Private equity firm NorthEdge has completed its investment into Friend MTS, a leading global provider of video content security services. Founded in 2000, and headquartered in Birmingham with offices in Europe and the US, Friend MTS provides content owners, broadcasters and operators with advanced security and platform protection solutions, including

Inflexion has promoted Sergio Ferrarini to Head of Technology succeeding Irina Hemmers who is joining Thoma Bravo to head up the international software investor’s new London office.   Since joining Inflexion from Hg Capital in 2019, Ferrarini has been instrumental in developing Inflexion’s Technology sector strategy, capability and credentials. This

The Adista Group, a France-based alternative B2B cloud and telecoms operator backed by Keensight Capital, has acquired Cyberprotect, a universal cybersecurity operator and specialist in continuous monitoring and prevention services. Cyberprotect’s cybersecurity operations centre – the CyberproVerse SOC – as well as its other services will add to the Adista

Oakley Capital’s (Oakley) Oakley Capital Fund V (Fund V) is investing in Facile.it (Facile), one of Italy’s largest online price comparison platform. Following the sale of Oakley Capital Fund III’s (Fund III) investment in Facile, Fund V will acquire a minority stake in the business alongside Silver Lake.

Investment manager Downing LLP is supporting growth at surgical augmented intelligence company Cydar Medical with a £1.3 million investment through its healthcare ventures team. The company, based in Barrington, Cambridgeshire, uses leading-edge computer vision and machine learning software to revolutionise every stage of image-guided minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The investment,

Radiology technology start-up Hexarad has completed its Series A funding round with an additional raise of £2.2 million led by Foresight Group. This is in addition to £2.3 million Hexarad raised in 2021, bringing the full raise to £4.5 million.  Foresight Group also invested in 2021, while additional angel investors

CEEZER, a B2B marketplace for carbon credits, has closed a €4.2 million funding round, led by Carbon Removal Partners with participation fro Norrsken VC and existing investor Picus Capital. After announcing a seven-figure pre-seed in April, CEEZER quickly built a unique offering for corporates to integrate both carbon removal and

International warehouse safety, impact protection and storage equipment provider IWS Group has secured a significant minority investment from LDC, to support its continued buy and build strategy. IWS Group provides essential products and services to the global warehousing, logistics and material handling sectors. LDC will back the existing management team,

Inflexion has now completed over 50 exits since its inception, collectively returning over £4.5 billion to investors and delivering a realised return of 3.6x and a 39% IRR. In the first eight months of 2022 alone, Inflexion has announced ten exits including Alcumus, Marley, Phenna, Succession and Virgin Experience Days,

Pan-European private equity investor Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Origin Fund is partnering with the founders of vLex, a cloud-based legal information subscription platform.  Founded by brothers Lluis and Angel Faus and headquartered in London, Miami and Barcelona, vLex provides over two million users with access to an online library of