Funds managed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have invested in BOAL Group, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance aluminium greenhouse roof and side-wall systems for glass and poly greenhouses. Equistone will acquire a majority stake in BOAL Group from its current CEO Ronald Boers and the founder of the business,

iM Square, a European investment and development platform dedicated to asset management, has secured a new financing commitment from Eurazeo, one of its founding shareholders. Eurazeo is committed to support iM Square’s investments over the next few years and is expected to become its reference shareholder. Other founding shareholder Le

Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), a specialist private equity fund manager, have backed an investment into Ncam Technologies Limited, a provider of innovative and leading Augmented Reality solutions for the entertainment industries. YFM’s investment comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies VCT plc and

The Finance Durham Fund, established by Durham County Council and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has helped raise GBP850,000 for insurance technology start-up, Honcho Markets Ltd. The Finance Durham Fund provided GBP150,000 of the total investment with CrowdCube investors providing the remaining GBP700,000. Funds raised will be used to

ARQIS has advised Stuttgart-based BIMwelt Systems on its Series A financing round, led by BitStone Capital and Zech Group. BIMwelt Systems is a specialist in the field of 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) – a planning method in which all those involved in the planning process can be integrated into

Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a majority investment in Confluence, a global leader in investment data management automation for regulatory, investor communications and performance reporting. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 1991, Confluence is a financial services data management software platform that offers

Tikehau Capital has agreed to participate in the IPO of DWS Group (DWS) with a EUR250 million order that is valid throughout the price range of EUR30.00 to EUR36.00 per share that was announced on 11 March 2018. Tikehau has initiated discussions with DWS on potential areas of cooperation, including

The prestige lifestyle beauty brand Supergoop! has secured a significant minority equity investment from Encore Consumer Capital, a private equity firm that invests exclusively in consumer companies. Founded by Holly Thaggard, Supergoop! was created to educate and inspire the world to wear ‘SPF Every. Single. Day’ and delivers on that

TECHNEDs, a specialist in technology investment, has expanded its service portfolio with the addition of cyber security specialists, Guardian Technologies. The company also added Ed Crane as a non-executive director. “The opportunities that digital transformation provides means that all businesses need to redefine their requirements for digital security. This is

Future Finance, a private student lender, has closed a EUR40 million Series C round of venture capital financing. The internal round was led by KCK with participation from S-Cubed, Invus, Fenway Summers and other existing shareholders. Future Finance has now raised nearly EUR90 million in equity and GBP150 million in