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| Jun 3, 2015 | New London VC Firm Felix Capital Launches With $120M Fund And Team Of Elite Advisors | Make way in the VC world for a new player that’s opening for business today in London. Frederic Court — a former parter at Advent who is considered one of the more successful investors in Europe with investments in successful startups like ... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Future Fifty Company Farfetch Valued at $1 Billion | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Global E-Commerce marketplace Farfetch announces a $86 million Series E round of investment led by DST Global London, NYC, 05 March 2015
Future Fifty company Farfetch announc... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Dispute between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists | |
| Aug 27, 2013 | Vestagen Technical Textiles Completes $8.25M Financing | Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc., an Orlando, FL-based company that develops and markets advanced performance textile products and technologies, completed an $8.25m financing.
The round was led by new investor Advent Life Sciences, with pa... |
| Aug 20, 2013 | GE invests in Afib market, helps minimally invasive imaging and mapping startup close $28M Series B round | Acutus CEO Randy Werneth said in a statement that the information this device gives should allow physicians to offer precise treatment and monitor therapy progress more efficiently.
(Earlier this week, St. Jude Medical acquired Endosense.)
... |
| Jun 3, 2013 | WorldStores Raises £10M in Series C Funding | WorldStores, a UK-based online retailer of products for the home and garden, raised £10m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Serena Capital, with participation from existing investors Balderton Capital and Advent Venture Partners.
The... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | farfetch Raises $20M in Funding | farfetch, a London, UK-based e-commerce marketplace for independent fashion boutiques, raised $20m in funding.
The round was led by Condé Nast International, with participation existing investors Advent Venture Partners, Index Ventures and ... |
| Nov 29, 2012 | CardiAQ Valve Technologies Receives $37.3M in Second Equity financing | CardiAQ Valve Technologies, Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based medical device company developing technologies for percutaneous mitral heart valve replacement, has received $37.3m in its second equity financing.
The round was led by OrbiMed, with... |
| Sep 28, 2012 | Winners of Investor AllStars Awards 2012 announced | GP Bullhound and Vitesse Media reveal winners of prestigious awards, including the Investor of the Decade
LONDON, UK; 28th September 2012 – The winners of the Investor AllStars Awards 2012 were revealed last night in a ceremony at the Park ... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | Tumblr’s Fashion Evangelist Talks Online Retail at General Assembly Panel in London | Mr. Uhovski (Photo: Twitter/ValentineNY)
Between General Assembly setting up shop in London and poaching New York tech loyalist Courtney Boyd Myers as director of audience development, we might as well rename Shoreditch “Silicon Alley East.... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | Fundraising: Cardiac arrhythmia device startup expands series A, raises additional $2.5M | Location: San Diego, California and Zurich, Switzerland
Solution/Product: An electrophysiology diagnostic product to map cardiac arrhythmias.
Money Raised: $2.5 million out of a $5 million in an expanded Series A roundh. The company raised ... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Are M&A opportunities increasing for European startups? Interview with Frederic Court from Advent Venture Partners | Zong, a company originally from Switzerland specializing in mobile payments. For the London-based VC fund Advent Venture Partners, this constitutes the third successful exit of the year. Frederic Court, who has been a General Partner at Adv... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Is M&A Increasing For European Startups? VC Frederic Court Says Yes… And No… | Zong, a company originally from Switzerland specializing in mobile payments. For the London-based VC fund Advent Venture Partners, this constitutes the third successful exit of the year. Frederic Court, who has been a General Partner at Adv... |
| Jul 19, 2011 | WorldStores secures £8.5m from Advent and Balderton | WorldStores, one of the leading UK based online retailers of products for the home & garden, has recetly announced an investment round led by Advent Venture Partners to support the next stage of its successful expansion.
Advent and exis... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | WorldStores Raises £8.5M in Funding | WorldStores, a Twickenham, UK-based online retailer of products for the home and garden, has raised £8.5m in funding.
The round was led by Advent Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Balderton Capital.
The company int... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | eBay acquires Zong for $240M in cash | Zong's mobile payments technology is expected to beef up PayPal's standing in the digital goods dept
Big news for the mobile payments industry today. Ebay announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire mobile payments company Zong for $24... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Movie special effects shop The Foundry is sold | The Foundry makes digital visual effects software that has been used in motion pictures like Tron Legacy 3D, Avatar, Harry Potter and many others. Private equity firm The Carlyle Group just acquired a majority stake in the Foundry from Adve... |
| Feb 18, 2011 | Deals & More: Vitrue gets $17M to manage social media accounts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today’s funding announcements include companies f... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Confirmed: Orange acquires 49% of DailyMotion for €59 million, rest to follow | Rumors have been flying around for the last week about a possible acquisition of DailyMotion, the French-born equivalent of YouTube. And the first half of the 2-part transaction has just been confirmed; Orange will acquire roughly 49% of th... |
| Nov 26, 2010 | What you need to know - Friday 11/26/10 | Kurani Interactive raised $275,000; Advent Venture Partners announced a $118 million VC fund
U.S. Apple store is, after a brief online outage last night, offering up a Black Friday sale, which includes the iPad. Other products are discounte... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | Advent Venture Partners Closes $120M Life Sciences Fund | Advent Venture Partners, a London, UK-based venture capital firm, has held the final close of a $120m (approximately £75m) life sciences fund.
Advent Life Sciences will mainly invest in early- and mid-stage life sciences companies in the UK... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | Fashion marketplace farfetch.com raises growth equity from Advent Venture Partners to help it expand in Europe, North America and Brazil | Susanne Tide-Frater, ex-Selfridges & Harrods Creative Director, joins the farfetch.com team
9 July, 2010 - London: farfetch.com, the fast-growing online fashion marketplace for independent fashion boutiques from across Europe and North ... |
| Oct 16, 2009 | Venture Capital: Nauta invierte €1,42 millones en la inglesa Fizzback | 16/10/2009
VENTURE CAPITAL: NAUTA INVIERTE EN LA INGLESA FIZZBACK.
La firma de capital riesgo Nauta Capital ha invertido 1,3 millones de libras esterlinas (€1,42 millones) en la compañía londinense Fizzback, que ha desarrollado una plataf... |
| Jun 1, 2009 | Intuitive Surgical buys NeoGuide for less invasive surgical tech | Intuitive Surgical, provider of large robotic surgical equipment, announced its acquisition of NeoGuide Systems, a San Jose, Calif., company that makes minimally invasive surgical devices. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | Audium Semiconductor raises $8.5 million for low-power chips | Audium Semiconductor of Bristol, England, has raised $8.5 million in a first round of funding. The company says it has proprietary audio power amplifier technology. The company’s chips for audio devices such as portable music players consum... |
| Sep 25, 2008 | New research says VCs love ad platforms – Europe accounts for nearly half of all investment | More than $580m was invested into online advertising companies in the first half of 2008, according to new research to be released today, obtained exclusively by TechCrunch UK. Europe accounted for $258m of this, or 45% of the total.
The re... |
| Mar 19, 2008 | It looks like Spinvox has raised £50m | Update: Reuters just confirmed the below story (which I wrote this morning, about 5 hours before Reuters), as Spinvox has now clearly put it out on the wire to stop any further speculation. It’s raised funding from a “Goldman Sachs Group In... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | Europe 2.0: European tech investing "coming of age," as events hard-wire the network | It’s mildly diverting when some say that Europe is still a slow place for technology startups, then pat us on the head and tell us that every day, in every way, we’re getting better and better. But it’s more interesting when people who real... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | European tech investing is "coming of age" | It’s mildly diverting when some people, like Business Week reporters, say that Europe is still a slow place for technology startups, then pat us on the head and tell us that every day, in every way, we’re getting better and better. But it’s... |
| May 11, 2007 | Inflammation drug maker Conatus Pharma completes $27.5M round | Conatus Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego developer of drugs for inflammation and liver disease, closed a $22 million private placement that brings its first round of funding to $27.5 million. Investors included Aberdare Ventures, Advent Venture... |
| Oct 6, 2006 | Qype reviews a European expansion. | QYPE, a fast-growing online local search and recommendation service, based in Hamburg, Germany, which combines user generated reviews with a social network, recently announced it has secured a multi million Euros Series ‘A’ investment round... |
| Apr 23, 2004 | IPV Limited gets funding for growth | IPV Limited gets funding for growth
23-04-2004
IPV Limited, the global leader and the largest independent supplier of video browsing technology to the professional video market, today announced further funding by its existing investors.
Par... |
| GE invests in Afib market, helps minimally invasive imaging and mapping startup close $28M Series B round | The growing A-fib market continues to gain the attention of the major players this week: GE Ventures helped Acutus Medical to close a $28 million Series B round. The San Diego-based startup is working to develop a minimally invasive, real-t... |
| Fundraising: Cardiac arrhythmia device startup expands series A, raises additional $2.5M | Name of Company: Acutus Medical Inc.
Industry: Medical devices
Location: San Diego, California and Zurich, Switzerland
Solution/Product: An electrophysiology diagnostic product to map cardiac arrhythmias.
Money Raised: $2.5 million out of a... |