Britbots, an organisation devoted to promoting the fortunes of UK-based robotics companies, has invested the first part of a GBP300,000 funding package for Tethered Drone Systems. Britbots operates the British Robotics Seed (SEIS) Fund and the equity crowdfunding platform, Britbots CROWD, which both support promising robotics-related businesses performing autonomous tasks
China Renaissance has expanded its asset management business with an array of strategies and approaches to investing in companies across high-growth sectors of China’s economy. The business will offer a range of options for investors who want exposure to “new economy” entrepreneurs, those with progressive business models built around innovations in
Quilvest Private Equity, the private equity arm of the Quilvest group, has acquired a majority stake in GEDH from Platina Equity Solutions, together with CEO Amin Khiari. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. GEDH is a French network of higher education schools dedicated to communication, arts management
Over EUR1 million has now been invested in P2P platform DoFinance since its launch seven months ago. “We’ve achieved one of our first major milestones, and DoFinance platform has been recognised by its investors. We’ve moved to this goal strategically and it is proven that with an easy and user-friendly
Pan-European seed investor Seedcamp has held the first close of its fourth fund to invest in the next generation of European talent with GBP41 million in commitments. The fund is already over 2x larger than Seedcamp’s last (EUR20m raised in 2014) and is backed by 60 leading corporates, venture capitalists
The London team at Ropes & Gray has made some predictions for the private equity market in 2018, against the backdrop of market uncertainty caused by a range of factors including Brexit. Phil Sanderson (pictured), private equity partner at Ropes & Gray, says: “M&A in the UK will remain resilient
American Industrial Partners (AIP) is to acquires Rand Logistics, a provider of bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes Region. AIP is a New York-based private equity firm with over USD4.0 billion of assets under management that focuses on buying, improving and growing industrial businesses in the US and
Leeds Equity Partners, a New York-based private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in the Knowledge Industries, has completed its investment in Fusion Education Group (Fusion). Fusion operates 43 schools in eight states and Washington, DC through a personalised education model and today educates more than 4,000 students in grades
IK Investment Partners’ IK Small Cap I Fund together with Management is to acquire Studienkreis (Studienkreis), a provider of tutoring services for primary and secondary school students in Germany, from Aurelius. Since its inception in 1974, Studienkreis has developed into one of the leading providers of tutoring services on the German
Prestige has secured three new mandates from institutional investors outside the UK for its private lending credit funds. The mandates are the latest to be received from non-UK institutions that are allocating to the UK-based private lending specialist. The investors are: a Swiss-based industrial corporate pension fund; a South Korean-based
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