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Immersive Labs raises USD75m in Series C round

Immersive Labs, the company empowering organisations to measure and improve cybersecurity skills across technical and non-technical teams, has closed a USD75 million Series C funding round led by new investors Insight Partners alongside Menlo Ventures, Citi Ventures and existing investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management.  The investment will accelerate delivery of

ENSO secures funding from UK Future Fund

ENSO, which is developing a revolutionary EV tyre that can increase the distance that an electric vehicle can travel and at the same time reduce tyre pollution (air and micro plastic pollution), has launched a crowdfunding campaign via the Crowdcube platform. The Crowdcube campaign, to support the R&D and commercial

Aksiom and Ara Partners acquire UK renewable energy company Anesco

Aksiom Services Group, a partnership between Ara Partners and the Aksiom Group, has acquired Anesco Holdings, the parent company of the Anesco Group, for an undisclosed sum.   Anesco joins the group’s growing portfolio of companies who are developing and building low carbon infrastructure and helping accelerate global decarbonisation.  

General Atlantic leads USD100m investment in Fresha

Fresha, a beauty and wellness software platform, has secured USD100 million in a Series C investment round led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, with strategic participation from Huda Kattan of HB Investments and the founder of Huda Beauty, as well as Michael Zeisser of FMZ Ventures, former

CDC-backed Globeleq breaks ground on Mozambique solar power and storage project

Globeleq, Africa’s independent power producer, and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), the infrastructure development and finance organisation, have officially broken ground on a 9MWp solar and 7MWh storage power project at Cuamba in northern Mozambique, bringing clean power and jobs to the region.  Globeleq is majority owned by CDC

BlackPeak Capital completes first closing of BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund

BlackPeak Capital successfully completed first closing at EUR68.5 million of its target EUR120 million BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund. The Fund targets growth equity investments of EUR5-10 million in dynamic SMEs in Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. The Fund focuses on partnering with the region’s outstanding entrepreneurs who

Six BidCo Ltd acquires Sigma Capital Group plc

Paul Hastings LLP, a global law firm, is advising Six BidCo Ltd (a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of investment funds managed by PineBridge Benson Elliot) on its acquisition of Sigma Capital Group plc, a provider of Private Rented Sector housing in the UK.  The boards of Six Bidco Ltd and Sigma

Silverfleet Capital sells Coventya

The pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital, through one of its portfolio companies, Electrum Holding Sàrl, has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Element Solutions Inc, for the purpose of the sale of its stake in Coventya, an international specialty chemicals business headquartered in France, generating a 2.5x gross money

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