to put Ellison even further above the poverty line
Larry Ellison's NetSuite of San Mateo is expected to make its initial public offering of stock later this week, probably on Friday. Ellison owns 55 percent of the company, which tentatively plans to price its shares between $13 to $16.
12.07.07
In I.P.O, NetSuite Tries Google Approach
NetSuite's dreams of an initial public offering are coming to fuition-with a twist.
11.29.07
StarVest Partners Participates in Latest Round of Funding in Passenger®
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StarVest Partners, a venture capital firm that is funding and building the next generation of technology-enabled business services companies, today announced its participation in an $8.3 million series B financing round in Think Passenger, Inc. (dba “Passenger”), the Los-Angeles-based technology leader in on-demand customer collaboration.
11.06.07
Silicon Alley Insider, “Bettino: Next Phase of Social Networking Revolution is B2C,”
SAI contributor Larry Bettino is a general partner at New York-based VC firm StarVest Partners. The firm invests in technology enabled business services companies throughout the U.S. It recently invested $2 million in business-to-consumer social networking leader Passenger.
10.30.07
Ellison keeps paws off NetSuite (for now)
We've been wondering what Larry Ellison plans for NetSuite Inc., the business software maker that filed in July to go public and is 74%-owned by the Oracle Corp. CEO.
10.12.07
StarVest Seeks Promising Tech Startups
A New York venture capital firm with millions to spend wants to dig deep into the Austin technology scene.
09.24.07
Debby Farrington - The Deal.com - "Quietly Optimistic"
The market for initial public offerings is "selectively strong," says Deborah Farrington, founding partner of StarVest PartnersLP.
05.29.07
Mazu Networks Announces Record Quarter
Insight on the female-run venture capital firm StarVest Partners, with the company's partners: Laura Sachar, Deborah Farrington and Jeanne Sullivan; with CNBC's Sue Herera
05.01.07
Dealmaker Magazine - "Deal Pioneers"
The trio behind New York–based StarVest Partners didn’t set out to break any barriers.
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