Chicoa Fish Farm, a Mozambican-based company addressing the critical challenge of a lack of affordable protein in Southern Africa, has closed a Series A equity funding round totalling USD1.5 million from Goodwell Investments. Chicoa Fish Farm was founded by Gerard McCollum and Damien Legros in 2015 with the vision to

LBO France has committed EUR5 million in a Series B financing round to ZEPLUG, which installs charging points for electric and hybrid vehicles in co-owned buildings and companies. The money raised will help ZEPLUG to seep up its development in its markets  This investment marks the launch of Newstone, the

AMP Capital has originated and closed a significant investment in a junior HoldCo facility secured against Peel Group’s 37.6 per cent stake in Peel Ports, one of the largest port operators in the UK, on behalf of AMP Capital Infrastructure Debt Fund IV (IDF IV). In 2019 Peel Ports handled

Private equity firm NorthEdge has backed the primary management buyout of Altia-ABM, a specialist investigation and covert operation software business. Nottingham and Glasgow based Altia-ABM develops specialist investigation software for government departments and law enforcement agencies in the UK, Canada and Australia. The firm, which predominantly works with customers in

Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialised in scaling businesses driven by technology, customer insight or service excellence, and Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity managers, have invested in growing e-commerce deals business RevLifter. RevLifter operates a sophisticated deals personalisation platform powered by artificial

Flexstone Partners (Flexstone), an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has completed its 100th co-investment as it continues to expand its global, mid-market co-investment practice. Flexstone has committed EUR6.3 million and reserved a significant amount of additional capital to support the next phase of growth of Pastas Gallo, alongside ProA Capital.

An award-winning electric vehicle charging company is set to step up the roll-out of charging points across the country after securing a GBP1.5 million investment. Elmtronics, an independent provider of charging points, has raised the funding from the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), which is supported by the European Regional

ADM Capital Europe’s Cibus Enterprise Fund acted as one of eight cornerstone investors in The Kingfish Company’s equivalent EUR50 million private placement, which successfully completed on 9 November 2020. Kingfish is a company based in the Netherlands producing the Dutch Yellowtail, a high-quality, high value marine finfish, using technologically advanced

Vanti Analytics has closed a USD4.5 million seed funding round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm True Ventures and Israel’s More VC.  The round includes participation from Israel’s i3 Equity Partners, who invested in 2019 alongside Ariel Maislos.  The manufacturing AI company is developing a self-service platform that helps