Venture
Forward Partners closes second fund on £60m with single LP
Tech-focused vehicle will look to make more than 30 investments across a four-year period
Ananda leads £2.5m series-A round for Repositive
Other investors include Amadeus Capital Partners and Force Over Mass Capital
HTGF and IFH sell 51% stake in Bentekk to Dräger
HTGF and IFH invested in a six-figure seed funding round for Bentekk in May 2016
Insurtech puts a premium on technology
PE and VC players turn their attention to the insurance space as fintech's next scalable disruption opportunity
Redalpine leads €3m series-A round for Zenjob
Extra capital will be used to expand Zenjob's operations out of the capital and across Germany
Speedinvest backs Bikemap
With the new investment, Bikemap will attempt to accelerate its growth through further internationalisation
Entrepreneur Venture, Pléiade in €4.3m round for Travelaer
Two VCs joined a pool of existing investors, including Calypso Capital and family office Alderville
XAnge, Kima in €7m series-A for Ledger
Ten investors contributing to the startup's second round of institutional funding raises the total to €8.5m
Earlybird leads $10.5m series-A for Shapeshift
New capital will be used to expand the team with a view to releasing two more exchange products in 2017
NPM Capital et al. in €100m round for Picnic
Grocery delivery service plans to expand its area of coverage to the whole country
Seventure Partners leads €1.3m round for Botfuel
Seed funding is the first round ever raised by the Parisian startup
Auriga, Kreaxi, Alto in €2.4m round for Nosopharm
Nosopharm has raised a total of €4.2m in equity funding to date
Keen Ventures leads $8m series-A for Beekeeper
Funding will be used to expand in the US and EMEA, hoping to reach 2 billion non-desk workers
83North leads $10m series-A in MotorK
Backers in the round include Malmo-based venture capital firm Zobito
Tengelmann et. al in second round for Ottonova
Ottonova will use the extra capital to continue to develop and launch its health insurance platform
Arax invests €550,000 in Unicope
Austrian VC house Arax Capital Partners backed the cloud communication software company with €550,000
Newfund in €1.5m round for FlexyBeauty
Paris-based VC firm invested via its maiden fund Newfund 1, closed on €72m in 2009
Notion et al. inject €2m into Glofox
Gym administration software company will look to expand its US activities following the round
Berliner Volksbank in round for Figo
Figo will use the extra capital to develop a regulated fintech platform that conforms with new regulation
Qualitas buys genomics specialist Imegen
Deal saw the GP provide fresh capital from its 2014-vintage Q-Growth vehicle
Innovationsstarterfonds, HTGF in second round for Cloudplan
Cloudplan will use the extra funding to roll-out its product internationally, initially in the US and Europe
Albion Ventures in $3.3m round for Quantexa
Financial data software company is to invest in product development and open international offices
DVH Ventures backs NDGIT
NDGIT will use the extra capital to expand its sales efforts while continuing to work on product development
Index Ventures in €15m series-A for Databerries
Isai Gestion and Mosaic Ventures provided a first €1.7m round in 2015