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Euro Ventures - Sunday, November 26, 2006

This Week In Euro Tech Ventures

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Investments
+ AdLink, the online advertising and digital marketing subsidiary of Germany's United Internetborrowed €35M to boost its stake in Sedo, which provides domain-name services.

+ French image ID startup Codasystems has raised €2M from OTC Asset Management.

+ Add Partners made a seed investment in a Luxembourg-based wireless VoIP start-up, called Wireless Technology Partners.
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+ Mangrove Capital is backing Properazzi, a Spanish-based real estate listings site that just launched in beta.

+ Germany's Neuhaus Partners has invested an undisclosed amount in Sofatronic, a Hamburg-based developer of casual games that can be played on standard DVD players.

+ Swedish university spinoff, TranSiC has raised €440K. The startup is working on silicon carbide transistors for hybrid vehicles.

M&A
+ Yahoo acquires Sweden's Kenet Works for its mobilephone software.
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+ Checkpoint Offers $586M or Swedish data protection company Pointsec Mobile Technologies.

+ Nugg.ad, a German online ads tech startup has raised an undisclosed amount of cash by selling bmp AG (a publicly traded VC vehicle) 17.5% of its equity.
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French Real Estate Along The Coast Looks Like a Buy

IPO
+ An IPO is imminent for Seloger.com Groupe (formerly Poliris), the Paris-based company behind online real estate ads sites Seloger.com and Immostreet.com. The float will be on Euronext and it's slated for December 1. The company hopes to sell around €197M worth of shares.

Analysis
+ The alarm:clock euro's hot betas WAYN, NAVX, and Visuarios.

+ Tornado Insider confirms the trend in the market here that sees larger amounts of capital going into fewer companes that we reported on earlier this quarter.

+ Top 10 things missing from mobilephones.

+ Learnings about open source in mobile.

+ What went down at Paris' SuperInvestor event.

+ The a:c euro's Puzzler. Which early stage German venture fund counts SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira as an investor and supporter? The answer: Firstventury Equity.The winners" Hitflip's Jan Miczaika and Neuhaus Partners's Jozefak.

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