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German VC firm Wellington Partners has led a first funding round for Munich-based internet company amiando. Amiando is an event organization website, a one-stop shop do-it-yourself ticketshop, allowing users to send private invitations to friends or organise professional events with thousands of attendees. Large conferences have already been arranged using the service, such as LeWeb […]
UK VC MTI has returned its investment in ApaTech, a UK specialist in bone graft technology, in a deal which sees company raise US$45m in a development capital round led by 3i and US investor HealthCor. MTI still retains a significant stake in the business, which it backed in April 2004, leading a £4.55m series […]
Munich-based private investment company ATS has acquired a majority stake in German-based GANYMED Pharmaceuticals for an undisclosed sum. The shares were previously held by a pool of investors including Ingro Finanz, KfW, Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW), Nextech Venture, Varuma, VI Partners, WFT and a number of private investors from Switzerland and Germany. GANYMED is a biopharmaceutical […]
Earlybird and 3i among sellers of German website company Dooyoo.de
Octopus Investments, the UK based alternative investment specialist, is seeking to raise up to £25m for Octopus Titan VCT 3, to follow up on the success of the Octopus Titan twin VCT which has successfully raised over £30m since its launch in November 2007. The fund’s strategy will focus on smaller unquoted UK companies. The […]
Norwegian-based oil and gas specialist HitecVision has sold three of its investments to secondaries specialist Cubera Private Equity for an undisclosed sum. The investments that have been sold to Nordic firm Cubera are in RigNet, (based in Houston, USA), SPT Group (in Oslo, Norway) and Nurse Cutting and Abandonment (in Stavanger, Norway). Founded in 2002, […]
Oxford raises new fund Venture capitalist Oxford Capital has raised Oxford Gateway Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) Fund No.5 after closing its Fund No. 4 to new investment with total assets exceeding £12m. Fund No. 4 was launched in November 2006 and now stands as one of the largest funds of its kind. It is currently […]
Technology research commercialisation specialist Rainbow Seed Fund has won £1.5m from the UK Government’s Public Sector Research Exploitation (PRSE) fund. Rainbow, which is managed by Birmingham-based VC Midven, invests in early-stage and high risk technology opportunities that emerge from a select group of leading publicly funded institutions. The award, which is part of the UK […]
A British investment bank has set-up a €50m fund with a German university to support spin-outs from its technology department. First London Securities is working with Humboldt-Innovation, the technology transfer office of Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, in a deal which will see First London manage the fund as well as use existing assets to fund investments, […]
The committee set-up to tackle the problem of small and medium-sized UK enterprises failing to secure public sector contracts has called on businesses, public purchasers and industry groups to submit evidence of their experiences of doing business across both central government and local authorities. A webpage has been set-up by the Office of Government Commerce […]
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