Expansion
DENMARK - Hymite secures EUR 9m in funding
Technology company Hymite A/S has raised a series preferred B financing round totaling EUR 9m. The investors include TVM Capital, InnovationsKapital, Dansk Kapitalanlaeg, Vaekstfonden and IVS.
NL - Prosensa secures EUR 13.5m in funding
Biotechnology compnay Prosensa has secured EUR 13.5m in a series-A round led by Life Science Partners (LSP) and co-led by Abingworth. MedSciences Capital, an existing shareholder, also participated in the round. Prosensa is a Netherlands-based biotechnology...
GERMANY – capiton invests in Ensys
Independent private equity fund manager caption has acquired a stake in energy service provider Ensys AG as part of an expansion financing. The financial investor replaces some of the founding investors which had supported the company as business angels....
UK - Plastic Logic raises $100m in funding round led by Oak and Tudor
Plastic Logic, a Cambridge-based company whose previous backers include Amadeus Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Bank of America and Merifin Capital, has secured an additional $100m of equity financing led by Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Investment...
ESTONIA - MartinsonTrigon invests EUR 1m in social networking operator
MartinsonTrigon has agreed to invest EUR 1m in Rate Solutions, a Baltic social networking operator. Rate Solutions was behind Rate.ee, a social networking site with 25% of the 1.4 million population of Estonia as its users.
SPAIN - Banesto backs renewable energy business
Banesto ENISA SEPI Desarrollo has made an investment of EUR 1.5m in Aquaventus Energía SL in return of a minority stake.
UK - Seraphim Capital completes first investment
Seraphim Capital, the UKтs first Enterprise Capital Fund, led by GLE, is to provide a development capital injection of ТЃ1m into G-T-P Group Ltd. The deal represents Seraphimтs first investment.
UK - Finance Wales in £1.2m funding round for BP Rolls
Finance Wales has invested ТЃ240,000 to enable car and commercial vehicle repairer BP Rolls to expand its operations in Newport, Gwent. Finance Walesт investment is part of a wider financial package totalling ТЃ1.2m that will see the company purchasing...
SPAIN - 3i set to acquire 45% of Bouncopy today
According to reports in the Spanish press, 3i is due to close the acquisition of a stake in Bouncopy in the next couple of hours.
SPAIN - INova Capital backs DC Wafers
INova Capital has announced its invesment in industrial manufacturer DC Wafers. After the investment, completed via a capital increase, the private equity firm will control a 15% stake in the company.
GERMANY – Summit Partners invests in DEDON GmbH
Summit Partners has made a minority equity investment in outdoor luxury furniture company DEDON GmbH.
SWITZERLAND – NORD Holding buys into Kentaro AG
NORD Holding Unternehmensbeteiligungsgesellschaft has acquired a minority stake in sports rights agency Kentaro AG following a share capital increase. The financial investor acquired a 9.5% stake for an undisclosed sum and will increase its shareholding...
SWITZERLAND – SIRS-Lab raises EUR 10m
Affentranger Associates have led a EUR 10m funding round in SIRS-Lab alongside bm-t Beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen and Swiss institutional investors. The funding will be used to bring new molecular diagnostics to the market.
SPAIN - Ahorro Corporación invests in Biodiesel Alicante
Ahorro Corporación has agreed to purchase 20% of Biodiesel Alicante from Grupo Nátura. The consideration has not been disclosed.
SPAIN - Caixaholding backs baby food producer
According to reports in the Spanish press, Caixaholding has purchased 35% of Nafree for approximately EUR 1.25m. Private equity firm Molins Capital Inversión is reported to have invested as well, providing a total of EUR 50,000.
FRANCE - Canadian Telecom Media Fund invests EUR 8m in CheckPhone
Telecom Media Fund, a joint fund of Trio Capital and la Caisse de dépôts et placement du Quebec, has invested EUR 8m ($10.2m) in France-based VoIP security software developer CheckPhone.
UK - Noble Fund Managers leads £2.6m investment in Optasia Medical
Noble Fund Managers has led a ТЃ2.6m investment in Optasia Medical Ltd alongside Saffron Hill Ventures. The new capital will be used to accelerate the introduction into clinical practice of Optasia's radiography-based CAD tools for musculoskeletal diseases....
SPAIN - ERA Biotech raises EUR 1.4m from private equity investors
Bioproductivity company ERA Biotech has raised EUR 1.4m to finance its activities related to the manufacture of recombinant proteins in cultured cells.
UK - Accel, Amadeus and Index lead $26.5m fundraising for Artimi
Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners and Index Ventures have led a $26.5m series-B investment in Artimi Inc, a developer of wireless semiconductors for portable certified wireless USB consumer electronics that is based in California, with research...
PORTUGAL - BPI Private Equity backs professional cleaning business
BPI Private Equity has announced the purchase of a 30% shareholding in Grupo Serlima.
SPAIN - Primmera acquires Recycling Hispania
Private equity firm Primmera Inversiones en Desarrollo has acquired 100% of Recycling Hispania for approximately EUR 6m. The company, with headquarters in Madrid, carries out glass cleaning and collection services and it is one of the main players in...
ITALY - Lay Line Genomics attracts private equity interest
Biopharmaceutical company Lay Line Genomics has reached an exclusive licensing agreement with Dutch biotech group PanGenetics for the development of the antibody Hu-alphaD11, a product with similar analgesic properties to those of morphine but less agressive...
UK - Doughty Hanson leads EUR 315m cash injection for Sentanta
Doughty Hanson & Co has led a EUR 315m cash injection in the form of equity and preferred securities in Sentanta Sports Holdings Ltd. Goldman Sachs International, Davy Stockbrokers and Adams Street Partners have also invested in the deal. The new capital...
UK - Lyceum Capital backs SPI Group Ltd
Lyceum Capital has invested in SPI Group Ltd, a building services company which provides installation, repairs, maintenance and support services to the social housing sector.