Investing

One of Europe's leading life sciences investors is pulling out to focus on larger, lower-risk private equity buyouts of profitable mid-size biotechs.

Researchers at Northumbria University, UK, have a developed a safe, cheap clinical waste disposal system suitable for hospitals in developing countries, and are looking for backing from investors to take the idea forward.

Researchers at four European universities are collaborating to develop software that will help encourage the take-up of so called pervasive computing.

Business angels in German-speaking countries have traditionally been shy about what they do. Mary Lisbeth D'Amico watches them come out of hiding.

Venture capital firms used to moan that business angels were unprofessional and hard to work with. But Europe's new breed of angel investor networks appears anything but that, says Mary Lisbeth D'Amico

The concept of angel investing - in which individuals devote both their time and money to nurturing young companies - has evolved over the past decade from an unknown or poorly understand phenomena in many parts of Europe to an established form of finance.

Investing in technology that's a few years from commercialisation can be tricky. Lori Valigra finds out how some venture capitalists sort the wheat from the chaff.