Early-stage
UK - D-Line secures £1.3m from investment syndicate
Newcastle-based DLine Ltd has recently received a £1.13m cash injection to develop its business. The new capital comes jointly from The North East Co-investment Fund, a £23m 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 £2.2m 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 £8.2m 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 £2m 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.
Veryan Medical completes £2.6m funding round
Imperial Innovations, the technology commercialisation company of Imperial College London, has announced that it has completed a £500,000 investment in Imperial spin-out company Veryan Medical, a developer of medical devices to improve the long-term...
Four new deals for Sigma Technology
Sigma Technology Group Plc, the UK venture capital investment management and advisory group that specialises in technology and property, has announced four recent new investments.
Syntaxin raises £3m from Abingworth
Syntaxin Ltd, a newly formed biopharmaceutical company focussing on the discovery and development of new medicines for the treatment of neurological, respiratory and metabolic diseases, has been launched as the first spin-out from the UK Health Protection...
Video communications specialist secures £150k from RVCF
A West Country company that develops state-of-the-art video communications products is the latest to benefit from the £25m South West Ventures Fund.
Oxford Immunotec closes £7M series B financing
Oxford Immunotec, the T cell diagnostics company, has announced that it has closed a £7M series B private equity financing. The round was led by Prelude Ventures, who invested £2.75M, alongside Quester, the Dow Chemical Company, and Top Technology....
Amadeus and 3i-led syndicate makes wireless investment
Nujira, the Cambridge-based company developing advanced power amplifier technology for the wireless industry, has closed a $7.75m Series A funding round. The round was co-led by 3i and Amadeus Capital Partners, which was the lead seed investor. The round...
Imperial Innovations supports NanoBioDesign
Imperial Innovations, the technology commercialisation company of Imperial College London, has completed its first investment in a biotech company since its private placement in April 2005. The company has invested into Imperial spin-out, NanoBioDesign,...
Albany invests in healthcare software specialist
Albany Ventures Fund III has invested in Digital Healthcare Limited, a Cambridge based software supplier of digital imaging, advanced care pathways and clinical information systems for the healthcare market.
Albany leads investment in High Integrity Solutions
Albany has led a £2.5m funding for High Integrity Solutions, alongside Foresight and Enterprise VCT Plc, to market its software development framework into major engineering projects across the world. This second round funding follows an original investment...
Santaris Pharma raises EUR 4.4m in interim funding and launches second round financing
Santaris Pharma, the Danish biopharmaceutical company developing gene-targeting drugs for the treatment of cancer, today announced that it has received additional financing of EUR 4.4m from its lead investors: BankInvest, Novo, LD Pension, InnovationsKapital,...
ReVolt Technology AS receives EUR 7m from VC syndicate
ReVolt Technology AS, a technology start-up based in Trondheim, Norway, which offers a new solution for rechargeable batteries, has received EUR 7m in a first round of financing by Northzone Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, Techno Venture Management (TVM),...