Alliance Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, has made a new investment in PowerShare, an electric vehicle (EV) charging platform startup based in China. PowerShare provides an online platform that connects EV drivers, charge point operators and power suppliers to streamline the charging experience. It offers a cloud-based

Gresham House’s British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) made five investments during 2018 and has now deployed over 45 per cent of its committed capital. BSIF invests in the housing and infrastructure sectors, both identified by the UK Government as structurally important areas requiring local investment. As a closed-ended fund with

Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital investor has announced a GBP2.4 million investment in DeepCrawl, a web crawler and marketing insights platform. The funding follows on from DeepCrawl’s GBP1.75 million Series A, which was also led by Beringea – other existing high net worth investors supported both rounds.   DeepCrawl has

Darby Private Equity (Darby), the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton, has completed an investment in Pharma Consulting Group (Biopas) through the Darby Latin American Private Debt Fund III (DLAPDF III). Biopas is a specialty pharmaceutical distribution company focussed on in-licensing, selling and marketing innovative prescription pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and

Chainalysis, a provider of cryptocurrency compliance and investigation solutions, has secured a USD30 million Series B financing led by Accel. Benchmark also increased its investment in the company after leading its USD16 million Series A round last April.   Chainalysis will use the funding to support strategic product development of

Private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has completed a strategic investment in Digital Ware (Digital Ware), an independent software supplier in Colombia. Headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia, and founded over 25 years ago, Digital Ware specialises in developing and selling ERP software, payroll human capital management (HCM) solutions, as well

Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and NVM Private Equity (NVM) have completed a GBP3.25 million equity investment in UK fintech start-up Mojo Mortgages (Mojo). The investment, which has been equally funded by Maven and NVM, is part of a wider GBP7 million funding round, will support Mojo’s ambitious growth plans and

An affiliate of CenterGate Capital (CenterGate), an Austin-based private equity investment firm, has made an investment in Mid-State Industrial Maintenance (Mid-State), a provider of on-site and off-site industrial maintenance and service solutions. Established in 1973 and headquartered in Lakeland, Florida, Mid-State serves a wide customer base across the southeastern United

Flex Fleet Rental, a provider of medium-term truck rentals to commercial customers, has completed a strategic transaction with Waterfall Asset Management’s private equity platform. TRP Capital Partners (TRP), a transportation-focused private equity firm, is also making a strategic investment alongside Waterfall. Flex Fleet Rental’s existing management team will continue to

corrux has raised USD3.1 million of seed financing in a funding round led by German venture capital firm Target Partners, with additional participation from Josef Brunner (CEO, relayr) and US venture investor Sean Dalton. corrux develops applications that let users understand heavy machinery – ranging from excavators to track laying