PRINT THIS PAGE European Technology VC Bulletin: February 200629/03/2006. Source: Go4Venture.
Go4Venture's monthly European Technology VC Bulletin for February 2006 reports that following January's upbeat start to the year, February saw activity in the Headline Transactions Index leap to a new high, with 25 deals contributing to a bumper €194 million crop of transaction volume. This month's impressive showing means that €340 million of deal volume has been tracked in just the first two months of 2006, quite a contrast to 2003, for instance, then it took the whole first half of the year for the Index to reach a similar point. Although it is obviously early days, on the current trend European VCs would appear to have a busy year ahead.
Interestingly, telecoms services plays - a sector which we saw fall out of favour in 2005 - have attracted the lion's share of funding this month, with both a relatively old hand (The Cloud) and a new entrant (FON) in the wireless access operator segment attracting substantial financing rounds. Another point worth mentioning, as noted here before, is that activity is spread across the whole of Europe, with all major regions represented.
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