EDF-backed Electranova Capital invests in French rechargeable battery maker.
Month: May 2013
Skyword rising by $6.7m
Cox Media Group leads latest financing round for US-based content production platform
Alteryx funding gets bigger
SAP Ventures joins $12m funding round for US-based, big data analytics company
Effector Therapeutics starts with $45m
US-based biopharmaceutical company raises Series A financing from investors including Novartis Venture Funds.
$1bn price tag put on Fab.com
Reports of new fund-raising for e-commerce site, already backed by corporate venturing units including The Times of India Group, value it at $1bn.
Newsle discovers $1.65m
Advance Publications subsidiary leads investment in news-discovery, people-tracker.
Adaptive Planning’s funding soars
Adaptive Planning, a US-based provider of cloud-based business analytics solutions, has raised $45m in a further round of venture funding in which RBC Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Royal Bank of Canada, participated. Tnd the company has now raised at least $100m after its $22m series E round closed in March last year, taking… Continue reading Adaptive Planning’s funding soars
Numbrs to take Swiss banking mobile
Centralway, a Switzerland-based funder and developer of internet companies, has raised SFr7.5m ($7.5m) for Numbrs, a personal finance banking application, in order to fund its roll out across Germany and the UK, followed by Singapore and Hong Kong. Julien Arnold founded Numbrs and is entrepreneur in residence at Centralway.
Wanderful Media finds further $9m
Newspaper-backed online shopping company increases total funding to $36m.
Amano McGann and ParkMe cut and shut
IDG-backed ParkMe partners with Amano Corporation subsidiary Amano McGann.
Transgene ups anti with Elsalys Biotech
French biopharmaceutical company Transgene invests in antibody start-up
Health Tech Summit
International Venture Club, London June 25/26
Wanxiang, VL Automotive rev up for Fisker
US car developer and manufacturer, Fisker Automotive has reportedly received a recent undisclosed joint offer by strategic car parts company Wanxiang Group of China and US car developer VL Automotive.
Zalora rockets in Asia with $100m series C round
German start-up incubator Rocket Internet was joined by European corporate venturing firms Verlinvest and Tengelmann Group in a series C round worth $100m for Zalora.