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Euro Ventures - Thursday, January 24, 2008

This Week in Euro Tech Ventures

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Features
+ Index Ventures gets major growth money.

Investments
+ VC money piles into UK web ventures: W7 and TouchLocal.

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+ Austrian printed sensor startup Nanoident has raised new capital of an undisclosed amount from Istanbul-based MV Holding, an investment vehicle that was founded by Murat Vargi, a Forbes 2007 billionaire.

+ Howzat Media, an investment vehicle of two British Internet entrepreneurs, who also invested in WAYN, an online travel community, has made its first investment in Germany, backing trivago.

+ A Dutch/German real-time game engine company, iOpener, has raised capital from German venture capitalist Triangle. It looks like the startup aims to embed satellite nav system chips in racing cars.

+ austriamicrosystems, a SWX traded semiconductor firm, and New Scale Technologies, of Vector, NY announced the completion of a Series B round with the European chipcom making a $6M investment in exchange for a 25% minority share in the company.

+ AdScale, a Germany-centric online ads service provider (based on auction-model) has raised new capital from early investors Holtzbrinck and European Founders Fund.

+ A Swiss angel group is backing an early investment in Cupertino-based gBox, a digital music shopping enabler.

+ United Mobile, a low-cost roaming mobile operator that markets its own SIM cards, has closed a $15M round of equity financing in a deal led by Accel Partners and Grazia Equity.

+ Cisco Backs UK-based small-sized basestation firm ip.access.

+ Momail a mobile email platform provider has raised a first round of funding at $5.4M.

+ Alfresco, an open source content management system provider, has raised $9M in a series C round led by SAP Ventures.

+ Sweden's Tonium, whose first product is a pocket-sized digital music mixer, called Pacemaker targeted at DJs has raised about €2.4M

M&A
+ Audiotube, an online music video portal, has acquired video encoding and playback products and technologies from CineFX.

+ Germany's XING AG acquires cember.net, Turkey’s leading online business Network.

+ VC-backed wireless network provider TheCloud has acquired GlobalAirNet AG (Ganag), for an undisclosed amount.

News & analysis
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Tiny speaker, powered by MP3 devices from Austrian startup >Plastic Electronic

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Virbac is offering in France a service to locate lost pups via a GPS-based collar attachment that provides info to the cellphone or the web.

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