Healthcare
Sofinnova leads £6m investment in Mission Therapeutics
Sofinnova Partners has led a ТЃ6m funding round for Cambridge-based drug development company Mission Therapeutics.
Consortium invest £8m in KalVista
SV Life Sciences and Novo A/S have provided ТЃ8m in a series-A round for ophthalmology company KalVista Pharmaceuticals.
SHS acquires Spiegelberg
SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement has acquired shares in medical equipment producer Spiegelberg for an undisclosed amount.
Sovereign acquires CHS for City & Country
Sovereign Capital has acquired Community and Homecare Services (CHS) as an add-on for City & County Healthcare Group.
NBGI and Ethemba back Birgi Mefar
NBGI Private Equity and Ethemba Capital have acquired a controlling stake in Turkish pharmaceutical company Birgi Mefar for an undisclosed amount.
Bmp exits Pomocni
bmp has sold its 17.24% stake in online childcare platform Pomocni to Edipresse Polska.
Sud Investments leads financing in PneumaCare
Sud Investments has led a ТЃ2m round of funding for PneumaCare Ltd, together with a group of existing investors including Cambridge Enterprise, Cambridge Capital Group, Plextek Ltd and members of the Cambridge Angels group.
Consortium sells Carmel Pharma stake
A consortium, consisting of Priveq Investment, Investor Growth Capital, Industrifonden, Start Invest and employees, has sold 95% of the shareholding in Swedish pharmaceutical company Carmel Pharma AB.
EQT acquires Atos from Nordic Capital
EQT has acquired Swedish medical device company Atos Medical from Nordic Capital.
S-Refit et al. close finance round for Lophius
Venture capital firms S-Refit, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayernkapital have closed a €1.4m financing round for diagnostic test systems developer Lophius Biosciences.
VCs exit BiancaMed in trade sale
VC-backed Irish medical equipment company BiancaMed has been acquired by ResMed, in a deal that values the company at less than $50m.
Incitia partially exits Algeta – reaps 8x
Incitia Ventures has sold 50% of its shareholding in Oslo-based biotech company Algeta ASA, generating an 8x return on investment.
Consortium provides €7m funding for NonWoTecc
NRW.Bank, Rheinland Venture Capital, Kreissparkasse Köln, HTGF and KfW have backed NonWoTecc Medical in a second financing round worth €7m.
Creathor Venture and HTGF invest in Sirion Biotech
Creathor Venture and current investors HTGF, KfW and Bayerkapital have invested in biotechnology company Sirion Biotech.
LSP et al. invest €8.1m in Mendor
A consortium, consisting of Life Sciences Partners (LSP), Finnish entrepreneur Risto Siilasmaa, Finnish Industry Investment, Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Biothom and Finnvera Venture Capital, has participated in a тЌ8.1m series-B funding...
Altor acquires Orchid Orthopedic
Altor has acquired US-based orthopaedic and dental implant company Orchid Orthopedic Solutions from Churchill Equity.
PE-backed Vivalto Santé acquires new clinic in France
Vivalto Santé, a French private healthcare company partly owned by a consortium of private equity investors, has acquired Polyclinique de la Baie d'Avranches for an undisclosed amount.
CAN backs Laboratorios Ojer Pharma with €500,000
Corporación Caja Navarra (CAN), the private equity arm of Caja Navarra, has invested €500,000 in biotech company Laboratorios Ojer Pharma in return for a 11.22% in the business.
HTGF et al. make follow on investment in m2p-labs
High-Tech-Gründerfonds, KfW, the Seed Fund for the Region of Aachen and the ERP Start-UP Fund have backed biotechnology company m2p-labs with a third round of funding.
Azulis Capital buys Lagarrigue from iXO
Azulis Capital has taken a majority stake in the secondary buyout of French medical equipment business Lagarrigue from iXO Private Equity.
BC Partners further exits Médica
TBU-3 International, a holding owned by BC Partners, has sold a 28.1% stake in listed French homecare company Médica.
PE-backed AES Laboratoire sold for €183m
Abénex Capital, EPF Partners, Fortis PE and BNP Paribas have exited French microbiology company AES Laboratoire in a €183m trade sale to bioMérieux.
HTGF backs MYR GmbH
High-Tech Gründerfonds has invested €500,000 in German biotech firm MYR GmbH.
Nordic Capital's Nycomed in possible €8bn sale
Nordic Capitalтs portfolio company Nycomed has received interest from Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda Pharmaceutical, according to reports.