The venture capital trust (VCT) sector raised GBP542 million in the 2016/17 tax year, the second highest amount raised on record and an 18 per cent increase on last year’s figure of GBP458 million, according to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). This is the highest amount raised since 2004/5
ITI Technologies, operating under the brand Finvale, has closed a USD500,000 investment deal from a consortium of venture capital funds specialising in fintech. Softline Seed Fund – a joint venture between Softline Group and Russian Venture Company’s seed fund – led the investment round, purchasing a minority stake for RUB15
Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), an early-stage venture capital firm, has completed two more exits from BGV II, which first invested in 2014. Zentri, a BGV II seed investment, was acquired by Silicon Labs. Grid Dynamics, another early BGV II investment was acquired by Teamsun through its Hong Kong subsidiary
Foresight has invested GBP2.15 million from Foresight VCT into Fresh Relevance Limited (FRL), a marketing technology platform for eCommerce businesses. Fresh Relevance is a SaaS email marketing and web personalisation platform providing online retailers with personalised customer experiences and real-time marketing tools across desktop and mobile. Key features of
83North has closed an oversubscribed new venture capital fund at USD250 million. The fourth raised in 11 years, 83North IV brings total capital under management to USD800 million. The new fund will be deployed in the best consumer and enterprise technology companies led by aspiring European and Israeli entrepreneurs.
Israel Secondary Fund (ISF) has completed the closing of ISF II, a USD100 million secondary fund. The investors in ISF II include Israeli and global institutional investors, family offices, and high net worth investors. Institutional investors in the fund include Halman Aldubi, Altshuler Shaham, Bank Hapoalim, IBI and Union
European asset manager Amundi, with over EUR1 trillion in assets, has established a partnership with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), creating an independent asset management company: Supernova Invest. In addition to taking over the current CEA Investissement funds (with an advisory mandate for the CEA's strategic
Panasonic Corporation is to establish a new company, Panasonic Ventures, in April 2017, which will be based in California and invest in start-up companies mainly in the US, with initial investments of around USD100 million. Panasonic has invested in Silicon Valley start-ups with cutting-edge technologies for nearly 20 years since
Proveca, a European paediatric speciality pharmaceutical company, has raised GBP4 million to fund the commercial launch of Sialanar and the development and commercialisation of its paediatric product portfolio. Sialanar is a treatment for chronic pathological drooling in children, launched in the UK by Proveca, to be followed by the rest
Tilak Healthcare, a start-up from the iBionext network developing medical video games for both the diagnosis and follow-up of chronic diseases, has secured funding of EUR2.5 million from iBionext Growth Fund. The funds will help the company accelerate the development of its therapeutic mobile games, first targeting the ophthalmology field,
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