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Edison Partners sells fintech firm Clearpool Group to BMO

Growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners has completed the sale of Clearpool Group, a New York-based electronic trading provider and independent agency broker-dealer, to BMO Financial Group. The deal is Edison’s third institutional fintech exit to a strategic buyer this year, which also includes the sale of Scivantage to Refinitiv and Solovis

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Perwyn et al back recipe box company Gousto

Perwyn, BGF, MMC Ventures and Joe Wicks have led a GBP 33 million funding round into recipe box company Gousto. The additional funding takes the total funds raised by Gousto to over GBP130 million in the last eight years. The company aims to have put over 400 million meals on tables

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Axcel acquires majority stake in SuperOffice

Axcel has acquired a controlling stake in Norwegian SaaS CRM provider SuperOffice. SuperOffice is Axcel VI’s first investment, and the firm will control the majority of SuperOffice’s shares. The company is being acquired from the founder’s family, Visma, and key employees. The current management team will reinvest in the business

Igloo Vision raises additional GBP435,000

Igloo Vision, a Shropshire-based immersive technology company, has raised an additional GBP435,000 in funding under the UK Government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).Igloo (www.igloovision.com) creates immersive projection spaces, such as domes, cylinders, cubes, and immersive workspaces. Igloo’s technology can display any 360° or Virtual Reality (VR) content. And, because entire teams

Stock prices

Pandemic provides a window of opportunity for private equity investors

As stay-at-home orders are taking their toll on the economy and businesses are in need of cash, the private equity industry could be well positioned to pick up better priced assets in the backwaters of the crisis.  David Mussafer, chairman and managing partner of Advent International, told the Financial Times

Corigin Ventures closes second fund with USD36.05m in capital commitments

Corigin Ventures, a founder-focused early-stage venture capital firm, has held the final closing of its second fund with total equity commitments of USD36.05 million. The firm is also pleased to announce that Aubrie Pagano, an experienced founder and early-stage investor, has joined as Partner. In this role and as a member

YFM invests in commercial vehicle safety specialist ISS

YFM has completed a significant investment in West Midlands-based Innovative Safety Systems (ISS), a commercial vehicle safety specialist. The deal represents the final new investment from YFM’s Buyout Fund I, with the launch of its GBP80 million second fund last week. ISS was founded in 2009 by CEO Gavin Thoday and

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