Partech Ventures announces the final closing of its seventh venture fund at the €400M hard cap, thus completing a unique investment program spanning from pre-seed, seed, venture to growth stages over the past eighteen months. 

July 2017

Selfridge started work at the age of 10, delivering newspapers. He had a genuine entrepreneurial spirit, starting his first business at the age of 12.

Locum’s Nest, a mobile first platform founded by doctors which is revolutionising the way staffing shortages are addressed in the NHS, has completed a £1.1m funding round led by Albion Capital and IDO Investments, an innovation firm based in Oman. The investment will be used to expand Locum’s Nest nationally and add additional functionality to the service.

Scottish Equity Partners has completed two new energy infrastructure investments from its Environmental Capital Fund (ECF).

VCs have woken up and smelt the robo-coffee. A bottom up estimate* shows close to $2bn in VC investments for 2016, up from approximately $1.3bn in 2015. Yet clearly this is still a relatively 'young' space, in that there are as yet not many mega-exits, and the amounts invested still pale in comparison to the digital tech/mobile space. It is not yet clear to investors what may be the winning 'formula' that would enable a scale-up of investment flows in the robotics space.

* The Robot Report 2017

Kweku Ackom-Mensah Partnership Manager at GrantTree discusses the changing relationship between government funding and institutional investment.

The Invest Europe Yearbook - 2016 European Private Equity Activity - is the most comprehensive source for European private equity fundraising, investment and divestment data. With data on more than 1,200 European private equity firms, the 2016 statistics cover 88% of the €600bn capital under management on the European market.

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European Buy & Build activity reaches highest level on record in 201

• Silverfleet’s 2016 Buy & Build Monitor reported 537 add-ons, making 2016 a record year for European add-on activity
• The UK & Ireland region was once again the most popular for add-ons with 111 transactions in the year
• The Nordic region saw a 40% year-on-year increase in add-ons, driven by Sweden and Denmark
• Average deal values increased by 74% vs. 2015
• Add-on activity outside of Europe dipped slightly year-on-year 

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July 2017

EBAN has published the 2016 edition of its annual review of co-investment funds operating with business angels in Europe. The publication focuses on co-investment funds, includes an overview of the different types of existing funds country by country, and a brief presentation of the main characteristics of some selected funds in Europe.

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EBAN presents the latest edition of its annual mapping of fiscal incentives available to business angels in Europe in 2016. EBAN, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds, and other Early Stage Market Players, joined efforts with BOFIDI this year to develop its annual publication.

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Dan Somers, CEO of Boundary Capital, discusses why mammalian investment will become will increasingly important in the world of tech VC.

Check out the P2P Lending EcoSystem developed by Orca to celebrate growth of the UK P2P sector - with more than £10bn now invested across 23 of the country’s P2P platforms.