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Favonius is a leading European Investment Fund focusing on venture buyouts, corporate spinouts and growth capital /expansion financing for IT companies.
Favonius' partners have occupied senior management and investment positions in a broad range of successful institutions such as Philips Electronics, Tandem Computers, ATandT, ABN AMRO Bank and have also been involved in starting successful companies such as Veritas Software, Seebeyond and Nedamco Inc.
Favonius operates across the European market through its offices in Amsterdam and London.
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  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 139 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was, however, a trouble­some and importunate ally to the republicans, and in 42, when he presumed to influence Brutus and Cassius at their meeting at Sardis, Brutus thrust the intruder out of the house.
In the battle of Philippi Favonius was taken prisoner, and on being led in chains before the conquerors, he respectfully saluted Antony, but indulged in bitter invectives against Octavianus, for having ordered several re­publicans to be put to death.
Favonius was not a man of strong character or principle : his sternness of manner and of conduct was mere affectation and imitation of Cato, in which he went so far as to receive and deserve the nickname of the ape of Cato.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1247.html   (1104 words)

  
 Favonius
The Roman god of the gentle western wind, the herald of spring.
Favonius ("favorable") is equal to the Greek Zephyrus.
Article "Favonius" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 12 March 1997 (Revision 2).
www.pantheon.org /articles/f/favonius.html   (35 words)

  
 Parmesan
FAVONIUS (1866, from Zephyr) was an overgrown chestnut colt bred and raced by Baron Meyer de Rothschild.
Favonius daughter Madame du Barry won the Irish Derby, Irish Cesarewitch, Goodwood Cup, and many other races and was a tough, successful racemare who ran to age seven, then produced seven foals before being sent to Austria.
Favonius daughter Folle Avoine was second dam of the French Le Pompom, a fair racehorse and sire; another daughter, Windfall, was dam of the dual-classic winning French filly Wandora (dam of Grand Criterium and French 2,000 Guineas winner and later sire, Val d'Or).
www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Parmesan.html   (1173 words)

  
 Favonius
In Roman mythology, Favonius ("favorable") held dominion over plants and flowers.
Favonius Eulogius, rhetor of Carthage contemporary with Saint Augustine, wrote a Disputatio de somnio Scipionis
Marcus Favonius Facilis, a centurion of Legion XX who died in Britain and whose tombstone is displayed in Colchester museum Photo of tombstone
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fa/favonius.html   (101 words)

  
 Dark Age of Camelot News, Trailers, Screenshots, Previews, Reviews, Guides -- Dark Age of Camelot: Labyrinth of the ...
He began to focus on Favonius, but his spear was moving at a pace that could handle Beregond’s poleaxe as well as Kayne’s hammer.
Favonius was not dead, and worse yet he had attacked Kayne just as he did Kaldar.
Favonius was close behind me. I only hoped to reach outside and perhaps he would turn back into his dungeon.
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 Europe's Favonius Insight Ventures to invest in Israeli companies
European venture capital fund Favonius Insight Ventures has secured $80 million in commitments for a $200 million fund and plans to route some of the money to Israeli startups.
Favonius' investors include Michael Dell of the Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL), Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Charles B. Wang, founder and chairman of Computer Associates (NYSE:CA), institutional investors such as Dutch banks ABN Amro and ING Bank, and Grove Street Advisors, a fund manager for CalPERS Pension, the California state pension fund.
Favonius Insight Ventures is the sequel fund of Insight Capital Partners Europe, which raised $270 million in March of 2000, and which had so far invested in eight European startups.
www.thestreet.com /tech/themarker/10000607.html   (294 words)

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