Brown Foods, an alternative milk creator and Y Combinator startup accelerator graduate, has raised $2.36 million in a seed funding round backed by AgFunder, SRI Capital, Amino Capital, Collaborative Fund, a group of individual angel investors, and Y Combinator, according to a report by AgFunderNews. Brown Foods’ UnReal Milk product

Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally-driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare and service sectors, has sold its majority stake in Media Business Insight (MBI). The leading content, insight and events business for the creative media industry was purchased by GlobalData, an AIM-listed data and

Nottingham-based BatFast Cricket Centres (BatFast) has secured a loan from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (‘MEIF’) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, and backed by the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS). The funding will enable the company to invest in its sales and marketing resources, undertake further product development, expand

GeniusX, an e-learning, virtual reality start-up has closed a $1.68 million seed funding at a $20 million market cap. As an indie development studio in the frenzied virtual reality ecosystem with a concentration in VR Education, the CEO & Co-Founder, Nick Janicki, says, “Our mission is to create experiences that

Foresight Group (Foresight), an infrastructure and private equity manager, has acquired the technology ventures division of Downing LLP (Downing) including management of the Venture Capital Trust and Ventures Enterprise Investment Scheme businesses of Downing. Foresight is expected to acquire the Funds for an initial consideration of £13.6 million. The funds

Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has acquired Zethcon via TSCP portfolio company Made4net. Zethcon is a North American warehouse management system (WMS) software company with a robust cloud-based product platform designed specifically for the unique requirements of the third-party logistics (3PL) market.

Qubit Pharmaceuticals, a deeptech company specialising in molecular simulation and modelling using quantum physics, has raised €16.1 million from XAnge, Omnes, Quantonation and  Octave Klaba, founder of OVH. This seed round with investors specialised in Life Sciences and Deep Tech brings the total amount raised since the company’s creation in

Galaxy Digital has led a $20m Series A funding round in Skolem Technologies, according to a report by CoinDesk. Point72 Ventures, Jump Crypto, Fenwick & West, Morpheus Ventures, and Dragonfly Capital, also participated in the round. Skolem, a provider data and trade execution services for decentralised financial markets, will use

Recover, a materials science company and producer of sustainable, premium recycled cotton fibre and cotton fibre blends, has closed a new $100 million minority equity capital investment led by the Sustainable Investing business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs). 

Mercer Global Advisors (Mercer Advisors), a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) owned jointly by Oak Hill Capital and Genstar Capital, has acquired Bivin and Associates, a wealth management firm headquartered in Oklahoma, with assets under management (AUM) of approximately $130 million. Bivin was founded in 1994 by Wm Stan Bivin, CFP,