Venture
Senovo backs Slideflight
Slideflight is a spinout from Senovo, whose management team developed the business idea
b-to-v backs Seven Senders
b-to-v and two business angels joined in Seven Senders' seven-digit funding round
Qualityfry raises €1m from Kereon et al.
Second deal to bring together Spanish VC duo Kereon and Caixa Capital Risc in recent months
Invitalia Ventures invests €1.5m in Italian startup D-Eye
Italia Venture I fund has announced its first investment in the Italian venture segment
Balderton leads $2.75m seed round for Aircall
Latest investment to be announced by VC during active start to 2016
Omnes and Partech in €1.2m round for MesDocteurs
Online healthcare counselling service to double web marketing team and launch Android app
Intel Capital, CTV invest $9m in MariaDB
Both US venture firms are existing investors in the Finnish SQL products developer
Sequoia’s Plain Vanilla raises $7.5m from Glu
San Francisco-based games developer will invest up to $7.5m in promissory convertible loans
Foresight makes further investment in AppInstitute
Foresight initially invested £500,000 in the SaaS business in 2014
Idinvest and Ventech in €6.6m series-A for Botify
Deal is Idinvest's second foray in the marketing software segment within the past month
Creandum strengthens investment advisory team
Simon Schmincke and Bjarke Staun-Olsen have joined Creandum's Stockholm office
Vasopharm raises €20m from Entrepreneurs Fund et al.
Vasopharm has raised €20m from Entrepreneurs Fund, Heidelberg Capital and other backers
Abingworth closes maiden co-development fund on $105m
VC's 11th vehicle will be used for five to six co-development deals over the next three years
Deezer raises €100m in wake of pulled IPO
Listing was cancelled due to “market reasons” by the music streaming business in late October
VC-backed Spotify bolts on Soundwave and Cord Project
Music streaming service Spotify has raised more than $1bn in funding since inception in 2006
Rocket Internet launches growth fund
Investors and Rocket Internet itself have provided $420m for the vehicle
Linxo raises €2m from Crédit Agricole et al.
Fintech specialist will strengthen its technical team as it expands from France to the rest of Europe
Telensa raises $18m from ETF and SVB
Cambridge-based Telensa has developed energy-efficient street light applications
Competition, maturity drive swell in French VC investments
Paris's venture scene is thriving, with increasingly larger investments being deployed
Catapult holds first close for GM&C Life Sciences Fund
VC firm Catapult manages funds on behalf of public and private investors
Oxford et al. in $13m round for Import.io
Other backers of the series-A include Imperial Innovations, Wellington Partners and Open Ocean
Catapult hires new investment manager
Gareth King joins as investment manager and will help launch Catapult's new life sciences fund
Index backs Morphogen’s £1.5m seed round
Index closed its latest fund, Index Ventures Growth III, on €650m in April 2015
Albion to manage new £50m UCL fund
LPs Imperial Innnovations and European Investment Fund provided vast majority of funding