Birmingham-based Redbeard, a firm that develops code for Apple (iOS) apps has secured investment from the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The BRSF has provided GBP80,000 funding alongside GBP50,000 from private investors. Monies will be used to expand the company’s global development community and Code Store. The investment sees
Instapage, a landing page and post-click optimisation solution for digital advertisers, has closed a USD15 million growth investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, the growth-focused private investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Investment funds will allow Instapage to accelerate the enterprise adoption of the Instapage post-click optimisation solution, expedite
Sixpoint Partners, a global investment bank serving the middle market, has closed the Huron Flex Equity Fund with USD142 million of total capital commitments. The Huron Flex Fund, which is the sixth investment vehicle for Huron Capital Partners (Huron Capital) since 1999, easily surpassed its initial target of USD100 million
Expel, a company that replaces what organisations spend on managed security service providers (MSSPs), announced it has secured USD20 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing in the future of work. Ariel Tseitlin, a partner at Scale Venture Partners, will
The EQT Infrastructure III fund (EQT Infrastructure) has completed its majority stake investment in Spirit Communications. With the transaction complete, Spirit will be combined with Lumos, which was acquired in November 2017. The combination of Spirit and Lumos creates a super-regional fibre network stretching from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, with the
Global venture capital firm AXA Strategic Ventures is rebranding and will now be known as AXA Venture Partners. AXA Venture Partners, a USD450million venture capital firm backed by AXA, has participated in 32 deals since 2016, making it the most active venture capital firm backed by an insurance company, according
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed the sale of Wheel Pros to Clearlake Capital, a private equity firm based in Santa Monica, California. Wheel Pros, headquartered in Denver, CO, is a leading designer, marketer, and distributor of branded aftermarket wheels, performance tires and accessories. Geoffrey S Rehnert, Co-Chief Executive
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has published the fundraising figure for the Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) sector, which raised GBP728 million for the 2017/18 tax year, the second highest amount since the inception of VCTs and an increase of 34 per cent on last year’s figure (GBP542 million). It
Symphony Communication Services has raised USD67 million in new capital from new investors Barclays, Bpifrance, the French investment bank, and CLSA, along with a group of existing investors. This brings Symphony’s total capital raise to date to over USD300 million from the world’s leading financial services firms, global venture capital
Funds advised and managed by private equity fund manager YFM Equity Partners (YFM) have backed an investment into Eikon Group Limited, a cutting edge, end-to-end, digital post-production services for the motion picture and broadcast industry. YFM’s investment comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies VCT plc and British
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