BlackSheep MadTech Fund, managed by EUREKA! Venture SGR, the first European venture capital fund with an entrepreneurial background that invests in the marketing and advertising technology industry, has been the lead investor in the USD 5m series A investment round of Nexoya, a Swiss marketing analytics start up. The Swiss-German MadTech start-up plans to expand […]
Medartis, a Basel-based orthopedic company specializing in head and extremity surgery, recently signed an agreement with the private founders of KeriMedical, a Geneva-based private company specializing in the development and manufacture of implants for hand and wrist surgery, to acquire an additional 18% stake for a purchase price of approximately CHF 18million. This increase of […]
Kellerhals Carrard advised UNISERS, a Swiss semiconductor metrology company that identifies invisible defects caused by contamination in semiconductor materials, which raised $14 million in seed funding. The deal was led by Intel Capital, with participation from M Ventures, RSBG Ventures and Swisscom Ventures. The funding will enable UNISERS to accelerate the delivery of its commercial […]
Relai, a Switzerland-based Bitcoin-only investment platform, announced the closing of a USD 4.5 million financing. The round was led by ego death capital (EDC), with further participation from Timechain, Cabrit Capital and Lightning Ventures, as well as other new and existing shareholders including Redalpine who led Relai’s previous funding round. Relai makes bitcoin purchases accessible […]
As we have informed here, the private equity firm Argos Wityu has acquisted a majority stake in Norline, a leading provider of outsourcing services in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and plumbing sector in Switzerland. Norline’s founder Hanspeter Acklin will remain a minority shareholder, along with further managers of the company, and will continue to […]
Oculis Holding, a global biopharmaceutical company, purposefully driven to save sight and improve eye care, listed its shares on Nasdaq after successfully closing the business combination between European Biotech Acquisition Corp. (“EBAC”). At closing, Oculis had a pro-forma enterprise value of approximately USD 220m and a cash balance exceeding USD 117m prior to payment of […]
CODE41, a community-centric Swiss watchmaking company, has increased its share capital by issuing participation certificates in the form of ledger-based securities, thanks to the tokenisation technology of Taurus and the opensource smart contract published by CMTA. VISCHER has advised CODE41 in the process. The team was led by partner Maxime Chollet (corporate/m&a, pictured) and included […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and GeNeuro, a French biopharmaceutical company, has entered through its R&D subsidiary, GeNeuro Innovation, into a financing agreement for a total amount of up to EUR 25 million. The credit facility is divided into three tranches of EUR 7 million, EUR 10 million and EUR 8 million respectively, whereby disbursement […]
Niederer Kraft Frey has advised Bearmind as Swiss counsel on its seed financing round led by HH Equity Partners II. The EPFL spinoff has secured CHF 1.3 million in the seed round that also included participation from AVANTECA Partners, NP Consulting, Swisspreneur, and several business angels. Bearmind develops and commercialises in-built helmet sensors and software […]
The Swiss startup AICA has closed a CHF 1.2 million financing round to give robots a sense of touch and enable autonomous learning. Niederer Kraft Frey advised AICA as Swiss counsel on its seed financing round led by Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund with the support of High-Tech Gründerfonds III and Schaeffler Invest. The seed financing […]
