Zip Co Limited, a specialist in the digital retail finance and payments industry, has closed a AUD100 million debt funding agreement with Victory Park Capital (VPC).Zip offers point-of-sale credit and digital payment services to the retail, home, health, automotive and travel industries. This is Zip’s second transaction with VPC, having
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has entered into an agreement to acquire Sweeping Corp of America (SCA) from Soundcore Capital Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. The investment will allow SCA to accelerate its sales and marketing efforts and help the
City law firm, McCarthy Denning, has successfully advised flypop, a UK-based start-up and low-cost long-distance airline, on attracting significant investment from the UK Government’s Future Fund (opened in May this year) and other private investors. With the effects of Covid-19 resonating around the globe, the UK economy and aviation industry will
Eurazeo has completed the sale of all its shares in Farfetch, a Eurazeo Growth portfolio company.This disposal resulted in net proceeds of EUR90.4 million, corresponding to a multiple of 4.1x cash-on-cash and an IRR of around 38 per cent. It is the second portfolio exit for Eurazeo Growth, after PeopleDoc
The London Technology Club (LTC), which includes some of the world’s leading technology investors, has invested in Reflektion, an AI-powered personalisation platform for the retail industry. LTC invested in Reflektion’s USD13.5 million funding round alongside leading venture capitalists such as Clear Ventures, Intel Capital, Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures. Reflektion
NorthEdge-backed Catalis Group is expanding its North American footprint with a second bolt-on acquisition completed during lockdown.Curve Digital, part of the Catalis Group, has bought Vancouver-based IronOak Games, an independent games developer. Curve Digital is a video games publisher based in London. IronOak Games, headed up by Gordon Moran
Inflexion has agreed to make a minority investment in Phenna Group (Phenna), a business focused on the testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) sector.
Foreside has bolstered its customised, tech-enabled governance, risk management, and compliance offering, for hedge fund, private equity, and other emerging alternative investments managers with the acquisition of Integrated Compliance Solutions Group (ICSGroup).ICSGroup is a regulatory compliance services firm serving the asset management industry in the US and Africa, with an
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (Stonepeak), a private equity firm specialising in infrastructure investing, is to acquire Astound Broadband (Astound), the sixth largest US cable operator in the United States that operates leading regional providers RCN, Grande, Wave and enTouch.
The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF) has co-led a GBP1.75 million funding round for Newcastle-based Hive HR Ltd (Hive), an employee engagement Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. The Fund, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP500,000, alongside GBP1 million of funding from Maven’s VCTs and GBP250,000 from existing
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