Augmentum Fintech, a European fintech venture capital firm, has made an investment of GBP2.5 million in UK-based residential rent-to-own specialist Unmortgage, as part of a GBP10 million fundraising. Augmentum is participating in this fund raising alongside existing investor Exponential Ventures, and other investors.   Unmortgage will offer a unique part-own

SVPER, a social, instant video-only app for forming new real-life relationships in real time, has secured strategic investments from LBank, a Superior and Specialized Digital Exchange, and DAEX Blockchain Group (DAEX), a distributed digital asset clearing ecosystem built using a blockchain-based multi-asset clearing and settlement protocol. SVPER remains in advanced

Mid-market private equity investor LDC has invested more than GBP25m in Love Energy Savings, a leading energy price comparison specialist, in a secondary buyout of the business to further accelerate organic growth. The deal also marks a partial exit for NVM Private Equity, which first backed the business in September

Grasshopper Solar, a Canada-based solar energy company, has made a USD80 million investment in Setouchi Koken’s Iizuka Solar Plant located in Fukuoka, Japan. This 21.6MW ground mount project will utilise 65,455 solar panels, generate 26,136 MWh of clean energy and offset 19,451 tons of carbon emissions per annum.   The Iizuka

Augmentum Fintech, a fintech venture capital investor, has made an investment of GBP5.3 million in UK based fast-growing mobile-only current account provider Monese. Augmentum is participating in this GBP46 million Series B fundraising alongside Kinnevik, PayPal and Avios, all of whom are investing in Monese for the first time.  

ByBox, a specialist in smart locker technology and field service solutions has secured a strategic investment from Francisco Partners that values the company at GBP221 million.   The private equity firm backs ambitious technology-enabled businesses and will support ByBox’s expansion of its UK infrastructure and global deployment of its ‘Konnect’

Fave, Southeast Asia’s fastest growing mobile O2O (online to offline) platform, has raised over USD20 million in a Series B round from strategic and existing investors including Sequoia India, SIG Asia Investment and Venturra Capital. Over the last two years, Fave has evolved into Southeast Asia’s largest mobile loyalty and

BGF has provided GBP6 million funding to One Media iP Group, a digital media content provider that primarily exploits music intellectual property rights. The AIM listed company, which is based in Pinewood Studios, will use the funding to support the acquisition of music catalogues as part of its buy and

UK-based privacy technology and data analytics company MyLife Digital has completed a new circa GBP6 million funding round led by BGF to support the international roll-out of its innovative platform. MyLife Digital provides an enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to help organisations manage the challenges around personal data, enabling them to