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Miss Group secures GBP13 million in follow-on funding from BGF

Manchester-headquartered Miss Group has secured a GBP13m follow-on investment from BGF to support its international acquisition strategy.  Founded in 2014, Miss Group is an international web hosting business that offers a range of services to the SME market, such as web hosting, domain registration, VPS and dedicated servers.  Following BGF’s

Arlington Capital Partners acquires majority interest in Riverpoint Medical

Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has completed a majority growth investment in Riverpoint Medical (Riverpoint.) The investment in Riverpoint marks the first deal out of Arlington’s USD1.7 billion Fund V, which closed recently. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Riverpoint Medical is a developer, designer, and manufacturer

Brad Stephenson, Laven

Laven appoints COO

Laven Group, a provider of regulatory compliance solutions and risk and due diligence services, has appointed Brad Stephenson as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Stephenson’s has extensive experience in the funds world, most recently as Head of Funds at Estera, and previously at Trident Trust. At Estera, Brad oversaw the firm’s

Battery Ventures launches Battery Marketplace Index

Investment firm Battery Ventures has launched a new index to track the stock performance of prominent consumer-marketplace companies, businesses that are becoming more and more embedded into the daily lives of consumers, and, increasingly, driving a new wave of initial-public stock offerings. The Battery Marketplace Index includes 39 companies that

Anastasia Williams, TMF Group

US managers dominate fund raising activity

The United States dominates the PE marketplace when it comes to size of AUM size. It is estimated that the top 300 global PE managers manage USD1.5 trillion in assets, of which US-based managers account for USD1 trillion; this compares to USD177 billion among UK-based managers. 

WeGift closes GBP4m investment

WeGift, a digital rewards platform, has secured GBP4 million in Series A funding, led by Fred Destin at Stride.vc, who also joins the Board of Directors, and other high-profile investors including SAP.iO fund and Unilever Ventures.  WeGift has also announced new angel investors including James Hind, founder of Carwow and Eamon Jubbawy at Onfido.    WeGift says the investment

O’Melveny launches MediaTech Group

O’Melveny has launched a new group focused on serving the needs of technology clients as they expand their operations in Southern California. “O’Melveny MediaTech” will guide established and emerging companies and investors as they grow and engage in content development and distribution. The group will be led by T Hale

Northern Trust Peter Cherecwich

Northern Trust to transfer private equity blockchain technology platform to Broadridge

Northern Trust is to transfer its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for private equity (PE) asset servicing to Broadridge, in whatv he companies says is a significant step towards delivering an industry-wide PE blockchain solution. Following the agreement, Broadridge will develop the platform leveraging blockchain technology developed by Northern Trust.

eSmart Systems secures USD34 million investment for international expansion

eSmart Systems, a Norwegian provider of AI-based analytics for infrastructure inspection and asset health monitoring, has completed a capital raise of USD 34.4 million.  Energy Impact Partners (EIP), the US utility-backed investment fund, and innogy Ventures have joined the investment round initially closed by Equinor Energy Ventures, Nysnø Climate Investments,

Earth Capital makes successful early exit from Nobel Sustainability Fund

Earth Capital (EC), a global investment group focused on sustainable and impact investments, has made a successful early exit of Inval Green Energy (IGE) from the European portfolio of the Nobel Sustainability Fund (NSF). IGE, which is managed by sub-manager Barcelona-based SI Capital (SiC), part of the Earth Capital Holdings

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