PestCo Holdings, a portfolio company of private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), has acquired Bel-O Pest Solutions. Bel-O is a provider of residential and commercial pest control in the St. Louis area. With the backing of PestCo’s team and resources, Bel-O is positioned for accelerated growth, while continuing

Stamp Free Limited, a digital postage company, has raised £600k in an oversubscribed funding round led by existing investors Silicon Valley-based R42 Group and Cambridge Angels along with other technology angel investors from the UK, US and Australia. This latest investment round gives Stamp Free a pre-investment valuation of £4

RO Capital Partners (ROCP), the RO Group’s venture capital arm, has led an investment round in InferSens alongside the Oxford Innovation Fund, and Bruce Melizan, the former MD of Interserve’s support services division. ROCP’s contribution comprises £309,000 of the total £870,000 raised, which will be used as growth capital and

Cypher Capital, a venture capital firm located in the UAE, is allocating $5 million to invest in Ocean Protocol projects. Ocean Protocol is a platform for data exchange and monetisation that builds on Ethereum and other EVM-compatible blockchains. The open-source protocol facilitates the exchange and monetisation of data and data-based services,

Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners has agreed to sell its 31.7% stake in Lamda Malls to the company’s majority shareholder, Lamda Development, for €109 million. Lamda Malls owns two major shopping centres in Greece, the Golden Hall in Athens and Mediterranean Cosmos in Thessaloniki.   Värde Partners initially bought

Pivotal Growth has agreed to acquire The Loan Partnership Limited (TLP), a specialist second charge mortgage and bridging finance broker based in Hemel Hempstead.

Phatisa, together with a consortium of leading development finance institutions (DFIs), has acquired a significant minority stake in South Africa-based citrus and fresh-produce exporter, Lona Group (Lona), for an undisclosed sum. The investment will be used as expansion capital.   The DFI co-investors are British International Investment (BII – formerly known

Palamon Capital Partners (Palamon) are to sell DD Group (DD), formerly branded Dental Directory, a UK and Ireland-focused dental and medical aesthetics distributor and service provider, to an affiliate of Sun European Partners. The terms of the private transaction, which is expected to complete in June, have not been disclosed.

Foursan Group, a Middle Eastern private equity firm, has acquired a 21% stake in software development house MenaITech.

Vespa Capital has partnered with the leadership team at Origo to establish the fintech as a fully independent company. Origo is the infrastructure fintech provider to the pensions and lifetime savings industry. It was established in 1989 as a non-profit organisation owned by twelve pensions providers and investment management firms