Longworth Raising New Fund

Wade Roush9/3/08

Waltham, MA-based Longworth Venture Partners plans to raise $180 million for a new fund, its third, according to regulatory filings cited today by Private Equity Hub. The firm’s first fund of $20.5 million closed in 1999 and its second fund of $120 million closed in 2003; recent payoffs for the firm’s portfolio include Softricity (which was acquired by Microsoft in 2006) and Constant Contact (which went public last year).

Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.