Cabot Square Capital has acquired a majority shareholding in Chartway Group, one of South-East England’s leading partnerships-based housebuilders. The investment is being made by Cabot Square’s existing portfolio company Public Sector Plc (PSP) to create a new merged Group.   PSP is a specialist strategic asset manager that partners with

Virtual event and communities platform SCOOCS has raised €1 million in investment from business angel Sebastian Loh. The funding will be used to develop the platform further, simplifying the process of customising and building events/communities, and expanding the team. Born from necessity in 2020 and a couple weeks before Covid

TPG Capital, the private equity platform of global alternative asset management firm TPG, is to acquire a majority interest in DOC Generici, a manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals in Italy, from ICG and Merieux Equity Partners.

Vibrant, a Danish app that turns Android mobile devices into points of sale, has raised a €4 million seed round led by byFounders, with Luminar Ventures also participating. Vibrant’s mission is to make monetary merchant-customer transactions easier and more accessible than ever before. Vibrant can be downloaded instantly for use

Afrikamart, a West African agritech start-up has closed a $850,000 seed round of financing from venture capital groups including the BLOC Smart Africa fund managed by Bamboo Capital Partners, Orange Digital Ventures, Launch Africa and Teranga Capital. The proceeds from the financing will allow the company to ramp-up its purchases

Black Swan Data – a data science and consumer behaviour prediction company – has closed an $18.5 million growth fundraise led by Oxx, a venture capital firm that backs Europe’s most promising B2B SaaS companies, with participation from existing investor AlbionVC. The funding will be invested in developing more advanced

US middle-market private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners has sold Mercury Healthcare, a technology and data analytics company, to WebMD Health Corp, an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.    The

Trinsic, the leading infrastructure for building user-controlled identity products, has secured $8.5 million in a  seed funding round led by Georgian. Jon Gelsey (Founding CEO, Auth0), Frederic Kerrest (Executive Vice Chairman, Co-founder & COO, Okta), Kickstart Seed Fund, Founder’s Co-op, Osage Venture Partners, Forward VC, and a dozen additional angel

SFC Capital, one of the UK’s most active seed-stage investors, has received a further £5 million commitment from British Business Investments to invest into innovative early-stage businesses across the UK regions. This new commitment – part of its Regional Angels Programme, designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early-stage equity