Early-stage
NETHERLANDS - BioGeneration and PPM Oost invest in NovioGendix
BioGeneration and PPM OOst have invested in NovioGendix, a Dutch-based company.
UK - YFM and NESTA support ProVision with £750,000
The YFM Group-managed South West Venture Fund and Finance South West Growth Fund, along with NESTA investments, have invested £750,000 into digital wireless video technology company ProVision Communications.
UK - Oxford Capital Partners leads £1.2m investment in waste water technology
Oxford Capital Partners has led a £1.2m investment in Microbial Solutions Ltd, a waste water treatment company. H20 Venture Partners and existing investor Rainbow Seed Fund also participated in the funding round. Microbial Solutions is a newly formed...
UK - Low Carbon Accelerator makes £320,000 investment into QuantaSol
Low Carbon Accelerator Ltd has announced a £320,000 investment into solar enegry firm QuantaSol Ltd, taking its equity stake in the company to 25.6%.
GERMANY - High-Tech Gründerfonds backs start-up Immunservice
High-Tech Gründerfonds has provided seed financing for Immunservice GmbH, a start-up which develops immune biomimetic hormones for drug testing. The seed financing enables the company to optimise production of its lead product Pulmoleukin to industrial...
UK - E-Synergy leads £1.7m Envirotreat funding
The Sustainable Technology Fund (STF), a cleantech focused venture capital fund managed by E-synergy, has led a £1.7m round of funding for toxic soil and waste remediation specialist Envirotreat Ltd.
UK - Spark and Eden invest $6m in We7
SPARK Ventures has been joined by new investor Eden Ventures on a $6m series-A funding round for We7, an ad-funded music download service. Peter Gabriel, the musician, also participated in the deal having provided the company with start-up funding alongside...
GERMANY – Holtzbrinck Ventures and European Founders Fund invest in AdScale
Holtzbrinck Ventures and European Founders Fund invested a medium seven figure sum in AdScale in a second round of financing. The size of the first financing round – to which Oliver Jung and Lukasz Gadowski contributed – is undisclosed. AdScale is...
GERMANY/NETHERLANDS – Triangle invest EUR 4.1m in German/Dutch iOpener
Triangle Venture Capital Group has raised EUR 4.1m in seed financing for real-time game engine company iOpener. Its first product is based on innovations from the European Space Agency, which allow the efficient transmission of telemetric data from a...
GERMANY - High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in search tools company kinkaa.de
High-Tech Gründerfonds GmbH & Co. KG and other investors invested in kinkaa Search Tools GmbH. The company is based in Frankfurt and Palo Alta, Silicon Valley, and operates kinkaa.de, an Internet meta search engine specialised on travels. The search...
FRANCE – Demeter Partners invest EUR 1.2m in Panosol
Demeter Partners has led a series-A round of funding for start-up Panosol investing EUR 1.2m. The founders retained a majority of the capital.
GERMANY - Business angels invest six figure sum in drug portal apomio.de
Business angels Lukasz Gadowski and Oliver Jung have invested a six figure sum in apomio GmbH, which runs an independent online portal for price comparisons of drugs, care and food products. The company is set to capitalise on changes in the legal framework...
GERMANY/NETHERLANDS - Triangle Venture Capital Group leads EUR 4.1m funding for iOpener
Triangle Venture Capital Group has led a EUR 4.1m investment in iOpener. iOpener has developed a technology to map real-world competitions such as Formula 1 to an artificial world, allowing gamers to participate in the race virtually and in real time....
GERMANY - Heidelberg Innovation leads 4.6m series-c round for IonGate
Lead investor Heidelberg Innovation and KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) have closed the third funding round for biotechnology company IonGate Biosciences GmbH which has raised a total of EUR 4.6m. Previous investments included a seed financing in...
GERMANY - KfW joins other VCs in backing Protagen AG
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) has joined existing lead investors MIG AG and Co KG Beteiligungsfonds 3 and S-Venture Capital Dortmund GmbH in raising EUR 1m in interim financing for protein research company Protagen AG. This is the third round...
FRANCE – Index Ventures leads EUR 7m B-round funding for Criteo
Index Ventures led existing investors AGF Private Equity and Elaia Parenters in a EUR 7m B-round of funding for Criteo, bringing the total financing the company has received to EUR 10m.
FRANCE – Japanese investors lead financing round in DiBcom
Japanese investors NIF SMBC Ventures led NTT Finance in a new round of financing for Dibcom. Clipperton Finance advised the French start-up on the deal.
GERMANY – b-to-v leads investment in Carsablanca
b-to-v has led a funding round for old-timer internet platform carsablanca.de, raising an undisclosed sum for Hamburg-based Carsablanca GmbH, the company which runs the website. The company plans to boost the platform’s capacity and increase functions...
SWITZERLAND – Consortium of investors raise CHF 17m for Vivendy
BioMedInvest AG I, LSP Life Sciences Partners and TVM Capital closed a CHF 17m series-A round for Vivendy Therapeutics Ltd., a bio-pharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland. Vivendy is a pharmaceutical start-up company that is developing an...
FRANCE – CDC Innovation leads EUR 5m financing round in Aldebaran Robotics
CDC Innovation has led a EUR 5m series–A round of financing for Aldebaran Robotics’ NAO robot. I-Source Gestion also participated in the deal. The Parisiam start-up company develops 60cm tall humanoid home robot companions.
UK - Wellcome Trust invests £3.5m in Novacta Biosystems
The Wellcome Trust has provided Novacta Biosystems, an anti-infective therapeutics company, with a £3.5m award and investment. The deal sees medical research charity Wellcome take a minority stake in the business which previously received £900,000 of...
GERMANY - L-EA and SEED fund Trivid with EUR 2-5m
L-EigenkapitalAgentur and SEED have invested a total of EUR 2-5m in Trivid GmbH, a provider of online video and content solutions in a Series A round. L-EigenkapitalAgentur has acquired the bigger stake in the company, with the total of equity held by...
SPAIN - Berquet Desarrollo Empresarial backs internet player
Berquet Desarrollo Empresarial has provided internet music portal Nvivo.es with a first round of funding.
GERMANY - Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in family networking site
Hasso Plattner Ventures has provided OSN GmbH, the company behind family networking site verwandt.de, with a second round of funding. This marks the investor’s largest investment to date. Existing investor, Neuhaus Partners, also participated in this...