Biocartis has completed a EUR 71 million (USD 100 million) Series C equity fund raising backed by existing investors, new investors and industrial collaborators and partners. Investors in the round were Debiopharm Group, Philips, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC), the Wellcome Trust, Korys (investment holding of the Colruyt family),

Forbion Capital Partners has invested in Oxyrane UK Limited, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of enzyme replacement therapies (ERT) to treat lysosomal storage diseases, a class of more than forty rare inherited diseases. In its oversubscribed Series D financing round the company raised USD26.5m. Other investors in the

Dutchess Opportunity Cayman Fund, Ltd and First Columbus have provided a GBP10 million equity line facility (ELF) with Solo Oil.   All companies, including energy companies like Solo, have found the benefits of the ELF over other structures because the efficiency and ease to raise capital. Dutchess continues to increase its presence

The private equity group HgCapital is in preliminary talks to re-purchase the main part of Iris Software Group, four years after selling it to Hellman & Friedman. The deal is valued at GBP425 million, although sources have stressed that a possible deal is still several weeks away, and is by

Phoenix Equity Partners, a UK mid-market private equity investor, has funded an additional GBP12 million to its portfolio company edif Group to complete the acquisition of NDE Global Technical Services GmbH and its subsidiaries (together NDE), from its private owners. NDE’s founder shareholders and management team will become shareholders in

Independent venture capital firm, Panoramic Growth Equity (PGE), has secured a GBP1m investment in Concorde Solutions Limited, a multi-award-winning software asset management company based in Reading. Funding from PGE’s Panoramic ECF1 will be used to help Concorde, which turned over GBP1.8m in 2010 – up 140% YOY, launch a new

Mootwin, editor of a platform for the creation of mobile applications in SaaS mode or under license, has completed its second round of fundraising to support its development projects in France and abroad. Naxicap Partners and Seventure joined existing investors Rhône-Alpes Création, Expansinvest, Crédit Agricole Développement, Héléa Financière and Teamgroup

Marketo, the fastest-growing provider of Revenue Performance Management (RPM) technology, has secured USD50 million in new venture financing. Battery Ventures led the round, with existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, Mayfield Fund and Storm Ventures also participating. In just five years since its founding, Marketo has delivered a proven

BlueMountain Capital Management (BlueMountain), a private investment firm specialising in the global credit markets with USD7 billion in assets under management, has purchased a majority equity stake in Navitas Lease Corporation (Navitas). This investment was made with funds managed by BlueMountain and will provide Navitas with additional capital to support