Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested GBP13 million in digital media company Hybrid. LDC’s investment will support Hybrid’s existing management team to grow and develop the business organically and explore targeted acquisitions.
Wheelhouse Advisors, a provider of prudential management, regulatory reporting and accounting, tax and HR support to the financial services sector, has partnered with ThinCats, a funding specialist for the mid-market.
Private equity investment firm Growthdeck has closed a GBP4.3 million fundraise for the new bar group Maven Leisure, completing the investment firm’s largest single raise. Maven Leisure is looking to open at least seven premium bars in central London supported by this funding. The fundraise has been structured as GBP2.3
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has made a significant minority investment in global financial services provider Apex Group Ltd (Apex). Apex is majority-owned by Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrials, and software industries. The investment
Panoramic Growth Equity (Panoramic), an equity investor in fast growing, entrepreneurial UK companies, has invested GBP2.5 million of growth capital into alcohol-free brewing company Big Drop Brewing. Big Drop was launched in 2016 by entrepreneurs Rob Fink and James Kindred, two friends who wanted to create alcohol-free craft beer that
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active investors in growth businesses, has invested GBP2 million in London-based Guru Systems (Guru). Guru is a trusted supplier of B2B IoT hardware, software, and analytics solutions to energy companies, house builders, developers and housing associations looking to reduce their carbon
CAPZA Growth Tech is to acquire a minority stake in Advens, a cybersecurity and SOC-as-a-Service specialist in France. Founder Alexandre Fayeulle and the current management team remain majority shareholders. As a result of the transaction, which values Advens at more than EUR100 million, the shareholding will be extended to one
bd-capital, a pan-European, operationally-led private equity firm, has made an investment in SportPursuit, an online private sales club in the UK and Germany focused on active lifestyle and sports products. This latest investment into SportPursuit follows the firm’s recent investments into Symprove, the gut health products business, and Ascenti, the
The BUILD Fund (BUILD), an impact fund created in partnership between Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), has made its inaugural investment, providing a USD500,000 working capital facility for Mwezi, a Kenyan distributor of solar products. Mwezi is a last-mile solar energy solutions distributor
Akur8, an insurtech automating insurance pricing with its proprietary Transparent AI, has closed a Series B funding round of USD30 million, bringing its total funding to USD42 million. The investment round closed less than two years after the P&C and health insurance pricing SaaS solution provider first commercialised its platform,
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