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LIST OF STARTUPS BOUGHT BY GOOGLE IN UNITED KINGDOM;

Out of 8 start ups acquired by Google, the biggest  acquisition in UK or for that matter in Europe was  of  DEEP MIND technologies.
DeepMind technologies, a London-based artificial intelligence firm which specialises in machine learning, advanced algorithms and systems neuroscience was aquired by Google Ventures, the VC group of Google..  Google paid  a hefty amount of  £400m ($650m) for  acquisition of DeepMind
Deep minds  has created a neural network that  might be able  to access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine, resulting in a computer that appears to possibly mimic the short-term memory of the human brain.Deep Mind Technologies plans to develops technologies for e-commerce and games, and plans to  develop computers that think like humans.


The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup was founded by former child chess prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis alongside Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.

The following are the start ups  that got funding this week

• Snapbizz: Retail technology firm
  Investors : Former CEO of the TATA group Ratan Tata
  Amount : Undisclosed
• LodgIQ: Hotel revenue management systems
  Investors:Highgate Ventures and Trilantic Capital Partners.
  Amount :$5million

• Jugnoo :aggregator of auto rides
  Investors:Led by personal HNI TV and film actress Saumya Tandon.
  Amount : Indosclosed

• Diligent Corp: Maker of boardbook apps
  Investors: Insight Venture
  Amount :$624 million

• Qualia Media : SasS start up
  Investors : 15 investors led by Verizon Ventures
  Amount : $5.5million
  
  Scroll down or click below to see  the other Vc deals this week

 

• Hometeam, $5 million: seniors home care provider
  Investors:Kaiser Permanente Ventures
  Amount: $5 million

 

• Operative: ophthalmic app that allows users to get an eye check via its app
  Investors:Led by Jump Capital along with Tribeca Venture Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Chicago Ventures,
  Amount : $6million

The chart shows the list of US cities by Percent for Female Founded Companies  with backing from VC firms .New York City,has produced the largest number of companies with a female founder: 374, or 21% of all startups. It turns out that the Big Apple beats out San Francisco (338 startups and 16%) on both fronts. Another suprise  is  worth noting that Brooklyn, considered on its own, is the national frontrunner with 28% of startups, 33 in total, reporting at least one woman founder.metros

Among other cities  the percentage of women CEO’s seem to be lagging as  the overall national average of 15.4% for the years 2009 – 2014, These include  the well-known Silicon Valley cities of Palo Alto and San Jose.( techcrunch)

When it comes to seeking VC funding by european start ups, its the consumer internet that represents the highest share of  start ups that is seeking to fund its growth
Business products  followed by  IT services is the no 2 and 3  industry  vertical ,seeking  funding, followed by clean technology,media and entertainment  and consumer products which rank 4th, 5th and 6th respectively. European  start ups specializing in internet& dot com along with IT services  account for 32% among the different industry vertical seeking funds  

 

Chinese internet and online shopping giant Alibaba’s IPO was the biggest IPO in the history if financial markets. The number 2 biggest IPO was Votorantim Cimentos followed by Citizen Financial group , which is ranked number 3 The IPO of .Syncrony Financial  was the 4th largest, thereby making the fintech industry  the highest number of record setting initial public offering ,IPO history.

 

VC INVESTMENT IN  UK  last year reached 3.6 billion euro  with  UK and Ireland accounting for 7% of global VC deals  in 2015. The UK tech sector received 70 per cent more funding from VCs last year, compared with 2014, with start-ups gaining just $2.1bn in 2014,according to research
based on the data from  CB Insights and London & Partners,

 However this number pales into insignificance when compared to VC investment and start up growth in US and silicon valley  miles According to the US National Venture Capital Association, $35.7bn was invested in tech companies by US venture funds in 2014 alone.




However UK has traditionally seen increasing VC funding across  financial  technology  start ups. In 2015 Britain’s financial technology( fintech)  investments has  seen significant upside  with several
funding rounds in the vertical  which included  Ebury, a group that helps small businesses trade internationally, which raised $83m; Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer lender, which raised $150m; and WorldRemit, a money transfer group, which raised $100 million

UK’s  strength has been its proximity with the financial centre of London, where it scores over ” the silicon valley’s software power centre

Here is the complete list of French VC start ups that ” provide  funding to ocal french start ups to the tune of $5 million  . This list had been published by Andy Romans at Rubicon.  This list is not final list, there might be some other VC which we missed out. In case you wish your ” VC ” firm to get listed, you can tweet me at twitter.com/aerosmith071 or send me a mail at [email protected]

1	CDC Entreprises	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 1,923	21
2	CM-CIC Capital Prive	Paris, France	Investment Bank	US$ 373	13
3	Amundi SA	Paris, France		US$ 826,684	12
4	Credit Agricole Private Equity	Paris, France		US$ 4,456	12
5	Seventure Partners SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 601	11
6	Idinvest Partners	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 3,366	10
7	XAnge Private Equity	Paris, France		US$ 353	9
8	Auriga Partners SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 397	8
9	Sofinnova Partners	Paris, France		US$ 1,328	8
10	A Plus Finance	Paris, France		US$ 66	7
11	Emertec Gestion	Grenoble, France	Venture Capital	US$ 144	7
12	Serena Capital SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 120	7
13	Ventech SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 439	7
14	Alto Invest	Le Chesnay, France			6
15	Alven Capital	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 180	6
16	Naxicap Partners SA	Paris, France		US$ 974	6
17	Oseo	Maisons-Alfort, France	Government	US$ 361	6
18	Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners	Paris, France		US$ 580	5
19	Fonds Strategique d’Investissement	Paris, France			5
20	I-Source Gestion SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 225	5
21	Innovacom SA	Paris, France	Corporate Venture Capital	US$ 541	5
22	Truffle Capital SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 462	5
23	123 Venture	Paris, France		US$ 180	4
24	ACE Management	Paris, France		US$ 166	4
25	Developpement et Partenariat	Paris, France		US$ 180	4
26	Gimv NV	Antwerp, Belgium		US$ 2,116	4
27	iXO Private Equity SAS	Toulouse, France		US$ 361	4
28	Oddo Asset Management	Paris, France		US$ 204	4
29	Sofimac Partners SA	Clermont-Ferrand, France		US$ 240	4
30	Sudinnova	Lyon, France	Venture Capital	US$ 54	4
31	Turenne Capital Partenaires SA	Paris, France		US$ 361	4
32	BNP Paribas Developpement	Paris, France		US$ 295	3
33	BNP Paribas Private Equity SAS	Paris, France		US$ 971	3
34	Cap Decisif Management	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 58	3
35	CDC Innovation	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 499	3
36	CEA Investissement	Grenoble, France	Government	US$ 18	3
37	CIC Banque de Vizille	Lyon, France			3
38	Entrepreneur Venture	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 42	3
39	Jaina Capital SAS	Paris, France	Angel Investor	US$ 120	3
40	Masseran Gestion SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 56	3
41	Matignon Investissement & Gestion	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 301	3
42	Midi Capital SAS	Toulouse, France		US$ 32	3
43	NextStage Aurel	Paris, France		US$ 176	3
44	OTC Asset Management SA	Paris, France		US$ 301	3
45	Societe Hospitaliere d’Assurances Mutuel	Lyon, France	Venture Capital		3
46	360 Capital Partners	Milan, Italy	Venture Capital	US$ 120	2
47	Apax Partners LLP	London, United Kingdom		US$ 20,000	2
48	Backbone SAS	Paris, France			2
49	Bioam Gestion	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 67	2
50	Esfin Gestion	Courbevoie, France	Venture Capital	US$ 72	2

50 VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING FIRMS THAT FUNDS EARLY STAGE FRENCH START UPS UPTO 5BILLION USD