Forefront RF, a Cambridge-based fabless semiconductor company, has launched after raising GBP1.5 million from a syndicate led by Bristol-based Science Creates Ventures and including Foresight Williams Technology, BGF, and The Cambridge Angels.
Cairngorm Capital Partners has closed its third fund – Cairngorm Capital III – at its GBP200 million hard cap. The fund, which was oversubscribed, has already made five investments. Signalling ongoing confidence in and support for its investment approach, Cairngorm Capital is backed by an array of leading international institutional investors,
Afilio, a Berlin based Insurtech, has secured USD13 million in highly competitive Series A funding to support the expansion of their ‘Peace of Mind-as-a-Service’ platform offering users digital estate management services. The round was led by CommerzVentures, the specialist fintech investor behind successes including Bought By Many, eToro, Marqeta, and
Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, a trusted partner to operations and facility managers across North America, has acquired American Maintenance. KBS is a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management (Cerberus). Headquartered in Babylon, New York, American Maintenance is a leading provider of facility maintenance solutions. For more than 45 years, it has
Analysis of a business’s Environmental, Social and Governance credentials must play a far bigger role in due diligence for M&A deals, says Accuracy, a global independent financial and strategic consulting firm. Accuracy says that businesses are becoming increasingly aware of how underperformance on ESG metrics can increase risks and affect
Podcast publisher Auddy Limited has acquired Radio Wolfgang, producer of branded podcasts for clients such as Soho House, Greenpeace, Selfridges and Primark. Its personalities, presenters and stars have included Jonathan Ross, Rick Edwards and online sensation Estée Lalonde.
Funds managed by Ares Management Corporation’s European Direct Lending strategy are serving as the sole lenders of GBP1 billion of available debt facilities to the RSK Group (RSK), a UK-based privately-owned multi-disciplinary environmental business. This transaction marks the largest private credit-backed sustainability linked financing to date and will be used
Fabric RQ, a startup founded by veteran risk manager Richard Bookstaber to provide institutional quality risk management software to individual investors through their financial advisors, has closed a seed round led by Pandeavor Ventures, Vikram S Pandit’s family office, and John P Arnhold, managing member of Arnhold LLC.
SoftWorks AI (SoftWorks), provider of the Trapeze intelligent mortgage automation platform, has closed of a minority growth investment led by Long Ridge Equity Partners (Long Ridge), a private investment firm focused on the financial and business technology sectors. CBC Companies (CBC), a holding company whose subsidiaries include Factual Data, DataVerify
Founder and Lightning, a company that helps non-specialist, commercially minded business leaders to develop and scale new tech ventures, has secured a GBP1.5 million loan to invest in a new generation of tech trailblazers. The funding will also help to support the company’s white-label platforms, which are used to
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