FORWARD FEATURES CALENDAR

Deals & Transactions

Payflow closes EUR8m funding round

Payflow, a financial wellbeing platform that allows employees to get paid on demand, has closed an EUR8 million financing round to continue its growth in Spain and its internationalisation plans, which have already started in Chile and Colombia. In 2022, the company plans to start operations in two additional countries

ELYSIA attracts USD1m from FBG Capital

ELYSIA, a decentralised project linking has raised a strategic investment (USD1 million) from FBG Capital, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency hedge fund and venture capital firm. The ELYSIA Foundation plans to utilise FBG Capital’s network to preoccupy the global market and accelerate technological advancement through this investment.  ELYSIA is a protocol that

Planet First Partners backs Submer

Sustainable investor Planet First Partners (Planet First) has become a significant investor in Submer, a growth stage company solving an emerging environmental threat – high energy consuming data centres.

Funds advised by Permira Credit support Castik Capital’s acquisition of TBAuctions

Funds advised by Permira Credit are acting as sole senior secured lender to Castik Capital’s acquisition of TBAuctions. The support highlights Permira Credit’s focus on high-quality, growing tech-enabled businesses and builds on Permira’s proven track record of investing in marketplace platforms.   Founded in 2018 after the merger of Troostwijk

Century Park recapitalises NCP Coatings

Century Park Capital Partners has recapitalised NCP Coatings, Inc, a developer and manufacturer of performance coatings solutions for the military, industrial, commercial, and forestry end markets. NCP marks the third platform and eleventh overall investment by Century Park in the Specialty Chemicals sector. Charlton Keultjes, who currently leads NCP, will

General Atlantic makes growth investment in Chess.com

Chess.com, the world’s largest chess platform, has secured a significant growth investment from General Atlantic. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Launched in 2007, Chess.com is the world’s leading online destination for playing, learning and watching chess, with over 75 million registered users and more than 10

GoStudent raises EUR300m in Series D funding led by Prosus

Vienna-based GoStudent, which provides one-to-one video-based online tutoring, has raised EUR300m in a Series D funding round led by new investor Prosus. Additional participation in the round came from Deutsche Telekom, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent, Dragoneer, Left Lane Capital and Coatue.  The funding comes just seven months after GoStudent

Events

12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm

Directory Listings