Luisa Beltran
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Beltran is currently a reporter at Ignites, a unit of Money Media. She was also past senior writer at The Deal LLC Wall Street Correspondent at CBS MarketWatch M&A and IPO reporter at CNN/Money.
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Baird Closes Buy of Lionis Software
METI, a portfolio company of Baird Capital Partners, has closed its buy of Lionis Software LLC. The deal was announced June 16. METI is a provider of medical simulation technologies and educational software. Lionis, of Hungary, is known for WebSP, an audiovisual and center management system for healthcare education. Baird Capital is the U.
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Darby Sells Stake in TEBSA Power Plant
Darby Overseas Investments Ltd. said Friday that Darby Latin America Mezzanine Fund L. P. has sold its 28. 7% stake in Termobarranquilla S. A. (TEBSA), a modern gas fired power plant in Colombia. Darby sold 100% of the operating company GPUI Colombia Ltda. , which has the TEBSA OEM contract. Financial terms were not announced.
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Cleantech Venture Investments Hit $2.02 Billion
Clean technology venture investments in North America, Europe and China hit $2. 02 billion in second quarter, up 43% for the same time period in 2009, according to the Cleantech Group and Deloitte. Solar was the lead sector for investments with $811 million spread across 26 deals.
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Quadrant buys Media Monitors
Quadrant Private Equity has bought Media Monitors, which aggregates news from TV, radio and newspapers in the Asia Pacific region. Financial terms were not announced. Quadrant is a private equity firm in Australia.
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Eli Lilly to buy Alnara Pharma
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to buy Alnara Pharmaceuticals Inc. Financial terms were not announced. Alnara, of Cambridge, Mass. , is a biotechnology company that develops protein therapeutics for the treatment of metabolic diseases. Alnara has received investments from Third Rock Ventures, Frazier Healthcare, MPM Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Longwood Founders Fund.
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EQT Partners sells Aleris Holding
EQT Partners has sold Aleris Holding to Investor AB for SEK 4. 4 billion. EQT Partners, a private equity firm, said Aleris was sold through an auction process and received strong interest from both trade and financial buyers. Aleris is a pan-Scandinavian healthcare service operator. Investor AB, an industrial holding company, is part of the Wallenberg family.
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Eucalyptus Systems in $20 million Funding Round
Eucalyptus Systems Inc. has completed a $20 million round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates, a new investor. Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, current investors, also participated. Eucalyptus, of Santa Barbara, Calif. , creates open source cloud software and has raised $25. 5 million to date with two rounds of funding.
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Disney buys iPhone Game Maker Tapulous
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co said on Thursday it has acquired startup iPhone app developer Tapulous, as the company continues its push into mobile games.
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Yar-Ping Joins Adams Street Partners
Yar-Ping Soo has joined Adams Street Partners as a partner on its investment team. Yar-Ping was previously with GIC Special Investments, the private equity division of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Yar-Ping will be based in Singapore and focus on fund investments and co-investments in the Asia-Pacific region.
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GroupSpaces Receives $1.3 Investment Round
GroupSpaces has secured $1. 3 million investment round from Index Ventures and an angel investor consortium including Dave McClure, Chris Sacca, Simon Levene, Meagan Marks, Ariel Poler and Quincy Smith of CODE Advisors. Index Ventures partner, Mike Volpi, will take a board seat. GroupSpaces, of London, provides tools for groups and communities to manage and promote themselves online.
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