Venture
Point Nine hires Playfair's Benaich
Benaich's tenure is likely to be temporary as he is in the process of building a new VC firm
Sequoia invests $50m in Graphcore
Fresh capital will be used to expand production capacity in Bristol and Palo Alto
Kurma Partners et al. in €19m series-B for Horama
Previous investors Omnes Capital, Go Capital and Sham Innovation Santé also reinvest
Atlantic Labs in $11.6m round for Neufund
Philipp Freise of KKR and Michael Jackson of Mangrove Capital also take part
Atlantic Bridge finances €2m round for Aylien
Backers in the round include existing investors SOSV and Enterprise Ireland
Keen Venture Partners et al. in €14m round for EclecticIQ
Consortium of investors back the Dutch cybersecurity business with a €14m round
83North invests $12m in TIS
Fresh capital will be used to accelerate product development and scale operations
Caixa, Sabadell lead €1.3m round for Snappy
Mobile application developer intends to raise an additional funding round within two years
DN Capital in $15m series-B for Hostmaker
Thailand-based property developer Sansiri and Hong-Kong-based Gaw Capital lead the round
Thrive, Passion in £71m round for Monzo
US investors Goodwater Capital and payment technology company Stripe are also taking part
Bayern Kapital in €7m funding round for Fineway
Corporate venture capital firms Mairdumont Ventures and Axel Springer also take part
Sunstone closes two funds totalling €159m
Sunstone Technology Fund IV held a final close on тЌ112m and will target 30 investments
BNP Paribas, Normandie Participations inject €2m into Alticap
GPs invest in the French IT firm with debt provided by BPI France and CIC
LSP in €42m series-B for Nouscom
Abingworth leads the round with participation from 5am Ventures and Versant Ventures
UnternehmerTUM leads €10m series-A for 3YourMind
VC firms Coparion and AM Ventures, and machine tool manufacturer Trumpf, also take part
Battery Ventures leads $75m series-D for Getyourguide
KKR, Spark Capital, Highland Europe, Sunstone Capital and Nokia Growth Partners also take part
TransferWise in $280m series-E
Deal values the London-based money transfer service at $1.6bn
VC firms in €21m funding round for Thermondo
Dutch energy company Eneco and IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft also take part in the financing
Rocket Internet floats HelloFresh in €1.7bn IPO
HelloFresh will raise €318m in expansion capital to fund continued growth and further acquisitions
Berlin Innovation nearing first close for €40m seed fund
Berlin Innovation Ventures will make approximately 40 initial seed investments of €250,000
Breyer and Index in $28m series-B for Kano
Fresh capital will fund the launch of the company's products in the North American market
Brighteye holds €50m close for education technology fund
Vehicle will back European education technology companies from seed stage to series-C
BioGeneration Ventures closes fund on €82m
New investors include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Schroder Adveq
Consortium backs €40m round for Ada Health
Cumberland VC, the June Fund and Access Industries all take part in the funding round