It has been a week since my last post so I’m going to fill you in on what happened on the VC scene in Europe.
Here we go:
- AXA Private Equity has increased its equity stake in Planisware, a software company, to just over 30%
- Nauta Capital has reached a first closing of its third fund on EUR 50m
- Index Ventures, alongside Venrex Investment Management and existing shareholders, has led a series-A funding round for online meal order business, Just-Eat, raising £10.5m (TechCrunch Story)
- Scandiavian venture firms Creandum and Viking Venture has joined existing investors Ferd Venture, Industrifonden, Innovacom, Nordic Venture Partners, and Teknoinvest in a EUR 12m round for Nanoradio
- London-based PROfounders Capital has held a first close of its inaugural VC fund (TechCrunch Story)
- Swedish private equity firm Ledstiernan has acquired a further 14% stake in online mobile retailer Katshing, increasing its stake from 48% to 62%
- High-tech Gründerfonds has invested in software company Yatta Solutions GmbH, a specialist in model-driven software, enabling completion of the UML Lab prototype and subsequent market launch
- Venture capital-backed telecom software provider Aeopona Limited has acquired Dublin-based Valista, a provider of payment, settlement and service solutions to mobile and broadband operators, for an undisclosed sum
- Swedish venture capital fund Sustainable Technologies Funds and Norway-based technology investor Northzone Ventures has invested EUR 6m into Innotech Solar AS (ITS), a clean energy company
- Inversiones Financieras Perseo, the private equity arm of utilities firm Iberdrola, is in the process of acquiring a 25% stake of alternative energy producer AlgaEnergy
- The venture capital arm of German energy company RWE Innogy has invested SEK 12m into Swedish clean tech business Mantex AB
- MMC Ventures has completed a follow on investment worth more than £1m into digital media company Clash-Media
- NextStage has joined returning investors Xange Private Equity and OTC Asset Management in a EUR 10m investment into Elbée Group, the operator of home furnishing websites Delamaison and Decoclico
- CDC Innovations and Innovacom have invested EUR 2.5M into Maeglin
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