Prodigy Finance, a specialist in postgraduate student lending, has raised over USD100 million from Credit Suisse, Balderton Capital and others, including institutional investors, and also private investors such as Ed Wray, the entrepreneur and angel investor. The new investment will allow Prodigy Finance – which helps students fund their attendance

Darby Creek Capital has launched a private equity investment group based in Washington, DC focused on driving long-term value for companies and investors in the lower-middle market.  The company will be concentrating on companies that have an EBITDA between USD1 million and USD3 million, with the goal of delivering value

Equity corwdfunding platform Seedrs has announced a GBP10 million Series A fundraising round led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc (WPCT) and Augmentum Capital. WPCT is the GBP800 million investment trust launched earlier this year by Woodford Investment Management. WPCT is managed by Neil Woodford, widely considered to be one

FreemarketFX, the peer-to-peer currency exchange has closed its latest Angel investment round and has surpassed its fundraising target to raise a final investment sum of GBP670,000. This brings the total raised by freemarketFX, in the last eight months, to just over GBP1.25 million. freemarketFX was publicly launched in January 2015.   

Expensify has launched Expensify Ventures, a new, strategic investment fund for early-stage startups in the growing financial technology sector. “Everyday, we meet with entrepreneurs and companies that have awesome ideas when it comes to solving some of the corporate world’s biggest pain points, and making life easier for both employees

GSR Capital is launching a new USD5 billion mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fund, which will target cross-border buyouts and M&A of industrial and emerging technology companies with multi-billion dollar scaling opportunities in China. The GSR Global M&A fund is anchored with USD1billion committed from GSR GO Scale Capital Limited Partners