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...In February last year Atomico closed a $765m European tech fund to help new businesses expand while Partech, the France-based investment firm, closed a €400m fund to invest in European and US technology...
...“The new funds are having a harder time raising money, or the amount [they raise] will be smaller,” said Omri Benayoun, general partner at Paris-based Partech Ventures, which shelved plans to open an office...
...Dayuse late last year closed a €15m fundraising with venture capital firms Idinvest Partners and Partech Ventures....
...Now it’s raising €6.5m – including €3.5m from Vodafone, with the remainder from existing investors Advent Venture Partners, Partech International and Wellington Partners – to redouble its efforts on mobile...
...Early investors in Brands4friends include Mangrove Capital Partners, Partech International and Holtzbrinck Ventures....
...The French strategic investments fund, which is 49 per cent owned by the government, contributed $11m to the round, with all the existing investors, Advent Venture Partners, AGF PE, Partech International...
...Existing backers Advent Venture Partners and Partech International also topped up, bringing its total funding to €13m....
...“They have been fixated on big leveraged buy-outs, like rabbits frozen in the headlights of a car,” says Jean Marc Patouillaud, a Paris-based partner at Partech International, a Paribas spin-off headquartered...
...In August 2006, two VCs, Partech International and Atlas Venture, approached Mr Bejbaum and invested €7m in the company in return for an undisclosed stake....
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