Early-stage
XAnge and Auriga invest in eXo
XAnge and Auriga have participated in a €4m financing round for eXo Platform, alongside angel investors including Sacha Labourey and Bob Bickel.
Q&A: European venture to outperform in cleantech area
Rob Genieser recently joined cleantech venture investor Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF), which currently invests from its ТЃ110m fund, closed in March 2008. Relocating from Vertex, which was headquartered in Singapore and Tel Aviv, he tells Rikke...
360 Capital Partners invests in Leetchi
Franco-Italian investor 360 Capital Partners has invested under €1m in Leetchi.com, an online payment company, alongside Kima Ventures.
Chalmers backs Orthocone with SEK 850,000
Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund has invested SEK 850,000 in technology start-up Orthocone.
Nauta in €1.5m round for Abiquo
Venture firm Nauta has led a €1.5m round for technology firm Abiquo, contributing €1m to the round and closing the first deal of its third fund Nauta III.
PTV and Sunstone invest €2.5m in Layar
Prime Technology Ventures (PTV) has together with Sunstone Capital, led a €2.5m series A round for Dutch augmented reality (AR) platform provider Layar.
MySQL founder backs MoSync
VC firm Open Ocean Capital, backed by MySQL founder Michael "Monty" Widenius has invested an undisclosed sum in MoSync, a provider of mobile application tools for standardisation.
Clave Mayor invests €4.5m in Ibetor
Spanish mid-market operator, Clave Mayor has invested €4.5m in technology business Ibetor via its Seguranza fund.
Eqvitec invests SEK 26m into Voddler
Finnish venture investors has backed Voddler, a company which providing video on-demand service, with SEK 26m.
Strong research bodes bright future for Dutch venture
The Netherlands’ excellence in the fields of ICT and Life Sciences is driving dealflow up and prompting optimism for the future. By Francinia Protti-Alvarez
Gründerfonds Münsterland completes first investment
eCAPITAL has invested a six-figure sum into Variowell Development GmbH.
Consortium funds Eucodis with EUR 2m
Existing investors Pontis Capital, Wiener Wachstumsfonds, IBG und Arax have invested EUR 2m in enzyme company Eucodis Bioscience.
HTGF and Bayern Kapital invest in InnoMotix
High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital have invested in pneumatics company InnoMotix GmbH.
Secondaries players to fill later-stage gap
A lack of LP appetite has left a void at the later-stage end of the European venture market. Could secondaries players hold the key, asks Emanuel Eftimiu
LSP in €21.7m series B round for Merus
Life Sciences Partners (LSP), Novartis Option Fund, Pfizer and Bay City Capital have co-led a €21.7m series B financing round for biopharmaceutical Merus.
Optiomi and Veraventure back SongHi
Optiomi Invest has joined forces with the Finnish public early-stage investor Veraventure and backed SongHi Entertainment.
Veraventure leads USD 1m round for XIHA Life
Finnish public venture capital fund Veraventure has led a USD 1m investment round for multilingual social networking site XIHA Life
HTGF leads investment in crealytics
High-Tech Gründerfonds has led an investment in performance search marketing company crealytics GmbH, with Bayern Kapital and Chancenkapital Biberach also participating.
FRANCE - Sofinnova Partners leads EUR 3.3m investment in Celsius
Sofinnova Partners has backed Paris-based specialised mobile phone producer Celsius with EUR 2.2m, in funding round raisinig a total of EUR 3.3m. AGF Private Equity provided EUR 500,000 while a number of private investors completed the funding with a...
GERMANY - HTGF and Life Science Fonds Esslingen invest in Amedrix
High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Life Science Fonds Esslingen have jointly invested a total of EUR 700,000 in the medical implants developer Amedrix GmbH.
SWEDEN - Sunstone in EUR 12.5m FlatFrog funding
Financial investor Invus and strategic backer Promethan have co-led a financing round for technology business FlatFrog Labratories, in which existing investor Sunstone Capital also participated, worth EUR 12.5m.
EUROPE - Exciting times for venture
Venture's simple business model of providing equity without relying on cheap finance or financial chicanery stands it in good stead for the future, argues Index Ventures' Ben Holmes in a recent video with unquote's Rikke Eckhoff.
GERMANY - Triangle and ERP invest EUR 2.5m in TakWak
Triangle Venture Capital and ERP Startfonds have invested in TakWak, a spinout from FG Microtec, in a funding round worth EUR 2.5m.
UK - Finance Wales invests £315,000 into Ocelus
Finance Wales has invested ТЃ315,000 in drug company Ocelus as part of a second funding round worth close to ТЃ500,000.