Alta Partners, a specialist in healthcare venture capital, has closed a new USD130 million fund – Alta Partners NextGen Fund I. This is the ninth fund in Alta Partners’ history and it will focus on the development of novel biotherapeutics and technology-enabled healthcare services. With the new fund’s closing, Alta
Agorai, an integrated marketplace for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and data assets, has committed to invest GBP20 million in the UK AI market. The company says the investment will help accelerate the economic benefits that can be generated by leveraging the power of AI and its ability to transform society
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD21 million senior credit facility to support the acquisition of RedZone Robotics (RedZone), led by private equity sponsor, Milestone Partners. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, RedZone is a technology-enabled solutions business that uses proprietary robots
Inflexion has supported CloserStill Media’s acquisition of Learning 2018, learning conference in the US. CloserStill was founded in 2008 and partnered with Inflexion in 2015. The business operates content-led exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe, the US and the Far East and has been ranked in The Sunday Times HSBC International
A highways technology company which has amassed a huge library of data about the UK’s road network has secured a GBP2.7 million investment from BGF to further expand its ground-breaking ‘roadscape’ services. Gaist captures and analyses continuous, high-definition imagery – 900 times the detail of Google Maps – about road
Total assets under management for the alternative assets industry in Europe reached a record EUR1.48 trillion as of September 2017, according to a new report from Amundi and Preqin. Growth has been driven by strong inflows of capital: Europe-focused private capital funds – including private equity, private debt, real estate
Luge Capital, a new venture capital fund specifically focused on early-stage FinTech companies and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions applied to financial services, has completed a CAD75 million round of financing to begin operations. Initially, CAD50 million of the raised capital was announced in October 2017 by the Caisse de dépôt et
The Cyberfort Group, which is backed by Palatine Private Equity, has acquired cyber security consultancy Agenci for an undisclosed sum. The transaction adds a third business to the Cyberfort Group, with Agenci joining ultra-secure hosting and managed services provider The Bunker, and cyber security testing business Arcturus. Agenci is a consultancy
Rizing, a privately held backed by private equity firm One Equity Partners, has acquired Aasonn, an SAP SuccessFactors Professional Services Firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Aasonn joins /N SPRO, a leading SAP Human Capital Management (HCM), SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Retail services firm under the Rizing HCM business portfolio.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, have agreed a partnership to support the future growth of RIBA Enterprises Ltd, the commercial arm of the RIBA which trades as NBS. NBS is a provider of technology, content and data services to
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