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MyOptique Group raises £8m
Online optical retailer The MyOptique Group has raised £8m from existing and new backers to boost plans for international expansion.
Index leads €10m series-C round for Navabi
Index Ventures, Seventure and DuMont Venture have backed online clothing retailer Navabi in a €10m series-C round.
Index backs MetaPack with £20m
Index Ventures has injected £20m into MetaPack, a UK-based provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery management platform for e-commerce.
Funding Circle raises $37m in series-C round
UK-based crowdfunding platform Funding Circle has raised $37m in a series-C round led by Accel Partners.
Intel, Index back onefinestay
Intel Capital has backed London-based start-up onefinestay in a round led by Index Ventures.
VC-backed Supercell secures $1.53bn from SoftBank
Finnish mobile games developer Supercell, backed by a consortium of venture capital firms, has raised $1.53bn from Japanese telecoms group SoftBank and GungHo Online Entertainment.
VC-backed Criteo to raise $176m in IPO
French advertisement targeting company Criteo, backed by several venture capital firms, plans on raising $176m in its upcoming flotation on Nasdaq, valuing the company in the region of $1.5bn.
Octopus et al. back Swoon Editions with £1.2m
Octopus Investments, Index Ventures and angel investors have injected £1.2m into furniture designer Swoon Editions.
Alven et al. inject €1.2m into Algolia
Alven Capital, Index Ventures, Point 9 Capital and private investors have provided French search engine Algolia with a €1.2m round of funding.
VC-backed Criteo files for $190m IPO
Criteo, a French advertisement targeting solutions provider for e-commerce sites backed by a number of venture capital firms, has filed for its IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
VCs hope to take away strong returns from food delivery services
With a number of online food delivery platforms now available to the public, venture backers must ensure too many cooks do not spoil the broth. Amy King reports
Index leads $20m Egalet round
Index Ventures has led a $20m funding round for Egalet, a pharmaceutical company specialising in the development of abuse-deterrent oral products.
Q&A with Lars Hinrichs, founder of HackFwd
Following Lars Hinrichs’ shock announcement last week that HackFwd will no longer take on any new investments, Karin Wasteson catches up with the serial entrepreneur to discuss the start-up accelerator and his newest later-stage fund Cinco Capital.
Index’s Dibner joins DFJ Esprit
Gil Dibner, DFJ Esprit
Index leads $17.5m round for SwiftKey
Index Ventures has led a $17.5m series-B round for London-based virtual keyboard app SwiftKey, with participation from existing backer Octopus Investments and several angel investors.
Index Ventures backs series-B round in Mind-NRG
Index Ventures and Belgian life sciences investor LRM have injected a joint €6m into Mind-NRG, a Swiss developer of neuregulins.
PE-backed Amen sold to Tape.tv
Index Ventures, Slow Ventures and Sunstone Capital have sold Amen Internet, the company behind online chat app Amen, to Tape.tv in a trade sale.
Index invests in TheFamily
Index Ventures has backed TheFamily, a Paris-based start-up accelerator.
VC-backed Profibrix sold to big pharma
Index Ventures, Gilde Healthcare Partners, Vesalius Biocapital and Inkef Capital have sold Dutch biotech firm Profibrix to The Medicines Company for a total consideration of $240m.
European venture: patience rewarded
Patience rewarded
Index et al. back Wool And The Gang with $2.8m
UK-based knitwear e-commerce company Wool And The Gang has raised $2.8m from Index Ventures, Wellington Partners and MMC Ventures.
EdRip in CHF 18m OncoEthix series-B round
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRip) has participated in a series-B funding round totalling CHF 18m for Swiss oncology drug development firm OncoEthix.
Index leads $38m NumberFour funding round
Index Ventures has led a $38m series-A funding round for business software company NumberFour.
VC-backed Photobox acquires StickyGram.com
Photobox Group, a provider of online digital photo services backed by a number of venture capital firms, has acquired Instagram photo-to-magnet online print company StickyGram.com.