Ministers are expected to discuss plans to promote risk capital to small and emerging businesses and to support research and development.
Half the total raised was invested by 13 multinational corporations and the rest came from institutional investors.
The new company, iQEurope, will also incorporate CouponsNow, an incentives website.
The fund’s founder Jean-Bernard Tellio is understood to be looking for E400m from European and US private investors.
The private equity group is interested in buying Desso from owner Armstrong Holdings.
Aberdeen Murray Johnstone’s £4m backing will help the clinical trials organisation with its plans to establish a wider network.
The technology provider will take over TessComm, one of T-Venture’s portfolio companies, as part of the deal.
There is speculation that the bank may return to the bidding table as a backer for Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, the former Dome chief executive.
Picard Surgelés has gone to a consortium led by Candover and French group Chevrillon et Associes.
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