Monthly Archives: August 2003

Dollar Retreats As Early Advance Stalls

NEW YORK (AP) – The dollar mostly retreated during New York trading Tuesday, declining against major rivals when an earlier advance failed to carry the greenback past key technical levels versus theeuro and yen. The euro had dipped to $1.1056, […]

Rinat Neuroscience Announces $40M in Funding; Leading Biotech Venture Firms Back Series B Round

PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 19, 2003–Rinat Neuroscience Corporation today announced that it has raised $40 million through a private placement of Series B Preferred Stock. The financing was led by MPM Capital with support from Schroder Ventures Life Sciences and […]

Rinat Neuroscience Announces $40M in Funding; Leading Biotech Venture Firms Back Series B Round

PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 19, 2003–Rinat Neuroscience Corporation today announced that it has raised $40 million through a private placement of Series B Preferred Stock. The financing was led by MPM Capital with support from Schroder Ventures Life Sciences and […]

Venturi Technology Partners Announces Vendor Management Contract Renewal with the State of Georgia

CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 19, 2003–Venturi Technology Partners today announced the renewal of its vendor management contract with the State of Georgia for an additional one-year term.Under this contract, Venturi Technology Partners manages the procurement of temporary information technology workers for […]

Rinat Neuroscience Announces $40M in Funding; Leading Biotech Venture Firms Back Series B Round

PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 19, 2003–Rinat Neuroscience Corporation today announced that it has raised $40 million through a private placement of Series B Preferred Stock. The financing was led by MPM Capital with support from Schroder Ventures Life Sciences and […]

Venturi Technology Partners Announces Vendor Management Contract Renewal with the State of Georgia

CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 19, 2003–Venturi Technology Partners today announced the renewal of its vendor management contract with the State of Georgia for an additional one-year term.Under this contract, Venturi Technology Partners manages the procurement of temporary information technology workers for […]

Lawsuit Against Cysive Dismissed

Cysive Inc. said yesterday that a judge has dismissed a shareholder class-action lawsuit that challenged a plan to sell the Reston software firm to its founder. The first of the shareholder lawsuits was filed briefly after the company announced on […]

Sacramento, Calif.-Based Capitol Commerce Mortgage Firm Closes Its Door

Aug. 19–Rising mortgage rates put a high-volume mortgage lender out of business. Capitol Commerce Mortgage Co., with headquarters in Sacramento and an office in Irvine, closed shop last Thursday due to losses on low-rate loans, according to company memos passed […]

Richmond, Va., Financial Adviser Helps Clients Simplify

Aug. 19–When Michael Joyce was 13, he inherited $300 from his uncle. By the time he went to college — the first in his family — he had invested the funds and doubled his money. Joyce has been interested in […]

HNC Software’s Former Boss Named CEO of San Diego’s Peregrine Systems

Aug. 19–Gary Greenfield, who took over as Peregrine Systems’ chief executive amid a financial scandal last year, was replaced yesterday by John Mutch, a Peregrine board member and former CEO at HNCSoftware. The change was one more sign that a […]

Strict Enforcement of Eligibility Rules May Cost High-Techs, Biotechs Grants

Aug. 19–A decision by federal officials to impose a strict interpretation on eligibility requirements for a key federal grant program could cost high-technology and biotechnology startups hundredsof millions of dollars in funding. The Small Business Innovation Research program, known as […]

VC market roars back as $86M raised in quarter

Paced by a pair of advanced-stage hightechnology businesses, Westchester’s venture capital market rebounded to the highest amounts of financing recorded since the economic skid put an end to therecords of the 1990s boom. Six Westchester companies received more than a […]