Pole Star Space Applications Limited (Pole Star), a provider of cloud-based compliance software solutions to the maritime sector, has secured a significant growth investment from Wavecrest Growth Partners and Abry Partners.  The capital will be used to accelerate hiring, scale sales, and expand product development to meet substantive and increasing

Private Equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) has completed a significant investment into a specialist provider of cutting-edge integrated fire safety and security solutions, Total Integrated Solutions (TIS), to support its continued growth and expansion. Mansfield-based TIS is a design led fire, security and communications integrator which installs, maintains and

LiveEO, an Earth Observation (EO) asset monitoring startup based in Berlin, has closed an investment round with the venture capital firms btov Partners, Helen Ventures, DvH Ventures, and Motu Ventures as well as deep tech investor Andreas Kupke and a renowned investor from the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem.   The

Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MPB on a USD70 million investment led by Vitruvian Partners, with participation from existing investor Acton Capital. Headquartered in Brighton, UK, MPB is the world’s largest reseller of photo and video kit. The used kit market is in a period of

European private equity firm Silverfleet has invested in the fast-growing, SaaS provider, OneStock, a European specialist in modern and agile OMS software for retail. Silverfleet will hold a significant minority stake in OneStock. Headquartered in Toulouse, France, and with offices in Paris and London, OneStock’s sector leading SaaS OMS platform

Gresham House Ventures – a growth equity investor specialised in software and digitally driven businesses in the healthcare, consumer and services sectors – has invested GBP2.25 million into Metrion Biosciences, a contract research organisation (CRO) catering to the drug discovery market. Metrion Biosciences (Metrion) is a specialist contract research company

Cyance, a provider of global, third-party intent data, has secured a new round of additional funding from existing investors — including Blackfinch Ventures and Nexus Investments — in the amount of GBP860,000.  The funding follows a period of significant growth for the startup company with revenues increasing by 18 per

Scottish bio-tech company, BioCaptiva, has developed a novel next generation “liquid biopsy” technology device that could revolutionise the early diagnosis and monitoring of difficult to detect cancers. The University of Edinburgh spin-out has raised over GBP1 million in seed funding from Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, and Scottish Enterprise,