IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP2.75million asset based lending facility to Dundee-headquartered engineering firm, Pryme Group. Pryme Group sought a flexible financier to support its growing order book and expansion plans, particularly in the aerospace and defence industries. IGF’s facility also provides Pryme Group with a

Private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) has continued its recent string of new investments backing an innovative provider of specialist IT Services with a GBP4m equity investment, to support continued growth and expansion. GBP16 million turnover London based Sparta Global operates the Sparta Training Academy, a growing IT trainer

Volo Commerce, a provider of multichannel e-commerce technology, has raised GBP6.2 million in new investment led by NVM Private Equity with participation from funds managed by Downing LLP.  Volo will primarily use this new funding to expand its business into North America and across other international sales channels.   Volo

Costello has secured USD1 million in funding led by Dundee Venture Capital with participation from Elevate Ventures, M25 Group, and Service Provider Capital. Costello’s sales deal management platform helps sales reps consistently follow sales methodology, gives managers visibility into the quality of every deal and shows sales leaders what’s working

Goldman Sachs has joined Sagamore Development Company’s Port Covington redevelopment effort as an equity investor, committing USD233 million to the project, the largest single private equity investment made by the firm’s Urban Investment Group to date. Port Covington is a 235-acre master-planned, mixed-use redevelopment project, with a prime location on

Yukon Partners, a provider of mezzanine capital for middle market private equity transactions, has made an investment in Practice Insight. Practice Insight, headquartered in Houston, Texas, provides revenue cycle management and electronic data interchange solutions that help healthcare providers manage the reimbursement cycle. The Company’s suite of products enables healthcare

Omnes Capital has acquired a minority stake in the ANI group through a EUR11.7 million investment from its Omnes Croissance 4 mid cap fund. The transaction enables the transmission of ANI from its founder, Claude Patin, to his step-daughter Nathalie Bianchini and her husband, Patrick Bianchini, ANI’s current chief executive.

Direct lender Beechbrook Capital has completed two new deals, its 49th and 50th since it began investing in 2010. The firm’s Private Debt III fund has provided a unitranche loan to help finance the acquisition of Kuldeteknisk, a Tromsø-based leading supplier of refrigeration and heating products for use in the

OpenHealth Company, a specialist in real-time healthcare data collection and analysis, has closed a EUR5 million financing round led by LBO France/Innovation Capital. The company now plans to launch The Hub, the largest healthcare data analysis platform available in France.   OpenHealth’s Hub aggregates data from multiple sources to offer

Paragon Genomics has raised USD8 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Cowin Venture Capital and Fosun Industrial Co., Limited. Additional investors were Cloudstone Venture, HEDA Ventures, and Wisemont Capital. “With this funding, we will develop additional NGS assay products, particularly in the oncology and precision medicine