A new social platform aiming to reduce the stress of parenting by helping school parents connect easily and securely with each other has received all of its GBP841,360 crowdfunded investment, having raised 153 per cent of its initial target. Thousands of parents in hundreds of UK schools have already signed

Private equity firm Thomas H Lee Partners (THL) is making a significant investment in System One, a provider of workforce solutions and integrated services. The investment proceeds will be used to purchase the interests of middle market private equity firm MidOcean Partners, System One’s current investment partner, which invested in

StarOfService, a Europeean marketplace for local services, has raised USD10 million in Series A investment. It follows two previous seed funding rounds worth USD2 million in total and will accelerate the French start-up’s expansion plans.   StarOfService, launched in 2013, sees more than two million requests going through its site

Catapult Ventures, manager of the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, has completed two seed investments in sensor technology developer Kanichi Research and anti-microbial materials developer Virustatic. The GM&C Life Sciences Fund makes initial investments of GBP50,000 to GBP3 million into life science companies based in Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington.  

Tikehau IM has arranged a term loan financing for ELIX Polymers, a specialty chemicals manufacturer owned by an affiliate of Sun European Partners. Headquartered in Tarragona, Spain, ELIX is a manufacturer of high quality pre-coloured Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) resins and derivatives as well as tailor-made specialities used for automotive, healthcare, consumer,

Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a significant investment in Radixx International, a provider of travel distribution and passenger service system software for airline reservations, distribution and merchandising. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Radixx offers a cloud-based SaaS Passenger Service System (PSS) designed to

Newcastle upon Tyne-based NVM Private Equity has led a fundraising round for London based Channel Mum, an online multi-channel video blog community network for parents. NVM has invested GBP2 million to support and work with Channel Mum to accelerate and grow the company over the next few years.   Building

Norsk Titanium has secured an investment from Silicon Valley-based Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, a specialist in materials engineering solutions used to produce chips and advanced displays. Terms of the investment have not been released.   “Applied Ventures’ equity investment positions Norsk Titanium and our disruptive

Kings Park Capital (KPC), an independent private equity firm dedicated to investing in the European leisure sector, has taken a significant equity stake in Just Go! Holidays (JGH) alongside the company’s CEO, Luis Arteaga. The Royal Bank of Scotland’s corporate transactions team provided a senior debt package in support of