Venture
ETF closes Environmental Technologies Fund III on £167m
Around 40 existing and new LPs, including British Patient Capital and the EIF, participated
EQT Ventures leads $8m round for Traplight
Play Ventures, Initial Capital and Heartcore Capital also participated in the fundraise
Moira invests in logistics operator Goi
Moira intends to support the company's growth and expansion both in Spain and internationally
P101 in €3.5m round for food marketplace Soplaya
Company intends to use the capital to expand in 10 Italian cities by 2022 and scale up its team
SmartFin Capital leads $25m series-C for MariaDB
Tech company has so far raised $125m from investors including Intel and Alibaba
Mercia sells NAC to PE-backed LGC for £18m
Mercia held a 29.4% stake in NAC at the date of sale and will receive initial cash proceeds of ТЃ4.8m
Nauta Tech Invest V holds €120m first close
Fund deploys tickets of тЌ1-5m in seed and series-A rounds to support European B2B SaaS startups
Goldman Sachs Growth leads $80m series-D for LeanIX
Insight, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, Capnamic and Iris Capital also participate
Highland leads £20m round for Farewill
Highland is currently investing from its Technology Growth III fund, which closed on тЌ463m in 2018
Osivax raises €33m from EIC and BPI France
Of the funding, €15m from EIC will count towards series-B funding, while the rest will be a grant
S7V and Presight back Penta's €4m series-B extension
In March 2020, Penta raised €18.5m from HV Holtzbrinck, RTP, ABN Amro, VR Ventures and Finleap
Alta Life Sciences, Kurma lead €3.5m series-A for Deepull
Axis Participaciones and Sofimac Innovation, through Pertinence Invest 2, also take part in the round
ETF leads €7m round for Basemark
Fresh capital will be used to accelerate Basemark's growth in the field of autonomous vehicles
B Capital closes second fund on $820m
Fund invests in series-B, -C and -D rounds to support B2B and B2C startups based across Asia, Europe and the US
Spanish impact fund Fondo Bolsa Social targets €25m
Fund targets early-stage companies able to generate a positive and measurable social or environmental impact
Aldea Ventures launches €150m fund-of-funds
VC house expects to hold a €35-45m first close by the end of July and a final close in around one year
Axa Venture leads €5.2m round for Unlatch
Company plans to use the fresh capital to boost its international growth, primarily in Spain and the UK
Seventure, BioGeneration lead €18.5m round for Citryll
Pharma company has so far raised €33.5m from private backers
Beyond Leather Materials raises $1.1m in seed round
Early-stage round led by angel investor Steen Ulf Jensen
Creas leads €3.6m round for Qida
Equity4Good, a vehicle managed by Ship2B, and Fondo Bolsa Social also take part in the round
VGC promotes Lister to partner
Lister joined the firm last year from Marlin Equity Partners as an investment director
Global Founders, Partech in €5.6m seed round for Symmetrical
Partech is currently investing from its Partech Entrepreneur III global seed fund
HV Holtzbrinck leads €60m round for SolarisBank
Existing investors including Lakestar, Yabeo and ABN Amro Ventures also back the banking platform
FII-backed Seco to list on the Italian stock exchange
Seco hires Value Track as financial adviser, and Mediobanca and Goldman Sachs as global coordinators