Filed under: Raising money, Private equity industry, Investments

An interesting fund raise just closed today in the global energy sector. Lime Rock is a private equity firm that focuses on the global energy sector, and it announced today the closing of its fifth Lime Rock Partners fund, Lime Rock Partners V, L.P., with a total $1.4 billion in investor capital commitments.

Lime Rock has four predecessor Lime Rock Partners funds, and Lime Rock Partners V will make what it calls “creative, value-adding, and long-term growth capital investments” in companies in the global energy industry.

This notes that some 78 institutional investors participated in the fund, including leading endowments, foundations, and pension funds, made capital commitments to Lime Rock Partners V. It also states that it didn’t actively market this fund, as some 91% of capital commitments came from its existing investors.

Lime Rock Partners funds have invested $1.0 billion in 47 energy portfolio companies worldwide, which are primarily in the exploration & production, energy services, and oil service technology sectors. These funds have also realized some $1.7 billion and “continue to hold significant unrealized value in their portfolio company investments.”

Lime Rock also manages Lime Rock Resources, a $450 million fund, which directly acquires and operates oil and gas properties in the United States. Lime Rock manages $3.5 billion of private capital for investment in the energy industry.

More information on the company’s investment(s) portfolio can be found here.

Jon Ogg produces the Special Situation newsletter for 247WallSt.com.

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Filed under: Internet, Social Software, web 2.0

Apparently social browser plugins are the next big thing. The other day we told you about Yoono, a Firefox add-on that brings FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking features to your web browser. Today it’s Minggl’s turn.

Minggl is a browser toolbar that works with Firefox or Internet Explorer. Each few minutes Minggl will scan your social networking accounts and display the latest updates. You can pull up a list of your friends or view an actvity stream in your sidebar.

The nice thing about toolbars like Minggl is that they let you keep up with the activity on your social networks without constantly opening a half dozen web pages and hitting the refresh button. On the other hand, the toolbar takes up some valuable screen real estate and provides a constant source of distraction.

The Minggl toolbar is currently in public beta, and supports Facebook, Twitter, Digg, MySpace, and LinkedIn, with more services cming soon.

[via VentureBeat]

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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Intwition is a little bit like Technorati for Twitter. Enter a URL and Intwition will let you know how many pages have been linked to by Twitter users, who your most active Tweeters are, and how many times they’ve tweeted your messages.

There are plenty of services that let you know when your web site has been mentioned by another blog, but the is the first service we’ve seen that lets you track the Twitter actvity related to your blog. Intwition provides a good way for bloggers to figure out who some of their biggets fans are, and make sure to follow their feeds to help build a sense of community.

Of course, you can also use Intwition to try to gauge the popularity of other web sites in the Twitopshere. Want to see how often a competitor’s site is mentioned when compared to your own? You don’t need to own a URL to enter it, so nothing’s stopping you.

[via Rotor Blog]

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