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Monthly analysis: April showers deals

Global Corporate Venturing recorded 142 investments during April worth a total of $6.2bn and 18 exits worth $3.2bn. US-based companies received the greatest number of investments (79) followed by Germany (8) and China and India (7 each). The top sector was IT (37) followed by health (31), media (21) and services (17). In cases where the investment round was… Continue reading Monthly analysis: April showers deals

Monthly analysis: April showers deals

Global Corporate Venturing recorded 142 investments during April worth a total of $6.2bn and 18 exits worth $3.2bn. US-based companies received the greatest number of investments (79) followed by Germany (8) and China and India (7 each). The top sector was IT (37) followed by health (31), media (21) and services (17). In cases where the investment round was… Continue reading Monthly analysis: April showers deals

Beacons bring in funding

Sensorberg, a company that uses the cloud to allow apps to interact with iBeacons over Bluetooth, has raised €750,000 ($1m) in a funding round led by Berlin Technologie Holding. The technology produced by Sensorberg allows companies to configure proximity notifications to appear on potential customer’s iPhones when they are near an iBeacon device. The funding… Continue reading Beacons bring in funding

Whiteout gains funding

Whiteout Networks, a Germany-based company that provides end-to-end encryption of emails, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding. The seed round saw investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayernkapital. Oliver Gajek, co-founder and chief executive of Whiteout Networks, said: “People send hundreds of billions of email messages per day, with strongly increasing usage of cloud services… Continue reading Whiteout gains funding

AMCS gains investment

Ireland-based AMCS Group, a provider of end-to-end software for the recycling and waste-management industry, has received €23.5m ($32m) in equity funding from Highland Capital Partners Europe. The investment round also saw reinvestment from Investec who had previously funded the company in 2006 and 2009 through its management of the Ulster Bank Diageo Fund. Jimmy Martin,… Continue reading AMCS gains investment