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Eye surgery

SFC Capital backs UCL spinout biotech startup Novai

London-based growth investor SFC Capital has led a GBP 500,000 seed round for biotechnology startup Novai, a product of University College London.  Founded by Professor Francesca Cordeiro from UCL and Imperial College London and headquartered in London, Novai was created through Wellcome Trust funding. The fresh capital will be used

Blackstone Strategic Partners closes third infrastructure secondaries fund at USD3.75bn

Strategic Partners, Blackstone’s secondary and fund solutions business, has held the final close on USD3.75 billion for Strategic Partners Infrastructure III and its related committed program vehicles (SP Infrastructure III). Blackstone says SP Infrastructure III is the world’s largest pool of capital dedicated to infrastructure secondaries. Verdun Perry, Senior Managing Director

Medical research

British Patient Capital backs SV Health Investors Impact Medicine Fund

British Patient Capital has invested USD65 million in SV Health Investors’s USD265 million fund, SV7 Impact Medicine Fund (IMF), which is dedicated to investing in biotech companies.  The IMF is SV’s first biotech fund. It will aim to turn scientific breakthroughs into biotech companies producing high impact precision medicine drugs

Insurance

CommerzVentures invests USD6 million in Concirrus

CommerzVentures has made a USD6 million investment into Concirrus, a speciality analytics insurtech company. This latest investment by CommerzVentures follows a recent announcement which saw London-based VC firm AlbionVC lead on a USD 20 million series B funding round, which included participation from current investors IQ Capital and EOS Venture

Customer intelligence

Zeotap receives USD42 million in series C round

NeueCapital, Math Capital, TTCER Partners, Kathaka, the Rupert family office, and Coparion have invested USD42 million in a series C round in customer intelligence platform Zeotap. Half of the capital was secured this year; the remainder was raised last year from existing investors. Eric Roza, former leader of Datalogix and

Online investing platform Titanbay launches to widen access to private equity

Titanbay, a new online platform, has launched enabling small and medium-sized institutional and professional private investors to easily access and strategically invest in a curated selection of top-tier private equity funds.Based in London, Titanbay has been launched by a team of industry insiders with extensive experience from a range of

cyber security

IQ Capital leads GBP5.5m CyberSmart funding round

IQ Capital has led a GBP 5.5 million series A funding round in CyberSmart, which helps small to medium-sized businesses combat cyber-attacks. The fresh capital will be used to fund CyberSmart’s growth, which has seen an increase in demand with a revenue increase of 300 per cent over the past

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