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GERMANY - capiton buys grocery logistics specialist
capiton has invested in the Steco Group as part of an expansion and replacement financing. Steco is a logistics services company, that operates a pool of reusable plastic crates for the grocery industry, mainly used for the transport of fruits and vegetables....
SWITZERLAND - Jet Aviation strengthens US operations
Zurich-based Jet Aviation Group has acquired US firm Midcoast Aviation Inc for an undisclosed sum. Based in St Louis, Midcoast employs a staff of 850 and generated revenues of $138m in 2004/5.
GERMANY - Wellington invests in Eastbeam
Wellington Partners has invested in the Eastbeam Group in connection with an initial round of financing totaling EUR 3m. This German-Japanese company operates Wazap!, a vertical, i.e. subject-specific, search engine that users can employ to inform themselves...
GERMANY - Triangle leads financing for game technology provider X-aitment
Triangle Venture Capital Group has led a EUR 3m funding round to enable German game technology imaging developer X-aitment to start up its operation.
Vienna-based Nabriva receives EUR 42m in early-stage funding
A syndicate of investors led by Nomura, including Global Life Science Ventures, HBM Bioventures, Novartis Bioventures and Wellcome has provided EUR 42m in financing to antibiotic research concern Nabriva GmbH. GLSV committed EUR 6m in the series A financing...
European tech M&A soars, says research
The number of acquisitions during 2005 within the European technology sector has outstripped the previous high of 2004 and recorded a staggering 103% increase in deal value, according to the latest findings from Regent Associates' 'European Technology...
STAR Capital in German double
STAR Capital Partners, the European investment fund focused on investing in capital intensive businesses, has announced the completion on 30th December 2005 of two new deals in Germany: Abellio GmbH and GSES GmbH. The combined equity investment (including...
Second German newspaper buyout for Veronis-Mecom Consortium
US private equity media specialist Veronis Suhler Stevenson, alongside British Mecom Plc, has acquired German Morgenpost Verlag GmbH from former shareholders Hans Barlach and Josef Depenbrock for an undisclosed sum. The deal is the consortium's second...
Austrian startup RF-iT receives EUR 4m from PONTIS and Truffle
Vienna-based PONTIS Venture Partners, alongside Parisian Truffle Venture has arranged a first round of funding for Infineon spin-off RF-iT Solutions. Public leverage came from the federal agency Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS) which complemented the...
VC syndicate sells GylcArt to Roche for SFr 235m
Global Life Science Ventures (GLSV) has announced thatRoche, one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups in pharmaceuticals anddiagnostics, has signed an agreement to acquire privately held GlycArt Biotechnology AG, aportfolio company...