Edtech platform Your Favourite Teacher (YFT) is raising capital to expand its operations through private equity investment firm Growthdeck, as Covid-19 sees more schools build online learning into their standard curriculum.Your Favourite Teacher (YFT) is a virtual classroom for GCSE students, which augments and supports the existing Key Stage 4

Private equity and venture capital investment into UK businesses reached GBP22.33 billion in 2019, an increase of GBP1.6 billion on the previous year, new research from the BVCA shows.Published today, the BVCA’s annual Report on Investment Activity shows the full breadth of the impact of private equity and venture capital

ABRT VC has committed USD10 million to support startups providing solutions to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and has backed the Limpid platform in the fight against Covid-19.Limpid (limpid.vc) is a global startup sourcing and pipeline management platform that streamlines fundraising for both venture capital investors and startup companies.

Next Century Spirits has completed a USD6 million Series C fundraising round led by private equity firm the Blue Hill Group. Since its inception in 2018, the Raleigh-based full-service spirits producer has raised capital from various private investors and angel networks including the Wolfpack Investor Network and Carolina Angel Network. Next

Align Capital Partners (ACP) has made a growth capital investment in WilliamsMarston, an accounting advisory and management consulting firm with offices in Boston and New York.  Co-Founders Landen Williams and Jon Marston will continue to lead the Firm through its next phase of growth.   WilliamsMarston provides public, private equity-backed and

Roslin Technologies, the UK’s specialist AgriTech venture builder, is embarking on a GBP50 million second round capital raise, valuing the Edinburgh-based company at more than GBP55 million. The four-year-old business, which partners closely with the Roslin Institute, creator of Dolly the Sheep, will use the funds to invest in a wide

Foresight Group has made a GBP1 million growth capital investment into Ajenta Limited, a provider of specialist video conferencing services to schools, colleges and universities and other public sector organisations.  This is the fifth investment made by the GBP20 million Foresight Scottish Growth Fund, which is financed by the Scottish Growth

Dash cam manufacturer Nextbase has completed a GBP10 million round of growth funding from Sandton Capital Partners, a London and New York based private equity fund (Sandton).Nextbase has an 80 per cent os the dash cam market in the UK and 50 per cent in Europe and is already a