As any start-up founder knows, launching a new business can be an exhausting and all-consuming experience. Â When not dealing with day-to-day operations or handling accounts, there are investors to deal with and venture funding to be raised, often from multiple backers with competing agendas.Â
Serial entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den winner, Lex Deak, has secured GBP2 million for his new app, BASKET. Notable investors include Lightbank, the VC firm founded by Groupon co-founder, Eric Lefkosky, as well as co-founder and CEO of WorldFirst, Jonathan Quin, and Mumsnet founder and CEO, Justine Roberts. Basket will
Exciva, a clinical biotech company developing a novel therapeutic compound for treating agitation/aggression in Alzheimer’s disease, has closed a Series A financing of EUR9 million (USD10 million) led by Andera Partners. LBBW Venture Capital and Cure8 also participated in the round. This first funding will help Exciva GmbH develop the
SUSI Partners, on behalf of its Energy Transition Fund (SETF), has signed an agreement with developer BIWO Renovables and their commercial partner Latsolar Energy Investments to acquire a portfolio of distributed renewable energy assets in Chile.
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has completed the sale of Coretelligent to Norwest Equity Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Coretelligent is a provider of comprehensive managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services to customers
TowerBrook Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of ECP-PF Holdings Group, (ECP-PF) from Exaltare Capital Management, a Boston-based private equity firm. ECP-PF is one of the largest developers and operators of fitness clubs under the Planet Fitness brand (NYSE: PLNT), serving approximately 600,000 members in six US states and three
Pharmacierge, a health-tech company that offers same-day prescription medicine delivery in London and next day delivery throughout the UK, today announces that it has raised GBP1.25 million from a number of leading clinicians and angel investors. Investors include Alex Chesterman OBE, founder of Cazoo and Zoopla and Simon Franks, who
Partners Group, a global private markets firm, has, on behalf of its clients, agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in Swiss watchmaker Breitling from CVC Capital Partners Fund VI and management. Founded in 1884, Breitling is already one of the leading Swiss watchmakers, with a unique heritage in the
London and the UK are at the forefront of a global boom in climate tech investment since the Paris Agreement, according to a new report by London & Partners and Dealroom.co.
NorthEdge-backed Altia has acquired VeriSaaS, a field intelligence and evidence collection software business. Altia is a leading global provider of specialist intelligence and investigation software for government department and law enforcement agencies across the UK, Canada and Australia. The business, which is based in Nottingham and Glasgow, supports police forces
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