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Piglet raises USD8.5m in funding round led by Active Partner

Piglet, a British direct-to-consumer homeware brand behind a successful range of high-quality and low-maintenance linen products and other “soft home” goods, has raised USD8.5 million (GBP6 million) in a funding round led by Active Partners, a consumer-focused investment firm.  The fresh funds, which are Piglet’s first outside capital, will be

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Food tech start-up Curb secures EUR20 million funding

Curb, a Nordic dark kitchen startup which uses technology and data in order to improve customer experience, has secured EUR20 million in funding by Point72 Ventures, with participation from its existing investor EQT Ventures. 

Trulioo raises USD394m Series D Funding led by TCV at USD1.75bn valuation

Trulioo, a specialist in global identity verification, has secured USD394 million in funding at a USD1.75 billion valuation. The Series D round was led by TCV, one of the largest growth equity firms, with participation from existing investors Citi Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Mouro Capital and American Express Ventures. TCV General

One Rock Capital Partners invests in Archkey Solutions

One Rock Capital Partners, LLC (One Rock) has entered into a definitive agreement to make a significant investment in ArchKey Solutions (ArchKey) alongside the Company’s management team. ArchKey is North America’s premier electrical and technologies contracting and services provider. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected

Connection Capital raises GBP4.3m

Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business, has raised GBP4.3million from private investors keen to invest in a portfolio of unquoted stocks acquired by investment firm, Hambro Perks, from global fund manager, Invesco.   

Blackstone Funds to acquire QTS Realty Trust for USD10bn

QTS Realty Trust (QTS) and Blackstone, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc and other long-term perpetual capital vehicles managed by Blackstone will acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of QTS Realty Trust for USD78.00 per share in an

airfocus raises USD5m Series A

airfocus, the world’s first modular product management platform, has raised USD5 million in series A funding, led by XAnge with participation from Nauta Capital. 

Grant Thornton advises Milton Keynes software company Celaton on investment from renowned tech entrepreneur Vin Murria

GRANT Thornton UK’s Corporate Finance team has advised Milton Keynes-based software company, Celaton on an investment deal with serial investor and technology entrepreneur, Vin Murria OBE. Founded in 2004 by Andrew Anderson and Gary Grant, Celaton’s Intelligent Document Processing platform, inSTREAM, delivers consistent and measurable business technologies to processes such

Foresight agrees conditional sale of Ixaris

Foresight Group (Foresight), a UK-listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has agreed the conditional sale of Ixaris Group Holdings Limited (Ixaris), a specialist in travel payment technology, to Nium Pte Limited (Nium), a global B2B payments platform based in Singapore. Ixaris’ main product is a pre-paid debit

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