VentureWire Alert, Friday, October 26, 2001 ,
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VENTURE 
MARKET 
SUMMARY 

	Proficient Networks emerged from stealth mode led by a team of executives looking to regain the winning touch. Proficient's four founders worked together at Digital Island and then moved to Telegis Networks, which got hit hard by the collapsing Web-hosting market and went out of business earlier this year. At Proficient, the team has built a network management appliance that enables companies to route network traffic based on their access policies. The company secured $6 million in Series A funding from Canaan Partners and El Dorado Ventures in May and is looking to raise $10 million to $20 million in Series B next year. 

Three mergers also topped the news as Netegrity bought DataChannel in a $54 million deal. Online newspaper classifieds firms, PowerAdz and AdOne, also linked up as did Intelliseek and PlanetFeedback.com. 

As the week grinds to a close, 12 companies reported raising $48 million. Proving that beauty to investors is skin deep, Switch Biotech, a developer of medications for dermatological conditions, scratched out EUR 18 million ($16 million) in its third round. And VentureWire has learned that Kyma Technologies, which develops nitride substrates for use in optoelectronics, communications, and microelectronics industries, raised $2.6 million in its Series A, led by a consortium of past individual investors. - By John Fuller <mailto:fuller@technologicp.com>	


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How to Get Ready Today to Get Bought Tomorrow

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Digital Island Veterans Launch Proficient Networks	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=IHJPOPJNII>  	
SAN FRANCISCO -- Proficient Networks, a provider of network management appliances that enable companies to route network traffic based on their access policies, has launched and expects to ship its first product by the end of the year, CEO Allan Leiwand told VentureWire. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.proficient.net> 	

Netegrity to Acquire DataChannel in $54 Million Deal	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=LHNKONJNII>  	
WALTHAM, MASS. -- Netegrity, a publicly traded provider of applications for securely managing e-business relationships, said it signed an agreement to acquire Bellevue, Wash.-based DataChannel, a privately held provider of enterprise portal technology in a deal worth about $54 million. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.datachannel.com> 
<http://www.netegrity.com> 	

Switch Biotech Gets $16 Million in Round Three	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=QNMKJQINII>  	
MARTINSRIED, GERMANY -- Switch Biotech, a developer of medications for dermatological conditions, said it received EUR 18 million ($16 million) in third-round funding. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.switch-biotech.com> 	

Telcordia Spinout Telelogue Raising $10 Million Series B	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=NOLOKHINII>  	
ISELIN, N.J. -- Telelogue, a spinout from Telcordia Technologies that offers software applications to enable telephone users to search databases and directories, has begun raising its Series B round, according to chief operating officer Robert Burke. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.telelogue.com> 	



Nitride Substrates Firm Kyma Raises $2.6M First Round	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=MJJLJLHNII>  	
RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C. -- Kyma Technologies, which develops and supplies nitride substrates for use in optoelectronics, communications, and microelectronics industries, has raised $2.6 million in its Series A, according to president and CEO Ed Pupa. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.kymatech.com> 	

Infrastructure Software Firm Systinet Launches With $2.3M	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=NIJOKMJNII>  	
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Systinet, a provider of Web services infrastructure software, has announced its launch with $2.3 million in seed round financing. The company also said it changed its name from Idoox to Systinet. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.systinet.com> 	

Sales Automation App Firm Selltis Lands $3M in Second Round	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=NOOKOIINII>  	
NEW ORLEANS -- Selltis, a provider of industrial sales automation software, said it raised $3 million in its second round of funding. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.selltis.com> 	

GiftCertificates.com Gets $4.4M More in Fifth Round	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=NKPHHLJNII>  	
SEATTLE -- GiftCertificates.com, a provider of gift certificates and related services for corporate customers and consumers, said it has raised $4.4 million in a second close of a fifth round of funding for the company, bringing the round to a close with $18.6 million in equity and $7.5 million in credit. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.giftcertificates.com> 	


Unlocking the Promise of Good Science:
The Investor's Perspective

Good science doesn't always equate with good investment
opportunity. Generations of investors have been burned
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Michael Grey of Structural Genomix, Daniel Janney of Alta
Partners, Gary Zweiger of Agilent Technologies and Lowell
Harmison, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health,
Department of Health and Human Services.

Healthcare Outlook, January 22, 2002
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Document Management Firm Flywheel Communications Shuts Down	  mail <http://alert.venturewire.com/o_mailer.asp?sid=LLOIQQINII>  	
SAN FRANCISCO -- Flywheel Communications, a provider of document management software, has shut down, a company spokesperson said. [more.. <http://professional.venturewire.com/prostory.asp>]
<http://www.flywheel.com> 	



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