Homelyfe, a new type of insurance company using technology to make buying and managing insurance easier for consumers, has raised GBP2.4 million in a super seed round led by Talis Capital and Peterson Ventures. The investment follows Homelyfe’s launch earlier in October, offering the first policy – Home Buyer’s Insurance, in response to

Middle market private equity firm Stellex Capital Management has partnered with Bruce Swift, a senior executive in the automotive industry, to create a niche manufacturing platform. With over 30 years of senior management experience within the automotive industry, Swift was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Machine, Inc., a

Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, has closed an investment in Service Management Group (SMG), a global customer experience management technology platform based in Kansas City. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded by Andy Fromm and Bill Fromm in 1991, SMG provides customer

iAdvize, a specialist in conversational marketing, has secured EUR32 million of series C funding with participation from Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance via Large Venture, a fund dedicated to innovating and hyper-growth companies, and Quadrille Capital. Founded in 2010 by Julien Hervouët, iAdvize is now the European leader in conversational marketing. iAdvize

Cloud computing specialist Bullhorn has partnered with Insight Venture Partners to provide the capital for the company’s next phase of growth. As part of the transaction, Insight will be purchasing all shares owned by Vista Equity Partners. Insight is investing in Bullhorn because of the substantial market opportunity for staffing

Archean Capital Partners (Archean), a private market investment platform established by Veritable, and Moelis Asset Management, has made a USD100 million anchor capital commitment from Archean Capital Partners I, to a fund advised by Petrichor Healthcare Capital Management LP (Petrichor). In addition to initial capital, Archean is providing operational support

Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm targeting high-growth European SMEs in the circular economy, has made its maiden investment in Winnow Solutions (Winnow). Headquartered in London, with offices in Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore, Winnow has developed a solution for designing out food waste in commercial catering facilities. The business

As part of a dedicated build-and-build strategy, funds managed by Alpina Partners (Alpina) have invested in Syncos. Founded in 2014 as a spin-off from innotec Systemtechnik, Syncos offers its “Mittelstand” customers in the manufacturing sector holistic MES solutions (Manufacturing Execution Systems). The software covers production and machine data acquisition (“PDA”

Maven Capital Partners (Maven) is making a GBP3million investment in Altra Consultants Limited (Altra) to fund the growth of its Lloyds of London registered insurance brokering subsidiary, Parker Norfolk & Partners Ltd (PNP). Following its acquisition of PNP, Altra obtained all requisite FCA approvals to enable it to use PNP’s