Octopus Investments provides growth funding to Sova Assessment
Octopus Investments’s Development Capital team has provided GBP3.0 million of growth capital to Sova Assessment Limited, an HR Tech digital talent assessment software platform.
Octopus Investments’s Development Capital team has provided GBP3.0 million of growth capital to Sova Assessment Limited, an HR Tech digital talent assessment software platform.
Turnspire Capital Partners (Turnspire), a special situations-focused private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of the Goodyear air springs business from EnPro Industries. Goodyear Air Springs is the first acquisition of Infinity Engineered Products, a new platform formed by Turnspire. Goodyear Air Springs, headquartered in Fairlawn, Ohio, is a
M Squared, a photonics and quantum technology developer, has secured GBP32.5 million in new financing to support its growth and technology developments. Santander UK will be providing a GBP20 million debt facility, allowing M Squared’s founders and management team, led by Dr Graeme Malcolm OBE, to fund the acquisition
Private investment firm GI Partners has acquired Valet Living, a full-service amenities provider to the multifamily housing industry. GI Partners acquired Valet Living from a fund managed by the Private Equity Group of Ares Management Corporation and Harvest Partners, LP. Valet Living pioneered the doorstep waste and recycling industry
Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), a Chicago and Connecticut based private equity firm focused on high growth middle market companies in the marketing, information, and tech-enabled services sectors, has closed it debut fund GCP Fund I at USD130 million. GCP did not use a placement agent and secured commitments from a

Reckitt Benckiser’s venture arm RB Ventures has backed laundry and dry-cleaning startup Oxwash, which provides laundry services to the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine trial. RB Ventures is partnering with early-stage start-ups who share its ‘fight for access’, with Oxwash being one of its first investments. Founded in 2017 by former
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has boosted its growing portfolio of high-growth technology businesses with an investment into marketing automation platform, Force24. Force24 is a cloud-based marketing automation platform that allows an in-house marketing manager to deliver personalised marketing campaigns with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) integration. The platform is already trusted
Quantum Health, a consumer healthcare navigation and care coordination company, has secured a significant investment from Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing. Great Hill Partners, which invested in Quantum Health in 2017 and is the company’s current majority shareholder, will retain a significant stake. This
European private equity firm PAI Partjers has acquired a majority stake in Euro Ethnic Foods (EEF), the company which owns and operates the grocery section of leading food retailer Grand Frais. PAI will hold a 60 per cent stake in EEF with the company’s founders Léo & Patrick Bahadourian continuing
Novalis Biotech, an early stage venture capital investor in healthcare, technologies has held the first closing of its second fund, Novalis Biotech Acceleration, raising an initial EUR8 million. With commitments for a similar amount already in place, Novalis anticipates a final closing in early 2021. The majority of investors in
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