Early-stage
FRANCE - Open-Plug raises $15m from Baytech-led syndicate
Open-Plug has raised a $15m second round of institutional funding from a syndicate of investors led by Munich-based BayTech Venture Capital. Other investors included SGAM AI Private Equity and first round sponsors Auriga, I-Source Gestion, Siparex Ventures...
NETHERLANDS - ABN AMRO Capital Life Sciences invests in Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics
ABN AMRO Capital Life Sciences (AAC LS) has announced that it has led a EUR 22m series-A financing of Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics BV (AMT). The syndicate was completed by Advent Venture Partners, Gilde Investment Management and Crédit Agricole Private...
GERMANY - Advent Venture Partners and Partech invest in Qype
Qype, a local search service offering user reviews of over 1,000 cities in Germany, has received series-A funding from Advent Venture Partners and Partech, alongside angel investors and Internet entrepreneurs.
UK - South East Growth Fund commits £250,000 to Oxford English Training Ltd
SEGF has invested ТЃ250,000 as part of a ТЃ500,000 investment round to fund the continued expansion of Oxford English Training Ltd (OETL) in mainland China. OETL is a prestigious English Language and Business Qualifications training company servicing...
NETHERLANDS - LSP leads EUR 3m investment round in BMEYE
Life Science Partners has announced that it has led a EUR 3m Series A financing round of BMEYE, a Dutch medical device company. The round was led by LSP and included a group of Silicon Valley and Dutch groups TechFund and BAT (Business Angels Technostarters)....
FINLAND - Lannox receives EUR 400,000 from Finnish Industry Investment
Finnish Industry Investment has provided EUR 400,000 in funding to road construction company Lannox Oy. Founded in 2006, Lannox is based in Helsinki and the new capital will fund business development and marketing.
UK – Phasor Solutions Ltd raises £1m in first round of funding
Katalyst Ventures, the private investor group, has made a significant investment into Phasor Solutions Ltd, a developer of flat panel antenna systems, enabling the company to raise ТЃ1m for its initial funding round.
FINLAND - Conor Venture leads $2.5m round in Helmi Technologies
Oulu-headquartered Helmi Technologies, a provider of an Ajax-based development platform for building browser-independent rich internet applications, has secured $2.5m in a round led by Conor Venture Partners. The other investors included Finnish Industry...
FRANCE - Netvibes raises EUR 12m in its second round
Netvibes, a personalised home-page website, has raised EUR 12m in its second of financing. The financial investors are Index Ventures, which had already taken part in the first round in March this year, and US venture capitalist Accel Partners.
FINLAND - Beneq closes first funding round on EUR 1m
Beneq has secured funding from Holtron and a group of private investors, with a venture capital investment of EUR 1m. Beneq is planning to use this funding to speed up its international growth and strengthen the organisation, with a substantial proportion...
FRANCE - Crocus technology attracts EUR 13.5m on first round
Sofinnova ventures, Ventech, CDC Entreprises Innovation, AGF Private Equity, Sofinnova Partners and NanoDimension participated in the EUR13.5m round of financing.
UK - TutorVista secures £1.1m funding from Sequoia Capital
TutorVista, a leading online personal tutoring service, today announced it has secured ТЃ1.1m in series A round funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital India, who have also funded Google and includes prior angel investors.
SWEDEN - Amadeus and Creandum invest in Edgeware
Edgeware has secured SEK 17m from new investor Amadeus Capital Partners and SEK 11m from existing investor Creandum.
SWEDEN - Industrifonden invests in Storegate
Industrifonden has injected capital in Storegate in return of a 20% shareholding in the company. Based in Karlshamn, Storegate was founded in 2002 and focuses on secure information storage.
BELGIUM - Big Bang Ventures leads investment round for Qlayer
Big Bang Ventures has announced that it has taken the lead in a EUR 1.3m first round of financing for Qlayer, a provider of virtualisation management software for commercial data centers. The transaction represents the first investment of Big Bang Ventures'...
FRANCE - Galileo Partners injects EUR 2m in Talend
According to press sources, French privatre equity house Galileo Partners has invested EUR 2m in software developer Talend.
UK - CVM backs opening of 37 degrees healthclub
Close Venture Management (CVM) has announced the opening of 37 degrees healthclub at More London, the new 13 acre development next to Tower Bridge on the Thames.
SWEDEN - QuNano secures SEK 45m funding
Lund-based QuNano AB has received SEK 45m in series-A financing from Provider Venture Partners and Teknoinvest. In 2005, the company secured seed capital from Teknoinvest.
UK - Index backs Last.fm
The London-based consumer internet startup Last.fm has raised its first round (an undisclosed sum) initiated by Index Ventures.
UK - Challenge Fund invests in cancer research
Sentinel Oncology has received a financial boost from the Challenge Fund Trading Company, part of Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds (CESF).
UK - 3i and Doughty Hanson back former Egg executives in new startup
Founding CEO of Egg plc and First Direct, Mike Harris, and former Egg CIO Tom Ilube, have announced the creation of a new consumer company pioneering a range of services to help give people real power over their personal information in the digital world....
BELGIUM - Peakadilly receives EUR 6m series-A financing
Life Science Partners (LSP) has led a EUR 6m series-A financing round for Ghent-based Peakadilly.
UK - Katalyst Ventures invests in UV technology
Katalyst Ventures, the private investor group, has announced that it has led a ТЃ319,000 funding round for GB Environmental Ltd, a company that specialises in the deployment of ultra violet (UV) technology for use in both air and liquid environments to...
UK - Bridges Community Ventures backs Smart Storage
Bridges Community Ventures has announced its investment in Smart Storage, a Wirral-based business providing self-storage facilities for a mix of domestic and commercial customers.