Having launched an impressive 34 businesses to date, North East university collaboration Northern Accelerator has been awarded a further GBP3.6 million from Research England to continue its successful programme, expanding its partnership in the North East and rolling out its flagship support model to universities in the South of England.
European travel startup Framey has closed a USD1 million seed funding round led by ICE Capital from Dubai, and backed by Romanian based JECO Capital. The company, planning to disrupt the way people plan their trips, will use the funds to invest in its technology, scale up its operations and
ARQIS has advised equity financier VR Equitypartner on its investment in Glas Strack. As part of a succession plan, VR Equitypartner, together with Inventure Digital, is taking a significant minority stake in the underlying glas strack innovations GmbH & Co KG, which is based in Bochum. In addition, Maik Grondkowski,
Novo Holdings, an international life science investor, has co-led, alongside HealthCap and RA Capital Management, a USD55 million Series A financing in Hemab, a biotech company developing next generation therapeutics for serious underserved bleeding and thrombosis disorders. The Company was created in 2020 by Novo Seeds, the early stage investment
KKR is to acquire Teaching Strategies, a provider of curriculum, assessment and family engagement tools to the early childhood education (ECE) market, from global growth investor Summit Partners. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Teaching Strategies aims to empower and inspire early childhood educators as they support
IQ-EQ has acquired Davy Global Fund Management (DGFM), part of Davy Group, one of Ireland’s largest domestic financial services businesses servicing a domestic and international client base from its offices in Dublin, London and Luxembourg. The strategic combination of IQ-EQ and DGFM creates an established full service funds business in
CAPZA has made a minority investment in French industrial group Novarc. CAPZA joins the pool of historical investors including Bpifrance, BNP Paribas Développement and CASRA Capital, who are reinvesting alongside CAPZA. As part of this transaction, Amundi Private Equity Funds is selling its stake. This transaction aims at backing the
BGF has made a further GBP2.1 million investment in Yorkshire-based digital mapping company, Gaist. The deal follows BGF’s initial investment in 2018, taking the total invested to GBP4.8 million. The highways technology company has developed a revolutionary and IP-rich proprietary system for collecting and analysing, high-definition imagery of
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has acquired a majority stake in Flashpoint, a specialist in actionable threat intelligence, to support its continued growth initiatives. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Based in New York City, Flashpoint is a leading provider of actionable threat intelligence and intelligence automation for commercial
GraphCMS, a Berlin-based company whose pioneering content management platform enables enterprises to seamlessly deliver better digital experiences, has raised a USD10 million Series A funding round. The round was led by OpenOcean, and previous investors Peak and Paua Ventures also participated, bringing the company’s total funding to USD13.7 million. Mango
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