Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP4.25 million funding round for Mypura.com Group Limited (Pura), a baby care brand which specialises in eco-friendly baby wipes and nappies. The transaction includes GBP4 million of funding split evenly across the Maven VCTs, NPIF Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse

Glasgow-based contact lens technology pioneers Ocutec Limited have secured GBP1.5 million in a seed funding round led by Deepbridge Capital. The funding round, which includes provision of GBP1 million of funding via the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS fund, GBP360k from Intuitive Investments Group (IIG) and a GBP100k SMART grant to

Fast growing Edtech startup Vygo has raised GBP1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round supported by online age investment platform Angel Investment Network. Vygo is a Saas platform reinventing the conventional social support ecosystem in higher education.  The round was led by Edtech VC Sparkmind and supported by Angel Investment

Shaken Udder, a husband-and-wife founded milkshake company that supplies to major UK supermarkets, has secured a minority investment from mid-market private equity firm LDC to support the next stage of its growth journey. Headquartered in Tiptree, Essex, Shaken Udder blends fresh milk with real ingredients to create a variety of

Heidelberg Pharma AG and Huadong Medicine Co have entered into a strategic partnership with the signing of an exclusive licensing agreement as well as an investment agreement.

WestBridge has exited bChannels following the company’s acquisition by The Channel Company, a US trade buyer with a complementary service offering, backed by US-based Eagle Tree. The transaction marks the second successful exit for WestBridge in the last 12 months and delivers a 4.2x multiple of cost to WestBridge’s investors.

CVC Credit has further supported Markerstudy Group (Markerstudy) by providing incremental facilities for the add-on acquisitions of Clegg Gifford Co Ltd (Clegg Gifford), a UK-based Lloyd’s broker which provides personal and commercial insurance products and, BGL Insurance (BGLi) a digital-focused, personal lines insurance broker in the UK. CVC Credit has

Four separate private equity firms are considering a cEUR1.5 billion bid to acquire a stake in Ligue 1 – the top professional football league in France – according to a report by the Financial Times. CVC Capital Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Silver Lake and Oaktree Capital are all said to be

Pantera Capital and Patron, an early-stage venture capital firm, have co led a USD6 million seed funding round in Web 3 startup, Fast Break Labs. Other participants in the round include: Brooklyn Nets owner Joseph Tsai’s family office; Marc Merrill and Thomas Vu of Riot Games, the developer of the

The RMA Group of Companies (RMA), a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has acquired Coating Specialists and Inspection Services, dba CSI Services (CSI), a specialty coating inspection services business based. Following the previously announced merger with Western Technologies (WT), the acquisition of CSI is RMA’s second transaction as it executes