Merz Pharma has made a strategic venture investment in Cytrellis Biosystems, a US based company developing a new class of non-surgical products to combat sagging skin associated with ageing. Merz has joined a growing set of industry investors to back Boston-based Cytrellis Biosystems. The investment emphasizes Merz’ strategy to allocate

Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested over GBP8 million in the management buyout of Vital Ingredient, a leading healthy food-to-go retailer, to support the roll-out of the group both within London and throughout the UK.  Santander will provide a further GBP4 million of funding to support the expansion. Founder,

Health and hygiene company RayVio Corp has closed new funding rounds of in USD26 million in total led by IPV Capital and Tsing Capital.  RayVio will use the new funding to scale production to meet global consumer demand for protection against germs in water and environments. RayVio’s powerful Ultraviolet (UV)

Windsor Circle, a provider of predictive lifecycle and retention marketing software and services for retailers, has raised USD4.1 million in an over-subscribed funding round, and secured a USD2.5 million line of credit from Square 1 Bank, a division of Pacific Western Bank.  This latest funding will help Windsor Circle continue

Bryan Garnier has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to tado°, the European market leader in intelligent home climate control, on a USD23 million equity financing from Inven Capital, the venture capital arm of the ČEZ Group.  This brings total funding of the Munich-based IoT company to $57 million, and

  France-based SME lending platform Lendix has raised USD13.5 million in a series B funding round led by CNP Assurances. Its existing shareholders inckuding Decaux Frères Investissements, Partech Ventures, Sycomore Factory, Weber Investissement et Banque Wormser Frères also took part in the round, together with institutional investors Matmut and Zencap

Fairstone Group has secured a major investment from Synova Capital, a Private Equity investor that focuses on UK growth companies. Synova has become the lead investor in Fairstone by providing an initial capital injection of GBP25 million as part of the deal with further cash available to Fairstone in the

Archangel Investors, the prominent business angel investment syndicate, has completed an initial GBP1.2 million round of fundraising for Optoscribe, a Livingston-based optical technology business. The fundraising was led by Archangels, who provided GBP825,000 of funding, supported by Par Equity, the Edinburgh venture capital firm, with GBP325,000 of investment, and Scottish

MPK Garages, an independent operator of UK forecourts, has received a GBP14m funding package to pursue its ambitious growth plans.  With the investment, the business plans to acquire additional forecourts and refresh parts of its existing estate to capitalise on the growing market for convenience shopping. BGF (Business Growth Fund)