Inclined Technologies Inc, a financial technology company that aims to democratise a $150 billion market by helping consumers to significantly enhance the value of their life insurance policies, has closed on a $15 million Series A funding round.  HSCM Ventures led the round, with participation from Anthemis Group as well

Crypto tax reporting app Binocs has raised $4m in a seed funding round led by  BEENEXT and Arkam. Accel, Saison Capital, Premji Invest, Blume and Better Capital also participated in the round with the funds set to be used to expand Binocs’ offering to institutional crypto investors and enter geographies like

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, has made a substantial additional equity and preference share investment totalling approximately $73 million to support the merger of existing portfolio company Starsight Energy with South Africa-based solar firm, SolarAfrica Energy. The newly combined strength of

Singapore-based catering and gateway services provider SATS is in ongoing discussions to buy Cerberus-backed air cargo handler Worldwide Flight Services.

Global online betting operator PlayUp has entered into a business combination agreement with SPAC company IG Acquisition Corp to list on NASDAQ via a newly-formed Irish company at a $350 million value. Founded in 2014, PlayUp builds its own integrated technology platform where consumers can engage in various forms of

BlackRock Long Term Private Capital (LTPC) is to acquire a majority interest in Paradigm Oral Health (Paradigm), an oral surgery and digital dentistry platform, from shareholders including InTandem Capital Partners.  LTPC will partner with Paradigm’s executive leadership team, led by founder and CEO Dr David Rallis, to support the company’s

Theorycraft Games has raised an additional $50 million in Series B funding, led by Makers Fund with participation from NEA and a16z.  Theorycraft Games will use this raise to continue building out the most talent-dense team in games and to ensure they can keep making deep, 10,000 hour games that

AnswerLab, an independent UX research firm, has secured a strategic investment from Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm specialising in media, entertainment, communications and related sectors.  The investment will drive continued growth and expansion of AnswerLab’s service offering and team as it seeks to deliver critical insights for enterprises

Souter Investments, a private equity focussed family investment office, is to sell Stone Technologies Group (Stone), a provider of Circular IT solutions, to Toronto Stock Exchange listed Converge Technology Solutions Corp. (Converge), a software-enabled IT & Cloud Solutions provider. Souter acquired a majority stake in Stone in 2019, investing alongside

Stellus Capital Management, a specialist in middle market direct lending, has partnered with +SUBSCRIBE, an order management and electronic subscription document platform for the alternative investments industry.   Stellus joined the +SUBSCRIBE platform with the goal of providing the firm’s limited partners with an innovative digital experience for investor onboarding,