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Midlands-based sports and event management business secures GBP3.75m investment

Sports and event management business Cube International has secured an investment of GBP3.75 million from the alternative funder BOOST&Co following a series of new account wins.  The funding, which will be used to underpin the delivery and management of its new projects, will also help to support its work with

Adenia and Proparco acquire Overseas Catering Services

Adenia Partners, a private equity firm investing in Africa, has partnered with Proparco, the private sector financing arm of Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD Group), to buy Overseas Catering Services (OCS), a corporate catering and related services provider in Africa and the Middle East.  Financial terms of the transaction

Tele medicine

Current Health delivers second-largest digital health exit in Europe with USD400m Best Buy deal

Current Health, a leading care-at-home technology platform that brings together remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organisations, has become Europe’s second-largest digital health exit following its acquisition by US-based consumer electronics retailer Best Buy – after announcing a value of approximately USD400 million

Blue adds Standard Chartered Bank and Schroders Capital to funding platform

Blue Motor Finance (Blue), a financing company for used cars in the UK, has successfully completed a syndication of part of its existing GBP300 million forward flow transaction to Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered) and funds managed by Schroders Capital.  This is the first transaction Blue has undertaken with Standard

Vauban raises GBP4.7m for VC platform

Vauban, a platform that provides venture capital fund managers with everything they need to raise a fund and invest capital quickly, has closed a GBP4.7 million funding round.  Investors include co-leads Pentech and Outward, in addition to 7 per cent Ventures and MJ Hudson. A roster of high profile angel

LBO France acquires majority stake in ID Market and Sourcidys

LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor. For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that

knok raises EUR4.4m for 5G telemedicine solutions

NOS 5G Fund, created by NOS and managed by Armilar Venture Partners, and Triple Point Ventures, have co-invested EUR4.4 million in digital health start-up knok.  The investment round also includes participation from previous investors, the Social Innovation Fund and Social and Environmental Impact Fund MSM (Mustard Seed MAZE). The Portuguese

everstox closes EUR20m Series A

everstox closes 20 million Series A to expand its Logistics-as-a-Service platform further across Europe. “In today’s agile eCommerce environment, successful merchants scale demand for their businesses in no time. However, scaling logistics and warehousing operations is the missing piece that is still highly complex and breaks all growth momentum. We

The Ecobank Group secures EUR100m credit facility from EIB to Fund SMEs

Ecobank Group, a pan-African banking group, has signed an agreement for a EUR100 million long-term credit facility over nine years with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The facility affirms joint Ecobank Group and EIB targeted support for business investment across Africa, with particular support for the sectors most impacted by

Golding appoints new Director of ESG

Golding Capital Partners, a European independent asset managers for alternative investments, is combining all of its ESG functions into a new position filled by Christian Schütz, who will be the central liaison officer for implementing the company’s ambitious sustainability goals both internally and with regard to its investments. 

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