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Benchmark backs open source companyFresh from closing a $500 million fund, the VC firm has led a $12 million round for open source business intelligence company Pentaho.
- PERFORMANCE SPECIAL: EUROPEAN VENTURE
European venture capital has had a bad press which, on the basis of its long-term performance, appears largely justified. Andy Thomson canvasses LPs for their current views of the space.
- Index banks on the weather(4)
Index Ventures and New Enterprise Associates are backing a website that allows companies to hedge their exposure to the weather. In the US alone £3.8 trillion is at risk, according to estimates.
- Index banks on the weather(3)
Index Ventures and New Enterprise Associates are backing a website that allows companies to hedge their exposure to the weather. In the US alone £3.8 trillion is at risk, according to estimates.
- Index banks on the weather(2)
Index Ventures and New Enterprise Associates are backing a website that allows companies to hedge their exposure to the weather. In the US alone £3.8 trillion is at risk, according to estimates.
- Balderton, Advent back home-moving website
The European venture firms have backed website Moveme.com. Balderton’s investment was driven in part by the memory of the stress of moving house.
- Index Ventures, Balderton and Benchmark share in $1bn spoils
Index is again at the heart of a $1 billion exit demonstrating the viability of venture investing in Europe with its sale of open source database software business MySQL.
- Index Ventures launches €400m growth fund
The Swiss firm is extending its approach into larger growth capital deals and has recruited two heavyweights to lead the charge.
- Index Ventures in double deal
The European venture firm is backing two cash generative internet businesses, an open source ad server and a provider of real-time, personalised recommendations to millions of users of eCommerce websites.
- Amazon joins venture firms at Lovefilm
The venture-backed DVD rental business Lovefilm International has increased its number of subscribers to nearly a million after it acquired Amazon’s rival German and UK businesses as part of the deal.