Joins Origination team responsible for analyzing and evaluating new investment opportunities for pre-IPO fund August 2, 2011 – Greenwood Village, Colorado – Keating Investments, LLC announced today that Daniel T. Morris has joined the firm as a Vice President and member of the Origination team responsible for analyzing and evaluating new investment opportunities for Keating   More

July 12, 2011 – Greenwood Village, Colorado – Keating Capital, Inc. announced today that it concluded its public offering on June 30, 2011, raising aggregate gross proceeds of $86,800,000. The final closing of escrowed funds from subscribing investors occurred on July 11, 2011. A total of 8,713,659 shares of common stock were sold in the   More

Keating Capital, Inc. announced that it recently was the lead investor in an $8 million private purchase of common stock from certain founders and management employees of Corsair Components, Inc., a designer and supplier of high-performance components to the personal computer, or PC, gaming hardware market. Keating Capital acquired $4 million of common stock in   More

Keating Capital announced that it recently invested $3 million in the Series F Preferred Stock round of Xtime, Inc. (“Xtime”).  Keating Capital was the lead investor in this round. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Xtime is a software as a service provider of Web scheduling and CRM solutions for automotive service   More

Keating Capital, Inc. noted on May 27, 2011,  that one of its portfolio companies, Solazyme, Inc., completed an initial public offering of its common stock and is now listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol SZYM.  Solazyme sold 10,975,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $18.00 per share.  Morgan Stanley   More

Tim Keating, CEO of Keating Capital, will be speaking at the Closed-End Fund Symposium for the Retail Investment Community to be held at the New York Stock Exchange on June 1, 2011.  There will be a full day of presentations and discussions on closed-end funds.  Topics will include current market trends and investment strategies and   More

Pre-IPO Investor’s Portfolio Company Proposes Initial Public Offering On April 22, 2011, one of Keating Capital, Inc.’s portfolio companies, BrightSource Energy, Inc., filed an S-1 registration statement for a proposed initial public offering of up to $250 million of its common stock. The number of shares and the offering price have not been determined. According to the   More

Venture-Backed Organic Waste Manager Receives Equity Investment from Pre-IPO Fund Keating Capital, Inc. announced that it made a $2.5 million investment in the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock offering of Harvest Power, Inc. (www.HarvestPower.com) on March 9, 2011. This investment was part of a $51.7 million Series B financing led by Generation Investment Management, LLP. Other   More

Solazyme Proposes $100 Million IPO and Nasdaq Global Market Listing On March 11, 2011, one of Keating Capital, Inc.’s portfolio companies, Solazyme, Inc., filed an S-1 registration statement to go public through a $100 million initial public offering of its common stock. Solazyme intends to list its shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “SZYM.”   More

Submitted by Timothy J. Keating, Keating Investments, LLC In November 2009, we published a white paper on the endowment model of investing (The Yale Endowment Model of Investing is Not Dead) that argued that the melt down at certain endowments had nothing to do with purported flaws in modern portfolio theory.  Now that the financial   More