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Foresight raises USD5.5m from Israeli institutional investor through private placement

Foresight Autonomous Holdings, a specialist in automotive vision systems, has raised USD5.5 million through a private placement agreement with Harel Insurance, an Israeli institutional investor. Following the closing of the private placement, Harel Insurance will hold an aggregate of approximately 8.15 per cent of Foresight’s issued share capital.   Foresight,

DevOpsGroup secures GBP3m investment from BGF

BGF has invested GBP3 million of growth capital into Cardiff-headquartered DevOpsGroup, a UK professional services company specialising in DevOps engineering consultancy and training. This deal represents BGF’s first investment in Wales since it announced the launch of its Cardiff office earlier this year.     Founded in 2013 by chief executive

API partners with Sterling Partners Education Opportunity Fund

Twin Brook Capital Partners has served as sole lead arranger and administrative agent of USD17.5 million of financing to support Sterling Partners’ leveraged buyout of Academic Programs International (API). API will now look to expand its safe, high-quality education abroad programs and services to as many US students as possible.

KKR to acquire stake in SFR Tower Co

KKR is to acquire a 49.99 per cent stake in new tower company, SFR TowerCo. The deal is subject to regulatory approvals in France and is expected to close in Q4 2018. SFR TowerCo will comprise of 10,198 sites across France currently operated by SFR. KKR’s financial and operational support

Matr raises GBP4.75 million for AI teaching platform

Matr, an online teaching platform, has closed a GBP4.75 million Series A investment round led by the UCL Technology Fund and Downing Ventures, with follow on investment from Ananda and innovation charity Nesta, and Sherry Coutu joining as an angel investor. The company has now raised GBP8.25 million in funding.

SharesPost raises USD15m in Series C funding

SharesPost, a liquidity provider to the private technology growth asset class, has closed a USD15 million Series C round led by LUN Partners and Kenetic Capital. The funding will be used to build out SharesPost’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) for private company shares and security tokens and to further expand

Silexica raises USD18m in Series B funding

Silexica, developer of the SLX programming tools, has completed a USD18 million Series B round of financing, led by The EQT Ventures Fund (EQT Ventures), plus existing investors Merus Capital, Paua Ventures, Seed Fonds Aachen and DSA Invest.  The complexity of software design is evolving rapidly, with embedded supercomputers required

SmartAsset raises USD28m in Series C funding

SmartAsset has raised USD28 million in Series C funding. The new investment, which comes from Focus Financial Partners (backed by Stone Point Capital and KKR), Javelin Venture Partners, TTV Capital, IA Capital and Citi Ventures, among others, increases the company’s total funding to more than USD51 million. SmartAsset plans to

TPG Capital partners with Anastasia Beverly Hills

TPG Capital (TPG), the private equity platform of global alternative asset firm TPG, is to make a strategic minority investment in beauty company Anastasia Beverly Hills. TPG is partnering with Anastasia Beverly Hills to help enhance its operations and growth, with a focus on e-commerce and international expansion. Terms of

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