Elbow Beach Capital, the decarbonisation, sustainability and social impact investor today announces its first investment, backing wastewater treatment and bioenergy company, WASE with an initial GBP400,000 investment, to be followed by a further GBP300,000, following closure of the oversubscribed Seedrs campaign. Receiving further support from the Science Angel Syndicate, and

MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in alternative credit investments and middle-market private equity, has made senior-level promotions in its credit business, including Robert (Tripp) Sullivan to the firm’s Investment Committee, Michael Levitin to Portfolio Manager, and Carol Chung, Adam Goldberg and Opal Leung to Principal.

MixMode, a provider of self-learning solutions to detect cyberattacks in real time, has raised USD45 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG, a growth equity firm that partners with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth. Existing investor Entrada Ventures also participated in

Bower, an app that directly rewards users with money or coupons when they recycle everyday waste items, has raised EUR4.1 million (USD4.7 million) in a Late Seed round. The round was led by blq Invest, a new investor in the company, together with existing investors, Almi Invest GreenTech, Verdane Foundation,

Blue Horizon, a pure play impact investor in the future of food, has invested in Syocin Biotech, a synthetic biology startup focusing on improving food availability and protecting crop production in balance with Nature. Blue Horizon today announced a Seed portfolio investment in Syocin, a cutting-edge biotechnology company developing high-precision,

Fair Harbor, a sustainable lifestyle brand, has secured an investment from Broad Sky Partners, a private equity firm that partners with leading middle market business services and consumer companies. Terms of the transaction, which marks Fair Harbor’s first institutional capital, have not been disclosed.   Fair Harbor plans to use

AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a US-based private equity firm specialising in aerospace, defence & government services, space, power and utility services, and specialty industrial markets, has rebranded its fire and life safety services platform to Altus Fire and Life Safety (Altus). Concurrently, Altus announced that John K Adams has joined

Facteus has raised USD10m in a funding round led by Curql Fund, the investment arm for over 75 credit unions across the US. Facteus has gained rapid growth and momentum among financial institutions, investors, and corporations by becoming the largest provider of anonymised and synthesised consumer transaction data in the

LifeMine Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company reinventing drug discovery by mining genetically-encoded small molecules (GEMs) from the biosphere, has completed a USD175 million Series C financing. The financing was led by new investor Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation by additional new investors Invus and 3W Partners Capital; GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Climate X, a London-based climate risk analytics provider, has raised GBP4.1 million in seed funding. CommerzVentures and A/O PropTech led the round – joined by Voyagers Climate Tech Fund, Blue Impact Ventures, Deloitte LLP and angel investors including David Rowan (founding Editor-in-Chief at WIRED), Kat Borlongan (former Director at La