6 posts and columns on Warburg Pincus

Security Start-Up CrowdStrike Hires Former FBI Cyber Cop

in News on April 18 at 12:30 pm PT

A new security start-up led by two former McAfee executives has tapped Shawn Henry, once the FBI’s top cyber cop, to run its service division.
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Mission Motors Closes a Round of Funding (And Swears It Won’t Blow It All on Awesome Electric Motorcycles)

in News on August 19, 2011 at 9:31 am PT

Mission Motors just landed more than $9 million in Series B funding to not build electric motorcycles. Instead, it is trying to attract other companies that might drool over record-setting mini-electric drive systems.
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Magnet Systems Lands $12.6 Million Round From Andreessen Horowitz

in Enterprise on April 27, 2011 at 1:30 pm PT

The cloud-based creator of a social enterprise development platform is led by Alfred Chuang, the A in BEA Systems.

Another Advisory Firm Singles Out HP Director Babbio

in Enterprise on March 11, 2011 at 7:10 am PT

Another advisory report, this one from Glass Lewis, says shareholders should vote against the re-election of Hewlett-Packard director Lawrence Babbio.

Better Advertising Project Raises Millions For Its Web Privacy Seal of Approval

in Media on November 21, 2010 at 9:14 pm PT

Online advertising plus privacy is a combination that freaks a lot of people out. For Better Advertising Project, it’s supposed to be a business.

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KKR, Warburg, Providence and Elevation Surface in Skype Bid

in News on April 14, 2009 at 9:31 am PT

A quartet of private-equity firms have joined forces for a leveraged buyout of a global telecommunications firm with hundreds of millions of users. And no, this isn’t a blog post from 2006.