Notify Technology, a the Newcastle-based health and safety software business, has completed a GBP370,000 investment round to drive product development and expand its team.The company has secured further funding from the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), which is supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia, alongside
Y Platform, a ‪video channel network in China‬ ‪founded by Israel’s Gal-Or family and Chinese investors, has completed a USD3.5 million A round investment. ‬‪This brings to USD5 million the amount raised by the company since it was established. The round was led by Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter,
Antwerp-based Down2Earth Capital (D2E) has acquired Gimv’s majority shareholding in Grandeco, with both Gimv and the Grandeco management team maintaining an investment in the business. By broadening its investor group, Grandeco is seeking to strengthen its position within the decorative wallpaper area, including through potential strategic acquisitions, according to the company. “Grandeco
French private equity group Ardian has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Audiotonix, a manufacturer of audio mixing consoles, from Astorg.
Lindsay Goldberg, a private investment firm that focuses on partnering with families, founders and management teams seeking to actively build their businesses, has completed its sale of VDM Metals (VDM) to Acerinox for EUR532 million.
YFM Equity Partners-advised funds have sold their shares in GroupBC to strategic acquirer Bentley Systems, a provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing infrastructure. GroupBC was backed by British Smaller Companies VCT plc and British Smaller Companies VCT2 plc, both are advised by YFM. The exit has
Capricorn Partners has joined a double-digit million growth financing round for plant-based protein firm Prolupin with an investment of EUR7 million, from its Capricorn Sustainable Chemistry Fund and Quest for Growth. The funding round was led by Capricorn Partners, an independent manager of private and quoted equity funds that invest in
Proptech VC, Pi Labs, has secured a strategic GBP2.5 million investment from leading pan-European real estate fund manager, Revcap, into the Pi Labs business. The funding willsupport Pi Labs’ expansion internationally, to grow its multidisciplinary team of real estate, finance, and technology professionals, and to invest into its platform. Andrew
Zinnov, a global management and strategy consulting firm, released a comprehensive study titled, “Private Equity Investments in the Enterprise Software space”. The study evaluated the US Private Equity (PE) landscape, with a specific focus on Enterprise Software, analyzing 2500+ PE transactions including buyouts, growth capital investments, and add-on acquisitions in Enterprise Software
Peter Jones CBE, known for his role on Dragon’s Den, and BGF have joined forces to support two high-growth tech businesses, with plans for further collaboration in the future. An initial GBP9 million has been invested across Localised Group, an e-commerce platform for global brands which recently signed British retailer Boden as
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