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Privately-held companies that raise capital are required to file a Form D with the SEC to declare exempt offering of securities. We created the map below using data from SEC Watch’s Research Platform for February Form D filings. Total values of investment are grouped by state and exclusive of pooled investment funds.
New York privately-owned tech companies were second behind California for raising the most funding as reported in Form-D’s in February. Coming in at just over $150 million, funding went to 16 companies. As a New York-based startup ourselves, we thought they deserved a shout out.
Most companies who received funding are web-based startups, and Instant Information, Inc. raised the most with just under $120 million. Instant Information owns InfoNgen, a real-time discovery engine for business, finance, and information professionals. Other New York companies receiving funding included Yodle, a local online advertising provider, Fynanz, a private student lending platform, Energy Hub, which produces cost-effective energy management tools, and Tunesat, which tracks the use of music on broadcast television.
Also on the list: WebCollage, Kaltura, AlmondNet, Cellufun, Kamida (owner of Socialight), Magnify, Women on the Net, Really Simple, and Iconology.
In light of Intel’s recent disclosure that they were the target of a cyber attack in January around the same time that Google was affected, we decided to see if this is a growing concern of companies.
We found that 9 companies used the phrase “cyber attack” in their 2009 disclosures, while 35 companies have already used this phrase in the first two months of 2010 - a marked increase.
While this search was by no means scientific, evidenced by Intel’s artful evasion of the term in their disclosure, it certainly says something. A recent 8-K from Google stated, ” Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis” and several 2010 filings we looked at reported a growing prevalence of attacks.
Privately-held companies that raise capital are required to file a Form D with the SEC to declare exempt offering of securities. We created the map below using data from SEC Watch’s Research Platform for January Form D filings. Total values of investment are grouped by state and exclusive of pooled investment funds.
Over $400 million of investments in January was reported in Form D filings for companies that primarily do business outside of the United States. Australia and Canada received the most investment, although investments in Canada were spread among the greatest number of companies. Out of the 53 Canadian companies that registered offerings, the majority were resource companies including oil, gas, and mining. Investments in Australia went to a mere three companies in health, technology, retail.
We plan to showcase interesting data from SEC filings here, such as private equity investment by state, insider trading graphs and social relationships, and interesting filings and tidbits.
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