Elements Talent Solutions, a disruptor to the USD200-plus billion worldwide recruitment market, has received a GBP3.45 million investment from BGF to accelerate its growth across Europe, the US and the APAC region. While recent years have seen no shortage of technological innovation in the hiring market, Elements has pioneered a

Eos Venture Partners (Eos) debut Insurtech fund, EVP I, has made its first two investments, in Concirrus, a marine insurance analytics platform and in Digital Fineprint (DFP) an SME-focused lead generation and underwriting solution. Concirrus uses AI-powered software to help marine insurers move to “behavioural-based underwriting”. The software provides behavioural analysis

Piper, a specialist investor in consumer branded businesses, has led a GBP15 million investment into Bloom & Wild, the online flower gifting brand that is disrupting Europe’s GBP14 billion fresh cut flower market. Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild has transformed the online flower

Nozomi Networks, a specialist in industrial cybersecurity and operational visibility announced today it has raised USD30 million in Series C financing. The company’s first institutional investor, Giovanni Canetta Roeder, led the efforts of Planven Investments SA, GGV Capital, Lux Capital, Energize Ventures (formerly Invenergy Future Fund) and THI Investments, bringing

Iron Bow Technologies, an IT solution provider serving government, commercial and healthcare clients, has announced an equity partnership with private equity investment firm HIG Capital. The partnership will accelerate Iron Bow’s rapid growth in prospective markets across the public and private sectors.   With USD25 billion of equity capital under

Duke Royalty Limited, a provider of alternative capital solutions to a diversified range of profitable and long-established businesses in Europe and abroad, has contributed a further GBP1 million into its existing royalty partner, Lynx Equity (UK) Limited (Lynx UK). Lynx UK will allocate Duke’s further contribution towards the acquisition of

SLAMcore, a UK company developing spatial artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for robots and drones, has raised USD5 million in a funding round led by global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners. Existing investors Mirai Creation Fund and Toyota AI Ventures joined the round alongside newcomers MMC Ventures and Octopus Ventures.  

Värde Partners is to make a strategic GBP60 million equity investment in UK specialist bank Masthaven. The equity investment, along with Masthaven’s existing capital base, will enable the bank to significantly increase lending to consumers and SMEs over the next three to five years as well as provide innovative deposit

Rockpool has acquired a majority stake in Primrose, a European online-only garden products retailer. Founded in 2003, Primrose offers consumers a range of over 10,000 garden and outdoor leisure products from ranges including water features, awnings, sail shades, pest control products, planters and screening. Primrose primarily sources its products from

Trading, risk and analytics technology provider LightPoint Financial Technology (LightPoint) has completed a Series A funding round led by The Citco Group of Companies, and Ares Management.   TAP Advisors advised LightPoint on the transaction and will take a Board Observer seat.   Michael Arougheti, Chief Executive Officer and President