Fever, a data-led entertainment and experience company, has raised USD20 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Atresmedia and Labtech, with participation from existing investors Accel Partners and 14W Ventures. Fever says the new funds will help it expand into new markets across Europe and North America and

Two entrepreneurs who are creating a new marketplace for online gamers have secured a GBP200,000 investment from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia Fund Managers and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund. The funding will allow Alex Booth and Nick Gillett

easyCoffee’s plan to roll out 800 vending machines nationally in the next year has been given a boost following a GBP10 million investment by Stellar Asset Management. The UK’s only value coffee chain – part of the ‘easy’ family of brands that includes easyJet – has enjoyed rapid growth since

Capzanine, a European private investment management company, and RAISE, a development capital company targeting mid-cap companies with high growth potential, are supporting Questel group’s management team, led by Charles Besson, as IK Investment Partners acquires a stake in the group. Capzanine and RAISE, which have been Questel’s shareholders since 2015,

Manchester-based Ardenton Capital has backed PP Control & Automation in the investor’s second deal. Ardenton now owns a majority stake in PP Control & Automation (PP), which employs more than 230 people at its world-class manufacturing facility in the West Midlands.   Established in 1967 and headquartered in Walsall, PP

Salveo Capital, an alternative investment firm specialising in the legalised cannabis space, has acquired a minority equity interest in Flow Kana, a sustainable sun-grown cannabis provider in Northern California. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Founded in 2015, Flow Kana is focused on partnering with and

Vancouver and Dublin based Hartley & Marks, the makers of luxury stationary brand Paperblanks, has appointed Moore Stephens, the top 10 international accounting and advisory firm, to manage a private equity investment round to fuel the company’s future growth. Paperblanks was founded in 1992 and now produces annual revenues in

LFPI has completed an indirect minority investment in the share capital of Umanis. Umanis, French leader in data, digital and business solutions, remains owned and controlled by its longstanding shareholders Laurent Piepszownik and Olivier Pouligny, who have entered into a shareholders’ agreement with LFPI. To successfully complete this operation, the

International payments company Airwallex has completed its Series B fundraising. The company has now secured USUSD80 million in outside investment, taking their total fundraising to USD102 million. In this round, returning Series A investors Tencent and Sequoia China were joined by fellow China based Hillhouse, Sir Ka-Shing Li’s Horizons Ventures

SaleCycle, a high-growth behavioural marketing business whose clients include Tommy Hilfiger and Nike, has received a GBP11.5 million investment from BGF to further scale its operations. The business, headquartered at Rainton Bridge in the North East of England, will use the funding to open two new international offices, in Japan