QuesCom ranked Number One fastest growing technology company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in Telecoms & Networking!
QuesCom, leader on the Fixed Mobile Convergence market, has been awarded first prize of record-breaking growth in the Telecoms & Networking category of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking in France.
With a growth of 1800% over 5 years, QuesCom was awarded the 1st prize of Deloitte France Technology Fast 50 ranking whose 8th edition was held by Deloitte on December the 1st 2008 in Paris.
QuesCom is also ranked in Top 100 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2008, a
Open-Xchange closes Series B Venture Funding of USD 9 Million
November 4, 2008
Open-Xchange the leading provider of open source collaboration software, has closed a Series B round of venture funding totaling USD 9 million.
The company will use the funds to further develop its software and continue expanding its business in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets.
The round was led by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, a Munster, Germany-based, high-growth IT (Information Technology) equity firm. Also participating are Munich-based, BayBG, and existing Munich-based investor, BayTech Venture Capital. Frank Hoelzle, managing partner at eCAPITAL, will join the Open-Xchange board of directors.
October 24, 2008 -- Biotie of Turku, Finland to acquire neurology and immunology focussed pharmaceutical company elbion GmbH
Biotie Therapies has today entered into an agreement to acquire the German pharmaceutical company elbion GmbH. The combination of the two businesses will take place by a share exchange and create a leading European company in the field of discovery and development of therapeutics for central nervous system (addiction, psychotic disorders) and inflammatory diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflammatory diseseas of the respiratory system). elbion GmbH will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Biotie.
Ulm, Germany and Tempe, Arizona, October 21, 2008
Ubidyne, the leader in digital radio technology for the wireless industry, announced today it has successfully demonstrated full functionality and 3GPP radio performance with its breakthrough Antenna Embedded Radio™ architecture.
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that brings together a number of telecommunications standards bodies to produce globally applicable Technical Specifications for 3rd Generation Mobile Systems like UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) which is the preferred "3G" wireless technology being deployed throughout
BayTech Venture Capital leads a € 7.3 million Series A investment round in Private Outlet
Paris, Munich, September 23, 2008
Private Outlet, the European private online shopping club for designer apparels, announced today that it has secured 7.3 million euros in a first round funding lead by the Munich-based Venture firm BayTech Venture Capital.
The management team, Kreos Capital and GP Bullhoud Sidecar have also articipated in the transaction.
Launched in 2007 in France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy, the website has already secured a network of 1 million private members. The proceeds of the funding will be used to accelerate the growth of the member base,while further strengthening the management team’s extensive ties
adplace.com enables subsidized mobile phone usage with integrated on-device
advertising
San Francisco / Stuttgart – September 10, 2008
Today adplace.com introduced a new mobile advertising technology on Symbian handsets at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 in San Francisco. Adtronic, as the application is called, gives the consumer the ability to use mobile phone services in a similar fashion to TV and radio usage – for free, when bundled with a carrier offering. The usage of state-of-the-art applications, data, mobile TV and other unique services will grow exponentially, when they are offered free and ad-financed.
The system is integrated closely to the Symbian phone operation system
EnOcean Receives Venture Capital Investment of 4.5 million Euros
Oberhaching/Munich, 19. August 2008
EnOcean GmbH has received €4.5 million for expansion into new markets worldwide and continued development of its self-powered wireless technology for energy-efficient systems in the building sector. This brings the company’s total amount of venture and growth capital since it was founded to over €20 million.
EnOcean is the market leader in the field of wireless sensors for applications in building and industry. With an annual turnover and sales growth of 100 percent, the company has sold some half a million units and estimates the market potential for self-powered wireless modules to be several
GSMA Names Ubidyne Global Finalist at the Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition
Ulm, Germany and Tempe, Arizona, June 9, 2008 --
Ubidyne, the leader in digital radio technology for the wireless industry, announced today that the GSM Association (GSMA) selected the company as a Global Finalist during the Americas leg of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition in Atlanta. Ubidyne will compete against other regional 'Global Finalists' for the prestigious title of the "2009 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Award Champion" at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February.
Ubidyne was selected from a list of fifteen companies that were narrowed down to five semi-finalists by a panel of judges, comprised
Chipvision closes on 4.5 USD Million Series B Round
Investment Will Be Used To Introduce New Products to the Market Place and Expand Research & Development Efforts
Oldenburg, Germany and San Jose, California – May 16, 2008
ChipVision Design Systems , the low-power specialist in electronic design automation (EDA), today announced it has raised .5 million in a Series B internal round led by Target Partners and BayTech Venture Capital, both of Munich, Germany. Known for its breakthrough power optimization design tools, ChipVision will use the funds to introduce its newly announced PowerOpt™ and P-SAM power optimization design tools to market, and to further its research and development
Ubidyne Secures 34 Mill USD (22 Mill Euros) in Series B Funding
Ulm, Germany and Tempe, Arizona, May 14, 2008
Ubidyne, the leader in digital radio technology for the wireless industry, today announced that it has secured Million USD (22 Million euros) in second round funding lead by Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. This completes one of the largest venture capital investments in the European wireless equipment market segment in recent years. Previous investors Accel Partners and TVM Capital have participated in the funding, along with new investor BayTech Venture Capital.
Ubidyne has created the world's first digital, antenna embedded radio system for wireless communications. Ubidyne's
Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug, a cross-platform mobile software development tool provider
Paris, September 1, 2010 Acquisition expands company’s developer tools to make applications available on diverse operating systems and in more service provider stores
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has acquired OpenPlug, a mobile software and applications development tools vendor. Through this acquisition, Alcatel-Lucent deepens its role in the applications space by delivering, as part of its integrated suite of developer tools, a platform where application developers can write an application once, which will then be translated to run on any of the five major mobile operating systems. Terms of the
