Euro Ventures - Thursday, January 10, 2008
This Week in Euro Tech Ventures
Featured Interview
+ German genealogy site (Verwandt.de) on a roll - new VC and new capital.
a:c Euro Puzzler
+ Brand names that have ended up part of the vocabulary, standing for a whole category of product; for example, Band-Aid, Biro, Scotch Tape, Frisbee, white-out, and Kleenex. Occasionally, they become verbs e.g. hoovering and xeroxing. This week we ask you for a couple recent examples. Naturally we have a few in mind with a technology twist. But there is no one answer.
Investments
+ Spain's Trovit, a vertical search engine for classifieds in six European countries, has raised €600K.
+ UK's Palringo raises $5M for mobile and PC messaging.
+ French motion sensing startup Movea raises €7.3M.
+ Fresh Euro Deals - Mirifice and Inside Contactless.
+ Trivid funded for DIY music video service.
+ Sanako, a learning software company, has raised €5M.
+ Microsoft Bids $1.2B For Norway's FAST.
+ Roundup of German Web M&A above $100M.
+ Intersema Sensoric, a founder-driven pressure sensor company based in Switzerland, has been acquired by Nasdaq-traded Measurement Specialties for up to $47.4M.
The company made pressure sensors to Victorinox for this Swiss Army Knife
News & Analysis
+ Day Software, a content management software company, is the new employer of the founders of Mindquarry, a German open source collaborative software platform provider that had been funded by Hasso Plattner Ventures
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