Puppet has secured USD42 million in funding led by Cisco Investments along with EDBI, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, and VMware. The DevOps and automation company recently closed its second acquisition, adding multiple products to its portfolio in the process, and opened new global offices.    “Our rapid growth and international

Signal Media, an AI-powered reputation management and decision support platform, has raised USD16 million (GBP12 million) in a Series B round led and priced by GMG Ventures LP, the independent VC fund whose limited partner is The Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian news organisation. MMC Ventures was the largest

OakNorth has provided The Inn Collection Group, one of North East England’s biggest leisure operators with seven sites across Northumberland, County Durham and Teesside, with finance to fund further expansion. Established in 2006, The Inn Collection Group has become a market leader in developing contemporary inns providing accommodation, food and

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Peak has extended its funding by a further GBP1.5 million to meet market demand and accelerate its R&D roadmap, taking the total raised by the company to GBP5 million (USD7 million). Peak’s investment funding to date has enabled the company to expand its operations, taking headcount

TourRadar has secured USD50 million in a Series C funding round led by TCV with participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures, Endeit Capital, Hoxton Ventures and Speedinvest.   TCV is one of the largest providers of capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry and has backed

Breed Reply, an active operational investor in early-stage Internet of Things (IoT) businesses, has invested in two more early-stage Internet-of-Things (IoT) businesses – CageEye and ubirch.  The companies have now secured a total of EUR5.8 million in funding, including this investment round, since they were launched.   These new investments

An affiliate of Harbor Beach Capital, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market companies, has made an investment in AVFX, an event technology services business. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, AVFX provides event technology services, including audio, visual and lighting production and staging services for corporate events,

Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC) has increased its financing commitment to HCT Group, a UK-based community transport operator, by investing a further GBP2.05 million to accelerate its growth. It follows a first investment of GBP500,000 made in 2015. Founded in 1982, HCT Group has grown to become one of the

UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has completed a GBP1.6 million investment in BioAscent Discovery Limited (BioAscent), an integrated drug discovery services business. The funding will enable BioAscent to significantly expand its service offering, adding complementary chemistry and biology services and capitalise on the growing trend towards the

A Million Ads, a London-based start-up making digital audio advertising more relevant and context-aware, has raised GBP2.3 million in seed funding. 

 A Million Ads, which was founded by CEO Steve Dunlop, is a platform for producers and creatives to quickly and easily build millions of versions of an advertisement.