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Fintech company Zervant raises EUR6 million funding

Finnish fintech company Zervant, which provides online invoicing software for small business and entrepreneurs across Europe, has secured EUR6 million in a funding round led by Tesi, along with Northzone, NFT Ventures and Conor Venture Partners.  Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Zervant offers simple, intuitive invoicing software. It’s already used by

NorthEdge makes Platinum investment

NorthEdge Capital has invested in stairlift designer and manufacturer Platinum Stairlifts, backing the existing management team led by Founder, Tim Frear. Based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, Platinum Stairlifts manufactures a full suite of stairlift products. The company employs over 100 staff and distributes to more than 40 countries worldwide, including

Foresight makes growth capital investment into PowerLinks

Foresight Group (Foresight) has invested several million pounds of growth capital from Foresight VCT (FVCT) into PowerLinks Media Limited (PowerLinks). The investment completes a larger Series A round of funding, with additional participation from leading angel investors and PowerLinks management.   PowerLinks is a software platform, which automates the buying

Clearlake Capital Group invests in Diligent Corporation

Diligent Corporation has secured a strategic minority investment from Clearlake Capital Group. Insight Venture Partners acquired Diligent in February 2016. As a leader in the EGM software industry, Diligent is committed to providing the broadest platform for facilitating secure collaboration, communication and meeting management for boards, committees and leadership teams.

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NextWave invests in AI-focused Apical Technology

NextWave Ventures, a venture-capital firm specialising in the commercialisation of early-stage technologies, today formed Apical Technology, a portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Advanced by Ron St Onge and Jim St Onge, Apical is the result of nearly 20 years of research in optimising AI-based solutions to non-linear systems. With

Spark EV secures funding from New Anglia Capital

Tech company Spark EV is driving business development of its artificial intelligence-based journey prediction system for electric vehicles (EV) with a GBP50,000 investment from New Anglia Capital as part of its seed investment round. The company, which recently expanded into new premises at Lanwades Business Park near Newmarket in Suffolk,

Property Brands secures investment from Insight Venture Partners

Property Brands, a provider of property management technology solutions, has secured an investment from Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm. Providence Strategic Growth, Property Brands’ previous lead investor, will retain a minority investment partnership going forward.   Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Property Brands provides software

New Heritage Capital invests in Flying Colours Corp

Boston-based private equity firm, New Heritage Capital, (Heritage), has become a minority stakeholder in the Canada-headquartered Flying Colours Corp (Flying Colours), a refurbishment, completion and MRO business. The transaction, structured using Heritage’s Private IPO® solution, was ratified and signed by Flying Colours President, John Gillespie, and Heritage Partner, Judson Samuels,

Quilam invests in SME lender Catfoss Finance

Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its third deal since it launched late last year, a multi-million pound investment into Catfoss Finance, a specialist lender providing Asset Finance into the UK SME market. For more than 17 years

How to achieve superior returns with mid-market investments

For those operating in the European mid-market space, there is no shortage of deals to be done. And when it comes to generating superior returns, the more complex the deal (and ergo more risk) the better chance PE managers will have to create positive multiple arbitrage relative to the large-cap

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