Early-stage
UK - Close Ventures backs Point 35 Microstructures with £1.95m investment
Close Ventures has invested ТЃ1.95m in Point 35 Microstructures, a supplier of refurbished semiconductor wafer processing equipment. The funding round totalled ТЃ2.1m.
UK - Enterprise Ventures invests in Chromatide Ltd
Enterprise Ventures has invested in chemical services company Chromatide Ltd through its RisingStars Growth Fund II.
UK - Mangrove Capital leads $8m series-B funding for Seatwave
Mangrove Capital Partners has led an $8m series-B funding round for Seatwave, a fan-to-fan ticket exchange. Mangrove joins existing investor Atlas Venture which provided $3m of series-A funding for the company in May 2006.
BALTIC - LP Otrais Eko Funds invest in LLC Epic Bau for EUR 150,000
LP Otrais Eko Fonds will invest EUR 150,000 in start-up company LLC Epic Bau to finance the acquisition of modern mobile concrete production machinery. The fund will obtain a 49% shareholding in the company.
FRANCE - Implanet Partners receives EUR 13m from Franco-German syndicate
Bordeaux-based medical technology start-up Implanet has received EUR 13m from a syndicate led by Auriga Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners and Wellington Partners.
UK - Imperial Innovations and The Capital Fund lead £2.44m round for IXICO
Imperial Innovations Group and The Capital Fund have together invested ТЃ850,000 to co-lead an investment round of ТЃ2.44 million into IXICO Ltd, a provider of image analysis solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. The fundraising will enable the company...
GERMANY – Earlybird invests in smava
Earlybird has led a EUR 4m financing round in German internet company smava. This represents Earlybird’s second investment from the next-generation fund Earlybird IV. Other investors committing to the round are business angels Lukasz Gadowski, Stefan...
UK - Oxford Capital Partners and Imperial Innovations in £3.1m second-round funding
Oxford Capital Partners and Imperial Innovations have co-led a ТЃ3.1m second round of funding for Veryan Medical Ltd, a developer of medical devices to improve the long-term effectiveness of medical care in patients with vascular disease. Existing investor...
GERMANY - NOXXON Pharma raises EUR 37m
NOXXON Pharma AG, a developer of mirror image oligonucleotide therapeutics, has closed a EUR 37m series-C financing round. The main investors are TVM Capital, Sofinnova Partners and Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners. Other investors contributing...
LUXEMBOURG - Mangrove invests in Jambaz
Mangrove Capital has reportedly provided seed-financing to Luxembourg-based Jambaz, a creator of a game widget that lets people predict the stock movement on a daily basis while offering cash prices to the most accurate calls. No further details have...
UK - Quester and YFM in £600,000 third round for Symetrica
YFM Group and Quester join other investors NESTA, the SULIS Seedcorn Fund and Tennants Ventures on a third round of funding totalling ТЃ600,000 for gamma radiation detector specialists Symetrica. NESTA first invested in Symetrica in September 2004 in...
GERMANY - StageSpace receives seed funding
StageSpace has raised an undisclosed amount of seed capital from a syndicate of investors including Mountain Partners and Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH.
UK - 3i and Doughty Hanson provide Garlik with £6m series-B funding
Online identity experts Garlik have secured ТЃ6m in series-B funding from 3i and Doughty Hanson. This equity injection builds on an initial ТЃ3m investment from the two firms in January 2006, bringing the total raised to date to just over ТЃ9m. It follows...
UK - MSIF provides blood testing technology company with £100,000 investment
Merseyside Special Investment Fund has backed PalindromX, a blood testing technology company, with ТЃ100,000 of seed funding through its Liverpool Seed Fund. PalindromX is a spinout from the University of Liverpool. It has developed a patented technology...
UK - NorthStar Equity leads £2m investment in Femeda
NorthStar Equity Investors with Stargate Capital Management and Acceleris Corporate Ventures have led a ТЃ2m investment to Femeda, a female health product company. Existing investor Enterprise Ventures is also taking part in the round, via the RisingStars...
UK - Advent Venture backs new home moving web services
Advent Venture Partners and seed investors, The Accelerator Group, have provided new home moving web service Moveme.com with early-stage funding. Moveme.com is a online service which will enable millions of people moving home to save significant time;...
UK - Creative Capital Fund backs performance company with EUR 2.53m
The Creative Capital Fund has led a EUR 2.53m fund-raising for The Creative Experience Company Ltd. The investment was led by Leisure and Media VCT Plc, which is managed by North Atlantic Value LLP, part of the J O Hambro Capital Management Group. The...
UK - Brightstation Ventures backs internet fashion network with £1m
Brightstation Ventures has provided Osoyou.com, an internet-based fashion social network start-up with ТЃ1m of funding. The website is due to launch this summer and will compete with the likes of Conde Nast's stylefinder.com.
GERMANY - GANYMED receives EUR 33.7m financing
GANYMED Pharmaceuticals AG has closed an EUR 33.7m series C financing round led by Venture Incubator Partners. Other investors committing to this round are Future Capital, Ingro Finanz, LVVW, MIG, Nextech, ONC Partners, Varuma and a consortium of Swiss...
NORWAY - ProVenture Seed invests NOK 4m in New Index AS
ProVenture Seed has invested seed capital as part of the development of New Index, a technology company based in Trondheim. The investor has developed a business development plan for the coming to years to secure growth going forward, and additionally...
NL - ProFibrix closes $11m Series A financing round
ProFibrix BV, a Leiden-based biotech company focused on products to stop bleeding and initiate tissue repair, has closed a Series A financing round raising $11m. The round was led by Index Ventures and backed by some of the current share holders of ProFibrix....
UK - Investment in UK enterprise hits new high
Investment in UK deals of sub-ТЃ1m has hit a new high of ТЃ63m over the 12 months to December 2006 according to research published by Venture Index. The ТЃ63m was comprised of 398 deals of which 136 were completed in the last three months of 2006. In...
FRANCE - 360 Capital Partners invests EUR 3m in Iminent
Franco-Italian venture investor 360 Capital Partners has invested EUR 3m in the first round of funding for Iminent, a developer of tools and services for online instant messaging.
UK - Newly launched Mercia Technology Seed Fund completes first deal
The Mercia Technology Seed Fund, launched last week, has completed its first investment. Intelligent Orthopaedics, a medical engineering company has received just under ТЃ250,000 of syndicate funding from Mercia, SMIF and private investors. This second...