Early-stage
FRANCE – Ventech and DN Capital back Babinet's new venture
Eyeka has completed a EUR 4m series-A round of funding just months after being founded. Paris-based Ventech has injected EUR 2.56m, while London-based DN Capital has provided the remaining EUR 1.44m. Eyeka is a provider of mobile video and image service...
UK - iPLATO receives first round funding from The Capital Fund
iPLATO Ltd, the leader in mobile healthcare applications, has attracted first round funding from The Capital Fund, a ТЃ50m venture capital fund that invests in fast-growth companies in Greater London and whose investors include the DTI and The European...
UK - Edinburgh Robotics wins new funding
Edinburgh Robotics Ltd has secured an equity investment led by Braveheart Ventures Ltd. The investment was completed via the SMART Equity Scheme which is designed to help spin-out companies, by providing matched funding to recipients of the Scottish Executiveтs...
UK - Porton announces new funding for Psynova
Porton Capital is leading an investment in Psynova Ltd, the latest spin-out from The University of Cambridge. Focused on the advancement and exploitation of biomarkers for neuropsychiatric disorders, Psynova aims to develop diagnostic tests and therapeutic...
DENMARK - Vækstfonden and SEED Capital invest in Stirling Denmark
Stirling Denmark has received funding from EGJ Development Ltd, SEED Capital and Vækstfonden to finance international expansion.
FRANCE - Eyeka announces $5m Series-A round
Eyeka, a provider of mobile video and image service applications, announced today that it has completed a $5m Series-A round. Ventech Capital, based in Paris, invested $3.2m and DN Capital, based in London, provided $1.8m. This marks the second partnership...
SWEDEN - ZealCore secures SEK 12m in growth funding
Industrifonden, KTH Seed Capital and SEB Företagsinvest have invested SEK 12m in ZealCore Embedded Solutions AB.
UK - Micrima secures £475k from VC syndicate
Micrima Ltd, a spin-out from Bristol University, has received a ТЃ150,000 investment from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). This is part of a funding round worth ТЃ475,000 with co-investment from private investors and...
FINLAND - FII and Aura Capital invest in Optomed
Medical technology business Optomed has secured around EUR 700,000 in a first round of funding from Finnish Industry Investment, Aura Capital Oy and Mawell Oy.
FRANCE - Kayentis raises EUR 2m from XAnge
XAnge has led at EUR 2m first round of funding in the software start-up Kayentis, via its XAnge Capital and XAnge Private Equity funds. Company founder and CEO Philippe Berna, business angels Jean-Louis Moses and Pierre Casse and an industrial player...
UK - PanOpSys Ltd receives $5.25m Quester funding
PanOpSys, a medical diagnostics company focusing on rapid quantitative detection of disease markers, has announced that it has raised $5.25m in a Series A round of funding from Quester.
UK - D-Line secures £1.3m from investment syndicate
Newcastle-based DLine Ltd has recently received a ТЃ1.13m cash injection to develop its business. The new capital comes jointly from The North East Co-investment Fund, a ТЃ23m investment fund that invests in high-growth technology focused SMEs, and a...
UK - Sigma announces two new investments
Sigma Technology Group Plc has unveiled two new investments: Nandi Proteins Ltd and Exterity Ltd. Both of these investments are made through the Sigma Technology Venture Fund, a fund that is managed by Sigma.
UK - Quester leads £2.2m Perpetuum funding
Quester has announced that it has led a ТЃ2.2m series A funding round in Perpetuum, a UK-based university spinout company.
SPAIN - FON secures EUR 22m from blue chip investors
FON, a company focused on creating a global network of shared Wi-Fi connections, has announced that it secured EUR 18m in funding from Index Ventures, Google, Sequoia Capital and Skype. Index Ventures led the round.
SWITZERLAND - Eyesense AG receives SFr 10.7m
Eyesense AG has received SFr 10.7m in funding from a syndicate of investors led by Amsterdam and Munich-based Life Science Partners alongside Basel-based BioMedinvest. Other investors in the syndicate include Novartis Venture Fund, Private Life BioMed,...
UK - Lectus Therapeutics closes £8.2m series A funding round
Lectus Therapeutics Ltd, a drug discovery and development company focusing on next-generation ion channel modulators, has announced that it has raised ТЃ8.2m in series A funding. The round was led by Sofinnova Partners, with Quester as a co-lead. Takeda...
UK - NewMedia Spark invests in Skinkers
NewMedia Spark has invested ТЃ2m in Skinkers, an e-mail software developer, according to reports.
UK - Actionality receives seed funding from Doughty Hanson
Actionality, an emerging leader of automated in-game advertising and marketing solutions for the mobile market, has announced that it has secured seed financing from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.
GERMANY - Triangle leads financing for game technology provider X-aitment
Triangle Venture Capital Group has led a EUR 3m funding round to enable German game technology imaging developer X-aitment to start up its operation.
Vienna-based Nabriva receives EUR 42m in early-stage funding
A syndicate of investors led by Nomura, including Global Life Science Ventures, HBM Bioventures, Novartis Bioventures and Wellcome has provided EUR 42m in financing to antibiotic research concern Nabriva GmbH. GLSV committed EUR 6m in the series A financing...
Mega-deals boost technology M&A, says PwC report
The battle for top line growth and new customers drove the global value of technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) up by almost 90% in 2005, with the top three deals accounting for over EUR 25bn alone. Despite an increase in deal numbers of just 2%...
Austrian startup RF-iT receives EUR 4m from PONTIS and Truffle
Vienna-based PONTIS Venture Partners, alongside Parisian Truffle Venture has arranged a first round of funding for Infineon spin-off RF-iT Solutions. Public leverage came from the federal agency Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS) which complemented the...
IPTV start-up Edgeware receives funding from Creandum
Swedish Edgeware has announced the successful conclusion of a series A financing round with Creandum.