Early-stage
UK - Balderton Capital backs online debt management start-up
Balderton Capital has provided Wonga, a start-up online service for same day personal debt management, with $6m of early-stage funding. The investment will be used to accelerate platform and product development, with the goal of establishing Wonga as...
NL - Alta Partners leads EUR 15m round for biotechnology company
Alta Partners has led a EUR 15m funding round for Groningen-based Kiadis Pharma B.V. Existing investors also participated in the deal, amongst those was Esprit Capital Partners, investing a further EUR 0.5m from the Esprit-run Prelude Trust Plc.
FRANCE - Bluekiwi Software receives EUR 4m from Sofinnova Partners
Sofinnova Partners has invested EUR 4m in Blukiwi Software, a developer of collaborative software solutions for corporate environments.
UK - Imperial Innovations in £2.3m investment in biopharmaceutical company
Imperial Innovations Group, Longbow Capital and The Capital Fund have completed a £2.3m investment in biopharmaceutical PolyTherics Ltd. Longbow Capital’s private client base invested £1.3m, and Imperial Innovations and The Capital Fund invested £750,000...
UK - YFM invests £250,000 in Geonix
YFM has provided tracking technology company Geonix Tracking with £250,000 of funding via its South West Ventures Fund.
BALTIC - Otaris Eko Fonds invests EUR 300,000 in Livonia Print
JSC Eko Investors venture capital fund Otaris Eko Funds has acquired 35% of LLC Livonia Print for EUR 300,000. The investment will be used to establish the most modern book printing house in Latvia that will service customers in the Baltics, Scandinavia...
NORWAY/SWITZERLAND - Northzone Ventures and TVM in EUR 10m round for ReVolt
Existing investors Northzone Ventures, Sinvent, Sofinnova Partners, TVM Capital, Verdane Capital and Viking Ventures have participated in a EUR 10m funding round for ReVolt Technology. The latest commitment brings total funding for ReVolt, a developer...
UK - Seraphim Capital provides Flirtomatic with £2m series-B round
Seraphim Capital has led a £2m series-B funding round for Handmade Mobile Entertainment Ltd, the company behind Flirtomatic, a cross-platform flirting service. Seraphim Capital is a government-backed Enterprise Capital Fund which closed its first fund...
UK - MMC invests £2m in online lead-generation business
MMC Ventures has made an equity investment of £2 million in Clash-Media, an online lead generation business based in London.
IRELAND - Doughty Hanson leads $14m investment in AdaptiveMobile
Doughty Hanson has led a $14m second round of funding for AdaptiveMobile. Additional investment came from Noor Financial Investment Company and existing investor, Intel Capital.
UK - Enterprise Ventures completes further investment in H20 Networks
Enterprise Ventures has completed a further investment in H2O Networks Ltd through its Coalfields Enterprise Fund. Enterprise Ventures first invested in the company during late 2006 to finance the company’s growth plans and this follow-on round of funding...
UK - Close Ventures backs Point 35 Microstructures with £1.95m investment
Close Ventures has invested £1.95m in Point 35 Microstructures, a supplier of refurbished semiconductor wafer processing equipment. The funding round totalled £2.1m.
UK - Enterprise Ventures invests in Chromatide Ltd
Enterprise Ventures has invested in chemical services company Chromatide Ltd through its RisingStars Growth Fund II.
UK - Mangrove Capital leads $8m series-B funding for Seatwave
Mangrove Capital Partners has led an $8m series-B funding round for Seatwave, a fan-to-fan ticket exchange. Mangrove joins existing investor Atlas Venture which provided $3m of series-A funding for the company in May 2006.
BALTIC - LP Otrais Eko Funds invest in LLC Epic Bau for EUR 150,000
LP Otrais Eko Fonds will invest EUR 150,000 in start-up company LLC Epic Bau to finance the acquisition of modern mobile concrete production machinery. The fund will obtain a 49% shareholding in the company.
FRANCE - Implanet Partners receives EUR 13m from Franco-German syndicate
Bordeaux-based medical technology start-up Implanet has received EUR 13m from a syndicate led by Auriga Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners and Wellington Partners.
UK - Imperial Innovations and The Capital Fund lead £2.44m round for IXICO
Imperial Innovations Group and The Capital Fund have together invested £850,000 to co-lead an investment round of £2.44 million into IXICO Ltd, a provider of image analysis solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. The fundraising will enable the company...
GERMANY – Earlybird invests in smava
Earlybird has led a EUR 4m financing round in German internet company smava. This represents Earlybird’s second investment from the next-generation fund Earlybird IV. Other investors committing to the round are business angels Lukasz Gadowski, Stefan...
UK - Oxford Capital Partners and Imperial Innovations in £3.1m second-round funding
Oxford Capital Partners and Imperial Innovations have co-led a £3.1m second round of funding for Veryan Medical Ltd, a developer of medical devices to improve the long-term effectiveness of medical care in patients with vascular disease. Existing investor...
GERMANY - NOXXON Pharma raises EUR 37m
NOXXON Pharma AG, a developer of mirror image oligonucleotide therapeutics, has closed a EUR 37m series-C financing round. The main investors are TVM Capital, Sofinnova Partners and Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners. Other investors contributing...
LUXEMBOURG - Mangrove invests in Jambaz
Mangrove Capital has reportedly provided seed-financing to Luxembourg-based Jambaz, a creator of a game widget that lets people predict the stock movement on a daily basis while offering cash prices to the most accurate calls. No further details have...
UK - Quester and YFM in £600,000 third round for Symetrica
YFM Group and Quester join other investors NESTA, the SULIS Seedcorn Fund and Tennants Ventures on a third round of funding totalling £600,000 for gamma radiation detector specialists Symetrica. NESTA first invested in Symetrica in September 2004 in...
GERMANY - StageSpace receives seed funding
StageSpace has raised an undisclosed amount of seed capital from a syndicate of investors including Mountain Partners and Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH.
UK - 3i and Doughty Hanson provide Garlik with £6m series-B funding
Online identity experts Garlik have secured £6m in series-B funding from 3i and Doughty Hanson. This equity injection builds on an initial £3m investment from the two firms in January 2006, bringing the total raised to date to just over £9m. It follows...