Wombat, the UK’s first thematic & curated fractional investment platform, has closed a GBP2 million seed round to help the fast-growth business serve consumers’ increasing appetite for shares investing.  The seed round, led by Fuel Ventures, will help Wombat further develop the platform to provide easy access to the world

TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has entered exclusive negotiations to make a majority growth investment in DL Software, a France-based group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software providers.  Current DL Software majority shareholder 21 Invest France, as well as company founders and management, would each retain a

Surface Transforms, which manufactures next-generation carbon ceramic brake discs for the automotive and aircraft industries, has raised GBP20 million in a financing round led by Zeus Capital. The raise follows a successful 18 months for Surface Transforms, in which it has secured contracts to supply brake discs for five new

Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments has completed a GBP2 million investment into Ostmodern, a digital product design and technology business that creates innovative video platforms for some of the world’s leading entertainment companies, including Formula One, Arsenal, Channel 4 and Fox.   Ostmodern has been

Kester Capital (Kester) has made an investment in Optibrium, a drug discovery software provider to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.   The business’ customer base includes five of the top ten global pharmaceutical companies.   This off-market deal is Kester Capital’s third investment in the Life Sciences sector and follows

Inflexion has reinvested in the British Engineering Services Group (BES) to support the company’s continued growth. Inflexion has been an investor in the engineering testing, inspection and consultancy services specialist since it led the carve-out from RSA plc in October 2015. 

Homa Games, a mobile developer and publisher with more than 30 apps in its portfolio, has raised a record USD15 million Seed round from Idinvest Partners, e.ventures & renowned business angels. Since its foundation in 2018, Homa Games has chosen HyperCasual as its main focus and has created multiple worldwide

BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made a majority investment in SupportNinja, a high-end outsourcing solutions provider. SupportNinja provides scalable customer and technical support and back-office solutions for the world’s fastest growing and most innovative

Following the close of its recent GBP35 million Series C investment round, digital mortgage and home-buying company Habito has secured additional backing from Bootstrap Europe, a technology growth debt fund that works with disruptive scale-ups making an impact. Backed by the British Business Investments, Bootstrap Europe recognised the potential in

Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has invested in Space 48 Limited (Space 48), a digital eCommerce agency.  The investment and Foresight’s involvement will support founder and Managing Director Jon Woodall in taking the business through its next stage of growth, further building on