Early-stage
EMBL Ventures invests £2m in Crescendo
Crescendo's second close of series-A brings total to ТЃ19.5m
Axon joins $1m round for Hot Hotels
Deal is the first completed via Axon's ICT II fund
Lakestar and Index lead $2.2m Lookback investment
Parse co-founder Ilya Sukhar also invests
Sicilian start-up raises €750,000 from Vertis and RedSeed
Firm to sell its product to the public in the coming weeks
Greece's Locish raises seed funding
Firm to use funding to relaunch its existing product
ZernikeMeta et al. invest €2m in CellPly
The company is developing in-vitro cancer treatments
Gimv et al. invest €1.5m in CoScale
Capital supplied equally from three investors
EdRip, Sofinnova lead €18m round for Inotrem
Biomed Invest and Inserm Transfert Initiative also take part
Deal in focus: TVbeat raises $2m
Episode 1 and Credo Ventures back TV analytics start-up
Berlin start-ups attract Silicon Valley cash
But without a significant number of exits, can the city retain its prominence?
High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Desino
Business angel joins to complete first financing round
TVbeat secures $2m
London-based TVbeat, which provides real-time television ratings, has raised $2m from Episode 1 and Credo Ventures.
Demeter and Emertec inject €1.8m into Ynsect
French biotech operates large-scale insect farm
CEA Investissement leads €2m round for Microphyt
CEA Investissement, Sofimac Partners and Soridec have taken part in a €2m funding round for Microphyt, a French biotech specialising in microalgae-based bioactive products.
NeoMed leads €15m round for InDex Pharmaceuticals
Venture capital firm NeoMed Management has led a тЌ15m investment in Swedish drug developer InDex Pharmaceuticals via a new rights issue.
Balderton leads £1.3m round for carwow
Balderton Capital has led a ТЃ1.3m seed funding round for carwow, an online service provider for the purchase of new cars, in conjunction with the companyтs commercial launch.
Boehringer Ingelheim leads early-stage round for Amal
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) and High-Tech Gründerfonds have invested in a seed-funding round for Swiss biotech start-up Amal Therapeutics.
Covagen extends series-B with Baxter investment
Swiss biotech Covagen has extended its CHF 42m series-B funding round, raised in December, to procure a further CHF 2.9m from Baxter Ventures.
Investing in technology: it's not a bubble, but…
Taylor Wessing's Ed Waldron and Jonny Bethell wonder whether the recent appetite for tech businesses is sustainable.
Rosetta leads CHF 60m round for Novimmune
Life sciences-focused Rosetta Capital has led a CHF 60m ($66m) series-B funding round for Swiss biotech Novimmune.
Index in $500,000 round for Blaze
Index Ventures has taken part in a ТЃ300,000 funding round for Blaze, a UK-based start-up that produces safety lights for cycling.
Innovacom invests €1m in PredicSis
French firm Innovacom has injected €1m of early-stage funding into PredicSis, a Brittany-based big data predictive analysis start-up.
Creandum backs Fitbay
Creandum has injected $400,000 in an angel round for Fitbay, a social network for online clothes shopping.
Epidarex leads £4m investment in EMI
Epidarex Capital (formerly Rock Spring Ventures) has taken part in a ТЃ4m series-A funding round for Edinburgh University spinout Edinburgh Molecular Imaging (EMI).