April 2010
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Introducing the SEC Watch Daily Brief
We created the SEC Watch Daily Brief to provide a snapshot for the days most important SEC Filings. This new daily publication is COMPLETELY FREE. In each issue you will find:
Latest Fortune 500 SEC Filings
Notable Insider Trading
IPO Registrations
Latest Quarterly Reports
Latest Proxy Statements
Form D Investments
and news straight from the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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March private equity investments
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March 2010
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Daily S-1 filing activity
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A quick look at investment in the healthcare...
A lot of money goes into the healthcare industry.
Given our fondness at SEC Watch for analyzing Form D data on private funding, we thought this would be an appropriate time to highlight healthcare-related investments in the past year. Out of 33 industry categories, 5 are related to the broader healthcare industry. Check out the numbers below for 2009, and for detailed information on each...
2009 Tech Rankings
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Top funded industries in 2009
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All VC/Private Investment for Feb '10 in Excel... →
Feel free to manipulate the data any way you see fit, check back for more updates!
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February Private Equity Investments
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.
February Form D Investments by State
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Impressive fundraising in the tech community -...
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...
February 2010
4 posts
Cyber attacks a hot topic in SEC filings
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...
January private investment in foreign companies
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...
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Private equity investment (VC's, angels, other)...
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.
January Form D Investments by State
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Welcome to the SEC Watch company blog
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.
If you have any suggestions on intersting blog posts gleaned from SEC filing data, please don’t hesitate to let us know
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