The €70 million first close of Germany's Wellington Partners fourth fund on 19 September was widely lauded as a sign of recovery of the European venture capital market (scripintelligence.com, 19 September 2012). But a more tangible indication of value was the clinical progress announced in the same week by publicly-quoted German biotech Morphosys.
But first, does Wellington's announcement really put the boot into those who beef about the state of Europe's life science venture capital?