Venture
Target Partners appoints Landgraf
Landgraf will be responsible for in-depth research covering various industries and new technologies
Mercia in £5m series-A for Aston EyeTech
VC invested £1.8m in the round for the Birmingham-based eyecare diagnostics startup
Magenta Partners backs Trustpay from new fund
Magenta will make growth equity investments between £5-20m from its latest vehicle
Digital Health Ventures backs €2m seed round for Teleclinic
Fresh capital will be used to expand the company's telemedicine operating infrastructure
LaunchHub leads $1m seed round for OfficeR&D
Other backers include the founders of software company Telerik and the founder of RuneScape
The lure of consumer-focused fintech
European fintech companies are attracting increasingly large investment rounds
ISIF invests €19m in €38m round for Kaseya
Irish IT management software business will increase its Irish headcount from 30 to 160
Partech leads €10m series-A for Shippeo
Existing investor Otium Venture also takes part in the latest round of financing
Axa Strategic Ventures launches $175m fund-of-funds
VC firm aims to deploy capital in a global portfolio of "top-tier" venture capital funds
Creathor backs €3m funding round for Wunderflats
Comparable company Homelike secured a €4m funding round from Cherry Ventures and Coparion in August
Sunstone, Statkraft lead €4m series-A for Zolar
Partech Ventures and entrepreneur Tim Schumacher also take part in the round
DN Capital leads €8m round for Book a Tiger
Backers include Target Global alongside new investors Atami Capital and Davidson TG
Aster holds €240m first close for sixth fund
VC firm is already working on investing in a first European company via the fund
Ysios Capital backs €45m series-C for Xeltis
Life Sciences Partners, Kurma Partners and VI Partners also took part in the round
Index Ventures takes part in $20m round for Behavox
Citigroup leads the funding round, alongside Hoxton Ventures and Promus Ventures
BayBG backs €5m series-B for Dynamic Biosensors
Previous investors Bayern Kapital and UnternehmerTUM have also taken part in the round
Caixa Capital Risc leads €2.4m round for GlyCardial
Spanish healthcare seed investor HealthEquity takes part in the funding round
Highland promotes former Photobox CEO Laurent to partner
Laurent will be responsible for identifying and investing in fast-growing internet companies
Coparion in $5.4m series-A for Lofelt
Wolfman.One leads the round with Q Venture Partners and Horizons Ventures also taking part
Oxford leads £3m round for Wrisk
Insurance aggregation and administration platform will launch its mobile offering in 2018
Arcano launches €200m maiden venture fund
Spanish GP launches its first venture capital fund in partnership with Urizen Ventures
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