Alongside SR One backing F-star are Germany-based drugs maker Merck Serono's corporate venturing unit, MP Healthcare Venture, a jointly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma and its parent company Mitsubishi Chemical, and venture capital firms Atlas Venture, Aescap Venture, Novo Ventures and TVM Capital.

Wellcome rates venture investing now as 7.5 out of 10, similar to Brooks Zug, senior managing director of funds of funds manager HarbourVest Partners, who rates venture investing now a "nine" out of 10.

$5m for Lieferheld.

Sequans will offer 9.17 million American Depositary Shares (ADSs), representing an ordinary share and being sold for $11 to $13 each.

Swisscom's corporate venturing unit Swisscom Ventures has invested in Me2me's A round, along with local bank Credit Suisse's SFr100m SVC - Ltd. for Risk Capital for SMEs fund set up in June, and local industrial conglomerate Beelk.

Preparing for a new thrust into emerging markets and moving to an evergreen funding structure.

Reasons European venture capital struggles compares to US peers laid bare: the latter caters to the entrepreneur.