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12/13/2000: • Biolex Raises $6.5 Million; • MyDailyHealth Bought; • Adhesion Technologies Nets $15 Million; • INC Research Reels in $3 Million; • Level 8 Acquires StarQuest Software; • Digital to Acquire Swedish Mobitec; • CED Expands FastTrac Training; • DataFlux Partners With California-based Network Associates; • Poll Ranks Triangle and Triad Among Top "IT IQ" Regions in US
12/4/2000: • ViASIC, LiveWire Logic to Present Dec. 14th at STREAK; • CT Communications Acquires WebServe for $5.7 Million; • Incara Gets Equity Financing Facility Up To $18.9 Million; • MortgageRamp Gets $50 Million Second Round; • CP&L Completes Acquisition of Florida Progress; • Xanthon Gets DNA/RNA Patent; • Arsenal Digital Solutions, Peak 10 Ink Three-Year Deal; • Fusion Ventures Partners With Sprintec
11/27/2000: • VisionAIR Secures $24 Million Series D Round; • Scynexis Reels in $15 Million; • B2Bmalls.com Lands $1 Million Second Round; • Cree Buys Division of California-based Spectrian; • NCEITA Honors Companies at Annual Awards Ceremony; • TIBCO Extensibility Upgrades XML Technology; • Raleigh's CFG Ventures Helps Create Japan Venture Partners; • Relativity Inks $850,000 Deal with London-based Computer Sciences Corp.
11/20/2000: • Read This Month's Research Triangle Venture Update Online; • Salix Pharmaceutical Raises $14.1 Million; • Longleaf Venture Fund Closes $26 Million Venture Fund; • Quokka Closes Total Sports Acquisition; • Centura Capital Invests $850,000 in United Emergency Services; • Alphanumeric Launches Subsidiary NetCritical; • HiddenMind Adds Three Companies to Partnering Program; • SciQuest, CambridgeSoft.com Ink Partnership
11/13/2000: • Haht Commerce Files for $75 Million IPO; • TalkingNets Raises $20 Million Second Round; • TruePilot Partners with Lycos Ventures; • Raleigh's ProMedex Sold; • IBM to Offer Software for Linux; • Centennial Campus to Open US Patent Partnership Library to Serve Triangle Patent Growth; • This Month at EntreWorld: Building with Boards; • BuildNet, SciQuest Lay Off Employees
11/6/2000: • Home Director Reports $55 Million Round & Acquisition; • Mi-Co Reels in Additional $2 Million; • Overture Networks Raises $750K Seed Round; • Charlotte's Elogex Raises $6.2 Million Round; • Summus, High Speed Net Solutions Merge; • StartUpStreet.com, Business 2.0 and CED Join Forces for StartUpNow! Conference; • Paradigm Genetics 3rd Quarter Revenue Leaps by 829%; • Cree Announces 2-for-1 Stock Split; • State Universities Benefit from Recent N.C. Biotech Grants
10/30/2000: • FullSeven Nets $800,000 First Round; • Ziptronix Reels in $6.5 Million; • Arsenal Digital Solutions Acquires Filefrenzy; • BuildNet Withdraws $230 Million IPO; • 900 Attend CED's Research Triangle InfoTech 2000 on 10/27; • Pinpoint Inks Deal with Everypath and American Cancer Society; • How Stuff Works Lands Syndicate Contracts; • Electrifier Launches Rich Media Partnering Program; • Embrex Gets $270,000 2nd Phase of Grant
10/23/2000: • NetOctave Snags $15.6 Million; • Click Tactics Reels in $23 Million; • StemCo Raises $4 Million; • SAS Sells SouthPeak; • ChemCodes Receives $2 Million Grant for Technology Development; • Advertising Available in CED Directory & Resource Guide; • Alerts.com Partners with LocalBusiness.com; • Ericsson Awards Non-Profit Organizations
10/17/2000: • Pozen IPO at $15 Per Share; • Intersouth Partners Pledges to CED Endowment; • DJ Pharma Bought for $212 Million; • Redback Networks Opens RTP Office; • Paradigm Inks Deal with Agilent, Hits Milestone with Bayer; • SAS Signs Five-year Agreement with Amazon.com
10/9/2000: • NeoButler Snags $5 Million Second Round; • Sicel Gets Second Round Worth $3.5 Million; • Peopleclick Acquires Florida's Claybrooke & Associates; • Gadgetspace Reels in $5.5 Million; • Four Triangle Companies Selected for VentureOne Premiere Conference; • Imaginis, Siemens Launch New Women's Health Website; • Triangle Capital Venture Investments Total $555 Million for First Half of 2000, Up 48% Over 1999; • SciQuest to Meet Lower End of Third-Quarter Revenue Expectations; • EntreWorld Update: Does Gender Matter in Business?
10/4/2000: • Cree Invests $11.3 Million in California-based Xemod; • Brightpod Reels in $5 Million Round of Funding; • Start-up Keynetica Gets $1 Million; • Cary's Fiderus Committed $75 Million from Chicago Investor; • October Research Triangle Venture Update is Online Now; • Red Hat Launches Latest Version of Linux; • Pinpoint.com Inks Deal with Lycos; • ChapelHillAngels.com Launches, Plans to Help Student Ventures
9/25/2000: • The Atlantis Group Establishes $6 Million Fund for Startups; • Charlotte-based eFilter Reels in $3 Million Seed Round; • New York-based Indimi Acquires Raleigh's DailyRating.com; • WindWire Signs on Five Digital Advertisers; • Alerts.com to Provide Latest Presidential Poll Results on Gallup Site; • IEntertainment and Juno Join Forces; • Bell South Inks Deal with Home DirectorBell South Inks Deal with Home Director
9/5/2000: • Winston-Salem's Targacept Reels in $30.4 Million; • Ubi Soft Snatches up Red Storm Entertainment for $45 Million; • Publicly-Traded BCE Emergis Acquires InvoiceLink for $88.3 Million; • Charlotte's Consentsys Grabs $1.3 Million First Round; • RF Micro, Siebel and Cree Among Fastest Growing Companies in America; • Zoom Culture Partners with The Extreme Road Trip; • Merix Bioscience, Geron Team up on Cancer Therapy; • Chapel Hill Broadband Launches European Division
8/30/2000: • Nitronex Reels in $13 Million; • LoneSource Snares $1.5 Million Series A; • Industrial Microwave Systems Gets Series C Round of $7.5 Million; • Publicly Traded Varian Acquires RTP's VanKel Technologies Group; • Celotek Spins Off Research and Development Division NetOctave; • Paradigm Exceeds Second Milestone; • Alerts to Provide Services on Ford Motor Credit Website; • Technauts Lands Agreement with Intel
8/21/2000: • A4 Health Receives $25 Million to Complete Merger; • Inceutica.com Secures $4 Million First Round; • Pozen Sets $14 to $16 Target Price for IPO; • KOZ.com Merges with Internet Tradeline, Spins Off Ichat; • Arcot Systems Raises $21 Million; • Cogent Launches News Portal "Brain Waves"; • Kenan-Flagler Offers Pro Bono MBA Consulting Teams to Area Companies; • SciQuest.com Announces Deal with ChemWeb.com; • Shares of Red Hat Highly Traded After IBM Deal
8/14/2000: • Porivo Technologies Snags $2 Million; • Digital Optics Raises $35 Million; • GadgetSpace Expects $5 to $6 Million First Round; • Cary-based Ledgers USA Reels in $1.1 Million; • Register for Southeastern BIO Investor Forum; • Interpath Acquires Alta Internet Business Centres; • CareerCowboy Teams with New York's zREP; • HowStuffWorks.com Ranked Among Nation's Top 500 Sites
8/7/2000: • Alerts.com Secures $14 Million Second Round; • RTP's OptXCon Nets $1 Million Seed Funding; • TIBCO Software Buys XML Leader Extensibility for $100 Million; • Cylink Buys MCNC Spin-off Celotek For $21.5 Million; • Inspire Pharmaceuticals Opens Trading of its IPO; • Broadband Player Hatteras Networks Reels in $14 Million Series A; • DigitalESP Snags $3.5 Million from Swedish Firm Lingfield AB; • Red Hat Partners With Mobile-Phone Maker Ericsson; • Imaginis Honored at 2000 WWW Health Awards; • SciQuest.com Inks Agreement with Genzyme Corporation; • eVentureWorld Summit Coming Oct. 15-17 For Early, Mid-Stage Companies
7/31/2000: • Deadlines Approaching for NCHICA's 6th Annual e-Health Conference; • Southeastern BIO Investor Forum 2000 Coming to the Triangle October 2-3; • Chapel Hill Broadband Inks Partnership with Utah-based Bandwith.com; • Paradigm Reaches Milestone with Gene Function Discovery Process; • Alerts.com Lands Financial News Leader CBS Marketwatch as a Client; • AlphaVax Gets $11 Million to Boost Research and Development; • Software Maker Zingbill Secures $1.4 Million Private Placement; • Sustainable Jobs Fund Leads $1 Million Investment in Child Care Provider; • Charlotte's First Union Capital Partners Leads $80 Million Investment in Agilera; • TeamTalk.com Buys Charlotte's Internetsoccer.com for $15 Million
7/24/2000: • Southeastern BIO Investor Forum 2000 to be held in Triangle, October 2-3, 2000; • New Name For Raleigh's Haht; • Duke MBA Students Consult Area Small Businesses; • Quokka Sports Acquires Total Sports; • BOPS Reels in $40 Million Second Round; • Cisco Invests Undisclosed Amount in IBM Spin-off Home Director; • Chapel Hill's Zoom Culture Receives $5.4 Million Funding; • Online Advertising Firm Interadnet Nets Funding Worth $15 Million; • Charlotte's First Union Securities Helps BrightLane Secure $15 Million; • $1 Million Funding Goes to Prepaid Wireless Provider Equitel
7/17/2000: • Healthcare Entrepreneurs Roundtable Kicks Off July 20; • Phuel Completes Mobile Phone Project, Wins Contract with Ericsson; • Former SAS Executive Joyner Joins SciQuest.com's New Division; • AwayMed's Deal With Tachyon Signals Revamped Business Strategy; • Greensboro's Network Systems Raises $1 Million; • Interpath Closes $100 Million Equity Infusion; • XBond Taps Investors for $3.25 Million In New Funds; • Metagenix Reels In $1.6 Million First Round; • Rainey Joins Intersouth as New Venture Partner
7/10/2000: • Healthcare Entrepreneurs Roundtable Kicks Off July 20; • Nine Carolina Business Leaders Win Entrepreneur of the Year Honors; • BuildNet Inks Agreement with Highland Homes; • WindWire Launches Wireless Ad Network, Forms Partnerships; • STREAK Participant BenefitRates.com Gets Seed Funding Worth $600,000; • $15 Million Funding Goes to Morrisville's Engineous Software; • Peopleclick.com Receives $16 Million for Expansion Purposes; • RTP's Aurora Funds Invests $1 Million in Alabama's Emageon; • Paradigm Genetics Named CNBC's Pick of the Week; •
7/3/2000: • CED Honors 16 Entrepreneurs and Companies at Annual Excellence Awards; • Investors: Register Now for Springboard 2000, July 11-12; • Technauts Lands Its Largest Business Deal with Hitachi; • Four N.C. Companies Receive Governor's New Product Awards; • Global Prime Technologies Reels in $2.5 Million First Round; • Southeast Interactive Leads $13 Million Funding for Atlanta's AllConnect.com; • SRC Dishes Out $5.84 Million for Research Purposes; • APB Energy Acquires Chapel Hill Brokers for Undisclosed Amount; • Burlington's LabCorp Purchases National Genetics Institute
6/19/2000: • Join in the Fun at CED's Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards and Sunset Carnival; • JDS Uniphase Buys RTP Facility to Expand Cronos' Operations; • Blue292, Versar Ink E-Marketplace Agreement; • N.C. State, 12 Companies Join Forces in E-Commerce Alliance; • Red Hat Acquires Alabama-based WireSpeed for $33 Million in Stock; • SAS Acquires Software Company DataFlux for Undisclosed Amount; • HiddenMind Technology Gets $50 Million in Financing Commitments; • Charlotte's VideoGate.com Brings in $4 Million Equity Funding; • Southeast Bank BB&T Completes $112 Million Acquisition of Hardwick; • Internet Commerce Corp. Purchases Research Triangle Commerce for $42 Million
6/12/2000: • Investors: Register Now for Springboard 2000, July 11-12; • The Business Journal to Award Local Businesswomen; • Biogen's Plan to Expand RTP Nearing Completion; • SAS Institute Grants $3 Million to UNC System; • Red Hat, Greylock Pour $3 Million Into Software Company E-smith; • Microcosm Acquires Coyote Systems For Unnamed Sum; • IBM Launches New E-Marketplace With More Than $200 Million in Funding; • Communications Firm BTI Buys Max Commerce for $3 Million; • SourceAlliance Announces Partners in $25 Million Equity Investment; • Information Architects Secures $11.6 Million in Equity Financing
6/5/2000: • KPMG, Business North Carolina magazine to Recognize High-Tech Companies; • Southeastern BIO Investors Forum Accepting Applications; • Microchip Provider RF Micro Expands Overseas; • LendingTree Adds LoansDirect to its Marketplace; • ePlaced.com, Web-based Recruiter Receives $2.5 Million to Expand; • InterLan Reels in $1.5 Million in Equity Financing; • Tri-State Investment Group Begins Fourth Funding Campaign; • Lucent Acquires Chromatis Networks For Nearly $4.65 Billion; • Additional Shares of Paradigm Genetics Bought
5/30/2000: • Investors: Register Now for Springboard 2000, July 11-12; • Former AuctionRover Duo Launches DailyRating.com; • ePlaced.com, Web-based Recruiter Receives $2.5 Million to Expand; • Raleigh Technology Gets $500,000 in Funds; • Highwoods Properties' Stock, Expectations Rise; • Healtheon/WebMD, Quintiles Nearing End of Envoy Deal; • NeoButler Inks Deals with Three Internet Service Providers; • Bank of America, BroadVision to Develop Intranet Services Venture; • Interpath Finalizes Agreement with DNI
5/22/2000: • Bayer Corporation - Platinum Sponsor of Biotech 2000; • CED Membership Benefits Now Include Capital Growth Interactive; • Fast 50 Seeks Nominations: Deadline July 21; • Paradigm Exceeds Milestone in its Agreement with Monsanto; • OpenSite Sold for $542 Million; • Total Sports Delays IPO; • Karo Bio AB Private Placement Raises $23M; • Carolina BroadBand Raises $402 Million to Build Network
5/15/2000: • Venture2000 Draws 1200 to Triangle; • Osprey and Haht Aim at B2B Exchanges; • S1 to Market LendingTree's Technology; • Intersouth Partners Raises $175 Million Fund, Its Fifth; • HowStuffWorks.com Gets $4.5 Million in Funding; • Red Hat Forms Venture Division; • Verian Receives $13 Million; • Usendit.com Closes on $5 Million; • LastFoot.com and TreLOS merge in Stock Trade
5/8/2000: • CED Membership Benefits Now Include The Gibson Report; • Nominate Your Favorite Entrepreneur for CED's Annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards; • Extensibility Teams with SoftQuad in Marketing Partnership; • Piedmont Ventures Plans to Raise $50 Million in New Investments; • SoDeog Raises $5 Million; • Interpath Gets $100 Million from CP&L and Bain; • OpenSite Inks Deal with CNET; • LabCorp to Acquire Pathology Medical Laboratories
5/1/2000: • SciQuest Gains Glaxo Wellcome as New Customer; • IBM to Pre-load Red Hat Linux on Netfinity; • MindLever.com Used as a Teaching Tool; • Koz.com Opens Boston Office; Grows Staff; • Xanthon Leases Manufacturing Facility at Park Research Center; • Nominate Your Favorite Entrepreneur for CED's Annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards; • Haht Software Raises $25 Million; • Charles & Colvard Raise Capital; • Sustainable Jobs Fund Conducts Final Closing at $17 Million; • Triangle Company Funding Increases by 417% in 1999
4/24/2000: • LIPSinc Signs Agreement with Electronic Art; • Red Hat Unveils Its Open Source Marketplace; • PharmaNetics to Develop Test for Aventis; • Celotek and RCT Partner to Secure Mission-Critical ATM Networks; • OpenSite Acquired by Siebel Systems for $444 Million in Stock; • The Aurora Funds Closes on $52 Million Fund; • Draper Atlantic to Start $300 Million Second Fund; • Red Hat to Buy Bluecurve; • TRC Acquires Triangle Environmental; • LabCorp Acquires Clinical Testing Assets of Bio-Diagnostics
4/17/2000: • Blue292 Signs General Motors for Pilot Project; • Celotek Announces Alcatraz ASIC; • Alerts.com Adding Consumer Services Division; • Red Storm Entertainment Links up with Zombie Studios; • Cree Buys Nitres for 1.5 Million Shares; • SpectraSite Establishes Presence in Europe; • Xanthon Gets $12 Million to Launch First Product; • Tavve Software Raises $10 Million in Second Round; • Accleron Partners and eDesignerSource Form Partnership
4/12/2000: • Pinpoint.com Pioneers Wireless Search Engine; • AuctionRover.com Launches B2BRover.com; • Professor Howard Aldrich Receives Entrepreneurship Award; • Inceutica.com Launches Drug Development Marketplace; • WomenGamers.Com Featured in Entertainment Weekly; • LIPSinc. Releases Mimic 1.0; • Paul Mayer Pledges Shares to CED Endowment; • Cronos Acquired by JD Uniphase for $750 Million; • Cogent Receives $15 Million Additional Capital; • OpenSite, Air2Web Developing Wireless Auctions; • North Carolina Enterprise Corp. Scores $150 Million on Orologic Investment; • Incara Pharmaceuticals Acquires Rest of Subsidiaries; • ITParade.com Gets Financing, Names Stealey Chairman; • LendingTree, PrimeStreet form Alliance
4/3/2000: • Finding Extra Summer Help Simple with Entrepreneurial Scholars Program; • Cronos Receives Product of the Year Award; • StartUpStreet.com Names CEO; • Incara Pharmaceuticals to Win Patent; • InvoiceLink Receives Patent on Payment System; • Orologic Acquired by Vitesse Semiconductor for $450 Million; • Novalon Pharmaceuticals Acquired by Karo Bio for $106.7 Million; • Dialog Corporation's Cary Unit Sold to Thomson Corporation for $275 Million; • BioStratum Raises $28 Million in Financing; • ICAgen, Yamanouchi Collaborate on Drug Development; • Glenayre Inks $3.5 Million Deal with Bell Mobility
3/27/2000: • Women Entrepreneurs: Springboard 2000 Venture Forums Taking Off; • AwayMed Names Ex-Aetna Exec as President and CEO; • IEntertainment Partners with OpenSRS, Inside Mac Games; • Alerts.com Named Company to Watch by Robertson Stephens; • AuctionRover.com Signs Go2Net & Fashionwindow.com; • Analytical Sciences Wins $5.4 Million National Cancer Institute Contract; • BuildNet Files for $230 Million IPO; • Pinpoint.com Raises $5 Million in Venture Financing; • Microcosm Technologies Nabs $20 Million in Financing; • Performaworks Gets $6 Million Additional Venture Capital; • ViOS Receives $5.2 Million in Venture Capital; • Cree Receives Additional $10 Million from Microvision; • Triangle Pharmaceuticals Gets $15 Million to Fund New Company; • TriVirix Raises $3.5 Million; • ProMedex Merging with Illinois Firm InLight; • Southeast Interactive Invests in Travelago.com, Incubator
3/20/2000: • Search is on for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year®; • AwayMed Adds Two New Board Members; • Major Pharmaceutical Companies Join Quintiles in Testing; • IEntertainment Tackles the Mac Market; • Access Point Gets $25 Million Investment; • SciQuest.com to Acquire Emax for $150 Million in Stock; • Environmental Connections Gets $17 Million and Changes Name; • A4 Health Systems and Nine Rivers Merge; • Engineous Software Closes $11 Million in Financing; • Sustainable Jobs Fund Reaches $14.5 Million; • Clarkston-Potomac Acquires Consulting and Integration Firm
3/13/2000: • NextAudio to Launch MyRadio.com; • Red Hat Hires New CFO; • Kauffman Gathering of Entrepreneurs May 4-6; • UNC Gets $171.3 Million from NIH for Research; • Pharmanetics Purchases Patents, Gets FDA Approval; • AuctionRover.com Bought for $166.1 Million in Stock; • AlphaVax Raises $8.2 Million; • Clarkston-Potomac Raises $15 Million; • BuildNet Seals to Acquire NxTrend; • MindLever Gets Exposure, Money from Microsoft; • AwayMed.com Signs Distribution Agreement
3/6/2000: • March EntreWorld Perspectives: Keys to Creating Success; • BOPS Appoints Former ARM Exec as CEO; • KOZ.com Adds Affiliates, Teams Up With AdForce; • PharmaNetics Signs Pact With Bayer, Raises $12 Million; • Inspire Pharmaceuticals Files for IPO; • Egarden.com Closes on $5 Million Private Placement; • Smart Online Acquires Assets2Auction.com; • PlanetPortal Signs Agreements With Chicony Electronics, Googlegear; • Medco Merger Gets O.K.; • Net32 Get Publishing Rights, Equity Investment from PennWell
2/28/2000: • EnSolve Gets Coast Guard OK; • DataFlux, BOPS, TaskPoint.com and Learning Machines Founders Pledge CED Endowment; • D&T Accepting Applications for 2000 N.C. Technology Fast 50; • NetGift Registry Shifts Strategy; • StartUpStreet.com Launches "Lunch with Leaders" Contest; • Southeast Interactive Technology Closes $135 Million Fund; • Paradigm Genetics Files for IPO; • ArgoMed Raises Additional $4 Million; • Red Hat and RealNetworks Ink Deal
2/21/2000: • Duke to Hold High Tech Recruiting Event; • CED Calendar Now Features Topic and Event Filters; • SciQuest.com Adds Monsanto to Growing List of Agreements; • PlanetPortal.com Names Jack Kemp, EarthLink VP to Board; • Red Hat Opens New European Offices; • OpenSite Powers QVC Auction Site; • United Therapeutics Prepares to Distribute Drug; • Lending Tree Goes Public; • NTouch Lands $8 Million in Financing; • AmpliStar Gets $2.6 Million From Eno River Capital; • Thinksource Secures Angel Investment Funding
2/14/2000: • BOPS Releases Software Development Kit; • Red Storm Wins Major Gaming Awards; • Sapiens Implements Euro Transition Projects, Acquires IMA; • StartUpStreet.com Teams with Arthur Andersen; • Alternate Access Opens ExecuTech Suites; • Digital Recorders 1999 Sales up 57 Percent; • Vision Software Signs More Than $1 Million in Contracts; • News & Observer to Publish Top Tech 100; • Triangle Entrepreneurs Eligible for $100,000 Award; • Red Herring's Venture Market South Almost Here; • CED Members Receive Discounts at Employee Ownership Conference; • Intronn and OpenVertical Selected as 2/24 STREAK Presenters; • Eduprise.com Gets $18 Million in Financing; • MDeverywhere Draws $11 Million in Venture Capital; • Osprey Secures $5 Million in Second Round; • OpenSite Gets Ready for its IPO, Moves to Acquire Bidder's Edge; • iEntertainment Buys InfoMedia; • WebslingerZ and Lloyd & Company Create Acceleron Partners; • Nitronex Gets Capital and New Facility; • Porivo Technologies Secures Seed Funding
2/7/2000: • SciQuest.com Revenue Exceeds Expectations; • Red Hat Targets the Embedded Market; • Triangle Pharmaceuticals' Drug Gets Strong Pilot Study Results; • Electrifier to Introduce Online Shopping Initiative; • Glenayre Reports $4 Million in Jamaican Orders; • BuildNet Acquires UniLink; • OpenSite to Power Work.com Auctions; • Extensibility and Commerce One Enter Technology Partnership; • Summus Teams up With BuyItNow.com; • Quintiles Authorizes Stock Buyback
1/31/2000: • SciQuest.com Joins Commerce One Trade Zone; • iEntertainment Launches 10 New Games; • Microcosm and Cronos Offer MEMS Design Kit; • Sapiens Names New CEO; • Smart Online Adds Small Business Auction Service; • Paradigm Genetics Collaborates with Monsanto; • Inspire Hires Former Glaxo Scientist; • Red Hat and Computer Associates Team Up; • Quintiles Steps into the B2B Market
1/24/2000: • Ganymede Software Wins Award; • Medic Partners with WebMD; • SmartOnline.com among Top Five Online Business Centers; • PharmaNetics Gets FDA Clearance; • Shook Writes Guide for Business Leaders; • AwayMed Names Charles Sanders as New Board Member; • InteCardia Gets $16.5 Million in Loans; • BuildNet Adds Pulte to Client List; • Cisco Acquires Two Companies; • Paradigm Links Up With German Software Company
1/17/2000: • SciQuest.com Signs Merck; • Red Storm Quadruples Annual Revenue; • AuctionRover.com Powers Part of Go2Net; • Relativity Technologies CEO Named One of Forbes.com's "Leaders of Tomorrow"; • Red Hat, Inc. Acquires Two Companies; • Extensibility Goes Global with Software AG; • Xanthon Signs Deal with Oxford Venture Finance; • ProMedex Strikes Two Deals to Grow On
1/10/2000: • Red Hat expands beyond Linux; • Novalon Forges Alliance with Novartis; • HiddenMind and Glenayre Form Alliance; • PlanetPortal.com Teams Up With Top Internet Merchants; • BuildNet Breaks Record with $104.7 Million Round; • Saffron Technology Secures $2.3 Million
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12/13/2000: • Biolex Raises $6.5 Million; • MyDailyHealth Bought; • Adhesion Technologies Nets $15 Million; • INC Research Reels in $3 Million; • Level 8 Acquires StarQuest Software; • Digital to Acquire Swedish Mobitec; • CED Expands FastTrac Training; • DataFlux Partners With California-based Network Associates; • Poll Ranks Triangle and Triad Among Top "IT IQ" Regions in US
12/4/2000: • ViASIC, LiveWire Logic to Present Dec. 14th at STREAK; • CT Communications Acquires WebServe for $5.7 Million; • Incara Gets Equity Financing Facility Up To $18.9 Million; • MortgageRamp Gets $50 Million Second Round; • CP&L Completes Acquisition of Florida Progress; • Xanthon Gets DNA/RNA Patent; • Arsenal Digital Solutions, Peak 10 Ink Three-Year Deal; • Fusion Ventures Partners With Sprintec
11/27/2000: • VisionAIR Secures $24 Million Series D Round; • Scynexis Reels in $15 Million; • B2Bmalls.com Lands $1 Million Second Round; • Cree Buys Division of California-based Spectrian; • NCEITA Honors Companies at Annual Awards Ceremony; • TIBCO Extensibility Upgrades XML Technology; • Raleigh's CFG Ventures Helps Create Japan Venture Partners; • Relativity Inks $850,000 Deal with London-based Computer Sciences Corp.
11/20/2000: • Read This Month's Research Triangle Venture Update Online; • Salix Pharmaceutical Raises $14.1 Million; • Longleaf Venture Fund Closes $26 Million Venture Fund; • Quokka Closes Total Sports Acquisition; • Centura Capital Invests $850,000 in United Emergency Services; • Alphanumeric Launches Subsidiary NetCritical; • HiddenMind Adds Three Companies to Partnering Program; • SciQuest, CambridgeSoft.com Ink Partnership
11/13/2000: • Haht Commerce Files for $75 Million IPO; • TalkingNets Raises $20 Million Second Round; • TruePilot Partners with Lycos Ventures; • Raleigh's ProMedex Sold; • IBM to Offer Software for Linux; • Centennial Campus to Open US Patent Partnership Library to Serve Triangle Patent Growth; • This Month at EntreWorld: Building with Boards; • BuildNet, SciQuest Lay Off Employees
11/6/2000: • Home Director Reports $55 Million Round & Acquisition; • Mi-Co Reels in Additional $2 Million; • Overture Networks Raises $750K Seed Round; • Charlotte's Elogex Raises $6.2 Million Round; • Summus, High Speed Net Solutions Merge; • StartUpStreet.com, Business 2.0 and CED Join Forces for StartUpNow! Conference; • Paradigm Genetics 3rd Quarter Revenue Leaps by 829%; • Cree Announces 2-for-1 Stock Split; • State Universities Benefit from Recent N.C. Biotech Grants
10/30/2000: • FullSeven Nets $800,000 First Round; • Ziptronix Reels in $6.5 Million; • Arsenal Digital Solutions Acquires Filefrenzy; • BuildNet Withdraws $230 Million IPO; • 900 Attend CED's Research Triangle InfoTech 2000 on 10/27; • Pinpoint Inks Deal with Everypath and American Cancer Society; • How Stuff Works Lands Syndicate Contracts; • Electrifier Launches Rich Media Partnering Program; • Embrex Gets $270,000 2nd Phase of Grant
10/23/2000: • NetOctave Snags $15.6 Million; • Click Tactics Reels in $23 Million; • StemCo Raises $4 Million; • SAS Sells SouthPeak; • ChemCodes Receives $2 Million Grant for Technology Development; • Advertising Available in CED Directory & Resource Guide; • Alerts.com Partners with LocalBusiness.com; • Ericsson Awards Non-Profit Organizations
10/17/2000: • Pozen IPO at $15 Per Share; • Intersouth Partners Pledges to CED Endowment; • DJ Pharma Bought for $212 Million; • Redback Networks Opens RTP Office; • Paradigm Inks Deal with Agilent, Hits Milestone with Bayer; • SAS Signs Five-year Agreement with Amazon.com
10/9/2000: • NeoButler Snags $5 Million Second Round; • Sicel Gets Second Round Worth $3.5 Million; • Peopleclick Acquires Florida's Claybrooke & Associates; • Gadgetspace Reels in $5.5 Million; • Four Triangle Companies Selected for VentureOne Premiere Conference; • Imaginis, Siemens Launch New Women's Health Website; • Triangle Capital Venture Investments Total $555 Million for First Half of 2000, Up 48% Over 1999; • SciQuest to Meet Lower End of Third-Quarter Revenue Expectations; • EntreWorld Update: Does Gender Matter in Business?
10/4/2000: • Cree Invests $11.3 Million in California-based Xemod; • Brightpod Reels in $5 Million Round of Funding; • Start-up Keynetica Gets $1 Million; • Cary's Fiderus Committed $75 Million from Chicago Investor; • October Research Triangle Venture Update is Online Now; • Red Hat Launches Latest Version of Linux; • Pinpoint.com Inks Deal with Lycos; • ChapelHillAngels.com Launches, Plans to Help Student Ventures
9/25/2000: • The Atlantis Group Establishes $6 Million Fund for Startups; • Charlotte-based eFilter Reels in $3 Million Seed Round; • New York-based Indimi Acquires Raleigh's DailyRating.com; • WindWire Signs on Five Digital Advertisers; • Alerts.com to Provide Latest Presidential Poll Results on Gallup Site; • IEntertainment and Juno Join Forces; • Bell South Inks Deal with Home DirectorBell South Inks Deal with Home Director
9/5/2000: • Winston-Salem's Targacept Reels in $30.4 Million; • Ubi Soft Snatches up Red Storm Entertainment for $45 Million; • Publicly-Traded BCE Emergis Acquires InvoiceLink for $88.3 Million; • Charlotte's Consentsys Grabs $1.3 Million First Round; • RF Micro, Siebel and Cree Among Fastest Growing Companies in America; • Zoom Culture Partners with The Extreme Road Trip; • Merix Bioscience, Geron Team up on Cancer Therapy; • Chapel Hill Broadband Launches European Division
8/30/2000: • Nitronex Reels in $13 Million; • LoneSource Snares $1.5 Million Series A; • Industrial Microwave Systems Gets Series C Round of $7.5 Million; • Publicly Traded Varian Acquires RTP's VanKel Technologies Group; • Celotek Spins Off Research and Development Division NetOctave; • Paradigm Exceeds Second Milestone; • Alerts to Provide Services on Ford Motor Credit Website; • Technauts Lands Agreement with Intel
8/21/2000: • A4 Health Receives $25 Million to Complete Merger; • Inceutica.com Secures $4 Million First Round; • Pozen Sets $14 to $16 Target Price for IPO; • KOZ.com Merges with Internet Tradeline, Spins Off Ichat; • Arcot Systems Raises $21 Million; • Cogent Launches News Portal "Brain Waves"; • Kenan-Flagler Offers Pro Bono MBA Consulting Teams to Area Companies; • SciQuest.com Announces Deal with ChemWeb.com; • Shares of Red Hat Highly Traded After IBM Deal
8/14/2000: • Porivo Technologies Snags $2 Million; • Digital Optics Raises $35 Million; • GadgetSpace Expects $5 to $6 Million First Round; • Cary-based Ledgers USA Reels in $1.1 Million; • Register for Southeastern BIO Investor Forum; • Interpath Acquires Alta Internet Business Centres; • CareerCowboy Teams with New York's zREP; • HowStuffWorks.com Ranked Among Nation's Top 500 Sites
8/7/2000: • Alerts.com Secures $14 Million Second Round; • RTP's OptXCon Nets $1 Million Seed Funding; • TIBCO Software Buys XML Leader Extensibility for $100 Million; • Cylink Buys MCNC Spin-off Celotek For $21.5 Million; • Inspire Pharmaceuticals Opens Trading of its IPO; • Broadband Player Hatteras Networks Reels in $14 Million Series A; • DigitalESP Snags $3.5 Million from Swedish Firm Lingfield AB; • Red Hat Partners With Mobile-Phone Maker Ericsson; • Imaginis Honored at 2000 WWW Health Awards; • SciQuest.com Inks Agreement with Genzyme Corporation; • eVentureWorld Summit Coming Oct. 15-17 For Early, Mid-Stage Companies
7/31/2000: • Deadlines Approaching for NCHICA's 6th Annual e-Health Conference; • Southeastern BIO Investor Forum 2000 Coming to the Triangle October 2-3; • Chapel Hill Broadband Inks Partnership with Utah-based Bandwith.com; • Paradigm Reaches Milestone with Gene Function Discovery Process; • Alerts.com Lands Financial News Leader CBS Marketwatch as a Client; • AlphaVax Gets $11 Million to Boost Research and Development; • Software Maker Zingbill Secures $1.4 Million Private Placement; • Sustainable Jobs Fund Leads $1 Million Investment in Child Care Provider; • Charlotte's First Union Capital Partners Leads $80 Million Investment in Agilera; • TeamTalk.com Buys Charlotte's Internetsoccer.com for $15 Million
7/24/2000: • Southeastern BIO Investor Forum 2000 to be held in Triangle, October 2-3, 2000; • New Name For Raleigh's Haht; • Duke MBA Students Consult Area Small Businesses; • Quokka Sports Acquires Total Sports; • BOPS Reels in $40 Million Second Round; • Cisco Invests Undisclosed Amount in IBM Spin-off Home Director; • Chapel Hill's Zoom Culture Receives $5.4 Million Funding; • Online Advertising Firm Interadnet Nets Funding Worth $15 Million; • Charlotte's First Union Securities Helps BrightLane Secure $15 Million; • $1 Million Funding Goes to Prepaid Wireless Provider Equitel
7/17/2000: • Healthcare Entrepreneurs Roundtable Kicks Off July 20; • Phuel Completes Mobile Phone Project, Wins Contract with Ericsson; • Former SAS Executive Joyner Joins SciQuest.com's New Division; • AwayMed's Deal With Tachyon Signals Revamped Business Strategy; • Greensboro's Network Systems Raises $1 Million; • Interpath Closes $100 Million Equity Infusion; • XBond Taps Investors for $3.25 Million In New Funds; • Metagenix Reels In $1.6 Million First Round; • Rainey Joins Intersouth as New Venture Partner
7/10/2000: • Healthcare Entrepreneurs Roundtable Kicks Off July 20; • Nine Carolina Business Leaders Win Entrepreneur of the Year Honors; • BuildNet Inks Agreement with Highland Homes; • WindWire Launches Wireless Ad Network, Forms Partnerships; • STREAK Participant BenefitRates.com Gets Seed Funding Worth $600,000; • $15 Million Funding Goes to Morrisville's Engineous Software; • Peopleclick.com Receives $16 Million for Expansion Purposes; • RTP's Aurora Funds Invests $1 Million in Alabama's Emageon; • Paradigm Genetics Named CNBC's Pick of the Week; •
7/3/2000: • CED Honors 16 Entrepreneurs and Companies at Annual Excellence Awards; • Investors: Register Now for Springboard 2000, July 11-12; • Technauts Lands Its Largest Business Deal with Hitachi; • Four N.C. Companies Receive Governor's New Product Awards; • Global Prime Technologies Reels in $2.5 Million First Round; • Southeast Interactive Leads $13 Million Funding for Atlanta's AllConnect.com; • SRC Dishes Out $5.84 Million for Research Purposes; • APB Energy Acquires Chapel Hill Brokers for Undisclosed Amount; • Burlington's LabCorp Purchases National Genetics Institute
6/19/2000: • Join in the Fun at CED's Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards and Sunset Carnival; • JDS Uniphase Buys RTP Facility to Expand Cronos' Operations; • Blue292, Versar Ink E-Marketplace Agreement; • N.C. State, 12 Companies Join Forces in E-Commerce Alliance; • Red Hat Acquires Alabama-based WireSpeed for $33 Million in Stock; • SAS Acquires Software Company DataFlux for Undisclosed Amount; • HiddenMind Technology Gets $50 Million in Financing Commitments; • Charlotte's VideoGate.com Brings in $4 Million Equity Funding; • Southeast Bank BB&T Completes $112 Million Acquisition of Hardwick; • Internet Commerce Corp. Purchases Research Triangle Commerce for $42 Million
6/12/2000: • Investors: Register Now for Springboard 2000, July 11-12; • The Business Journal to Award Local Businesswomen; • Biogen's Plan to Expand RTP Nearing Completion; • SAS Institute Grants $3 Million to UNC System; • Red Hat, Greylock Pour $3 Million Into Software Company E-smith; • Microcosm Acquires Coyote Systems For Unnamed Sum; • IBM Launches New E-Marketplace With More Than $200 Million in Funding; • Communications Firm BTI Buys Max Commerce for $3 Million; • SourceAlliance Announces Partners in $25 Million Equity Investment; • Information Architects Secures $11.6 Million in Equity Financing
6/5/2000: • KPMG, Business North Carolina magazine to Recognize High-Tech Companies; • Southeastern BIO Investors Forum Accepting Applications; • Microchip Provider RF Micro Expands Overseas; • LendingTree Adds LoansDirect to its Marketplace; • ePlaced.com, Web-based Recruiter Receives $2.5 Million to Expand; • InterLan Reels in $1.5 Million in Equity Financing; • Tri-State Investment Group Begins Fourth Funding Campaign; • Lucent Acquires Chromatis Networks For Nearly $4.65 Billion; • Additional Shares of Paradigm Genetics Bought
5/30/2000: • Investors: Register Now for Springboard 2000, July 11-12; • Former AuctionRover Duo Launches DailyRating.com; • ePlaced.com, Web-based Recruiter Receives $2.5 Million to Expand; • Raleigh Technology Gets $500,000 in Funds; • Highwoods Properties' Stock, Expectations Rise; • Healtheon/WebMD, Quintiles Nearing End of Envoy Deal; • NeoButler Inks Deals with Three Internet Service Providers; • Bank of America, BroadVision to Develop Intranet Services Venture; • Interpath Finalizes Agreement with DNI
5/22/2000: • Bayer Corporation - Platinum Sponsor of Biotech 2000; • CED Membership Benefits Now Include Capital Growth Interactive; • Fast 50 Seeks Nominations: Deadline July 21; • Paradigm Exceeds Milestone in its Agreement with Monsanto; • OpenSite Sold for $542 Million; • Total Sports Delays IPO; • Karo Bio AB Private Placement Raises $23M; • Carolina BroadBand Raises $402 Million to Build Network
5/15/2000: • Venture2000 Draws 1200 to Triangle; • Osprey and Haht Aim at B2B Exchanges; • S1 to Market LendingTree's Technology; • Intersouth Partners Raises $175 Million Fund, Its Fifth; • HowStuffWorks.com Gets $4.5 Million in Funding; • Red Hat Forms Venture Division; • Verian Receives $13 Million; • Usendit.com Closes on $5 Million; • LastFoot.com and TreLOS merge in Stock Trade
5/8/2000: • CED Membership Benefits Now Include The Gibson Report; • Nominate Your Favorite Entrepreneur for CED's Annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards; • Extensibility Teams with SoftQuad in Marketing Partnership; • Piedmont Ventures Plans to Raise $50 Million in New Investments; • SoDeog Raises $5 Million; • Interpath Gets $100 Million from CP&L and Bain; • OpenSite Inks Deal with CNET; • LabCorp to Acquire Pathology Medical Laboratories
5/1/2000: • SciQuest Gains Glaxo Wellcome as New Customer; • IBM to Pre-load Red Hat Linux on Netfinity; • MindLever.com Used as a Teaching Tool; • Koz.com Opens Boston Office; Grows Staff; • Xanthon Leases Manufacturing Facility at Park Research Center; • Nominate Your Favorite Entrepreneur for CED's Annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards; • Haht Software Raises $25 Million; • Charles & Colvard Raise Capital; • Sustainable Jobs Fund Conducts Final Closing at $17 Million; • Triangle Company Funding Increases by 417% in 1999
4/24/2000: • LIPSinc Signs Agreement with Electronic Art; • Red Hat Unveils Its Open Source Marketplace; • PharmaNetics to Develop Test for Aventis; • Celotek and RCT Partner to Secure Mission-Critical ATM Networks; • OpenSite Acquired by Siebel Systems for $444 Million in Stock; • The Aurora Funds Closes on $52 Million Fund; • Draper Atlantic to Start $300 Million Second Fund; • Red Hat to Buy Bluecurve; • TRC Acquires Triangle Environmental; • LabCorp Acquires Clinical Testing Assets of Bio-Diagnostics
4/17/2000: • Blue292 Signs General Motors for Pilot Project; • Celotek Announces Alcatraz ASIC; • Alerts.com Adding Consumer Services Division; • Red Storm Entertainment Links up with Zombie Studios; • Cree Buys Nitres for 1.5 Million Shares; • SpectraSite Establishes Presence in Europe; • Xanthon Gets $12 Million to Launch First Product; • Tavve Software Raises $10 Million in Second Round; • Accleron Partners and eDesignerSource Form Partnership
4/12/2000: • Pinpoint.com Pioneers Wireless Search Engine; • AuctionRover.com Launches B2BRover.com; • Professor Howard Aldrich Receives Entrepreneurship Award; • Inceutica.com Launches Drug Development Marketplace; • WomenGamers.Com Featured in Entertainment Weekly; • LIPSinc. Releases Mimic 1.0; • Paul Mayer Pledges Shares to CED Endowment; • Cronos Acquired by JD Uniphase for $750 Million; • Cogent Receives $15 Million Additional Capital; • OpenSite, Air2Web Developing Wireless Auctions; • North Carolina Enterprise Corp. Scores $150 Million on Orologic Investment; • Incara Pharmaceuticals Acquires Rest of Subsidiaries; • ITParade.com Gets Financing, Names Stealey Chairman; • LendingTree, PrimeStreet form Alliance
4/3/2000: • Finding Extra Summer Help Simple with Entrepreneurial Scholars Program; • Cronos Receives Product of the Year Award; • StartUpStreet.com Names CEO; • Incara Pharmaceuticals to Win Patent; • InvoiceLink Receives Patent on Payment System; • Orologic Acquired by Vitesse Semiconductor for $450 Million; • Novalon Pharmaceuticals Acquired by Karo Bio for $106.7 Million; • Dialog Corporation's Cary Unit Sold to Thomson Corporation for $275 Million; • BioStratum Raises $28 Million in Financing; • ICAgen, Yamanouchi Collaborate on Drug Development; • Glenayre Inks $3.5 Million Deal with Bell Mobility
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