Index Ventures
Investors pump €70m into private sales club Privalia
General Atlantic and Index Ventures have joined existing investor Highland Capital Partners to inject €70m into online sales company Privalia.
Dr Kevin Johnson formally joins Index Ventures
Following a six-year association with the venture investor as an advisor, life sciences specialist and entrepreneur Dr Kevin Johnson has joined Index Ventures as a Partner.
Index Ventures et al. back GroupSpaces with $1.3m
Index Ventures and a consortium of business angels have invested $1.3m in online group management specialist GroupSpaces.
Ventech invests €10m in Funxional Therapeutics
French private equity firm Ventech entered the series-B financing round as a new investor, alongside existing backers Index Ventures and Novo A/S.
Consortium invests $7.5m in Movidius
Existing shareholders Celtic House Venture Partners, Capital E, Emertec Gestion, AIB Seed Capital Fund and angel investors have invested $7.5m in a series-B round in semiconductor company Movidius.
Criteo achieves $7 million in series-C funding
Criteo has raised $7m from Bessemer Venture Partners in a series-C funding, bringing total fundraising to $24m.
Consortium raises €20m Series C for Affimed
Existing investors aeris Capital, BioMedInvest, LSP Life Sciences Partners, Novo Nordisk A/S and Orbimed have provided €20m in in a Series-C financing round for Affimed Therapeutics AG.
Q&A: The fundraising fulcrum
Francois Rowell speaks to Mounir Guen, CEO of placement agent MVision, about the fundraising climate in 2010.
SPAIN - FON secures EUR 22m from blue chip investors
FON, a company focused on creating a global network of shared Wi-Fi connections, has announced that it secured EUR 18m in funding from Index Ventures, Google, Sequoia Capital and Skype. Index Ventures led the round.