A private equity fund initiated by Hamburg-based family office Lennertz & Co is acquiring a minority stake in SuperVista AG, which operates under the “brillen.de” brand in Germany.  Lennertz & Co, alongside some of SuperVista’s founders and employees, are participating in the current Series B funding round, which has amounted

Kaiko Systems, a Berlin-based software startup digitizing maritime shipping, has successfully completed a seed financing round of €2 million. The funding round was backed by multiple investors including Schoeller Holdings, Vineta Ventures, A Round Capital, Flagship Founders as well as industry experts such as Clasen Rickmers and Justus Kniffka. Kaiko Systems

Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialising in digitally-driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare, and service sectors, has committed to a £4.5 million investment in Orri, a specialist clinic for the treatment of eating disorders (ED). Currently operating from a single site in London, Orri offers both in-person and

Cello has raised €2.3m in pre-seed funding, in a round led by byFounders, with participation from Tiny VC, Possible Ventures and Notion Capital; together with operator angels from Youtube, Personio, McMakler, and others. Cello is leading the creation of a new category of ‘User-Led Growth’ — a next evolution in

Blackstone has agreed a £300 million deal to sell Butlins back to one of the previous owners it bought the UK resort operator from last year, according to a report by Private Equity Insights. The Harris family, one of three that founded former Butlins owner Bourne Leisure in 1964, has

Swiss techbio company Hedera Dx, founded in 2021 by veteran healthcare entrepreneurs and executives, has raised€14 million a seed finding round led by Adam Ghobarah, founder of Top Harvest Capital and former longtime executive at Google and Google Ventures. Inventure, Air Street Capital, Amino Collective and GRIDS Capital also participated

Tenzing is to take a minority stake in Altum Group, a provider of fund, corporate, and family office solutions. Founded in 2000, Altum Group has a solid track record of delivering double-digit organic growth and is the sixth investment within Tenzing’s £400 million Fund II, which started investing in 2021,

Sardine, a provider of fraud, compliance, and instant settlement solutions, has secured $51.5 million in a Series B financing led by Andreesen Horowitz’s growth fund, to accelerate product development as well as marketing and sales across the globe. New and existing investors, including XYZ, Nyca Partners, Sound Ventures, Activant Capital,

Prewave, an AI platform that helps businesses predict, find, understand and categorise the risks affecting their suppliers, has raised €11 million in a Series A funding round co-led by KOMPAS and Ventech, who renewed its support after the company’s Seed round. Early-stage investors aws Gründerfonds, IST cube, seed + speed,

MiddleGround Capital, an operationally focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American middle market B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies, has acquired HLC, a distributor of bicycle parts and accessories.  HLC’s President, Pat McGinnis, will continue to oversee day-to-day operations and its distribution centres across North America. Headquartered