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Melbourne

TA Associates backs Melbourne-based Honan Insurance Group

Global growth private equity firm TA Associates has agreed to make a strategic growth investment in Honan Insurance Group, a Melbourne-based commercial insurance broker. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2020. Honan’s Group CEO and executive director Damien Honan, CEO Andrew Fluitsma and COO Laurence

Parabellum Investments partners with The Acacia Group to acquire The Column Group

Parabellum Investments, an international investment firm specialising in the mid-market, has teamed with operational investors The Acacia Group to acquire The Column Group a privately-owned technology consulting, systems and services provider. Working in partnership with the Column management team, Parabellum and Acacia plan to accelerate the company’s growth with new investment

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Healthcare platform Wellth closes USD10m series A round 

Wellth, a platform designed to improve treatment adherence using behavioural economics, has received USD10 million in Series A funding round. Existing investors yabeo and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) co-led the funding round with participation from returning investors AXA Venture Partners, New York Life Ventures, NFP Ventures and I2BF Global

Blockdaemon raises USD5.5m in funding round

Blockdaemon, a blockchain infrastructure platform for node management serving institutions and developers, has completed a strategic funding round of USD5.5 million led by venture capital (VC) firms focused on blockchain technology. Blockdaemon’s funding round is supported by a number of new investors including Hashkey, CoinShares, Blockchain.com, Kenetic, SPiCE VC and Fenbushi

ClearLight Partners Invests in ICS

Private equity firm ClearLight Partners announced today that it has made an investment in ICS, a provider of IT managed services, in partnership with ICS’ owner, Kevin Blake. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Headquartered in Endicott, NY, ICS was founded in 1986 and has grown over its nearly 35-year

Scoota raises GBP2m in growth funding round 

Scoota, a specialist in automated omni-channel digital branding technology, has announced a GBP2 million round from Notion Capital, the Angel CoFund (ACF) and VentureFounders. The growth funding will be used for rapid US expansion plans for the latter part of 2020 and early 2021.  In the current climate this raise speaks

Women

EQT Ventures backs female social network Peanut

EQT Ventures has led a USD12 million Series A funding round in Peanut, a newly launched social network for women.  Index Ventures and Female Founders Fund also participated in this round, bringing the company’s total funding to USD 21.8 million. The fresh capital will be used to launch new communities

DOB Equity makes further investment in Moringa School

DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor in East Africa, has made a further investment in Moringa School (Moringa), a technology learning institute based in Kenya.The investment is to help Moringa accelerate the company’s transition to providing remote on-line learning. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, there has been an increased demand

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