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Echion Technologies completes GBP10m Series-A funding round

Echion Technologies (Echion), a developer of next generation materials for Lithium-Ion batteries, has raised GBP10 million in a Series A founding round led by led by CBMM – the world’s leading supplier of niobium products and BGF.

Blockstream raises USD210m

Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has raised USD210 million as part of a Series B financing on a valuation of USD3.2 billion. Investors include Baillie Gifford and iFinex. The new funding comes alongside the acquisition of Spondoolies’ intellectual property, and the core team joining Blockstream to build Blockstream’s ASIC arm. Spondoolies

Trooli secures GBP67.5m in expansion capital with potential for more

Strong demand for full fibre broadband and high levels of customer satisfaction have seen rapidly-growing independent Internet Service Provider (ISP) Trooli secure a GBP67.5 million senior debt facility with the support of the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund (CEBF) team – with attractive terms from a consortium of commercial lenders, with

PDQ secures growth investment from TA Associates

PDQ.com (PDQ), a provider of IT asset management software for small and medium-sized businesses, has secured a growth investment from private equity firm TA Associates (TA).  TA, together with PDQ’s founders and executive management team, plan to accelerate PDQ’s growth as the company aims to expand its portfolio of easy-to-use

Arlington Capital Partners acquires MCR

Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital), a Washington DC-area private equity firm, is to acquire MCR (MCR), a provider of cost analysis and engineering and software development expertise to customers in defence, intelligence and critical civilian governmental agencies in the US as well as customers internationally.  MCR’s senior management team has

Memery Crystal advises CBD specialist Vitality on acquisition by Yooma

Memery Crystal has advised Vitality CBD on its GBP10.2m acquisition by CSE/AQSE-listed Yooma Wellness via the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Yooma Europe Limited.  Vitality is a market-leader in CBD products in the UK, and its presence at mainstream retail outlets such as Boots, Lloyds Pharmacy, Tesco and ASDA means that

LeapFrog acquires 16.94 per cent stake in Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited

LeapFrog Investments, a Profit with Purpose investment firm, has acquired a 16.94 per cent stake in Ghana’s largest privately-owned bank, Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited from Amethis, an investment fund manager dedicated to the African continent, and Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies (ERES), a mid-cap growth and buy-out franchise affiliated with

I Squared Capital invests in AG&P City Gas

I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III and ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure Fund, has invested approximately USD200 million as a first tranche of a USD300 million equity raise in AG&P City Gas.  AG&P City Gas is a Singapore-based company that is developing twelve city gas distribution networks,

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