Technology
Intesa San Paolo backs mobile marketing company
Intesa San Paolo has invested €600,000 in mobile marketing company Pantea, alongside a €150,000 co-investment from Italian mobile media and commerce company Neomobile.
CAPE invests €1.5m in viavoo
Crédit Agricole Private Equity (CAPE) has invested €1.5m in French CRM software developer viavoo.
3TS Capital Partners backs eCift.com
CEE growth capital investor 3TS Capital Partners and fund-of-funds The Istanbul Venture Capital Initiative (iVCi) have invested €3m in Turkish dating website eCift.com.
BayBG et al. invest €3.1m in CargoGuard
BayBG, LBBW Venture, FBcon as well as M-Investar have joined the existing investors in a further financing round for CargoGuard.
LDC backs Kirona MBO
LDC has backed the MBO of field force automation software company Kirona.
Lyceum acquires Clearswift
Lyceum has taken a stake in digital security software company Clearswift.
HTGF exits Terrawater
High-Tech Gründerfonds has sold its stake in Terrawater to strategic investor Taprogge Esaco.
Van den Ende & Deitmers backs Pictura
Van den Ende & Deitmers has taken a 45% stake in Pictura, a Dutch business that digitises cultural heritage collections for various organisations.
PGE invests £1m in Concorde Solutions
Panoramic Growth Equity (PGE) has injected ТЃ1m into software company Concorde Solutions.
Oakley Capital acquires intergenia
Oakley Capital Private Equity has taken a 51% stake in German web hosting company intergenia.
Atomico and Creandum in $5.5m series-A for Wrapp
Atomico has led a $5.5m round for electronic gift voucher service Wrapp.
Bayern Kapital, HTGF and BayBG back commercetools
Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds and BayBG have invested less than €10m in cloud-based software commercetools.
Index Ventures closes €500m fund
Index Ventures has raised тЌ500m for its latest fund, targeting the technology sector.
Gimv sells part of Tinubu Square stake
Gimv has sold the largest part of its minority stake in French credit risk solutions provider Tinubu Square to sovereign wealth fund FSI.
VNT Management holds first closing
VNT Management has raised тЌ42m at the first closing of its cleantech-focused Power Fund III, which has a target of between тЌ75-100m.
HTGF and IBB provide further funding for PressMatrix
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and IBB have invested an undisclosed amount together with a business angel in PressMatrix.
Riverside and Halder acquire Keymile from Hannover Finanz
The Riverside Company and Halder have acquired telecommunications firm Keymile from Hannover Finanz in a secondary management buyout.
m8 Capital invests in Masabi
Mobile technology venture capital fund m8 Capital has led a $4m series-B round for Masabi, a developer of mobile phone ticketing technology.
HTGF exits YOOCHOOSE
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has sold online reviews company YOOCHOOSE to Norwegian open source web content management firm eZ Systems.
Industrifonden invests in Zaplox
Industrifonden and LMK Venture have invested SEK 10m in Swedish technology company Zaplox.
Technology activity holds up despite tough market
Tech deals have remained remarkably robust since the onset of the financial crisis, with fairly consistent deal volumes seen throughout the past few years. However, deal value has fluctuated wildly. Anneken Tappe investigates.
Index Ventures and Creandum lead €8.2m round for iZettle
Index Ventures and Creandum have invested тЌ8.2m in a series-A financing round for Swedish technology company iZettle.
Banexi Ventures Partners holds first closing
Banexi Ventures Partners has held a first close of its BV5 fund at €50m.
Mountain Cleantech raises €23m for second fund
Swiss venture capital firm Mountain Cleantech has announced a first close of its second fund on €23m.