Joseph Tartakoff
Dec 15, 2010 8:14 PM
Here’s a sign of how the market for companies seeking funding has loosened up over the last year. When Twitter last raised a round of venture funding in September 2009, it was only the second U.S.-based digital media company to raise $100 million-plus in a year and a half; one…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Oct 6, 2010 3:04 PM
ZeniMax Media, the video game publisher behind titles including Doom and Fallout, has raised a huge $150 million round. The cash comes from Providence Equity Partners, which had already put $300 million into the company three years ago.
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Tameka Kee
Jul 7, 2009 12:24 PM
Financial details about ZeniMax Media’s acquisition of Quake-developer id Software were kept under wraps—but a new SEC filing reveals that ZeniMax raised $105 million in debt financing to facilitate the deal. We’re working on confirmation regarding where the funds came from.
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Joseph Weisenthal
Oct 25, 2007 1:17 PM
Privately held video game maker Zenimax Media has received a big $300 million investment from Providence Equity Partners through a convertible stock offering (via Gamasutra). Founded in 1999, the company will use the funds to increase game development, hunt for acquisitions and finance the creation of multi-player online games. The…
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