{"id":330138,"date":"2010-02-17T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=63724"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:00:24","slug":"mpm-collects-140m-for-fifth-fund-nexx-files-for-ipo-nuance-advances-on-mac-market-more-boston-area-deals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330138","title":{"rendered":"MPM Collects $140M for Fifth Fund, NEXX Files for IPO, Nuance Advances on Mac Market, & More Boston-Area Deals News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roundup<\/a>, deals<\/a>, IPOs<\/a><\/div>\n

\t\tRebecca Zacks wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

New England’s tech and life sciences firms inked lots of deals in the last week, with the software sector being particularly active.<\/p>\n

—Advanced RenewableEnergy Company of Nashua, NH, raised $5 million<\/a> of a $10 million equity round, according to regulatory filings. Nicknamed ARC Energy, the company makes equipment for growing and processing the sapphire crystals used in LEDs.<\/p>\n

—Woburn, MA-based Excelimmune, a developer of human antibody-based drugs, raised $1 million in a Series B financing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—Semiconductor equipment maker NEXX Systems of Billerica, MA, filed for an initial public offering worth as much as $42 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—MPM Capital, a Boston-based life sciences investment firm, raised $140 million for its fifth BioVentures fund<\/a>, according to regulatory filings.<\/p>\n

—Cambridge, MA-based GenArts, a provider of visual effects software, acquired two widely used plug-in collections, called Tinder and Tinderbox, from The Foundry<\/a>, a London-based rival. Wade wrote about how the deal fits into GenArts’ plans to become a leading special effects plug-in vendor.<\/p>\n

—Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IRWD<\/a>) raised an additional $28 million<\/a> when the underwriters of its February 2 IPO exercised their options to buy 2.5 million additional shares. All told, Ironwood raised $203 million from its debut, after expenses and fees.<\/p>\n

—A syndicate of private equity firms including Advent International, Bain Capital, and Berkshire Partners bought out Dublin, Ireland-based SkillSoft<\/a> (NASDAQ:SKIL<\/a>) software maker for about $1.1 billion. SkillSoft’s U.S. headquarters are in Nashua, NH.<\/p>\n

—Cambridge-based PatientsLikeMe, which runs a social networking site for patients with a variety of ailments, acquired Hungarian online pain management firm ReliefInsite<\/a> for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n

—Burlington, MA-based voice and imaging software maker Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN<\/a>) acquired Salem, NH’s MacSpeech<\/a>. The deal will help Nuance expand into the Mac market.<\/p>\n

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Roundup, deals, IPOs Rebecca Zacks wrote: New England’s tech and life sciences firms inked lots of deals in the last week, with the software sector being particularly active. —Advanced RenewableEnergy Company of Nashua, NH, raised $5 million of a $10 million equity round, according to regulatory filings. Nicknamed ARC Energy, the company makes equipment for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}