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October 23, 2007
Ekinops raises €20M and Other Fresh Euro Deals
Ekinops, a French optical networking startup has raised €20M from French VCs in its second round of financing. A number of new customer wins from telecommunications carriers in North America and in Europe is what attracted investors to the deal. Clipperton advised the company on its fundraising.
View Ekinops
Pond Ventures, the early stage UK venture firm best known for semiconductor deals, has made a 7-figure investment in TIOTI, which is a portal around TV programs available on the Internet. It indexes more than 75,000 television shows and offers more than 500,000 individual episodes for download. (Techcrunch UK got the scoop from Pond earlier than the rest of us. )
Iris Capital out of Paris has led a new round in Canadian startup Bluestreak, a $20 million Series D financing round. Blognation France notes that it shares an investor in common with a French rival, Streamezzo. The deal was announced a week or so ago.
View Bluestreak announcement
And finally, ink communications offers up one of its Top Ten lists. This time it's the Top Ten Men of Etre 2007 (ink is a PR company specialized in tech and media).
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