Last week was absolutely astonishing regarding venture capital deals in Europe. I was overwhelmed by the amount of news I got. Here are the most important, even though I left out many deals that weren’t digital, web or mobile.
I’m curious to see some stats about the VC industry in this last part of 2009, I have a felling it’s really booming.
PPM Oost invests in Can-iT- Icso backs EUR 4m AT Internet investment
- Maven Capital invests £2m into Documetric
- YFM Venture Finance invests £400,000 into Lattice Voice
- Emertec supports Insiteo
- Chalmers leads a SEK 2.3m funding round for Aluwave
- Wellington leads $16m Livebookings funding
- NextStage makes EUR 1m Expertissim investment
- Neuhaus Partners and T-Venture invest in WWG
- Auriga leads EUR 3.2m Cytoo financing
- Advent, AGF and Atlas return for EUR 15m Dailymotion investment (TechCrunch post)
- XAnge provide KissKissBankBank with EUR 750k
- Mercia et al. invest £400,000 into Allinea Software
- MCP backs Microgame in a 8 figures deal
- Amadeus Capital invests in Linkdex
- BrainsToVentures invests in Linguee
- Seventure invests EUR 1.6m into TalentSoft (TechCrunch post)
Governmanet-backed venture investor PPM Oost has invested an undisclosed sum into internet firm Can-iT, acquiring a 16% stake in the business
Icso Private Equity and l’IRDI have provided software business AT Internet with an investment of over EUR 4m
Maven Capital Partners, via its Capital for Enterprise Fund, has invested £2m into Documetric, a provider of business-to-business services
YFM Venture Finance, via its PIF and YHEF vehicles, has invested £406,000 into telecoms software company Lattice Voice Technologies
Emertec, alongside a group of business angels, has provided a first round of funding for Insiteo, an indoor geo-location company, valued at several million euros
Chalmer Innovation Seed Fund has alongside Innovationsbron and existing backers participated in a SEK 2.3 millions round for Aluwave
Pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners has led a $16m funding round for online restaurant marketing and reservations service Livebookings, along existing investors
NextStage has invested EUR 1m in Expertissim, an online art retail platform
German venture investor Neuhaus Partners and T-Venture, the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom, have joined existing investors Holtzbrinck Ventures and High-Tech Grunderfonds, in a series A round of funding for online games portal Worldwidegames GmbH (WWG)
Augriga Partners has led a second round of financing for technology company Cytoo, raising EUR 3.2 millions
Advent Venture Partners, AGF Private Equity, Atlas Venture and Partech International have returned for a EUR 15m third round of funding in Dailymotion, alongside a new investor
XAnge Private Equity has provided KissKissBankBank, an internet platform, with EUR 750,000 in seed financing
Mercia Technology Seed Fund and Midven, via its Advantage Growth Fund, have co-led a £400,000 seed funding round for specialist software developer Allinea Software
International private equity fund Monitor Clipper Partners (MCP) has backed online game operator Microgame, in a deal thought to be valued in the tens of millions of Euros
Amadeus Capital Partners, via its Amadeus Seed Fund and Amadeus III vehicle, has invested EUR650,000 into software company Linkdex
Investors from BrainsToVentures have, together with its in-house fund, provided a second round of financing for online translation search engine provider Linguee GmbH
Seventure Partners has provided software company TalentSoft with an investment of EUR 1.6m
This would tally with our analysis that looks at announced quarterly deals compiled by Calibre One. Q3 2009 was the biggest for over a year and one of the best for past 89 years.
Some numbers and analysis, alongside interactive charts from Timetric here: http://thebln.com/2009/10/good-news-venture-investment-is-back/
errr. That was 8 0r 9 years, not 89 years!