Octopus has led a GBP2.95m investment round into Conversocial, a specialist in social customer service solutions whose clients include Tesco, Waitrose, Barclaycard, Groupon, Hertz and Net-A-Porter. With consumers increasingly using social media as a channel to communicate with businesses, Conversocial has developed a social media engagement system for customer
Venture capital performance for the 10-year horizon continued its upward climb for 11th consecutive quarter, as returns across the one, three, five and 20- year horizons fell slightly as of 31 December 2012, according to the Cambridge Associates US Venture Capital Index, the performance benchmark of the National Venture Capital
Littlejohn & Co, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, has made an equity investment in Gulf Coast Shipyard Group, a manufacturer of ocean-going and inland marine vessels for commercial and military markets under the brand name TY Offshore, as well as superyachts under the brand name Trinity Yachts.
LDC, a mid-market private equity house, has completed a significant investment to support the management buy-out and continued growth of Node4, a regional data centre, managed IT and communications specialist. Node4 provides a wide range of data centre and managed IT services, including colocation, connectivity, managed hosting, communications and hosted
Three-time entrepreneur Ed Bussey has closed a GBP1m investment in Quill, the content creation platform he founded in 2011. The investment comes from Ariadne Capital’s fund and entrepreneur investors, including Shakil Khan (Spotify, Summly, buy.at), Rupert Ashe (Graze, Videojug), Karen Hanton (toptable.com), Andrew Burge (King Content, iSUBSCRiBE), Nick Beare
Secondary buyouts (SBOs) helped to prop-up a deflated private equity market during 2012 as volumes and values hit an eight-year high, according to a report on global M&A trends. Since 2007, SBOs have on average represented 20 per cent of all private equity deals by volume and 30 per cent
Fenwick & West has released the results of its First Quarter 2013 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey, which analysed the valuations and terms of venture financings for 118 technology and life science companies headquartered in the Silicon Valley that raised capital in the first quarter of 2013. "During the first
Hyperoptic, a UK provider of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband technology, has received an equity investment commitment of GBP50m led by Quantum Strategic Partners. Quantum is a private investment vehicle focused upon long duration investments and managed by Soros Fund Management exclusively for the benefit of George Soros and Soros family
Capital Dynamics, a private asset manager, has invested in a 21-megawatt (MW) onshore wind farm project in Northern Ireland. Capital Dynamics holds a 100 per cent ownership stake in the project called the Dunmore wind farm. Capital Dynamics has commenced construction of the project and has secured a
m2fx, the inventors and producers of a range of patented Miniflex fibre cables, has raised GBP2m in a funding round led by existing investor Linnaeus Capital Partner. The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s worldwide sales and further expand its customer base, particularly in the Fibre to the
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