DOB Equity, a leading Dutch family-backed impact investor in East Africa, has invested in Natural Extracts Industries (NEI), a natural vanilla flavour manufacturer, based in Moshi, Tanzania. Since its inception in 2011, NEI has partnered with small-holder farmers by encouraging them to grow  vanilla next to their existing crops, thereby

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and Rock Rail have closed the financing of new Hitachi intercity trains for the West Coast Partnership rail franchise. ASI, lead equity provider, and Rock Rail, rail investor-developer and asset manager, together led the transaction of more than GBP350 million. The fleet will be financed through

Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm InMotion Ventures has invested in Apex.AI. a software start-up with offices in Palo Alto, California, and Munich, Germany, which is preparing to launch its flagship product – Apex.OS – to the automotive sector in early 2020. InMotion joins Volvo Group Venture Capital and HELLA

Visible Capital, a new Scottish fintech company founded by three Scottish tech veterans has secured GBP500,000 seed funding from TechStart Ventures and a group of eight private investors. Preston Rabl, co-founder of the advertising and public relations giant WPP plc will join the board, whilst Ian Steel, former senior partner

Relay Network, a personalised mobile engagement company for the enterprise, has completed a USD30 million growth capital investment from LLR Partners. The capital will be used to accelerate innovation of its breakthrough customer engagement platform and growth within its three primary vertical markets: healthcare, financial services and home services. At

Zenobē Energy, an independent UK-based owner and operator of battery storage, has secured a non-recourse GBP25 million debt facility from Santander Corporate & Commercial, to support the continued growth of the company. This follows the successful GBP35 million of equity raised from JERA Co Inc and TEPCO Power Grid Inc earlier

Walter Global Asset Management (WGAM), the Walter Group’s private equity firm focused on asset management, has acquired a minority stake in Quadra Capital Partners (Quadra Capital) – an asset management firm specialising in alternative investments, with offices in London, Paris and Madrid. “The Quadra Capital team has impressive experience and

Monroe Capital (Monroe) has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility and equity co-investment to support Centre Partners’ investment in Wisconsin Cheese Group Holding, (WCG), a manufacturer of branded and private label Hispanic foods, including cheeses, desserts, meats and spices. Founded

The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has provided Black Country based Vacuum Furnace Engineering Ltd (VFE), with a GBP1.5 million funding package. This will enable the business to increase output, fund several large projects and pursue its growth strategy.   VFE is