Taylor Wessing advises Amadeus Capital Partners on latest Investment
Taylor Wessing's award winning Venture Capital group has acted for Amadeus Capital Partners, the European technology investor, on a 650,000 euro seed investment into Linkdex.
Linkdex is a London based company whose software allows companies and agencies to analyse and manage the natural search results for their online businesses more efficiently. The Amadeus Seed Fund led the investment with participation from Amadeus III.
In the past three years, Taylor Wessing has acted for the Amadeus Seed Fund in the financing of three other companies. The three companies are Xmos, a semiconductor company with a novel programmable, multi-core, event driven processor that allows complete systems to be built rapidly in software; Ambient Industries, who are building www.flook.it, a new mobile Location Based Services application; and Synature, a web text advert optimisation company.
Taylor Wessing's Technology and Inward Investment group was recently recognised at the 2009 European Venture Capital Journal (EVCJ) Awards, where the firm was named Law Firm of the Year. The group was described by EVCJ's Executive Editor as having "a formidable reputation"; and "a greater familiarity with new technologies and business practices than other firms".
The Taylor Wessing team advising Amadeus Capital Partners included Venture Capital Partner Simon Walker and Senior Associate Adrian Rainey.
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About Amadeus
Amadeus Capital Partners is one of Europe's leading technology venture capital firms. Since its inception in 1997, the firm has backed over 60 companies in industries that include communications and networking hardware and software, cleantech, medtech, computer hardware and software, media, and e-commerce. Amadeus has £460m under management. Global businesses built by Amadeus include CSR plc (LSE:CSR), the leading producer of single chip bluetooth radios for short range connections, and Solexa Ltd, the developer of next generation genetic analysis systems, merged into Illumina, Inc. (ILMN) to create the world-leader in gene-sequencing technology.
The Amadeus and Angels Seed Fund (AASF) invests in UK-based seed stage technology companies with high growth potential. Backed by business angels, private investors and Capital for Enterprise Limited [BERR], AASF helps promising businesses refine their propositions and accelerate their growth. AASF has access to proprietary, high-quality deal flow, complemented by the discipline of a large VC fund and the expert knowledge of business angels. www.amadeuscapital.com
