January 2013 – Page 20

Sculpteo prints up $2.5m

XAnge invested E1m in Sculpteo with business angels and its founders providing the remainder.

Pactas invoices investors

Pactas, a Germany-based electronic Invoicing services provider, has raised an undisclosed amount in its series A round from a consortium including XAnge Private Equity.

Xange hits Tag Commander

Rodolphe Menegaux, investment director at XAnge, said: “Online marketing is a targeted sector for investment through our multi-corporate venture fund.”

MySportGroup raises $17m

Alongside XAnge as a repeat investor were venture capital firms IBB and Grazia Equity, while peers Nauta Capital and Cipio Partners came into the consortium as new members.

XAnge Private Equity, a venture capital firm that invests on behalf of France’s main postal service, has raised E60m ($80m) for its second main fund. The XAnge Capital 1 fund raised €65m in 2004 for investments in technology companies related to postal activities. Xange’s founding shareholder, France’s La Poste, in partnership with its La Banque… Continue reading XAnge delivers second fund

Inentec completes joint venture deals

Inentec Chemical deal follows US-listed garbage disposal provider Waste Management (WM) exchanging its equity in S4 Energy Solutions for a stake in Inentec.

Agnion finds gold with Waste Management

WM joined venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners as an investor in Agnion.

Garage doors open to corporations

Garage and its corporate partners will invest $500,000 to $5m from seed and early-stage to growth and late-stage companies.

Expedia checks into Room 77

Expedia joined travel expense software provider Concur Technologies and former executives Rich Barton and Erik Blanchford in US-based hotel search engine Room 77’s $30.3m series C round.

DCM backs CFO

CFO has received its first round of funding from an external investor, raising Y50m from DMC.

GMO launches $12m fund

The venture capital arm of GMO Internet Group company and Japan-based venture capital firm, GMO VenturePartners, has launched GMO VenturePartners Fund III.

U-note jots down $125,973

Japan-based note sharing website U-Note has raised Y11m from Voyage Ventures and Movida Japan.

Recruit takes Net Marketing stake

Recruit Incubation Partners has acquired a stake in Net Marketing for Y112m ($1.3m) from existing investors.

Yahoo invests in Raskul

YJ Capital, Yahoo Japan’s Y1bn corporate venture fund, has made its first investment participating in a Y120m round of funding for Raksul.inc