Cambridge terahertz imaging spinout TeraView has raised $5.5m from a consortium of global investors to accelerate the growth of its semiconductor, industrial and analytical business in Asia, the US and the EU.
Mobile power equipment maker Power Oasis has raised £4.5m from Yorkshire fund YFM Equity Partners to help accelerate growth in the $3bn power market for mobile telecoms companies.
Dublin-based mobile multimedia processor designer Movidius has raised $9m in a round of funding that brings the total investment up to $30m.
his week, entrepreneurship is being celebrated over the world in Global Entrepreneur Week, and a Northern Ireland-based intelligent crowdfunding site has raised nearly £23m for tech business startups.
A spin-out from the University of East
Anglia has created a prototype of what it claims is the world's
first hand-held fingerprint drug testing device.
Europe has recorded the lowest number of venture capital deals in a decade, according to the latest figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. Social media and entertainment start-ups, the heart of Silicon Roundabout in London, were hardest hit, while medical start-ups saw many more deals coming though.
Medical data services and systems startup Isansys Lifecare in Oxford has opened a new subsidiary in India.
A young UK company developing mobile technology to help with clinical trials has won backing of £3m from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP)
The venture capital industry is starting to look again at technology investments says London group Go4Venture which was an advisor in the recent sale of Spanish start-up ADD Semiconductor to Atmel.
There's never been a better time to invest in fabless start-ups as they are becoming increasingly scarce, says Henry Nurser, Chief Operating Officer of Bristol chip start-up Blu Wireless. This is due to the imbalance building up between supply and demand for these new companies by larger ones.
The SETsquared partnership is bringing 19 new companies to London this week to meet investors and pitch for funding.
