Atlantium lights up with $9m

Atlantium Technologies, an Israel-based water treatment company using ultraviolet (UV) as a disinfectant, has raised $9m from a consortium including Aster Capital, a multi-corporate-backed venture firm that provided a third of the investment round’s amount.

Aeris Capital, the family office of software provider SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira, and Benjamin Kahn, Altantium executive chairman, joined Aster, which is backed by France-based corporations Alstom, Solvay and Schneider Electric, in the round.

Atlantium said its largest shareholders were Aurum Ventures MKI, the office…