Phoenix Wrappers has secured an equity investment from Vopne Capital, a private investment firm based in San Francisco.  Concurrent with Vopne's investment, the company merged its manufacturing, sales and support operations, formerly owned separately, into one company.   Phoenix Wrappers is a designer and manufacturer of stretch wrapping equipment. Formerly Phoenix-Innotech

SecureKey Technologies, a provider of identity and authentication solutions, has raised CAD27 million in growth capital to fund the commercial rollout of a privacy-enhancing digital identity network. Teaming up with SecureKey on the initiative and participating in the funding round are BMO Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, CIBC, Desjardins,

ContentSquare, an experience optimisation platform for online and mobile businesses, has secured USD20 million in Series B funding from Highland Europe. The funding will support ContentSquare’s global expansion and attract new talent.   ContentSquare captures online and mobile behaviours to measure user experience, increase engagement and improve conversion rates. It

The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF), managed by Maven Capital Partners, has supported Bury-based UK Creative Media (UKCM) with a GBP150,000 funding package. This will enable the business to accelerate the roll-out of its personalised card and gift franchises.   UKCM has developed ‘Creation Express’, a range of units through

Gymbox has secured a GBP39 million funding package to continue its expansion plans. BGF (Business Growth Fund), an existing Gymbox shareholder, has provided an additional GBP13 million of equity finance while HSBC, which has banked the company for over 13 years, is providing a debt package totalling GBP26 million.  

Benhamou Global Ventures’ (BGV) BGV III fund has made its second investment in Webscale Networks, in syndication with Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and Grotech Ventures. Extending the strategy of fund BGV II, BGV III will focus on enterprise IT sectors including cyber security, cloud-based services and applications, web scale infrastructure,

Direct Online Services, a UK-based online retailer of solid wooden kitchen worktops, has secured a GBP3 million investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to support its growth in the UK and overseas. The company plans to expand its European coverage across Germany and into France, increase its range of products

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has invested in Russian pharmaceutical company Geropharm, a producer of drugs which restore brain function and treat diabetes. The proceeds from the deal will help Geropharm to increase its production of medicines. This will be accelerated through constructing a high-tech industrial and full-cycle plant

The UK’s first discovery subscription platform, Wonderush.com, has reached its crowdfunding target amount of GBP200,000 on Seedrs. The tech start-up will be using the money to invest and test new technology that will help scale the business globally.   London-based Wonderush.com launched the crowdfunding round on Seedrs on 24 August.