Blue Motor Finance (Blue), a financing company for used cars in the UK, has successfully completed a syndication of part of its existing GBP300 million forward flow transaction to Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered) and funds managed by Schroders Capital. This is the first transaction Blue has undertaken with Standard
Vauban, a platform that provides venture capital fund managers with everything they need to raise a fund and invest capital quickly, has closed a GBP4.7 million funding round. Investors include co-leads Pentech and Outward, in addition to 7 per cent Ventures and MJ Hudson. A roster of high profile angel
LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor. For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that
NOS 5G Fund, created by NOS and managed by Armilar Venture Partners, and Triple Point Ventures, have co-invested EUR4.4 million in digital health start-up knok. The investment round also includes participation from previous investors, the Social Innovation Fund and Social and Environmental Impact Fund MSM (Mustard Seed MAZE). The Portuguese
everstox closes 20 million Series A to expand its Logistics-as-a-Service platform further across Europe. “In today’s agile eCommerce environment, successful merchants scale demand for their businesses in no time. However, scaling logistics and warehousing operations is the missing piece that is still highly complex and breaks all growth momentum. We
Ecobank Group, a pan-African banking group, has signed an agreement for a EUR100 million long-term credit facility over nine years with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The facility affirms joint Ecobank Group and EIB targeted support for business investment across Africa, with particular support for the sectors most impacted by
Finnish startup Digital Nature has raised EUR1.5 million in seed funding to create new growth and attraction opportunities for shopping centres and other public venues. The round was led by renowned business angels, including Mikko Kodisoja and Visa Forsten, co-founders of Finnish decacorn Supercell. The funding will go towards developing
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a leaing specialist investor in consumer brands, on its GBP33 million minority stake investment in Omlet, a design-led pet accessories brand sold exclusively online.
Surge Private Equity (Surge) has acquired Optim Dental and Vogue Dental (Optim Dental) via its healthcare platform Access Dental Management (Access Dental). With a reported transaction value of approximately USD10 million, the deal closed with debt financing provided by Corbel Capital Partners (Corbel). Founded in 2014, Optim Dental has built
Seraphim Space Investment Trust, the world’s first listed fund focused on SpaceTech, has made a new USD12.5 million investment in Astroscale Holdings Inc, a specialist in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits. Astroscale closed a USD109 million series F round which was led by THE FUND Limited
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