Technology
Afinum acquires minority stake in Empolis
Firm's fourth fund closed on €280m in 2013
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Paca et al. inject €600,000 into Therapixel
Deal comes on the back of €300,000 injection last year
Inventure, Reaktor and NSA invest €2m in Sólfar
Business angels and Chinese investor also participated in seed round
Elaia launches €120m digital fund
First closing for early-stage vehicle scheduled for Q1 2016
Initial and Open Ocean in $2.3m round for Oppex
Public tender startup has raised $4m in total
Active Venture secures minority stake in Incubout
VC is currently investing from Amerigo Innvierte Spain Ventures fund
Inventure and Lifeline invest €2m in Wolt
Finnish VCs follow up on initial тЌ400,000 round from 2014
HelloFresh delays IPO
Company is backed by heavyweights Rocket Internet and Baillie Gifford
Munich Venture Partners backs Relayr's $11m series-A
Company develops internet-of-things technology
Target Partners backs Sicoya in €3.5m series-A
Company is spinout from TU Berlin
Norvestor backs Phonero
Investment is third from GP's NOK 3bn sixth vehicle
Isatis injects €4m into Graitec Innovation for Total Cad bolt-on
Funds to finance Graitec's first acquisition on US soil
YFM invests £5m in KeTech
KeTech generated revenues of ТЃ10.2m in 2014
Idinvest et al. in $10.2m series-B for Ngdata
Round comes two years after $3.3m series-A
FinTecSystems raises seed round from Heilemann et al.
Founders previously established fintech company Sofort
PE-backed Smile to bolt on Open Wide
Resulting group to employ 1,000 and generate €70m turnover
Partech invests in Chronext's $5.3m round
Competitor Chrono24 raised €21m in July
Speedinvest backs Hitbox's $4m series-A
Company attracted fresh capital from international investors
Figo raises seven-digit sum from HTGF et al.
Company was founded in 2012
Apax poised for King exit with $5.9bn Activision deal
GP started realising investment with 2014 IPO
Quotient buys VC-backed Shopmium
Business first received VC funding in 2011
Gigas to raise €4.1m in €13.8m IPO
No exit plans for company’s three VC backers, according to unquote” sources
HTGF backs Soley
Company is a spin-off from TU Munich