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News & Updates - Thursday, October 26, 2006

SourceFire Files $75M IPO And Other Fresh Deals

Investments
+ SAN DIEGO, CA Quorum Systems has raised $15M in Series C (CMOS RF transceivers)
+ VANCOUVER, CANADA Talent Technology has raised Cnd$17M (Human resources solutions)
+ ISRAEL Extricom has raised $12M in Series C led by Belden [NYSE: BDC] (WLAN infrastructure)
+ VANCOUVER, CANADA Layer 7 Technologies has raised US$8.7M in Series B (XML security and networking appliances)
+ LONDON, UK Mind Candy has raised $7M from new investor Accel Partners (Alternate reality games)
+ AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS eBuddy has raised €5M in Series A (Web-based messaging)
+ SAN DIEGO, CA Eyespot has raised $3.7M in Series A (Video applications)
+ KIRKLAND, WA GotVoice has raised $3M in 1st-round funding from Ignition Partners (Voice messaging)
+ NEW YORK, NY Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group and former MTVN digital head Jason Hirschhorn have invested in Stereogum.com (Music blog)

M&A
+ SAN FRANCISCO, CA CNET Acquires Art Culinaire (French Food Site)
+ SAN JOSE, CA Cisco [Nasdaq: CSCO] to acquire Orative for $31M. Orative had raised around $18M in VC funding. (Mobile software)

IPO
+ COLUMBIA, MD SourceFire has filed for a $75M IPO on the Nasdaq. SourceFire has raised around $64 million in VC funding from firms like Sierra Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Inflection Point Ventures, Core Capital Partners and Sequoia Capital. (Intrusion prevention and real-time network awareness
+GERMANY Delticom Raises €30.6M (Online tire retailer)

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