Rand Capital Corporation (RAND) has entered into a stock purchase agreement to sell approximately 8.3 million shares of common stock to East Asset Management (EAM) for USD25 million in cash and assets. The purchase price of USD3.00 per share represents a 33 per cent premium over the 24 January, 2019

SkenarioLabs, a Finnish start-up that provides Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based data services to the real estate industry, has secured an undisclosed sum in a seed funding round led by innogy Innovation Hub. The innogy Innovation Hub is the Accelerator and Venture Capital arm of innogy SE, a German energy company, with

Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP2.15 million growth capital investment into Sportlabs Technology Limited, trading as ClubSpark, a specialist software company serving participants, sports providers, National Governing Bodies and International Federations. Founded in 2012 by CEO Dave Ward and CTO Nathan Flood, ClubSpark provides a comprehensive software platform which

ARQIS has advised Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland on the acquisition of a minority interest in Menlo Systems, based in Planegg (Landkreis München).   Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland and Menlo Systems hope that the investment will provide synergies for the development of new applications and new markets, as their product lines almost do

European financial services private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap) has secured a structured investment into a portfolio of SME loans from a leading Italian bank with which AnaCap has a long-standing relationship across a broad range of transactions. With a face value of EUR4.0 billion, the portfolio comprises a static, highly granular pool of performing

An entrepreneur who has developed a new recruitment platform which allows companies to interview candidates by video has secured GBP350,000 from the North East Venture Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia Fund Managers. Shine Interview, which is based in Sunderland, removes the need for

Firefly, a suite of school learning tools used in 40 countries, and first developed by co-founders Simon Hay and Joe Mathewson while preparing for their GCSEs, has secured GBP5 million funding from Downing Ventures, alongside BGF and Beringea. Firefly has the potential to cut school administration by 50 per cent

Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP1.25 million growth capital investment into Fertility Focus Limited (FFL), a fertility monitoring technology company that has developed OvuSense, a registered medical device that enables women to predict ovulation.  The investment was led by Foresight on behalf of Foresight VCT plc and Foresight 4

Admo.tv, a TV and radio analytics platform, has raised a Series B funding round of EUR6 million led by Runa Capital, Entrepreneur Venture and Cap Décisif. The new round is in addition to a EUR1.5 million round completed in 2016 with Entrepreneur Venture and Kerala Ventures, bringing total investment in