- SPAIN – Debaeque takes 10% in BuyVip
- UK – Bridges leads £1m round for Call Britannia
- GERMANY – Balderton Capital leads EUR 5m wooga funding
- Meidlinger Partners holds $15m first close of cleantech fund
- UK – NorthStar leads £800,000 Cogenta funding
- UK – Orkos Capital et al. invest EUR 9m into Muzicall
- UK – Octopus launches £25m Titan VCT 4 fund
- ROMANIA – 3TS Capital Partners back InternetCorp
- UK – Atlas et al invest $20m into picoChip
- SWEDEN – Chalmers back NemaLabs with further SEK 5m
- UK – ePlanet invests over £1m into eCommera
- AUSTRIA – Pontis leads $3.5m round for Xendex
- UK – DN Capital invests in Apsmart
- GERMANY – HTFG and MAZ invest in MobileBits
- UK – Dawn Capital invests in series A round for Manic Monkey
- GERMANY – Crédit Agricole et al. invest in Upside Shopping
- UK – Beringea invests £1m into TH_NK
- UK – Entrepreneurs launch new venture fund
Venture firm Debaeque has invested an undisclosed sum in online private buyers club BuyVip, acquiring a 10% stake in the business
Bridges Ventures, via its Social Entrepeneurs Fund, has led a £1m investment in customer contact centre business Call Britannia, alongside Big Issue Invest, management and the government’s Future Jobs Fund
Balderton Capital has led a EUR 5m investment in social gaming company wooga
Meidlinger Partners has reached a first closing of its cleantech fund, Meidlinger Partners Sustainable Investments, on $15m
NorthStar Equity Investors (NSEI) has led an £800,000 investment into software company Cogenta Systems, alongside Hotspur Capital Partners
Orkos Capital, Veddis Ventures and GP Bullhound have invested EUR 9m into ringback tone service provider Muzicall, alongside existing backers BlueRun Ventures and Thule Investments
Octopus Investments has announced the launch of Octopus Titan VCT 4, a new vehicle designed to invest in early stage UK companies with a target of £25m
3TS Capital Partners has acquired a minority stake in Romanian online media company InternetCorp
Atlas Venture, Highland Capital Partners, Pond Venture Partners and Scottish Equity Partners have invested $20m into wireless infrastructure company picoChip, alongside Rothschild, AT&T, Intel and Samsung, in a Series E funding round
Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund is backing software business Nema Labs with SEK 5m in a funding round raising a total of SEK 10m for the company’s internationalisation
ePlanet Ventures has invested in e-commerce service provider eCommera in a deal valued at £1m.
Pontis Capital and a group of business angels have invested in games developer Xendex, in a financing round worth $3.5M
DN Capital has invested an undisclosed amount into smartphone company Apsmart
High-Tech Gründerfonds and Maz level one have invested an undisclosed sum in software company MobileBits
Dawn Capital has invested an undisclosed amount into 3D animation specialist Manic Monkey in a series-A round of financing
Crédit Agricole (CA) Private Equity has participated in an undisclosed financing round for internet business Upside Shopping, alongside seed investors Rocket Internet GmbH and existing backers
Beringea, via its ProVen VCT fund, has made a £1m investment into digital agency TH_NK
A syndicate of technology entrepreneurs have launched a new London-based venture fund, The Founders Club, open only to investors that are founders or chief executives of start up companies
