Swisscom Ventures bought 8% of Switzerland-based LiberoVision in April 2007 and has agreed to sell to trade peer Vizrt.
Category: Deals
November sees exits dominate activity
Last month’s more than $4bn in trade sales and flotations dominate the initial count of 76 investments, following a similar pattern in October.
Canon fires SuperSonic investment shot
SuperSonic Imagine, a France-based developer of ultrasound medical imaging technology, has raised €34.5m ($45m) in its series C round from a consortium including Japan-based equipment company Canon. The C round was led by Mérieux Développement, a corporate venturing unit of local foundation Institut Mérieux, as a new investor alongside peer InnoBio. The round had initially… Continue reading Canon fires SuperSonic investment shot
Morgan Stanley taps ClickFox deal
Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP), the bank’s venture capital and private equity division, was joined by unnamed other investors in backing ClickFox, a US-based software company analyzing banking customers.
Rusnano invests in Plastic Logic
News provider Financial Times said Rusnano had provided the first tranche of $150m to build a Plastic Logic factory in Zelenograd, a town outside Moscow, and start a plastic electronics industry in Russia.
Good Energies nails its colours to Azzurro
Good Energies, the clean-tech venture capital unit of the Bregal holding company, has invested in a consortium backing the sky blues – Azzurro Semiconductors.
Legend preps its own flotation
News provider Wall Street Journal said Legend, a China-based holding company for computer maker Lenovo Group and corporate venturing units Hony Capital and Legend Capital, was preparing its own flotation in the second half of the decade.
Elbrus exits Mail.ru mountain
Elbrus Capital, previously known as Renaissance Private Equity but renamed after Europe’s largest mountain (pictured), invested in Mail.ru in 2007 and sold out at its flotation earlier this month.
ISoftStone tests listing density
ISoftStone preps NYSE flotation
DangDang adds detail to IPO book
DangDang plans to issue 17 million American depository shares (ADS) at between $11 and $13 each in its flotation.
ABB drips Aquamarine into portfolio
SSE Venture Capital and ABB Technology Ventures back Aquamarine Power’s wave energy technology.
Fenwick sees venture price increases
Fenwick & West’s Third Quarter 2010 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey of 107 deals found more than half showed an increase in price per share compared to previous financing rounds.
India funds Mitra Biotech
Mitra Biotech raises $1.1m for cancer research.
Seoul Semi links with Vertex
Joint venture to invest in lights between Seoul Semiconductor and Temasek’s Vertex Venture Management.