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Facebook acquires our client, the Spanish cloud video gaming company PlayGiga
Facebook acquires Spanish cloud video gaming company PlayGiga. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the deal to CNBC, after Spanish business newspaper Cinco Dias reported that the acquisition was coming. Read the Techcrunch article here.
Metrix Partners advises Barcelona-based edtech startup World Mastery €3M Series A round led by Nauta Capital
World Mastery, a content-as-a-service platform which provides structured online courses, has secured a €3M Series A round led by Pan-European VC Nauta Capital. The edtech company serves the non-academic learning needs of businesses and professionals by providing access to highly-curated specialist courses delivered by maestros – renowned experts – in subjects including tennis, basketball, dance, yoga, fitness, cooking and hairstyle. Read the full story here
Onna Technologies closes an $11 million series A led by Dawn Capital with participation from Dropbox and the Slack Fund
Our client Onna Technologies raised a massive $11 m series A round with participation by Nauta Capital, Dawn Capital and the corporate VC arms of Dropbox and Slack. More information here
Keyfactor acquires our client, the Spanish digital identity firm Redtrust
This is undoubtedly one of the highest profile transactions in the Spanish startup ecosystem this year. Keyfactor is invested by Insight Partners, and the purchase of Redtrust creates a very nice combination in a space that is red hot… digital certificates are and will be EVERYWHERE. Read more about the Keyfactor acquisition here
Psious closes a EUR 8m round and joins Metrix client list
We welcome Psious to our client list. This Barcelona-based VR startup has recently raised EUR 8m in a round led, among others, by Asabys, CCR abd Sabadell VC. Read the full article here
Biotech startup Ona Therapeutics raises EUR 1.5m from Sabadell Asabys and joins our client list
Biotech startup Ona Therapeutics raises EUR1.5m from Sabadell Asabys and joins our client list. Ona Therapeutics develops novel drugs for the treatment of metastatic cancer. Read the full article here.
Metrix Partners advises Nauta Capital on its $6m investment in Zenloop
zenloop, a German customer experience management platform, has raised $6M investment led by Pan-European VC, Nauta Capital with Piton Capital also joining the round. The investment will be used for internationalisation with a focus on expansion across Europe in 2019 in addition to doubling zenloop’s team size within the year. Read the full article here
Metrix Partners advises AXA Venture Partners in its €15m Series B round in Zenjob
Zenjob, the Berlin-based tech startup, has raised 15 million euros in the Series B financing round, led by AXA Venture Partners. Additional capital investors are the current investors Acton Capital Partners, Redalpine, and Atlantic Labs. Zenjob helps large and medium-sized businesses find on-demand student staff with just a few clicks. The capital will be invested […]
AELIX Therapeutics and Gilead Sciences Enter into a Clinical Research Collaboration Agreement
AELIX Therapeutics and Gilead Sciences Enter into a Clinical Research Collaboration Agreement to Evaluate a Therapeutic Vaccine and TLR7 Agonist Regimen for HIV Cure. AELIX Therapeutics will investigate the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of AELIX Therapeutics’ HTI vaccine and Gilead´s Toll-Like Receptor 7 agonist vesatolimod (GS-9620) in HIV-infected individuals. Read the full press release here
Our client Northern Biologics Enters the Clinic with its lead immuno-oncology antibody, MSC-1
Northern Biologics Inc., a developer of first-in-class immuno-oncology products, today announced that its lead immuno-oncology antibody, MSC-1, began clinical testing at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with plans to soon expand to other world-leading sites in Canada and Europe. MSC-1 is a humanized antibody against a soluble cytokine called LIF (see “About LIF” below). LIF […]
Geoblink raises $6m and joins Metrix Partners' client list
Location intelligence SaaS company, Geoblink, has today announced that it has secured a $6m boost from Elaia Partners and existing investor Nauta Capital. The round includes grants from the Government of Madrid and Neotec CDTI, a public organisation for technology development in Spain. Founded in 2015, the European startup will use the funding to […]
What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2018?, by Christoph Janz
Note: this article was originally published in Medium by Christophe Janz, from Point Nine Capital What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2018? UPDATE: The 2018 napkin has been published. You can download (and upvote 😉 ) it here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/saas-funding-napkin-2018 About two years ago I thought about the question of what it takes to raise capital, in […]
Our client ForceManager raises $12m in Series B Funding led by AXA Strategic Ventures
Post originally published in Nauta Capital’s blog on 06 Dec 2017 ForceManager raises $12m in Series B Funding led by AXA Strategic Ventures Barcelona, 6th December 2017 – ForceManager, the first AI conversational sales assistant app for field sales teams, announced today a Series B investment worth $12m led by AXA Strategic Ventures. Additional support will be […]
Hire a CFO by Jeff Jordan, from Andreessen Horowitz
This post was originally pubished in A16Z’s blog here. Many CEOs think the chief financial officer (CFO) is a utility position… and they’re dead wrong. It’s easy to see the CFO as a glorified “scorekeeper” reporting arrears on things like revenue, expenses, profit/losses, and cash flow/burn. But this work is actually a very small part of a […]
Our client Aelix commences enrolment in Phase I trial for HIV vaccine
Spanish biotechnology firm Aelix Therapeutics has commenced patient enrolment in a Phase I clinical trial (AELIX-002) of HTI vaccine to treat patients infected with HIV. Designed by the firm’s chief scientific officer Dr Christian Brander and colleagues, HTI vaccine immunogen combines specific HIV regions that are enriched with T-cell responses in individuals who can control […]
Northern Biologics merges with our client Mosaic Biomedicals as Versant, Celgene boost involvement
Canadian biotech Northern Biologics has signed a “transformative” merger deal with Spain’s Mosaic Biomedicals as the new player looks to become a global cancer company, eyeing 2017 in-human testing for its lead candidate. The early-stage, newly formed company gains more money, Big Biotech backing and a new exec. On the money side, investment firm Versant Ventures has […]