Dunas Capital, an independent real estate and asset management platform, has invested 100% of the €104 million raised by its Dunas Aviation I FCR and Dunas Capital Aviation SCR vehicles, with which it has created a diversified portfolio of 12 commercial aircraft with a value of approximately USD400 million. This

Konsileo, a commercial insurance broker and risk management adviser, has completed a £4.7 million Series A funding round led by growth tech VC Committed Capital. Committed Capital first invested in Konsileo in 2018, and provided £3.23m of the current funding round. New investors include a £900,000 investment from ACF Investors,

Bluewater-backed Varel Energy Solutions (VES) as acquired Sledgehammer Oil Tools (Sledgehammer), an international leader in the supply of oilfield casing, cementing and completion products.

European private equity house Triton’s €5.2 billion Fund V is to acquire OCU Group, the holding company of O’Connor Utilities and Instalcom, a UK multi-utility services specialist operating within regulated infrastructure.

NPIF Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), has invested £2 million in Ideiio, a Salford based software as a service (SaaS) cyber security business. Ideiio specialises in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA). Its software enables organisations to manage

Biosynth Carbosynth (Biosynth), a supplier of critical products and services to the life sciences industry, has acquired Pepscan, an expert provider of peptide-based products & services and portfolio company of the KKR Health Care Growth fund. Biosynth’s ability to deliver chemical manufacturing services “from the first idea to the finished

French speciality pharmaceutical company, Juvisé Pharmaceuticals has completed a transaction with AbbVie, regarding the acquisition of the worldwide commercial rights of Pylera. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.   A €400 million financing was raised with Société Générale, Juvisé Pharmaceuticals historic and lead bank, supporting the funding

Birmingham-based smart-EV and energy storage startup WAU (We Are Universal) has raised £650,000 in a pre-seed funding round with Angel Investment Network, the world’s largest online angel investment platform. WAU, launched in 2018, is a fast-growing smart-EV vehicle platform transforming urban mobility. The product offering includes: WAU Bikes, a smart,

Alberta Enterprise has reached a CAD1 billion venture capital investment milestone in Alberta technology companies with its venture capital fund partners in 2021. Alberta Enterprise’s venture funds have invested in 65 Alberta technology startups which has created more than 2,400 direct jobs and an estimated 11,500 indirect jobs in the

Shareholders in SailPoint Technologies Holdings (SailPoint), a specialist in enterprise identity security, have voted to approve the company’s pending acquisition by software investment firm Thoma Bravo. The final voting results on the proposals voted on at the special meeting will be set forth in a Form 8-K filed by SailPoint