British biotech firm QuantuMDx turns to crowdfunding to develop handheld malaria diagnostic device

British biotechnology startup QuantuMDx turned to crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to raise funds for the development and commercialization of a hand-held device that can diagnose malaria rapidly.


Colorado cloud provider Peak secures $4M in funding

Colorado, US-based cloud provider Peak (formerly PeakColo) raised $4 million in a new funding round from existing investors Sweetwater Capital and Meritage Funds, according to company press release.

Part 5: Scaling Up Investment—Finance the Startup of Start-up Communities

Entrepreneurs raising money too often attempt to shape investor risk behavior to their investment opportunity. Instead, shape your business model to match the needs of not only your customers but investors too.

Part 4: The Quest for Growth—the Startup of Start-up Communities

Brazil and China like Russia are large population countries with a growing middle class that is ripe for more consumer-facing clones, clonentrepreneurs and Clonentrepreneurship.


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Clones look the same on the surface, one country to the next, but there are multiple differences in execution. Many clones require supply chain partners for them to work, yet many of these companies do not exist in emerging countries
Deutsche Bank has acquired the WestendDuo office tower in Frankfurt from CBRE Global Investors for about €240 million. The German lender also bought an office-development project in Paris, called In Situ, for around €104 million.
This part discusses the culture of risk in the developing countries and how it impacts the behavior of local investors and their willingness to finance seed and early stage tech business models.
Joseph Dear, the Chief Investment Officer of Calpers, the largest public pension plan in the US, has taken a medical leave to continue his personal health treatments, Bloomberg reported.
Nomura Holdings Inc, through Nomura Asset Management, will be purchasing ING Securities Investment & Trust Co, the Taiwanese investment unit of Dutch company ING Groep NV, Bloomberg reported.
Gemany-based eHealth solutions provider CompuGroup Medical AG said it has inked an agreement to acquire France-based software maker Imagine Editions and Imagine Assistance for an undisclosed amount.
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners will invest over $200 million for a stake in Chinese education company EIC Group. CVC will buy the stake from rival investment firm Actis Capital.
LQ Inversiones Financieras, Banco de Chile's majority shareholder, will sell up to 6.9 billion shares equivalent to $963 million. The exit deal would reduce LQ's stake in the Chilean lender from 58.4% to 51%.
UK-based private equity group CVC Capital Partners has exited a 19.4% stake in Denmark-based firm Matas for DKK1.18 billion ($216 million), according to the Danish beauty retailer on Friday.
Sergio Marchionne, chief executive officer of Italy's Fiat, said that the carmaker could issue a mandatory convertible bond as a way of financing investments after its $4.35 billion deal to buy the rest of Chrysler.