IVCA Newsletter January 18, 2012

Association News

IVCA Q&A: Ken Spain, VP of Public Affairs and Communications at the Private Equity Growth Capital Council looking forward to 2012
Happy New Year from the IVCA. With a new year comes new challenges and new issues for the private equity and venture capital industry. In upcoming publications, the IVCA newsletter will be prognosticating about the year 2012 through eyes of leading industry organizations and representatives. To kick off this series, we talked with Ken Spain, Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications at the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC).
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2011 Illinois Venture Capital Deal Activity exceeds 2010
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2011 Illinois Venture-backed Company Exits valued at over $1 Billion
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Illinois' Technology Development Account (TDA) Helps Create over 3,500 Jobs
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IVCA-PAC's 2011 member fundraising campaign coming to a successful close
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IVCA Events

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3/14/2012 IVCA Luncheon - TBD
5/2/2012 IVCA/NVCA Annual Luncheon
6/12/2012 IVCA Luncheon - TBD
9/6/2012 IVCA Luncheon - TBD
10/18/2012 12th Annual IVCA CFO Summit
11/13/2012 IVCA Luncheon - TBD
12/3/2012 11th Annual IVCA Awards Dinner

Other Events of Interest

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2/15/2012 2012 Kellogg Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference
2/22/2012 9th Annual McGuireWoods Healthcare & Life Sciences PE & Finance Conference
2/24/2012 11th Annual Chicago Booth Private Equity Conference
4/4/2012 InvestMidwest 2012
4/24/2012 NVCA 2012 Annual Meeting - Santa Clara, CA
5/6/2012 2012 Johns Hopkins University International ACG Conference
5/8/2012 2012 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium
6/22/2012 Chicago Tech Week

Industry News

Eved Raises $9.5M Led by New World Ventures and MK Capital
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Motorola Solutions Venture Capital Invests in Retailigence's $2.6 Million Funding Round
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BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Sandbox Industries participate in $9.3M funding of Change Healthcare
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IllinoisVENTURES Participates in Solar company Semprius $3M Funding
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GenomeDX Biosciences Secures Series A Financing Led By Baird Venture Partners And Aeris Capital
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Lightbank Backs Contently To Help Freelancers
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Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Telestream
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Motorola Solutions Invests in MicroPower Technologies
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GTCR sells health care company for $227.5 million
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JK&B Capital-Backed Splunk Files for $125M I.P.O.
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Prof. Steven Kaplan: How to Think about Private Equity
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Opinion A venture capitalist tells the truth about Romney, Bain and private equity
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Equity Office Properties Selects CBRE to Service 3.3 Million Sq. Ft. Office Portfolio in Chicago and Columbus, OH
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Sikich Investment Banking Leads Recapitalization of FiberLink, LLC
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained? New state-backed venture capital fund pushed in Wisconsin
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UI selected as site for AMD's first Fusion Center of Innovation
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Cressey & Company Announces Three Promotions
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Baird Capital Partners Adds Hodges As Operating Partner....
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Jeff Maters Promoted to Vice President at New World Ventures
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Built in Chicago Announces 1871 - Let's Build Something....
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Sterling Partners-Backed Livingston International to buy customs services unit of JPMorgan Chase....
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BCP Portfolio Company MedData Acquires MedDirect, Inc.....
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ARCH Venture-Funded Crystal IS Announces Merger with Asahi Kasei....
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Madison Dearborn Partners-Backed Fieldglass names new CFO....
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Chrysalis Ventures-Funded Connecture, Inc. Appoints New Chief Executive Officer....
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Veniti, BVP Portfolio Company, Names New COO....
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Prairie Capital-Backed Captek Hires Lisa Clark as VP of Business Development....
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Prairie Capital-Backed Navman Wireless Rolls Out Reporting Application....
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Apex-backed startup brings data analytics to the moving business....
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Motorola Solutions-Funded Airclic Recognized by Food Logistics Magazine for Enabling Grocery, Foodservice Distributors and Manufacturers to Realize Business Goals....
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Open Prairie Ventures' Infoblox Files S-1 Registration....
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Research, Resources and Statistics

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8/12/2011 Mayer Brown White Paper: Recent Amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, and the Related Impact to Private Investment Firms
7/15/2011 Mayer Brown Client Alert: US Securities and Exchange Commission Adopts New Exemptions for Investment Advisers
6/30/2011 Kirkland & Ellis Private Equity Newsletter on Dodd-Frank Update for Private Fund Managers
4/20/2011 Federal Agencies Propose Rules on Dodd-Frank Incentive Compensation Requirements for Financial Institutions
3/9/2011 March 9 Luncheon - Seeking Liquidity through Private Stock Marketplace (SecondMarket)
3/9/2011 March 9 Luncheon - Seeking Liquidity through Private Stock Marketplace (Divine Capital Markets)
2/22/2011 Kirkland & Ellis LLP - Version 2.0 of ILPA Private Equity Principles Reflects Change in Approach
2/15/2011 Kirkland & Ellis Private Equity Newsletter on Circular 698: Taxing Offshore Sales of Chinese Companies
2/15/2011 February 15 - Reed Smith Toolkit Webinar: Structuring of Executive Compensation Arrangements in the Private Equity Environment Today and Tomorrow
2/4/2011 Latham & Watkins Client Alert: Proposed Form PF Would Require Significant Additional SEC Reporting by Fund Sponsors

Jobs

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1/10/2012 CapX Partners:Associate
10/14/2011 Prospect Partners, LLC:DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
6/8/2011 Harris Bank:Asset Manager, Community Investments
3/14/2011 I2A Fund:I2A Fund II Managing Director