How and what we eat in restaurants or on-the-go is changing thanks to new robotics startup Karakuri which has secured a GBP7million seed investment, led by Ocado. With growing demand for personalised nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle, Karakuri uses the latest innovations in robotics, machine learning, optics and
Triple Point has announced nearly GBP1 million of funding to back the two latest companies in the firm’s Impact EIS Investment Fund. The fund targets fast-growing companies in the health, environment, youth and inequality sectors that are having a positive social impact, and are expected to generate significant capital growth.
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM) – a Cambridge-based health tech startup that helps doctors and healthcare providers to deliver personalised treatment regimens – has raised GBP2.1 million in venture capital funding, raised from Longwall Venture Partners, IQ Capital and Martlet, the investment arm of the Marshall of Cambridge group. Several leading
Osmosis Investment Management, a sustainable investment specialist with USD1.5 billion in client assets, has closed a significant equity investment from the Oxford Endowment Fund. The fresh injection of capital into the sustainable investment firm is a further endorsement of Osmosis’s systematic investment approach which targets superior risk-adjusted returns from companies
A Greater Lincolnshire-based horticulture producer and supplier has secured a GBP200,000 debt funding package from Maven Capital Partners and the Midlands Engine Investment Fund. Jepco Glebe Limited will use the finance to invest in a new hydroponic lettuce production facility – the first of its kind in the UK.
Kaseya, a provider of IT infrastructure management solutions for both external service providers (MSPs) and internal service providers (IT departments), has secured an investment of more than USD500 million from a group of investors including TPG, a global alternative asset firm, and Insight Partners, an existing investor in the company.
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led an investment, alongside existing shareholders Par Equity and the Scottish Investment Bank, in Edinburgh-based Symphonic Software Limited (Symphonic), a player in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market. The funding will be used to further scale the business, investing in
Exabeam has closed USD75 million in a Series E funding round led by new investor Sapphire Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, which have collectively backed nearly 40 IPOs. Other existing investors also participated. The funds will be used for expanding sales reach and to expedite new product features and configurations.
DIP Capital’s Disruption Investment Platform (DIP) Fund I has invested USD1.7 million in Adludio, a globally leading mobile-technology company delivering immersive advertising to mobile devices. DIP Capital was established in February 2018 and focuses on investing in disruptive businesses. Founded and led by Riccardo Cirillo, DIP has a first fund of
Private equity investment in European companies reached a new record of EUR80.6 billion in 2018, a 7 per cent year-on-year increase, according to data released today by Invest Europe. Private equity funds invested in over 7,800 companies, also a new record, with 86 per cent of the total made up
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