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Angel CoFund leads GBP940,000 funding into Albert Medical Devices

Albert Medical Devices (AMD) has secured GBP940,000 in funding supported by the Angel CoFund, the GBP100m government and British business bank-backed fund, alongside existing investors North West Fund for Biomedical (managed by SPARK Impact) and the London Business Angels. This is the third round of funding for the Liverpool-based med-tech company,

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Mercia Fund Management makes gaming investments in nDreams and No Yetis Allowed

Virtual reality (VR) games developer and publisher nDreams and Mobile app creator No Yetis Allowed have both secured funding from Mercia Fund Management (MFM), a provider of investment, accommodation and business support services across the UK. These businesses are just two of Mercia Fund Management’s growing portfolio of gaming companies

Waterton Global raises over USD1.0bn for precious metals fund

Waterton Global Resource Management has held the final closing of its flagship private equity fund, Waterton Precious Metals Fund II (Fund II), with total capital commitments of USD1.016bn. With Fund II, Waterton Global aims to continue investing in the metals and mining space.    Fund II will generally target production

West Partners closes investment in NoteVault

West Partners has closed an investment in NoteVault, a San Diego-based provider of voice-to-text-based mobile reporting solutions for the engineering and construction industry.  Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.   NoteVault offers construction companies a cloud-based subscription solution that enables users to post real-time notes throughout the day

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Cinven rolls its Numericable stake into Altice as part of acquisition of SFr

Cinven has decided to roll its entire residual holding in Numericable into Altice following Altice/Numericable’s agreement to acquire SFr from Vivendi.  Cinven and Altice created Numericable via a series of acquisitions through a classic “buy and build” strategy, latterly in partnership with Carlyle.   Cinven (70 per cent) and Altice

Encore Consumer Capital sells tarte to KOSÉ Corporation

Private equity firm Encore Consumer Capital has completed the sale of its portfolio company, tarte Inc, to KOSÉ Corporation, a Tokyo-based global cosmetics business with a primary focus on Asia. tarte is a natural cosmetics company based in New York.   Kevin Murphy, managing director of Encore Consumer Capital, says:

Walgreens and Water Street to merge Take Care Employer Solutions with CHS

Water Street is to acquire a majority interest in Take Care Employer Solutions, a subsidiary of Walgreen Co that manages more than 360 US worksite health centres. Water Street also has signed an agreement to simultaneously invest in CHS Health Services, a premier provider of more than 130 worksite health

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Matheson to purchase Investec’s Irish Stock Exchange listing business

Matheson has agreed to purchase Investec’s Irish investment funds and debt securities listing business. The acquisition is expected to complete shortly, following approval from the Irish Stock Exchange.   Investec’s listing unit assists applicants seeking to list investment fund shares or structured debt securities on the Irish Stock Exchange. The

Spire Capital acquires Iron Data’s TSM division

Lower middle market private equity firm Spire Capital has acquired Accuship.com, Iron Data Solution's transportation spend management division (Iron Data TSM).  Iron Data TSM provides software-enabled transportation spend management solutions allowing global enterprises to optimise their transportation spend.   The company's network of more than 8,000 connections with trading partners

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