Technology
Quester supports Celona with $1.7m investment
Quester has invested an additional $1.7m in Celona Technologies, the established market leader in product portfolio management. This funding will be used to support the continued expansion of Celona's commercial team. Celona Technologies's key offering...
Quester invests £2m in software firm
Quester has invested ТЃ2m in Level Four Software Ltd, independent software company which supplies advanced software products for the testing and development of ATM services to major banks and financial institutions worldwide. The capital will be used...
Wellington profits from net mobile IPO
net mobile AG, which has been a Wellington Partners portfolio company since 2003, has gone public at an issue price of EUR 8.50 per share, and already recorded a double-digit rise in the share price on the first trading day. Prior to the launch, net mobile...
Albany invests in healthcare software specialist
Albany Ventures Fund III has invested in Digital Healthcare Limited, a Cambridge based software supplier of digital imaging, advanced care pathways and clinical information systems for the healthcare market.
Mtivity secures £1.5m from VC syndicate
Mtivity Ltd, a leading provider of marketing management software to companies and media agencies, has raised £1.5m and announced the appointment of Patrick Kremer as its new chief executive to lead plans for significant growth in the UK and overseas....
Foresight invests in VOIP specialist
Foresight Venture partners has invested over ТЃ1.5 million in the UKтs leading B2B voice over internet protocol (VOIP) company alwaysON. Against a market background of Yahoo offering free global telephone calls via its instant messenger service, and 112...
Palamon boosts German team
Palamon Capital Partners has expanded its German investment team with two senior appointments. Dr Tom Sommerlate has been appointed to the firm’s board of advisors. Dr Sommerlate is chairman of Arthur D. Little’s management consulting activities in...
Albany leads investment in High Integrity Solutions
Albany has led a ТЃ2.5m funding for High Integrity Solutions, alongside Foresight and Enterprise VCT Plc, to market its software development framework into major engineering projects across the world. This second round funding follows an original investment...
La Bourse - French private equity's public enemy no. 1?
The schism between private equity and the public market has become increasingly significant in France over the last few years. With the notable exception of the recent EUR 3.7bn public-to-private of Rexel, surprisingly few delistings have taken place...
3i boosts Asian team
As part of its growth strategy for Asia, 3i has announced the appointments of Daizong Wang, Jae Kim, Bonnie Lo and Jason Yin in Hong Kong and the transfer of Dominic Orchard to the Asian team from London.
Logic Control sold to Sage Group
The Sage Group Plc has agreed to acquire Logic Control S.A., a vendor of business management software in Spain, for an enterprise value of approximately £55m, paid in cash. The deal represents an exit for InvestIndustrial, Sagitta and B&S. The acquisition...
Sigefi Ventures profits from 2 exits in 2005
Sigefi Ventures, which is in charge of the Siparex Group’s venture capital activity, realized EUR 8.5m in capital gains over the first five months of 2005. The capital gains came from the “FCPI” innovation funds and the fund Sudinnova II, all of which...
Meiosys sale success for large VC syndicate
IBM has acquired Meiosys, a privately held company based in Palo Alto and Toulouse. Meiosys provides unique software technologies that enable applications to be dynamically moved from one server or set of servers to others without disruption. Financial...
Hg sells Trados for $60m
HgCapital has announced the sale of Trados Incorporated, the global market leader in globalisation software to the translator and corporate enterprise market to SDL Plc.