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Abingworth, the UK life sciences VC house, has raised Europe’s largest ever venture fund dedicated to life sciences. Abingworth Bioventures V (ABV V) has €455m at its disposal, well over the target size of €380m.
The world is flat indeed. PE funds targeting “emerging markets” surged last year, according to a new report by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association. EMPEA says 162 PE funds focused on Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa raised a little over $33B last year, up from about $26B raised by […]
3M buys UK biotech business
Computacenter in €42m acquisition
British Smaller Companies VCT, a listed vehicle dedicated to investing in UK small and medium enterprises, is to raise up to £15.375m in a new placing.
August Equity sells Securistyle Holdings
HBOS sells Town Centre Restaurants
Start-up Mansbridge Capital Management has set out to round up $100 million for a debut fund of funds earmarked for smaller buyout partnerships of no more than $1 billion in size. It has secured $30 million so far. “History has shown that the smaller buyouts have consistently outperformed the larger buyouts,” said Lance Mansbridge, one […]
I wrote here yesterday that a seed-stage fund called MentorTech Ventures just closed its inaugural fund. This was done in the context of today’s jaunt down to Philly (I should leave soon, since my plane does), because MentorTech focuses primarily on IT and medical device companies that originate within the University of Pennsylvania. But it also […]