UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led the GBP20 million management buyout (MBO) of UAP Limited (UAP), a UK supplier and distributor of door and window hardware. The transaction represents Maven’s second investment from its new buyout fund, having earlier this year led an investment in Scottish-based

Foresight Group (Foresight) has invested GBP2.5 million to support the partial buy-out of Bolton-based community healthcare and wellbeing provider ABL Health Limited (ABL). ABL is a provider of community healthcare and wellbeing services across the North of England. The Company was founded in 2009 by Denise Leslie and Dr Sheena

NorthEdge Capital has invested for a significant majority stake in facilities management company Orbis Protect, backing an MBO with the existing management team led by CEO Guy Other and COO Ben Howard. Employing over 400 staff across its network of 19 depots, Orbis Protect provides a range of vacant property

RootPath, a biotechnology company developing a powerful personalised T cell therapy platform that bridges precision medicine and cancer immunotherapy, has closed a USD7 million seed funding round led by Sequoia China with participation from Volcanics Venture, BV (Baidu Ventures) and Nest.Bio Ventures. The company, which was launched in 2017 by

Nebula Genomics has raised USD4.3 million in seed financing with participation from 10 leading venture capital firms.   The funds will support the company’s mission to usher in the era of personal genome sequencing by creating a trusted, secure, and decentralized marketplace for genomic data. The company also has forged

Cloudian has raised USD94 million in a Series E funding, bringing the company’s total funding to USD173 million. The round includes participation from investors Digital Alpha, Eight Roads Ventures, Goldman Sachs, INCJ, JPIC (Japan Post Investment Corporation), NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc and WS (Wilson Sonsini) Investments. Cloudian will use this

OnRobot A/S, a Denmark-based provider of end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) used in collaborative robot systems, has announced an investment led by global growth equity firm Summit Partners, with participation from existing investors including Vaekstfonden (The Danish Growth Fund). The funding will help support OnRobot’s continued international growth and expansion of its

Technology investment firm TECHNEDs has entered into a new investment partnership with call recording solutions specialist ReTell. ReTell, which is the ninth company to join TECHNEDs’ family of technology companies, works with integrators and retains a strong partner channel serving multiple markets to deliver a range of call recording solutions.