Private equity firm Frontier Capital’s USD390 million Frontier Fund IV has made a USD30 million growth investment in Tango, a Dallas-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) consulting and managed services business. “Tango has served as the trusted advisor for more than 120 retail brands, and its Intelligent Store Lifecycle Management solution is used

Imperial Innovations Group has secured a new GBP50 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support investment in the UK biotech and life science sector. The new support from Europe’s long-term lending institution will be used by the leading technology commercialisation company to strengthen support for harness research

Baltic private equity fund manager BaltCap has signed an investment agreement with Latvian chocolate specialist Pure Chocolate to finance fast growth of the company. Pure Chocolate is a chocolate truffles and other chocolate products producer with a strong market position in Latvia and sales to 20 export markets globally. The

Praesidian Capital Europe has made an EUR8.5 million investment of first lien debt in Medical Laboratory Bremerhaven. The funds will be used to recapitalise the business while providing growth capital to allow Medical Laboratory Bremerhaven to accelerate acquisitions of smaller laboratories in its market area. Based in Bremerhaven, the Company

Xagenic, a molecular diagnostics company developing the lab-free Xagenic X1 platform for use at the point of care, has raised CAD15 million. Each of the Series B investors has participated in this financing, including Domain Associates, CTI Life Sciences, BDC Capital and the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation. “This investment round

Law firm Noerr has advised Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) on a further investment in Babbel. SEP led a USD 22m investment round in the Berlin-based company, which offers the well-known “Babbel” online language courses.  Babbel's existing investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners and VC Fonds Technologie Berlin also participated

Cathay Capital Private Equity has invested in the Cenexi group, a European industrial groups specialising in pharmaceutical development and the manufacture of high value-added sterile products. Former subsidiary of the Roche Group operating the largest production site for sterile ampoules in Europe, Cenexi became an independent company in 2008 and

Private equity firm Neff Capital Management has established a new company to focus on the additive manufacturing of production parts for aerospace and defense original equipment manufacturers around the world.  Additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing, is the process by which a component is fabricated through the successive layering

Brecon-based BVG Airflo Group, one of Wales’ largest and fastest growing businesses, has secured a GBP10m investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund). Established in 1991 by Chief Executive Iain Burgess, BVG has grown rapidly from a single person operation to a highly profitable non-high street multi-channel retailer generating turnover in

China Merchant Bank (CMB), CIIC, and Shanghai Shentong Metro are the first Chinese partners to have expressed an interest in investing in Idinvest Partners’ Chance investment platform, which is dedicated to direct Chinese in European SMEs. Idinvest has also entered discussions with several Chinese banks, insurers and investment funds. The