A West Midlands company which has developed a unique charity fundraising platform has secured £1.25m in investment to help further enhance its technology and expand its client base. Stourbridge-based GivePenny Technologies has secured investment from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and
Lead Capital Partners (LCP), a Nashville-based private equity firm focused on lower middle market buyouts of healthcare companies, has appointed Carl Grote as a director. Prior to joining LCP, Grote worked in the Investment Banking departments of Janney Montgomery Scott and Robert W Baird & Co providing middle market M&A
British Patient Capital has committed £30 million to Crane Venture Partners’ second fund, which has reached a final close of £110 million. Crane II will invest in seed to Series A businesses specialising in digital infrastructure, including open-source software, data and developer tools, and artificial intelligence. Fifty percent of the
Lab Logistics Management, a provider of outsourced medical supplies, kitting and logistics services to the healthcare industry and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital, has acquired The Allied Group, a fulfilment services provider offering printing, kitting, and mailing services to healthcare and life science organisations worldwide. Founded in 1946,
Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has hired Alyssa Hooper as a principal to support its infrastructure strategy. Hooper is a senior investment professional with over ten years of investment and advisory experience in infrastructure and sustainable project finance. She will be based
Dynamo Software, Inc, a market-leading provider of end-to-end cloud software for the alternative investment management industry, is growing its executive leadership team with the addition of three new hires.
Global private equity investor Advent International (Advent) has completed fundraising for its flagship fund, Advent International GPE X. The Fund reached its hard cap of $25 billion (€22.1 billion) in commitments after less than six months in the market. Together with GPE X’s companion fund, Advent Tech II, the firm
Open banking platform Yapily has partnered with B2B Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) start-up Two, enabling merchants to offer BNPL services to their business customers instantly at checkout. SMEs are the backbone of Europe’s economy. They account for almost two thirds of European jobs and contributed approximately €3.5 trillion to
OpenDialog AI Ltd (OpenDialog AI), a newly launched company setting out to unlock the potential of conversational AI technology, has raised $5 million in its initial seed round of funding. The funding was secured in only four weeks, with an oversubscription of potential investors, indicative of a sector that is
Silversmith Capital Partners (Silversmith) has sold Market Access Transformation (MAT) to Genesis Research has closed. MAT’s co-founders, Baiju Aurora and Paul Howard, will continue to lead MAT as a wholly owned subsidiary and will remain shareholders. Silversmith served as MAT’s first institutional investor in November 2020 when it led a
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