Early-stage
UK - Finance Wales leads £600,000 funding round for opto-electronics company
Finance Wales has led a ТЃ600,000 funding round for opto-electronics company Trace Technologies Ltd. Trace Technology's new software Photonic Interconnect System Designer (PISD) will enable the time taken to fit fibre optic cabling into aircraft to be...
UK - IQ Capital participates in £1m funding for Short Fuze
IQ Capital Fund, an early-stage fund launched in December 2006, has made its first investment co-leading a ТЃ1m funding round with CREATE Partners for electronic game design company Short Fuze. Short Fuze will use the new capital to accelerate the commercial...
SWITZERLAND - LSP and BiomedInvest lead EUR 7.2m financing round
In a first round of funding, Life Sciences Partners III, BiomedInvest AG and Novartis Venture Fund have invested EUR 7.2m in Okairos AG. The financing will enable the company to demonstrate proof of concept of its adenovirus-based technology in several...
UK - Midven backs Alzheimer's disease testing company with £1.25m
Midven has lead a ТЃ1.25m funding round into Cytox, a Birmingham medical sciences company which is developing a diagnostic test to facilitate the early identification of Alzheimerтs disease. NESTA and a group of serial angel investors were the other investors...
UK - Synergis leads investment into heart disease diagnosis company
Synergis Technologies has led a funding round for Petrra Ltd.
UK - Tudor Investment Corporation backs software start-up with £3m
Tudor Investment Corporation has invested ТЃ3m in Trampoline Systems, a London-based enterprise software start-up. Trampoline is the first European Enterprise 2.0 software developer to receive major investor backing. The investment enables Trampoline...
SWEDEN - Northzone invests $10m in Xcerion AB
Northzone Ventures has invested $10m in Xcerion AB to launch its collaborative XML Internet OS. Xcerion aims to distribute the OS and accompanying applications free as a service over the internet.
FRANCE - Sofinnova and Ventech invest EUR 6.5m in new music standard
Sofinnova Partners and Ventech have invested in the fist round of funding in MXP4, a start-up which has created technology allowing artists to create non-linear, interactive music.
FINLAND - Eqvitec injects EUR 2m in customer analytics solution provider
Via its fund Eqvitec Technology Fund III, The venture sponsor has invested EUR 2m in the first round of funding for Xtract, a Helsinki-based software developer.
SWEDEN - SEB Företagsinvest et al back QuickCool
SEB Företagsinvest has joined TeknoSeed and CapMan as a lead investor to advance QuickCool’s clinical studies, in a EUR 2.2m funding round.
GERMANY - EUR 3.5m funding for Exit Games
Media group Bertelsmann, and private equity firms Neuhaus Partners and smac partners have made an investment in Hamburg-based Exit Games.
UK - South East Growth Fund backs Medway Foods Ltd
WM Enterprise, via its South East Growth Fund, has invested in food production company Medway Foods Ltd.
ITALY - Z-Cube invests in pharma business
As a lead investor, Z-Cube has invested EUR 3.2m in pharma business PharmEste alongside Quantica SGR, Zernike Meta Venture and State Street Global Investment SGR (SSGI).
UK - Foresight portfolio company benefits from extra funding
Foresight Venture Partnersт investment into greenhouse gas abatement project developer Sindicatum has been followed by a major private equity placement: Citigroup Venture Capital International and the Black River Commodity Clean Energy Investment Fund...
GERMANY - immatics receives EUR 40m
Biopharmaceutical company immatics biotechnologies GmbH has received EUR 40m in a second round of financing from a consortium of investors. This includes previous investors Wellington Partners and 3i, but also new investors National Technology Enterprises...
UK - Catapult Growth Fund leads investment in Oxford Genome Sciences
Catapult Growth Fund, a newly launched ТЃ30m ECF run by Catapult Venture Managers has led an investment in Oxford Genome Sciences Ltd (OGeS). Existing investors South East Growth Fund and Oxford Capital Partners also participated in the funding round...
FRANCE - Auriga leads EUR 8.4m second round for Theraptosis
Auriga Partners, Seventure, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, CDC Entreprises and industrial company Blue Medical have committed over EUR 8m in the series-B financing of pharma company Theraptosis.
UK - Imperial Innovations leads £769,000 investment in biomaterials company
Imperial Innovations Group has invested ТЃ469,000 in Advanced Tissue Therapies Ltd (ATT), a biomaterials company that develops tissue engineering products aimed at orthopaedic and maxillofacial markets. The investment in ATT is part of a ТЃ769,000 seed...
UK - 3i and Amadeus lead $9.8m series-B funding for Nujira
3i and Amadeus Capital Partners have led a series-B funding round for wireless amplifier technology company Nujira. Cambridge Gateway Fund, Cambridge Capital Group and Cambridge Angels also invested in Cambridge-based company.
GERMANY - Triangle invests in iPharro
Triangle has invested EUR 4m in iPharro Media GmbH, a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics located in Darmstadt. The funding will enable the company, which has developed software to identify videos much faster than in real time,...
AUSTRIA - Pontis invests EUR 2.5m in Lixto Software
Pontis Venture Partners has invested in Vienna-based software company Lixto Software GmbH. Following its EUR 2.5m investment, the venture capitalist will hold a minority stake in the company.
FRANCE - Innoven injects EUR 3m in NavX
Innoven Partenaires has invested EUR 3m in NavX, a website offering services to satellite navigation device users.
FRANCE - Online news website Wikio gathers EUR 4m
US-based Lightspeed Venture Partners and Israeli venture investor Gemini have committed EUR 4m in the first round of institutional funding in French news website Wikio.
UK - Synergis invests £1.6m in cell encryption technology
Synergis Technologies has committed ТЃ1.6m in Cellcrypt, a company focused on secure voice encryption software for mobile phones and other mobile devices. Established in 2005, Cellcrypt is based in London with offices in California.