AXA has invested in Eranove, a West African utility company with operations in power generation, transmission and distribution, as well as water production and distribution, acquiring a 18.6 per cent stake from Bouygues. Eranove operates primarily in Ivory Coast and Senegal through concession companies including CIE, SODECI, SDE and an

Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and Albion Ventures (Albion), have sold their investment in Lab M Holdings, a developer, manufacturer and supplier of microbiological culture media and diagnostic systems, to Neogen Corporation. Lancashire-based Lab M is a leading provider of microbial testing and diagnostic products servicing the global food, water, industrial

NexusCrowd has launched the first investment platform in Canada that provides accredited investors with exclusive access to co-invest alongside institutional investors in deals that have reached at least 50 per cent of their funding target. It also provides private equity institutions with a "frictionless" way to access additional capital. With

RELEX Solutions, a provider of in-memory-based supply chain software, has accepted a EUR20 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners. The investment will support the technology company’s continued international expansion and a key push into the North American market later this year. RELEX’s founders, Mikko Kärkkäinen, Johanna

Octopus Investments has completed an investment in Healthcare and Services Technology Group (HST), owners of Care Monitoring 2000 (CM2000) and Ezitracker, specialists in the provision of remote workforce management software solutions. Founded in 1999, CM2000 has become a global supplier of patented, telephony based monitoring, scheduling and management information services

Dutch venture capital firm Forbion Capital Partners has invested in Laboratoris Sanifit (Sanifit), a Spanish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, as part of Sanifit’s EUR36.6 million (USD41 million) Series C financing round. Sanifit is focused on the development of SNF472, an experimental drug for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases linked to calcification

Save, a start-up founded in 2013 by Damien Morin to repair smartphones and touch tablets, has announced a EUR15 million round of capital raising from the investment funds Idinvest Partners and 360 Capital Partners and business angels including Xavier Niel. This injection of funds will enable Save not only to

Private equity fund Forward Dimension Capital (FDC) is to invest USD15 million over the next 18 months in Digital Underground Media (DU) to support the digital out-of-home (DOOH) media company in its global expansion. Based in Vancouver, Canada, DU manufactures and installs its own proprietary technology in underground and train