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• Germany: Earlybird has led a first round of financing for software company azeti Networks GmbH, alongside NRW Bank.
  Press release.
• France: Ventech and Auriga Partners have invested EUR 2m into software company BonitaSoft.
  Announcement.
• UK: Foresight Venture Partners and Octopus Group, via its Titan VCT fund, have invested, alongside private investors, in online CV and career profile provider iProfile, in a funding round worth more than £1.5m.
• Germany: A consortium of investors including Crédit Agricole Private Equity, Corporate Finance Partners CFP and Founders Investments GmbH & Co KGaA have invested an undisclosed amount into e-sports company Turtle Entertainment GmbH.
• France: Private equity firm Gimv has backed online furniture retailer Made in Design in a first institutional financing round worth EUR 4.5m.
  Press Release.

I am Flying to London on Sept 23rd. This will be my schedule.

• Sept 21st – Sept 25th

Seedcamp Week 2009

• Wednesday Sept 23rd

Bootlaw September 09 – selling shares in a private company: the rules!
or
DrinkTank London September 09

• Thursday Sept 24th

London OpenCoffee Meetup
Techcrunch London +  Party

• Friday Sept 25th

MiniBar September Meetup

• Monday Sept 28th

Microsoft BizSpark Summit 2009 Invite code: 7BFBB5

• Tuesday Sept 29th

Networking and the City (Spicy Networking)

• Wednesday Sept 30th, Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of October

Future of Web Applications

I have nothing else to add.

Let me know on twitter if you’ll attend any of these events and want to meet up!

The Next Web just reported that Facebook Lite is now available also for non US users. Facebook announced today that, after receiving loads of requests after yesterday’s US release, it rolled out all the new features to all English speaking Facebook users, fortunately I had mine set in English, and I must say I’m in love with it.

Check out if it works for you http://lite.facebook.com

For some screenshots and more infos, check out yesterday’s post on Techcrunch.

If you need some invitations, please post it in the comments.

In a few words: Huddle.net just added 33 million potential users.

Yesterday, Palo Alto based social networking platform Ning rolled out Ning Apps. Huddle didn’t let go of this opportunity and their app is live on the 1.5 million networks, being available to more than 33 million members.

With the Huddle Ning app, users can create intranets for their groups as well as allowing secure document sharing and team collaboration, getting 1GB of free storage space.

“The size and diversity of Ning Networks means that we can get Huddle in front of more users than ever before.  From a development point of view, the flexible OpenSocial implementation on the Ning Platform has allowed us to completely customize the Huddle application to seamlessly match each network’s look and feel,” said Andy McLoughlin, co-founder and Strategy Director, Huddle.net. “Huddle is opening new collaboration opportunities for Ning Network Creators and their members. It will enable them to engage with their users more effectively and empower them to build stronger connections with more content-rich experience.

After the positive experience on the LinkedIn platform and after launching on XING in july, this sounds like a perfect move for the London-based startup.

Amongst the other Ning Apps that launched yesterday you’ll find some other great names such as Qik, Ustream.tv, PollDaddy, and WordPress.

Seedcamp, the major european startup programme, has just announced its finalists. (Techcrunch Europe was the first to report it).
As you can see, the majority of the teams are based in London and other parts of the UK, that was pretty much predictable.

There are quite a few teams coming from eastern Europe and that’s very nice, unfortunately there are none from Italy, Spain, Greece, France and just one from Germany.
The teams who aren’t already in London, will move there for a 3 months period, where they will get mentoring, advice and funding.

Here are the 21 finalists:

• Advertag – London, UK
• Boxed Ice – Bromsgrove, UK
• Brainient – Bucharest, Romania
• Codility – Warsaw, Poland
• Comufy – London, UK
• Erply – Estonia
• Joobili – Budapest, Hungary
• Kukunu – London, UK
• Loc8 Solutions – Edinburgh, UK
• Patients Know Best – Cambridge, UK
• Petsicon – Berlin, Germany
• Plug in SEO – London, UK
• ShoutEm – Zagreb, Croatia
• T27 Systems (Pearl Systems) – Bristol, UK
• Talasim.com – Amman, Jordan
• Teachable – London, UK
• Vooices – Wigan, UK
• VouChaCha – London, UK
• Wondergraphs – Leuven, Belgium
• World on a Hanger – London, UK
• YubiTech – Ramat Gan, Israel

Update: List with descriptions

Update2: The official blog post

• Ariadne Capital has launched the Ariadne Capital Entrepeneurs (ACE) Fund, a new vehicle aimed at investing in technology start-ups (Techcrunch Europe post)
• DuMont Venture and seed investor Tiburon Partners have led an undisclosed seven figure funding round for online video technology company stream5, alongside KfW and business angel Klaus Wecken (Press release)
• IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft invested in Affinitas, operator of the online dating portal edarling, in a second closing of the business’ first funding round