Technology
NORWAY - HiTecVision sells three portfolio companies to Cubera
HiTecVision has completed the sale of RigNet Inc, SPT Group AS, and Norse Cutting & Abandonment AS to Cubera for an undisclosed sum.
SWEDEN - Nordic Venture Partners et al exit Operax
NetSockets Inc has acquired Stockholm-based software company Operax for an undisclosed sum from Nordic Venture Partners, Emano, Innovacom and Nomura, and the founders.
FRANCE - CDC Innovation and Innovacom invest EUR 750,000 in Maeglin
CDC Innovation and Innovacom have invested EUR 750,000 in Maeglin Software in a first round of financing.
DENMARK - Index Ventures invests USD 27m in Milestone
Index Ventures has invested USD 27m in Milestone, a Copenhagen-based developer of open platform IP video management software for surveillance systems.
UK - Amadeus leads USD 16m funding round for Secerno
Amadeus Capital Partners has led a USD 16m series-B funding round into software company Secerno Ltd alongside existing backers Eden Ventures and Spark Ventures.
SPAIN - Private equity investment drops 41%
According to the latest data released by ASCRI, the first semester of 2008 registered a 41% year-on-year drop in total private equity transaction value in Spain, dropping to EUR 1.19bn and falling below the EUR 1.23bn invested in the first semester of...
UK - Pentech to raise £45m fund
Pentech Ventures is believed to be raising a new ТЃ45m fund, to be launched this summer.
UK - Advent appoints partner
Advent Venture Partners has appointed Mike Chalfen as general partner in its technology team.
UK - Balderton invests in GDCM
Balderton Capital has invested an undisclosed sum in software company Global Datacentre Management (GDCM).
Growing pains
The mid-market appears to be in relative good health and Southern Europe continues to clock up deals - even sizeable ones: as highlighted by the EUR1.1bn injection into Italian telecom holding Weather Investments by Apax, Madison Dearborn and TA Associates....
FRANCE - Oséo backs EUR 580,000 Neli financing
Start-up business Neli Technologies, which develops technology for the digital television sector, has secured EUR 580,000 in new financing, with EUR 260,000 coming from Oséo, EUR 220,000 from business angels, EUR 100,000 from Bretagne Jeunes Entreprises,...
SWEDEN - Verdane acquires portion of Pelago portfolio
Verdane Capital has acquired a portion of three of Pelago Venture Partner’s portfolio companies for an undisclosed sum.
FRANCE - TechFund leads EUR 5m investment into Miyowa
TechFund Europe, alongside Crédit Agricole Private Equity, has invested EUR 5m into software company Miyowa in a second round of financing. Venture capital firms Techfund and Sophia Euro have both previously supported the company with EUR 1.5m, taking...
FRANCE - AGF PE continues to back Yoono
AGF Private Equity has returned for a EUR 4m round of financing for Yoono, a software developer. Previously AGF Private Equity had invested EUR 1.7m in first round of funding in 2006.
EUROPE - EVCA publishes study on global scenario for private equity
A new report by the EVCA, Global Scenarios for Private Equity and Venture Capital, presents four potential scenarios for global economic development over the coming decade and the impact these will have on the development of the private equity industry....
SPAIN - Kennet leads EUR 22m funding round for software firm
Kennet Partners has led a EUR 22m series-B financing round for software developer NTRGlobal, alongside Atlas Ventures and existing investors Debaeque and Elaia Partners.
NORWAY - CapMan and InnovationsKapital fund Crayon
CapMan Technology 2007 fund and InnKap 4 have invested an undisclosed sum in Crayon, an IT consultancy business that is owned by Norwegian parent Artix AS, for a 20% stake in the parent group with equal holdings after the transaction has closed. The current...
UK - Liautaud to join Balderton Capital
Balderton Capital has hired Benard Liautaud as general partner.