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Our funds in the North

Enterprise Ventures has raised £10 million for its new RisingStars Growth Fund II, which will invest in early-stage opportunities and proof-of-concept technologies throughout the North of England.

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£220m bid for Systems Union

Luxembourg-based software group Extensity, which is backed by San Franciscan venture capital house Golden Gate Capital, has launched a £220.5 million takeover bid for Systems Union, one of the largest software business listed on London’s AIM market.

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Ingenious sells Lionhead Studios to Microsoft Game Studios

Ingenious Media has sold its investment in Guildford-based video game developer Lionhead Studios to Microsoft Game Studios.

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Octopus swallows Perfect Pizza

Octopus Asset Management – operator of the BioScience, Phoenix and Eclipse series of venture capital trusts – has invested £3 million in Perfect Pizza, the UK’s third largest pizza delivery outfit.

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Barclays sells Cabot

Barclays Private Equity has passed control of debt purchase group Cabot Financial over to European investment group Nikko Principal, via a £275 million secondary buyout.

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No crony of Tony

One entrepreneur who will not be buying a title from the Government is David Soskin, the former merchant banker who has built online travel information company Cheapflights into a market leader and one of the few British internet companies to launch successfully in the USA.

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Gina Athans sings the blues

Guests at AIM-quoted Tanzanite One's results reception at Tower Bridge the other evening had more to celebrate than the Bermuda-domiciled company's trebled annual profits.

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Giving Budge a bear hug

Mikhail Abyzov, boss of Russia's second largest coal company Kuzbassrazrezugl, has pre-empted Richard Budge's plan for a stock market comeback by buying his Powerfuel vehicle.

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Gina Athans sings the blues

Guests at AIM-quoted Tanzanite One's results reception at Tower Bridge the other evening had more to celebrate than the Bermuda-domiciled company's trebled annual profits.

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Giving Budge a bear hug

Mikhail Abyzov, boss of Russia's second largest coal company Kuzbassrazrezugl, has pre-empted Richard Budge's plan for a stock market comeback by buying his Powerfuel vehicle.

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Eurosceptic Hew Balfour grows Europa

Self-proclaimed eurosceptic Hew Balfour – a prominent supporter of the ‘vote no’ campaign against the European Constitution – is driving a disciplined revival at aptly named Havelock Europa, the Scottish shops-to-schools outfitter.

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Galleon sails Wong way

David Wong, a founder director of bombed-out printer TripleArc, has taken the tiller at children's entertainment play Galleon as executive chairman

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Record year for VCTs

2005/06 appears to have been a record year for VCT operators in terms of fundraising.

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Bridges backs self-storage rollout

Regional venture capital investor Bridges Community Ventures has provided £2 million to Wirral-based self-storage business Smart Storage.

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