Susquehanna Private Capital (SPC) has made an investment in Premium Service Brands (PSB), a leading Charlottesville, Virginia-based franchisor of multi-brand home services with a specialty in home improvement brands. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Premium Service Brands partners with franchisees to provide comprehensive training, sophisticated technology,

Vórtx, a tech-enabled corporate and trust service provider for fund managers and corporate issuers in Brazil, has raised USD35 million in Series B funding, led by FTV Capital.  The funding will be used to accelerate Vórtx’s technology enhancements and market presence in the financial back-office market, as the alternatives market

Biomedical startup Adapttech has raised GBP2 million in a new venture capital funding round.  The round was supported by existing investors including the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund; Bionova Capital (formerly Hovione Capital), as

Lurra Capital AG, a Swiss-based private capital investment firm, has participated in a USD475 million funding round for New York-headquartered Dataminr, one of the world’s leading AI companies. Lurra Capital, an existing investor of Dataminr, joins other leading investors including Eldridge, Valor Equity Partners, MSD Capital, Reinvent Capital, ArrowMark Partners,

UK start-up LGN has secured USD2 million in funding to help businesses outpace their competition by building better and more resilient AI models, faster and at scale.  With backing from the likes of Trucks Venture Capital, Luminous Ventures and Jaguar Land Rover, LGNenterprises to scale out their use of edge

PhoreMost, a UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to ‘Drugging the Undruggable’, disease targets, has completed an oversubscribed GBP33 million (USD46 million) Series B investment round.  The round was led by BGF, the UK’s most active growth economy investor, and included new investors XtalPi Inc, Astellas Venture Management, Trend Investment Group and

The Kempen European Private Equity Fund, the private equity investment fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen), has acquired a direct interest in the new entity that will be created as a result of the merger between software companies Medisys and Cityzen.  The merger will form a major software supplier in

Unit4, a specialist in enterprise cloud software for people-centric organisations, has secured a majority investment from TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm.  Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, will invest alongside TA, on behalf of its clients, while Mike Ettling, CEO of Unit4, will continue

Toscafund, a multi asset fund management group, has become the leading shareholder in VoxSmart, a communications surveillance software provider, by investing USD25 million of growth capital to enable the business to continue its rapid growth trajectory. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…