Venture
CM-CIC provides €3m round to Okko Hôtels
Paris-based investment firm provided €1.5m funding to the chain in 2014
CM-CIC leads €6m in series-A for InFlectis BioScience
CM-CIC and Regimes Ventures joins previous pool of investors including Go Capital
Capnamic in €2m series-A for Staffbase
Startup plans to expand to the US by opening a New York office in 2016
Co-investing with corporate venture is not without its pitfalls
Venture capital firms can benefit from cooperation with CVCs but must be wary of those that value strategy over returns
Project A provides €4m series-A extension for Lost My Name
Children's publisher will invest in developing its tech infrastructure
Invitalia leads €1.5 series-A for Zehus
Invitalia has invested via its Italia Venture I fund alongside tyre producer Vittoria Industries
Point Nine et al. back Eversport with €800,000
Startup hopes to continue expansion across Europe after launching in three countries
LSP closes $280m life sciences venture fund
Vehicle closes more than one year after holding its first close on €80m
PE & VC key for French economy, says minister Macron
Speaking at the Afic Annual Conference 2016 in Paris at the end of May, Emmanuel Macron had kind words for the industry
EQT Ventures leads $16.1m series-B for Verto Analytics
Round is first investment from EQT Ventures since formally announcing and closing its debut venture vehicle
Global Founders backs Thermondo’s €23.5m series-C
Thermondo aims to turn from a manufacturing business to an energy company
Horizon Ventures backs Algama in €3.5m funding round
Hong-Kong-based fund acted as main investor in the round, providing a €2m ticket
Sofimac et al. in €8m Ixaltis series-A
Company will use the fresh capital to develop its product pipeline and finance clinical trials
Tertium joins €3m fourth funding round for Ideol
French company has gathered a total of €10m in funding over the last five years
Menu Next Door gathers €1.75m in seed round
Belgian startup recently launched its activity in London, complementing Paris and Brussels
Benchmark in Contentful’s $13m round
Contentful will use the fresh capital to open a San Francisco office this year
Cherry Ventures backs TourRadar’s $6m series-A
Cherry Ventures and Hoxton Ventures join existing backers AWS and Speedinvest
Albion Ventures et al. sell Haemostatix to Ergomed
Ergomed pays an initial consideration of £8m, with an extra contingent of £20m
Gamaya raises CHF 3.2m from VI Partners et al.
Startup is a spinout from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
VC financial engineering fuelling tech bubble?
Downside protection in later VC-backed funding rounds is increasingly presented as justification for growing valuations
Tensive raises €500,000 from Invitalia and Unicredit
State-backed VC firm Invitalia tapped its Italia Venture I fund for investment
Cevotec raises €1.75m from HTGF et al.
Software business span out of Technische Universtität München last year
Showpad secures $50m in series-C round led by Insight
Belgian tech company more than doubled its revenues for the third consecutive year in 2015
E.Ventures appoints Hernández as general partner
Hernández is a former entrepreneur and has also worked for Google and Yahoo