Solazyme, a US-based developer of biofuels through the use of algae, said it had raised $129.3m in equity and its strategic investors were Bunge, Chevron, Unilever and San-Ei Gen ahead of its $100m flotation.

Investment banks Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse are underwriting Fusion-io's initial public offering, according to its regulatory filing.

Safeguard owns 1.59 million shares, 28.1% of Advanced BioHealing ahead of its Nasdaq flotation, while venture capital firms Canaan Partners and Wheatley Partners own 40.7% and 14.7%, respectively.

Newswire Bloomberg said Oak's $500m initial public offering could come by the summer and was backed by computer group Lenovo's corporate venturing unit Legend Capital and Japanese media group Softbank as well as venture capital firms Technology Crossover Ventures, Accel Partners, and Doll Capital Management.

Newswire Bloomberg said HomeAway's flotation would be for up to $300m and managed by investment banks Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.

In August, Pandora had been reportedly about to raise $100m from private equity firm Elevation Partners, according to news provider TechCrunch, but instead has picked investment banks Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan to plan its initial public offering, according to its regulatory filing.

Active Network has raised more than $275m, according to news provider Fortune, and has Ticketmaster and Disney as two primary shareholders.

Fluidigm raised $75m at $13.50 per share by selling 5.6 million shares, with a further 833,750 available if demand is strong enough for its investment banks Deutsche Bank and Piper Jaffray, according to its regulatory filing.

AcelRx had planned to raise $86m in its initial public offering (IPO) but is now offering eight million shares at $5 each, with a further 1.2 million available if there is enough demand, according to its regulatory filing.

The company sold 7.15 million common shares at its initial public offering (IPO) at $15 each, according to Gevo's regulatory filing.