Foresight holds first close at £15m

First published in Cleantech magazine. November/December 2007. © Cleantech Investor Ltd. 2007

 First published in Cleantech magazine, September 2008. Copyright Cleantech Investor Ltd. 2008

 Target: €400m

Stage: Launch

Fortis Investments has launched a fund focused on clean energy European investments. The fund’s target is €400 million and cornerstone investor, Fortis Bank, has committed around €50 million of that total.

Fortis' Clean Energy fund will have a preference for majority stakes and will focus on long term investments with predictable cash flows. The minimum ticket for LP investment is €3.5 million.

Foursome

zouk leads €53m funding in SiC Processing

First published in Cleantech magazine. November/December 2007. © Cleantech Investor Ltd. 2007

First published in Cleantech magazine, November 2008. Copyright Cleantech Investor 2008.

IP commercialisation company for Sheffield and Cardiff Universities will increasingly focus on cleantech space

 Fusion IP is a university IP (intellectual property) commercialisation company with a strong track record in the medical life sciences sector. The company, which has exclusive agreements with the Universities of Sheffield and Cardiff, recently changed its name from Biofusion plc to Fusion IP plc – to reflect the growing diversity in terms of sector of its portfolio companies – and the expansion of its agreement with the University of Sheffield. (Originally an arrangement for the commercialisation of medical life sciences IP, this agreement was expanded in July this year to include the commercialisation of all non-life science research generated IP.) In conjunction with the name change, Fusion IP shares were reclassified for purposes of the London Stock Exchange to the ‘General Financial’ sector.