Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist Calculus Capital has made a second-round investment of GBP2 million in Origin Broadband (Origin) to support growth. Origin is an award-winning provider of internet and phone services. Since Calculus Capital’s first investment in the business in December 2016, Origin has

DeepCrawl, a web crawler and search marketing analytics and insights company, has secured GBP1.75 million in a Series A funding round led by growth investor Beringea. Beringea is investing GBP1.5 million, with the remaining funding provided by existing individual high net worth investors.   DeepCrawl’s web crawler provides brands with

Darkstore, a third-party logistics (3PL) company based in San Francisco, has secured USD1.4 million in seed funding from PivotNorth Capital, a venture capital firm known for investing in promising software enterprises.  Darkstore Founder and CEO Lee Hnetinka, who already raised USD150,000 in May of last year and another USD120,000 in

Post Oak Energy Capital (Post Oak), through investment partnerships it manages, has led a USD100 million equity commitment to Nadel and Gussman NV. Affiliates of Nadel and Gussman, LLC and the management team will co-invest alongside Post Oak. NGNV is a Tulsa-based exploration and production company with an initial focus

British men’s shaving supplier Cornerstone has completed a new GBP3.5m round of investment led by private equity firm Calculus Capital, with e-commerce veteran William Reeve (previously on the boards of Graze, Lovefilm, Zoopla & Paddy Power) joining Cornerstone as adviser. This latest funding round takes total capital raised since launch

International law firm Ropes & Gray has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on its investment in Blackrock Programme Management (Blackrock PM), a UK-headquartered professional services firm that provides construction consulting and expert witness services for large, international construction and engineering projects. The deal, which has announced today, involved the GBP161.5

BGF Quoted has provided GBP7 million in funding to AIM-listed Netcall, a provider of technology solutions that help businesses better engage with their customers, to support Netcall’s acquisition of Beringea-backed MatsSoft Limited, a cloud-based software provider. The investment was transacted via BGF’s most recently opened regional office in Milton Keynes.

A Canadian producer of healthy, gluten free and organic pasta, Chickapea Pasta, has secured an investment from District Ventures Capital, the Venture Capital fund established by Canadian Dragon’s Den star Arlene Dickinson.  Chickapea Pasta has revolutionised the pasta industry by developing a healthy and tasty alternative to the dinner-time-classic. Made from just two ingredients,

IGF, the leading commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a total of GBP16.27 million to SMEs within the UK’s manufacturing sector over the past year. Since its management buy in/buy out in 2016, IGF has financed a total of 12 manufacturing businesses nationwide across a variety of trades including

Suir Valley Ventures, the entrepreneur-led venture capital fund, which was launched in partnership with Shard Capital Partners in February 2017, has invested EUR750,000 into Wia, an Internet of Things (IoT) cloud platform. In addition to Suir’s investment, Enterprise Ireland will be investing further funds into Wia, which is looking to