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 […]
Noema Pharma, a clinical-stage biotech company targeting debilitating central nervous system disorders, successfully closed an oversubscribed Series B financing round, raising CHF 103 mio (approx. USD 112 mio). The round was co-led by the European healthcare focused
Santhera Pharmaceuticals Holding announced a private placement of shares and an amendment of its existing financing with funds managed by Highbridge Capital Management to provide up to CHF 22.2 million in aggregate, subject to certain milestones
The German life science and medtech private equity firm SHS Capital has made a EUR 10 million investment in Simulands, a Swiss manufacturer of simulation devices for medical training of cardiovascular interventions. The investment aims to
The Eastman Group, an internationally operating manufacturer of musical instruments, acquired the music manufacturing business from WILLSON Band Instruments Switzerland. Willson is a Swiss manufacturer of handmade, high-quality musical instruments. Willson has been a leader
As we have informed here, Altor Funds have entered into an agreement to acquire a majority shareholding in VTU Group, a leading life sciences and green transition pro
NIKIN, the eco-friendly Swiss fashion brand that plants a tree for every product sold, has just raised 5 million CHF in its successful crowd-funding round. NIKIN’s crowd-funding round comes in as the second largest of
UNISERS, a Swiss semiconductor metrology company that identifies invisible contamination-caused defects in semiconductor materials, raised $14M in Seed funding led by Intel Capital, with participation from M Ventures, RSBG Ventures and Swisscom Ventures. UNISERS is
SCCF Structured Commodity & Corporate Finance , the Swiss-based trade finance expert, has issued short term tokenized notes to refinance a loan to a commodity trading firm active in biofuels. The notes were tokenized using the
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Stone Point Capital and Focus Financial Partners, a leading partnership of independent, fiduciary wealth management firms, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Focus to be acquired by
