Private Equity
Gengo, a translation platform for global companies, has recently closed a $12 million round of funding led by Intel Capital, with participation from Atomico, Iris Capital, Infocomm Investments, NTT-IP Fund and STC Ventures. Details of the investment were not released.
6 min read · 24 April 2013
Wellington Partners has led a 18.2 million euros series C financing round at Toulouse/France-based therapeutic HPV- vaccine developer Genticel. Wellington Partners committed 4 million euros to this financing. The remaining 14.2 million euros were provided by the existing shareholders including EdRIP, IDInvest, InnoBio, IRDI and Amundi.
3 min read · 24 April 2013
Cervel Neurotech, a privately held company developing a novel, non-invasive and non-pharmacologic therapy for depression, pain and other conditions, has completed a funding round of $14.1 million. The company's existing investors, D. E. Shaw Ventures and Aberdare Ventures, participated in the equity financing.
3 min read · 23 April 2013
Kamere, a social inspiration start-up business has announced the formation of the company, its executive management team and advisory board. Based in Granite Bay, California, Kamere was co-founded by former Hewlett Packard vice president, Kim Box and John Kunhart, managing director for American River Ventures, a $100 million venture capital fund targeting early stage technology companies.
4 min read · 22 April 2013
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners has led the 5 million euro ($6.5 million) Series A financing of Allecra Therapeutics with its new fund BioDiscovery 4.
3 min read · 18 April 2013
UK-based Fits.me has announced total Series A investment in the company of close to 5 million pounds ($8 million). Series A investment has been subscribed by existing investor SmartCap, with new participation from Conor Venture Partners, Fostergate Holdings Limited and The Entrepreneur’s Fund.
4 min read · 18 April 2013
Fusebill, a provider of automated, flexible and affordable subscription billing and payment solutions, has secured a $2 million investment led by OMERS Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of Canadian pension plan OMERS. Covington Capital also participated in the investment.
3 min read · 17 April 2013
DySIS Medical Ltd, a medical devices company active within women’s health, has completed a 7.4 million pounds fundraising ($11.3 million). Lundbeckfond Ventures, Albion Ventures, NBGI and the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise all participated in the round.
3 min read · 15 April 2013
OpenCoin has closed an angel round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz, FF Angel IV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vast Ventures, and Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, an investment vehicle for Bitcoins and Bitcoin-related companies.
2 min read · 15 April 2013
Panviva Pty, a developer of business process guidance software solutions, has raised A$4 million in Series B equity financing from SBI Jefferies Asia Fund L.P. SBI Jefferies is a joint venture fund between SBI Group, a Tokyo, Osaka and Hong Kong listed financial services conglomerate and Jefferies Group, a NYSE-listed global investment bank and private equity firm.
4 min read · 11 April 2013
