It’s often hard to quantify, but angel investing is a growing around the world. New data indicate this will be key to overcoming the growth challenges facing entrepreneurs, says the OECD’s Karen Wilson
Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards
The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards are an international business plan competition created in 2006 by Cartier, the Women’s Forum, McKinsey & Company and INSEAD business school to identify, support and encourage projects by women entrepreneurs.
High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Bayern Kapital and a strategic partner invest in seiratherm GmbH
The High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Bayern Kapital and a strategic partner invest in the development of innovative devices for the regulation of the body-core temperature.
The OakLabs GmbH receives High-Tech Gründerfonds seed funding for intelligent breeding methods
The development of new types of plants can be reduced by up to ten years with the reliable diagnostic DNA markers from OakLabs. With its seed investment, High-Tech Gründerfonds enables this young company to further develop its technology and to introduce it into the market.
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Aalto receives €2.3M in EU funding
The European Research Council granted Aalto University’s Academy Professor Olli Ikkala funding in the amount of €2.3 million for research on biomimetic nanomaterials. Ikkala’s group specialises in the self-assembly of macromolecules and how to make use of this process when producing functional materials.
The interests of Ikkala’s group focus on the self-assembled strong and light nanocomposite structures found in nature, such as the nacreous matter underneath seashells and biological fibres resembling silk and nanocellulose. Several strong natural materials are built from both strong parallel elements and softening and viscosifying macromolecules. All sizes of structures form to combine opposite properties: strength and viscosity.
Polyvore Announces $14 Million in Series C Funding
Polyvore, Inc., the web’s largest fashion community site, today announced $14 million in Series C financing, led by DAG Ventures and with participation from new investors Goldman Sachs and Vivi Nevo (NV Investments). Early Polyvore investors Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners also participated in this new funding round.
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BayernLB Capital Partner joins existing investors in investing in nfon AG.
Telephone systems “from the cloud” – BayernLB Capital Partner joins existing investors in investing in nfon AG.
BayernLB Capital Partner is putting its money on virtual telephone systems and has concluded a banner year with its seventh investment in 2011. Founded in 2007, the Munich-based company nfon, which offers telephone systems “from the cloud”, was able to use its impressive growth story to persuade the investment company Bayerische Landesbank to join its existing investors in another financing round. The invested capital is intended to finance continued growth and expand the leading market position of the company
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