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Matr raises GBP4.75 million for AI teaching platform

Matr, an online teaching platform, has closed a GBP4.75 million Series A investment round led by the UCL Technology Fund and Downing Ventures, with follow on investment from Ananda and innovation charity Nesta, and Sherry Coutu joining as an angel investor. The company has now raised GBP8.25 million in funding.

SharesPost raises USD15m in Series C funding

SharesPost, a liquidity provider to the private technology growth asset class, has closed a USD15 million Series C round led by LUN Partners and Kenetic Capital. The funding will be used to build out SharesPost’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) for private company shares and security tokens and to further expand

Silexica raises USD18m in Series B funding

Silexica, developer of the SLX programming tools, has completed a USD18 million Series B round of financing, led by The EQT Ventures Fund (EQT Ventures), plus existing investors Merus Capital, Paua Ventures, Seed Fonds Aachen and DSA Invest.  The complexity of software design is evolving rapidly, with embedded supercomputers required

SmartAsset raises USD28m in Series C funding

SmartAsset has raised USD28 million in Series C funding. The new investment, which comes from Focus Financial Partners (backed by Stone Point Capital and KKR), Javelin Venture Partners, TTV Capital, IA Capital and Citi Ventures, among others, increases the company’s total funding to more than USD51 million. SmartAsset plans to

TPG Capital partners with Anastasia Beverly Hills

TPG Capital (TPG), the private equity platform of global alternative asset firm TPG, is to make a strategic minority investment in beauty company Anastasia Beverly Hills. TPG is partnering with Anastasia Beverly Hills to help enhance its operations and growth, with a focus on e-commerce and international expansion. Terms of

Noerr advises Rocket Internet on home24’s IPO in Frankfurt

Noerr has advised Rocket Internet on the successful IPO of home24 SE. The company’s shares are now trading on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The shares of the leading European online home & living e-commerce platform were offered in a public offering in Germany and

Tiller raises EUR12m in Series B funding

Tiller, a French specialist in cash registers and connected management, has closed a EUR12 million Series B funding round, with the option of deploying up to a further EUR8 million in the next 18 months to fund external growth. The funding round was led by Ring Capital and Cambon Partners

Polaris invests in IT consultancy ProData Consult

Polaris is to acquire a majority shareholding in ProData Consult, a Danish independent IT consultancy focused on business and IT consultants. Over 15 years, ProData Consult has generated an average annual growth in excess of 20 per cent, and the Group has activities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany and

James Waldinger, Artivest

Artivest and Altegris complete merger

Artivest, a financial technology firm based in New York, and Altegris, an alternative investment manager based in San Diego, have successfully closed their previously announced merger. The merged company, named Artivest, is headquartered in New York and California. Artivest serves over 10,000 clients worldwide, with approximately USD3 billion of asset

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