Bulgarian euShipments.com, leader in providing comprehensive courier, logistic, and fulfilment solutions for e-commerce players from Bulgaria and CEE, has closed its first round of external financing with private equity firm BlackPeak Capital, investing up to EUR7.5 million into the company via BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund, its second fund.

LPW Group, a Wynnchurch Capital (Wynnchurch) portfolio company and the parent company of Penn Machine and Western Flange, has acquired El Mar Ventures, (and its subsidiaries) and Advanced Industrial Technologies. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company provides specialty valves, pneumatic actuators and gears used in chemical, petrochemical, LNG, refining, renewable,

Causal, a collaborative platform for financial modelling, has raised a USD20 million Series A funding round led by Coatue and Accel. The investment round — which follows a USD4.2 million seed round in March — also included a number of high-profile angel investors including Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, FTX CEO

Unleash, the largest open source feature management platform, has raised USD14 million in a Series A round led by Spark Capital. Frontline Ventures, firstminute capital, Alliance Venture, and Arkwright X also participated in the round. The new capital will be used to expand in the United States and Europe and

Align Capital Partners (ACP) has closed its second strategic add-on for Marco Rubber & Plastics (Marco) with the acquisition of Anchor Rubber Products (Anchor), a value-added provider of O-rings, gaskets and other specialty rubber products sold across a diverse set of end markets. Operating under the leadership of second-generation family

TELEO Capital Management (TELEO) has acquired CHCS Services (CHCS) from Capgemini America. CHCS is a technology-enabled third-party administrator (TPA) for the senior health and eldercare markets. CHCS specialises in supplemental health care solutions for senior markets with a focus on long term care (LTC) and Medicare Supplement (MedSup) plans.  CHCS

The Mothership one of the UK’s fastest growing eCommerce rollups, has raised USD22 million in funding from leading entrepreneurial private investors. The investment will be used to expand the company’s portfolio of loveable, more sustainable brands.   Amongst the investors are Glenn Elliott, founder of Reward Gateway and now part

WHAG, a provider of housing and support services to homeless women, and men and women experiencing and fleeing domestic abuse, has received its first social investment loan of GBP2.15 million from Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC). WHAG was set up as Rochdale Women’s Housing Aid Group in 1981, to provide

French-Nigerian B2B startup Kwik (www.Kwik.delivery), a provider of SaaS logistics services to social vendors and e-commerce platforms in Africa, has closed a USD2 million Series A round. The round was led by XBTO Ventures, an investor focused on digital asset and fintech investments, along with investments from several new and

Investor and developer Rocket Properties has refinanced its Linen Court development in London’s Shoreditch area with a six-year, GBP70 million term loan facility provided by M&G’s Real Estate Finance team. The funding was arranged by real estate advisory firm Moorhall Capital on behalf of Rocket Properties. Located just off Old