Active Partners has invested GBP10 million in a Series A funding round for Facetheory, a direct-to-consumer clean skincare brand based in South Yorkshire. The investment will be used to fuel growth in key markets, recruit best-in-class talent, and invest in product research and development. The investment team at Active Partners
UK based FinTech group, SPG, the owner and operator of Shieldpay and Paycast, has raised USD34 million (GBP25 million pounds) in a Series A round that includes strategic funding from Mastercard and Marqeta. Other significant Investors in SPG include Elliott Management, CreditEase and Techstars. To date SPG has processed
Molten Ventures has led a USD10.8 million seed funding round in agtech startup Gardin. The investment follows a USD1.2 million pre-seed round in January 2021. Formerly Draper Esprit, Molten Ventures was first introduced to Gardin through its Fund of Funds seed programme. Also participating in the round is LDV Capital,
Funds affiliated with Lightyear Capital (Lightyear), a New York-based private equity firm focused on financial services, have led a recapitalisation of PracticeTek, a provider of vertical software and payments solutions to the retail healthcare market. Lightyear joins Greater Sum Ventures (GSV), an entrepreneurial family office, in the investment. Terms of
Lightrock and affiliates of DH Capital have co-led a USD100 million Series C funding round in software company Liqid, a specialist in composable software and solutions aimed at providing cloud-like speed, flexibility, and higher efficiency from data centre. Current investors Panorama Point Partners and Iron Gate Capital also participated.
JPIN Venture Catalysts Ltd (JPIN) has made a strategic investment in The Social Loan Company (TSLC), an AI-driven FinTech, providing bespoke financial products and services. JPIN is working alongside Rothschild & Co in a recently launched Series B funding round of USD200 million-plus for TSLC, which is seeing significant interest
JMI Equity (JMI), a growth equity firm focused on investing in software companies has led a USD85 million growth investment in ServiceTrade, a provider of software as a service (SaaS) applications for commercial service contractors. Existing investors Frontier Growth and Bull City Venture Partners also participated in the funding. With
Eurazeo, Speedinvest, and Frst, as well as the co-founders of social app Zenly and game-studio Voodoo, have invested USD10.8 million in a seed funding round in activist investment platform, Tulipshare, which aims to empower individuals to make a positive change within some of the biggest household name companies in the
Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services firm, HAS finalised a strategic investment of USD500 million in Greystone, a national commercial real estate finance company, acquiring a 40 per cent stake in Greystone’s Agency, FHA and Servicing businesses. Greystone, a multi-family lender, intends to use the capital to create
Cigna Ventures, the corporate venture capital partner and wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Cigna Corporation (Cigna), has participated in a USD750 million financing to support Bright Health Group, a technology-enabled fully aligned system of care, built for healthcare’s consumer retail market. The Company’s largest existing shareholder, New Enterprise Associates (NEA),
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