Future French Champions – a partnership between CDC International Capital and Qatar Investment Authority – has made its fifth investment in Devialet, a Paris-based audio products start-up. Founded in 2007, Devialet holds over 100 patents and employs 230 people.   Its products are stocked by high-end retailers including Colette, Harrods

Verdane Capital IX has invested over EUR5 million in Vaadin, a developer of open source web application development tools. The investment is made partly by buying secondary shares from another shareholder and partly as a directed new issue.   "We are very pleased to team up with Verdane and further

Proficio, a provider of managed detection and response (MDR) services, has raised USD12 million in a round of funding led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. The funding comes out of the firm’s Kayne Partners Fund group, which backs high-growth technology enabled businesses.   Proficio will use this investment to expand

Following an expansion into the Benelux earlier this year, the Neil Woodford-backed equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has funded its first Dutch campaign and signed agreements with local innovators KPMG Hub for Entrepreneurs (KHUBE) and EYnovation in Luxembourg. Seedrs is now an official member of KHUBE, a one-stop-shop for entrepreneurship launched

Align Capital Partners (ACP), in partnership with management, has completed an investment in Alliance Source Testing (AST), a provider of source emissions (or stack) testing services to industrial facilities in the US. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   AST provides source testing solutions for utility, aluminium, midstream

Omnes Capital has acquired a stake in Ducatillon as part of a buyer-in-management-buy-out (BIMBO) deal worth a total of EUR7.6 million. Omnes Capital’s small cap fund, with the support of Bpifrance, is accompanying the handover of the company’s management and shareholding from chairman Thomas Delecroix to buyer Jean-Marc Bernard.  

ORI Healthcare Fund has led a USD100 million series C investment in Kymab Group, a UK Cambridge-based company focusing on generating antibodies to treat challenging diseases based on the proprietary Kymouse antibody platform. ORI Fund is the lead investor in the series; other investors include Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda

ArangoDB has secured a EUR2.2 million investment led by Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners. ArangoDB develops the open-source NoSQL database ArangoDB, which combines three major data models (graph, key/value, JSON-documents) in one database and one query language.   ArangoDB’s product allows start-ups and enterprises to speed up their innovation

DB1 Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Börse Group, has participated in a Series B financing round for the Hamburg-based FinTech company figo and is investing a seven-digit amount for a significant minority stake. Further investors are reputable business angels from Germany. figo raised around EUR6.8 million in

IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has completed GBP5 million in asset based financing to Scottish SMEs since its launch in July. The strong appetite of businesses in this region has led the company to allocate an additional GBP5 million fund specifically intended to support management buyout (MBO) activity.