Apis Growth Fund I, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners (Apis Partners), a UK-based asset manager that supports growth stage financial services and financial infrastructure businesses, is to sell the whole of its interest in payment solutions provider Q Link Holdings Ltd (Q Link) to Sanlam Private Equity

Venture capital investor Forgepoint Capital has launched Surefire Cyber, a new incident response firm that helps cyber insurers, brokers, law firms and the organisations they support better manage cyber events. Founded and led by leading incident response expert Billy Gouveia, Surefire Cyber emerged from stealth with $10 million in Series

Yobota has announced its partnership with Tranch, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup platform on a mission to deliver more flexible payments to fast-growing businesses. Founded in 2016, London-based core banking provider Yobota has built a fast, flexible, cloud-native core banking platform that allows clients to create and run

ACA Group (ACA) and Foreside Financial Group (Foreside), two of the leading providers of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to clients in the financial services industry, have completed their merger. Foreside’s distribution business will be rebranded as ACA Foreside and will become a division under ACA. Genstar Capital (Genstar),

Biosynth Carbosynth (Biosynth), a supplier of critical materials to the life science industry, has acquired Aalto Bio Reagents (Aalto), a developer and provider of biological materials to the in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) and vaccine development industry in the field of emerging disease. The acquisition represents a further milestone in Biosynth’s development,

OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI), a specialist decarbonisation investor, has participated in a Series D preferred stock financing in ZincFive, a producer of nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based solutions for immediate power applications. OGCI CI made the investment after ZincFive demonstrated the significant emissions reduction impact that could be achieved in commercial

Cairngorm Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG) has acquired Independent Roofing Supplies (IRS). Established in 2000, IRS is an independent roofing merchant in the South East, serving roofing contractors across London, Sussex and Kent. It provides a comprehensive range of products for pitched and flat roofs, from

Cybersecurity training platform Hoxhunt, Finland’s fastest-growing SaaS company according to Deloitte, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by New York-based Level Equity Management.

Transine Therapeutics (Transine), a biotechnology company developing a novel class of therapeutic RNAs based on its SINEUP platform technology, has raised £4.6 million in an additional seed funding round led by new investor Epidarex Capital. Existing investor the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) also participated in the round.   The new

Synaptic, an alternative data insights start-up, has closed a $20 million Series B funding round led by Valor Equity Partners.