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The top ten investments were: <ol> <li> <a href="http://www.wiggle.co.uk/"> Wiggle </a>- a sports retail site. £12 million invested by Isis. </li> <li> <a href="http://en.fon.com/"> Fon </a>- a Spanish wifi sharing site. £12.33 million invested by Sequoia , Google and Index. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.viagogo.com/"> Viagogo </a>- an online ticket exchange. £9.9 million invested by Index ventures and Atomico. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.aggregator.tv/home/"> Aggregator </a>- a web TV service. £9 million invested by Amadeus , Intel Capital and 3i. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.igglo.fi/"> Igglo </a>- a Finnish real estate site. £8.51 million invested by Benchmark and Taivas. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.bebo.com/"> Bebo </a>- the social network. £8.5 million invested by Benchmark Capital. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.netvibes.com/"> Netvibes </a>- a news aggregator. £8.17 million invested by Index Ventures and Accel Partners. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.wayn.com/"> WAYN </a>- a travel social network. £5.5 million invested by Esprit and angels. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.wazup.com/"> WazUp </a> - an email service. £5.2 million invested by Innovacom & Wellington Partners. </li> <li> <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/"> Dailymotion </a>- a video sharing site. £4.77 million invested by Atlas Venture and Partech. </li> </ol> Index Ventures was the most active of the VCs in 2006, and Paul points out that a couple of trends, such as companies using third party web services as a platform, as with <a href="http://www.autoquake.com/">autoquake</a> and <a href="http://www.auctioning4u.co.uk/">auctioning4u</a>, both of which help people sell on eBay. For Paul's post, visit <a href="http://www.thecoffeeshopsofmayfair.com/2007/01/2006_early_stag.html"> The coffee shops of Mayfair </a>. <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_web_vc_chart.php">For a look at VC spending in the US, check out Read/WriteWeb</a>

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Paul Fisher has an excellent round-up of European seed and first rounds of VC investment from 2006. He reveals that more then £144 million was raised by 54 European Web 2.0 companies last year. In his post, Paul points out the rapid growth in investment levels - in 2005, just £24 million was invested into Web 2.0 companies. That figure rose to £79 million in 2006.

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