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airfocus raises USD5m Series A

airfocus, the world’s first modular product management platform, has raised USD5 million in series A funding, led by XAnge with participation from Nauta Capital. 

Grant Thornton advises Milton Keynes software company Celaton on investment from renowned tech entrepreneur Vin Murria

GRANT Thornton UK’s Corporate Finance team has advised Milton Keynes-based software company, Celaton on an investment deal with serial investor and technology entrepreneur, Vin Murria OBE. Founded in 2004 by Andrew Anderson and Gary Grant, Celaton’s Intelligent Document Processing platform, inSTREAM, delivers consistent and measurable business technologies to processes such

MPC Energy Solutions invests Puerto Rico CHP project

MPC Energy Solutions has acquired a 3.4 MW Combined Heat and Power (CHP) project in Puerto Rico. The project will sell the produced heat and power under a 12-year USD-denominated energy service agreement to a pharmaceutical company.  This is MPC Energy Solutions’ first acquisition since its listing on the Oslo

Mecenat to partner with IK Investment Partners

Funds advised by IK Investment Partners (IK) are to invests in Mecenat Holding AB Mecenat. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Mecenat is a marketing technology company which promotes unique discounts to its community of students and young professionals. The Company is headquartered in Gothenburg and operates

Oakley Capital invests in Afterbuy and DreamRobot to create ECOMMERCE ONE

Oakley Capital’ sOakley Capital Origin Fund (Origin Fund) has acquired controlling stakes in Afterbuy and DreamRobot, two providers of e-commerce software in the German-speaking region, which will be combined to become the newly formed ECOMMERCE ONE Group. The two companies provide a comprehensive suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions

Iksuda Therapeutics closes USD47 million financing round

Iksuda Therapeutics (Iksuda), the developer of a new generation of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) with raised therapeutic index, today announced it has completed a USD47 million (circa GBP34 million) financing round, co-led by Mirae Asset Capital and its subsidiaries, Celltrion and Premier Partners, with the Company being advised by Ashfords

HiveHR secures GBP500,000 following strong growth

The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF) has led a GBP500,000 funding round for Newcastle-based HiveHR Ltd (Hive), an employee listening tool, operating in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space.  The Fund, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP250,000, alongside GBP250,000 from the Future Fund, a government backed

Maven backs construction software and procurement services business

Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a significant investment in Pagabo, a procurement services specialist, and Sypro, a contract management and compliance software provider.  The two businesses share common ownership and the transaction will allow for the creation of a formal group of companies (Group). Pagabo and Sypro have highly

Warburg Pincus invests in Phil

Phil, a software therapy deployment platform, has secured USD56 million in a Series D fundraise led by Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor.  The investment is part of an arrangement for Warburg Pincus to invest up to USD100 million and enables Phil to accelerate the development of innovative products while

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