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These are Among the biggest early stage investors in United States across medical and healthcare Categorry

Rockfort Capital :based out of Boston and invests across advanced hydrocarbons, renewable energy,sustainability and smart grid technologies.It generally funds  start ups from 5$milion to $25million : contact  them Hercules Capital :based out of  ElmHurst ,illinois provide seed, start up  as well as late stage funding. It has more than 20 start ups in its porfolio.Blurb, Tapjoy and Transmedics are among them.You can directly connect them here CIT Gap Fund : based out of Virginia mainly invests across seed and early stage.It invests across Biotech, healthcare and life sciences  Among its portfolio. Funding size : $0.1million to $5million. Connect with them Epic  Ventures :based out of Idaho, rexburg provides  seed and  early stage funding in the range of $1- $5milion.With a fund size of more than. $170million, its highest funding has been upto $5million. Connect with them Redpoint Ventures based out of Menlo park, California: It provides early stage investments from $1million to $5million.With a huge $2.5billion fund size, it invests across consumer products, media, internet,technology. Connect with them

While  Start up funding shows signs of decline, Investment infusion across several VC firms showed signs of  revival.
. According to Venture Pulse, the first quarter of 2016 saw US$25.5 billion invested across 1,829 deals, marking the second-straight quarter in which investors dialed back VC funding and activity.

VC  Capital Infusion since the last one year VC  which received fresh fund infusion  by regions The scramble to find the next Unicorn saw investors open their checkbooks for mega-rounds throughout most of 2015. However, these $100M+ equity financings remain depressed after falling off a cliff in Q4’15, with all major markets trending flat at best. Q1’16 saw $8.7B invested across 37 such deals, compared to $11.5B over 40 deals last quarter.

The first quarter of 2016 saw $1.4 billion in venture capital funding and the most merger and acquisitions transactions in a single quarter to date. The biggest VC investment in 2016 , has been so far   on  Healthcare wearables and technology vertical .According to  Mercom capital   the first 6 months  in 2016  has seen  VC’s  landing up with war chests  of $260million  to lap up   the most promising investments across wearables technology

The growth of wearables  started gaining traction since 2009  as funding to wearables startups surpassed $2.2B across the past five years, accrued over 195 deals.

Jawbone, at $614M raised, is the most well-funded private wearables company. amongAmong i (Jawbone took on $300M in debt financing in April 2015).Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico Black Rock, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments ,Firsthand Technology Value Fund   are among  those who have invested in jawbone

Software company LogicMonitor has raised $130 million, marking its largest funding round for setting up the California company for an Asia expansion. LogicMonitor, a software-as-a-service, or SaaS, company that helps businesses monitor their data centers and flag possible problems, raised $130 million from Providence Strategic Growth, an investment arm of Providence Equity Partners, the company said in an interview. Prior to this funding, LogicMonitor, founded in 2007, had raised $21 million, a relatively small sum compared to some other high-growth software companies.

The Internet of Things or IoT is not really an industry and is more of a theme with IoT companies attacking a wide variety of industry challenges. Th above image posted by CBinsights shows together a map of IoT startups that are attacking different industries. While companies like Lockitron and Canary aim to automate your home, Proteus Digital Health and AdhereTech are trying to revolutionize  medicine by improving patient monitoring. Below are some of the areas that IoT startups are attacking with a small sampling of companies for each IoT segment.

Funding to drone startups increased 104% as venture firms including Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV Capital and Kleiner Perkins among others jumped into the space with sizable bets.

US states Ranked  by   “SaaS” start up Venture Fund Deals

Caifornia VC firms have invested $16billion across saas start ups from 2011 to 2014. The VC deals in California was equal to all other US started combined. saas based VC firms invested a total of $11.7 billion,as compared to VC investment of $16billion in california. To read more click below

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