Chelverton Asset Management Limited (‘Chelverton’), a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, has completed its third transaction of 2018 on behalf of Members of its Investor Club service, with a GBP1 million growth capital investment in Reading-based iDefigo. iDefigo initially developed its Internet of Things (IoT)
Puppet has secured USD42 million in funding led by Cisco Investments along with EDBI, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, and VMware. The DevOps and automation company recently closed its second acquisition, adding multiple products to its portfolio in the process, and opened new global offices. “Our rapid growth and international
Signal Media, an AI-powered reputation management and decision support platform, has raised USD16 million (GBP12 million) in a Series B round led and priced by GMG Ventures LP, the independent VC fund whose limited partner is The Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian news organisation. MMC Ventures was the largest
OakNorth has completed a GBP4.2 million transaction for Dartmouth Partners Ltd, the award-winning recruitment consultancy, with Literacy Capital plc taking a significant minority position. Founded in 2012 by Logan Naidu, Dartmouth has built itself a reputation in the financial and legal sectors by adopting a unique ‘classroom to boardroom’ approach
Omnes Capital and Ilmatar Windpower have launched a joint wind platform Ilmatar Energy which will target further acquisitions of Finnish and other Nordic development stage and construction ready assets. In the next five years Ilmatar Energy aims to construct and operate up to 1000 MW of wind power and has
IQ Capital, has held the first close of its GBP125 million third fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at GBP92 million. The fund will invest at Seed and Series A stages into UK deeptech companies with transformational deep-tech, AI or disruptive algorithms at their core and led by visionary founders.
Highland Europe has closed its third fund in six years, raising EUR463 million to boost funding for globally ambitious European software and internet-enabled businesses. Significantly oversubscribed, the fund was raised in just 12 weeks and takes the firm’s assets under management to EUR1.1 billion. There are now 29 active
Paragon Group, a provider of Customer Communications, Identification and Graphics services, has acquired SIMS, the managed services division of St Ives plc. Following this acquisition, Paragon Group revenues will exceed EUR700 million during the next financial year. SIMS will become part of Paragon Customer Communications’ business in the UK.
PraxisIFM has acquired Nerine, a provider of private client and corporate administration services to an international client base. This is Channel Islands-based PraxisIFM’s fourth acquisition in a two year period during which it has grown from employing 300 staff in the summer of 2017 to 520. Nerine Trust was established
SALU Capital (SALU), together with its partners Apex Group, Genstar Capital, and Inlife Holding, has purchased at least 95 per cent of the shares of Augur Financial Opportunities 2 SICAV (AFO-2). The Luxembourg investment vehicle, which is managed by German Augur Capital and includes the fund’s portfolio companies, German life
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