Early-stage
NL - Liquavista attracts EUR 12m in series - A financing round
Amadeus Capital Partners and GIMV have led a EUR 12m series-A financing round in Liquavista BV, a fabless display manufacturing company based in Eindhoven. New Venture Partners, which led the spinout of Liquavista from Philips Research in April this year,...
UK - North West Equity Fund in £500,000 fundraising for Into Technology
The North West Equity Fund, alongside Liverpool Seed Fund, has invested in a £500,000 fundraising round for Into Technology Holdings Ltd.
UK - Oxford Capital Partners participates in £5m series-A funding for OrthoMimetics
Oxford Capital Partners has announced its investment in OrthoMimetics Limited, the first technology spin-out from the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). Oxford Capital Partners joins a syndicate of investors including Schroders Investment Management Ltd,...
GERMANY – vertico software raises EUR 2m
FirstVentury Equity GmbH has invested EUR 2m in Karlsruhe-based VoIP manufacturer vertico software GmbH in a first financing round. The funding was made via the venture capitalist’s aeris Technology Fund.
UK - North West Equity and NWBIS invest in SnG Technologies
Cheshire-based technology company SnG Technologies has received total funding of £250,000 from North West Equity Fund and NWBIS. The deal includes a further potential investment of £750,000 in aggregate based on progress within the business. SnG Technologies...
FRANCE - Cerenis receives EUR 42.1m in a second round of financing
Cerenis Therapeutics has gathered EUR 42.1m in its second round of institutional funding. TVM Capital and OrbiMed of the US join the existing investors, all of which renewed their commitments.
SWEDEN - TranSiC secures SEK 4m in funding
Energy business TranSiC AB has raised SEK 4m in a first round of funding from Volvo Technology Transfer AB and Midroc New Technology AB. Founded in 2005, TranSiC is a Stockholm Innovation & Growth incubator company. It aims to bring silicon carbide power...
NL - Lowland commits EUR 5m to eBuddy
Amsterdam-based eBuddy, a provider of web-based messaging, has raised €5m in a first round of funding from Lowland Capital Partners. eBuddy offers an internet service which enables users to chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo accounts without having to install...
FRANCE - Cytheris raises EUR 24.3m second round
France-based Cytheris, a pharmaceutical company developing new therapies for the immune system, has raised EUR 24.3m from CDC Entreprises Innovation, ABN Amro Capital Life Sciences and its historical investors.
DENMARK - Nordic Venture Partners invests in mobile data back-up company
Nordic Venture Partners has invested several million euros in ZYB, a free mobile back-up and sharing service operating on a global level. ZYB was founded in 2005 and it is doubling its number of employees before entering into next year.
SPAIN - Lemon Quest receives EUR 2m in first financing round
Lemon Quest, a Madrid-based developer of games for mobile phones, has received its first round of financing from Debaeque Capital, the venture capital firm managed by Patrick Raibaut. Debaeque has injected EUR 2m and has taken a stake in Lemon Quest...
ITALY - Strategia Italia invests in Microcinema
Audiovisual distributor Microcinema Srl received EUR 1.2m of funding from a consortium led by Strategia Italia. The Turin-based company will seek to introduce digital cinema to the Italian market. Microcinema plans to distribute audiovisual contents,...
UK - launch of venture-backed Healthcare Brands International
Healthcare Brands International (HBI), a new company helping to turn innovative medical product technology into successful consumer brands, was officially launched today. Backed by £25m of venture capital from a syndicate of investors including Abingworth,...
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 £250,000 as part of a £500,000 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 £1m 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.