DySIS Medical Ltd, a medical devices company active within women’s health, has completed a 7.4 million pounds fundraising ($11.3 million). Lundbeckfond Ventures, Albion Ventures, NBGI and the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise all participated in the round.

UK-based Albion Ventures has invested up to 2 million pounds ($3 million) in MyMeds&Me, a healthcare software as a service company. MyMeds&Me was established in 2011 by three senior pharmaceutical industry executives, Stephen Powell, Andrew Rut and Trevor Gibbs.

City Screen, a UK-based art-house cinema operator has been sold to Cineworld in a deal valuing the company at 47.3 million pounds ($75.9 million). Independent investment banking firm Livingstone’s consumer sector team advised the City Screen management team and private equity investors Arts Alliance and Albion Ventures on the sale.

Xceleron, a company which accelerates drug development using ultra-sensitive bioanalytical analyses, has attracted existing investors Albion Ventures and Solon Ventures to invest $2.4MM to locate all of the company’s business in its custom-built facility in Germantown, MD. Xceleron was founded in 1997 in York, UK. In 2008, the company opened its US facility in Maryland. [...]

Atego, a global software tools and professional services supplier has secured an additional, multi-million dollar equity investment. Existing investor ETV Capital led the funding with participation from Albion Ventures, new investor ESO and individual investors. The funds will be used to finance the Atego’s current growth plan combining organic and external, acquisition-driven growth. PRESS RELEASE [...]

UK-based venture capital investor Albion Ventures has hired Dr Christoph Ruedig to work alongside Dr Andrew Elder as it grows its investments in the healthcare sector.

Albion Ventures has sold The Place Sandwich VCT Limited, the owner and operator of the 37-bedroom Bell Hotel in the medieval Cinque Port town of Sandwich, UK to Shepherd Neame Limited, Britain’s oldest brewer, for 3.6 million pounds. Funds managed or advised by Albion Ventures backed the acquisition of the historic hotel in January 2005, when a total of 3.1 million pounds was been invested.