MIG AG, through its MIG Fonds, has kicked off the year with a seed investment in deep-tech company Zadient Technologies, based in Chambéry, France. and founded in 2020. Joining the financing round led by MIG is Vestel Ventures, the investment arm of Turkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel. Zadient, which was
A Cambridge University programme has produced a raft of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class innovators – attracting over GBP50million (GBP53,561,000) of funding and investments over the last four years for the alumni’s life-changing projects. Notable alumni completing the programme have included: Dr Steve Brierley, Founder/CEO of technology sensation, Riverlane
Drug discovery and development company, Blueberry Therapeutics, has secured a GBP3.6 million extension to its previously successful GBP10.8 million Series B fundraising. Japanese investor, Medical Incubator Japan (MIJ), and a private syndicate of US Board Certified Dermatologists – led by Dr Omar Ibrahimi of the Connecticut Skin Institute – have
Onecom has acquired its closest rival, Olive Communications, in a move which creates one of the largest business-to-business mobile, fixed-line and cloud specialists in the UK. Together, Onecom and Olive will provide services to more than 500,000 corporate and business end users this year, generating combined annual turnover of more
Focus Group, a UK provider of business communications and technology solutions, has completed the acquisition of swcomms. Focus Group has been looking to expand its portfolio of businesses again and swcomms was a perfect fit to accelerate its growth in the South West of the UK. With its expansion of
Bunker Hill Capital, a Boston-based private equity investor in lower middle market companies, has sold Taos Mountain (Taos), a San Jose-based multi-cloud consulting firm, to IBM. Bunker Hill Capital acquired Taos in August 2015 and was joined in the transaction with equity, senior debt and subordinated debt financing from Ric
BlackRock Long Term Private Capital (LTPC) announces it has reached an agreement to acquire Aquila Heywood, a UK based market leader in pensions administration software and services. The investment will enable Aquila Heywood to further grow its highly innovative suite of software solutions, supporting the current and future needs of
IW Capital has completed an oversubscribed GBP800k investment in the latest round of a GBP2.9 million raise for Ubamarket LTD. Ubamarket LTD – founded in 2016 – is a pioneer of ‘Scan Pay Go’ technology, offering solutions to providing the fastest ‘in and out’ visit to supermarkets, through features such
Sovereign Capital Partners’ portfolio company ACOLIN, a provider of regulatory and cross-border fund distribution services, has acquired Fundbase, a digital fund distribution and data management business, from Swiss FinTech business Nectar Digital Wealth. This is ACOLIN’s first acquisition since Sovereign backed the MBO of the business in June 2020 to
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in ADEY, a UK specialist in solutions to protect water-based heating systems, to Polypipe Group plc (Polypipe), a provider of sustainable water and climate management solutions for the built environment. The transaction values the business at GBP210 million. Gloucestershire-headquartered ADEY
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