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Techno-Economic Study Newsletter – Οκτώβριος 2010 Δευτέρα, 8 Νοεμβρίου 2010 Αγαπητοί αναγνώστες καλημέρα σας, Στις 4 Νοεμβρίου, 2010 η ένωση των εταιρειών ημιαγωγών της Η.Π.Α. (SIA) ανακοίνωσε τις προβλέψεις της για τις παγκόσμιες πωλήσεις ημιαγωγών από το 2010 μέχρι το 2012. Εφέτος οι πωλήσεις του κλάδου προβλέπεται να φτάσουν το ρεκόρ των 300 δισεκατομμυρίων δολαρίων πράγμα που αντιστοιχεί σε αύξηση 32,8% συγκριτικά με τον προηγούμενο χρόνο. Για τα επόμενα χρόνια, σύμφωνα με την πρόβλεψη της SIA, οι πωλήσεις του κλάδου προβλέπεται να αυξηθούν κατά 6,0% το 2011, ενώ το 2012 κατά 3,4%. Ο προβλεπόμενος ετήσιος ρυθμός ανάπτυξης εκτιμάται ότι θα είναι 13,4% για την περίοδο 2009 έως 2012. Τα νούμερα αυτά είναι σίγουρα ενθαρρυντικά για εσάς που δραστηριοποιήστε στο χώρο. Στις επόμενες σελίδες αυτού του Newsletter θα βρείτε τα ακόλουθα: 1. Λίστα επενδύσεων του Οκτωβρίου 2010 στον ευρύτερο χώρο της τεχνολογίας 2. Σειρά με άρθρα από τον χώρο του Venture Capital που σας προτείνουμε να διαβάσετε 3. Παλαιότερα άρθρα που αξίζει να διαβάσετε Καλή συνέχεια στην προσπάθειά σας, Δημήτρης Δημήτρης Παπαϊωάννου Κωνσταντίνος Γιάντσιος [email protected] [email protected] © 2010 Exelon Partners All Rights Protected and Reserved 1. Επενδύσεις Οκτωβρίου 2010 Funds Funding Company Name Url Industry Business Activity Investors Raised Round Focused on commercialisation in the field of light GLO http://www.glo.se/ Semiconductor emitting diodes for general illumination of the not disclosed heterostructured nanowire technology The company develops, acquires, and commercializes various pharmaceutical and http://www.ispharma.plc.uk/ho Pharmaceuticals, IS Pharma medical devices focusing on the areas of critical $5.7M Abingworth me.php medical devices care, oncology, and neurology in the United Kingdom and internationally. Developer of medical devices for aesthetic Dept Miramar Labs http://www.miramarlabs.com/ Medical devices $1M indications Financing An integrated fiber optic network that provides telecom, XO Communications http://www.xo.com/ telecommunications services in the United States $50M not disclosed networks markets An affordable and easy to use Smart Energy and Software, smart Good Energies, Index Ventures, SET Venture Home Monitoring system that puts you in control AlertMe http://www.alertme.com/ energy, smart $15M Series B Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners, of your home, helping you save money and home British Gas reduce your carbon footprint Swiss Company developing innovative minimally Symetis http://www.symetis.com/ medical devices invasive heart valve replacement therapies for $15.8M Series C not disclosed patients suffering from heart valve diseases. http://www.printechnologics.co Developed an innovative technology designed to Printechnologics Electronics 3M New Ventures m/ enable printed circuit structures on paper An emerging growth medical device company Piper Jaffray Private Capital Group, PTV IDEV Technologies http://www.idevmd.com/ Medical devices focused on the development of products for $46M Series D Sciences, Bay City Capital, RiverVest, Heron endovascular and interventional applications. Capital A privately-funded company developing and supplying miniature projection systems for use in DFJ Esprit, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Light Blue Optics http://lightblueoptics.com/ IT hardware high volume applications in markets including $13M Series A Earlybird Venture Capital, Capital-E, NESTA, automotive, digital signage and consumer WhiteGold Fund Management electronics. © 2010 Exelon Partners All Rights Protected and Reserved An emerging growth technology company specializing in nanometer-scale manufacturing NanoInk http://www.nanoink.net/ manufacturing $65M Lurie Investment Fund and applications development for the life science and semiconductor industries Development and manufacturing of novel stent http://www.trirememedical.co Bio*One Capital, Three Arch Partners, TriReme Medical BioTech technologies for the treatment of coronary artery $17M Series D m/ Adams Street Partners disease (CAD) at or near bifurcations. Leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor GC Aesthetics http://www.gcaesthetics.com/ Medical devices of medical devices for the global aesthetics $30M Montreux Equity Partners industry. Amadeus Capital Partners, Intel Capital, IT hardware, Brings to market a wide array of consumer Oak Investment Partners, Bay Partners, Veebeam http://www.veebeam.com/ wireless, hardware - including wired and wireless Internet $6M Series B Formative Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Vision networks connectivity products. Capital Develop the tools and services that video service Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive providers (VSPs) in the cable, telecommunications BNI Video http://www.bnivideo.com/ Software, video $16M Capital, Time Warner Investments, Charles and wireless industries need to compete in an River Ventures, Castile Ventures increasingly on-demand world. A ISO 9001:2008 certified world leader in semiconductor integration of communications http://www.accent- Accent Semiconductor and metering technologies and with renowned $5M not disclosed soc.com/index_flash.php investors such as Sofinnova Partners (France) and Cadence. Specializes in near-infrared spectroscopic (NIRS) optics, mefical InfraReDx http://www.infraredx.com/ technology and its application to coronary $21M Sanderling Ventures imaging imaging. An early-stage renewable energy startup founded Sun Catalytix http://www.suncatalytix.com/ GreenTech on groundbreaking science from the research lab $9.5M Series B Polaris Venture Partners, Tata Capital of Professor Daniel Nocera at MIT. Developer and manufacturer of products based Michelson Diagnostics http://www.md-ltd.co.uk/ Medical imaging on Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography $2M Series A Octopus (OCT) Development of a highly-sensitive biosensor for detection of trace amounts (~pg/mm2) of BioTech, medical bacteria, viruses, proteins, nucleic acids, BiOptix Diagnostics http://www.bioptix.com/ $250K not disclosed device antibodies and other biological and chemical agents in real-time and with minimal human intervention. © 2010 Exelon Partners All Rights Protected and Reserved http://www.memoir- A seed-stage startup specializing in scaling Memoir Systems Semiconductor $5.1M Series A Lightspeed Venture Partners systems.com/ memory performance. Provides the world’s first end-to-end Distributed Lightspeed Venture Partners, Opus Capital, Photovoltaic, Solar Power Harvesting and PV Monitoring Genesis Partners, Walden International, ORR SolarEdge http://www.solaredge.com/ $25M Series C energy, software Solution, allowing maximum energy production Partners, Vertex Venture Capital, JP Asia and faster return of investment. Capital Partners LED lighting system architecture helps customers http://www.redwoodsystems.c reduce energy costs while providing a degree of Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, U.S. Redwood Systems Electronics $15M Series B om/ control and automation of commercial lighting Venture Partners never before possible. Clean energy technology company focused on GreenTech, Energy Capital Partners, Good Energies, Sail Ice Energy http://www.ice-energy.com/ developing utility-scale distributed energy $24M Series C energy storage Venture Partners, Second Avenue Partners resource and storage technologies. A transformational medical device company http://www.ninepointmedical.c Third Rock Ventures, Prospect Venture NinePoint Medical medical devices developing innovative, real-time, in vivo $33M Series A om/ Partners pathology devices. A platform that unlocks the untapped value inside BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, the massive amounts of unstructured audio and Sandbox Industries, HarbourVest Partners, Software, video, video content by making it searchable and Nexidia http://www.nexidia.com/ $23M Series F HIG Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Boston content enabling you to achieve competitive advantages, Millennia Partners, Morgan Stanley, Cordova operational efficiencies, and new business Ventures opportunities. medical Offers medical electronics solutions that integrate Carrot Medical http://www.carrotmedical.com/ $1.1M not disclosed electronics audio and visual data. Engages in the development and manufacture of North Bridge Venture Partners, Polaris 1366 Technologies http://www.1366tech.com/v2/ Semiconductor multi-crystalline silicon solar cells and light- $20M Series B Venture Partners, Hanwha Chemical capturing ribbons in the United States. Corporation, Ventizz Capital Fund IV An Israeli OTT (over-the-top) caching and content Oversi http://www.oversi.com/ Web, networks $4.9M Series C not disclosed delivery company. An international designer, manufacturer and Precision marketer of Foil Technology Products and Vishay Precision Group http://www.vishaypg.com/ measurment & $25M not disclosed Weighing Modules and Control Systems for a control wide variety of applications. Engages in the research and development of http://www.minnowmedical.co Minnow Medical medical devices medical device products for interventional $4.7M Neomed Management m/ cardiovascular procedures. © 2010 Exelon Partners All Rights Protected and Reserved As experts in electron microscopy and ultrafast Seed Attolight http://www.attolight.com/ Semiconductor spectroscopy, there scientific tools bring ultrafast $800K not disclosed Financing measurements to the nanoworld. A leading provider of mission-critical wireless data TeleCommunication http://www.telecomsys.com/ Mobile, wireless solutions to government customers, public safety, $3.3M U.S. Army Systems
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