REAL TIME VC & PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS AND NEWS
GreenPeak Technologies completed a €13m ($19m) Series B venture capital financing round. The round was led by exisiting backers Gimv and Robert Bosch Venture Capital with participation from DFJ Esprit, Motorola Ventures and Allegro Investment. The proceeds will provide the company with the necessary funds to finance its growth in the coming years. GreenPeak is […]
Black Opal Equity LLC, a new private equity firm that will specializes in acquiring and actively managing established middle-market businesses in the United States, launches today. It will invest in companies that service, or partner with, the infrastructure, essential service and government sectors in the United States. Black Opal Equity aims to acquire companies with […]
Lousville, Colorado eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator and workforce development organization for aerospace companies, announced that it is seeking a second round of aerospace entrepreneurs to participate in the eSpace incubator. The organization is actively seeking Colorado-based companies regardless of size, maturity and technology sector. The selected organizations will receive […]
The Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward has confirmed a £1.5m grant to Metalysis Ltd., a Rotherham-based technology business for the global manufacture of special metals and alloys. According to an official statement, the award will help create 90 highly skilled jobs in the South Yorkshire region as the company gears up to develop a plant […]
Creavalley, a Caen, France-based company founded in 2007 that operates two e-commerce sites, Cadres-Et-Album.com and MaPapeterie.com, completed a €1m financing round led by Alto Invest and NCI Gestion. The funding will be used to further develop in a segment still dominated by large mail order business as JPG and improve its logistics. The company will […]
Caisse des Dépôts and China Development Bank, on October 28, 2009, signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement paving the way for a new era of financial cooperation between Chinese and French long-term financial institutions. In the constest of the agreement, which will have project finance; asset management; risk control, governance and transparency and sustainable development and […]
The United States Senate passed legislation to temporarily extend Small Business Administration (SBA) programs through April 30, 2010. As stated by Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, “a six-month extension of the SBA and its programs – including the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small […]
Activaero GmbH, a provider of controlled breathing technologies for inhaled therapeutic agents, completed a Series A financing totalling € 10.7m ($16m). The international consortium of investors was led by BioMedPartners AG (advising BioMedInvest LP II) and included VI Partners AG, Abalis Finance AG and Vesalius Biocapital I SICAR S.A. The transaction was advised by MedVenture […]
Renewable Funding, an Oakland, CA-based provider of financing and administration for property assessed solar and energy efficiency improvements, completed a $12.2m Series A round of financing led by NGEN Partners LLC and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Other investors included New Cycle Capital, and the Wilson Sonsini law firm. The infusion of capital will accelerate Renewable Funding’s […]
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the high officers of the Slovak Government signed the JEREMIE funding agreements aimed at supporting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the country. These funding agreements committed contributions to set up the €100m holding fund. It is financed from EU structural funds under the Operational Programmes Competitiveness and […]
Through a new set of regulations, the U.S. Small Business Administration will create a secondary market guarantee program to provide greater liquidity for lenders and expand access to capital for small businesses. The new program, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), would encourage sales into the secondary market of the “first mortgage” […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration today proposed changes to strengthen opportunities for disadvantaged small businesses to benefit from its 8(a) Business Development program. These changes are the result of the first comprehensive review of the program published today in the Federal Register. The 8(a) program supports socially and economically disadvantaged firms develop their business and […]
Alpha Analytical, Inc. announced the acquisition of Boston Analytical, Inc., a registered, cGMP compliant contract testing laboratory providing quality analytical and microbiological testing services to the pharmaceutical, biotech, device, cosmetic and nutritional products industries. The acquisition adds to Alpha Analytical’s existing portfolio of testing and analytical services and, at the same time, expands the company […]
KBC Private Equity and Cellumat’s management team have carried out a €2.2m capital increase aimed at funding the further growth of Cellumat, a company that produces high-quality aerated concrete. Based in a modern factory in the French city of Valenciennes, the company was set up at the end of 2008 by a team of experienced […]
ScanScout, an in-stream video advertising provider with offices in Boston and New York, completed a $8.5m Series B financing round led Singapore-based EDB Investments (EDBI). The new funds will be used to further accelerate the growth of the company in the United States as well as establish new developments in the Asian market, including the […]