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Euro Ventures - Thursday, January 31, 2008

This Week in Euro Tech Ventures

Thumb Investments + Cachelogic, which has been sniffing packets and moving content for five years now, has raised a $25M internal round. + Mobile Distillery, a startup from the Southern French city of Marseille, has raised €2M from Innoveris and Viveris Management. The two-year old company's software tools and directories make it easier to port mobile applications. + Angels back German Woot clone Preisbock. + Another internal round to report this week as Virtensys raises $12M. VirtenSys, sells a virtualization solution for data centers. News & Analysis + Scottish startup Crisp Documents makes 10X Smaller PDFs. + Top 10 VC-backed IPOs and M&A in tech in Europe. + Why two early mobile social startups are heading to the US. + The a:c Euro Puzzler + We asked readers to send in three examples of tech M&A or IPOs over €100M. The winner is Chris Grew, a partner at HellerEhrman Venture Law Group. His answers were: Last.fm (backed by Index) sold to CBS for $280M, Apertio (backed by Add Partners, Eden Ventures, etc.) sold to Nokia Seimens for $200M+, and the IPO of Blinkx... Continue...

Social Networking - Thursday, January 31, 2008

Hoover's Officially Launches Business Network With Buyout of Visible Path

Thumb D&B's Hoover's is buying Visible Path for an undisclosed amount. Foster City-based Visible Path sells social networking software for corporations to mine their connections for sales leads, recruiting and the like. Founded in 2004, Visible Path has raised just over $20M from Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank and Integral Capital. The deal coincides with the official launch of Hoover’s Connect – a rebranding of Visible Path. If Hoover's doesn't F#*% this up, Hoover's Connect could be a viable alternative to LinkedIn. A number of reviewers say they liked Visible Path better than LinkedIn. A glaring weakness of LinkedIn is that you may have dozens of people on your list that your barely know or do business with but they sit next to your closest work mates. Visible Path by contrast includes an outlook plug-in that monitors who you email and then displays that they are indeed important to you. VisiblePath connects with SugarCRM View - Hoover's Connect... Continue...

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