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Piva Capital adds to team

Piva Capital, a VC firm that’s backs ‘visionary’ founders and emerging technology companies transforming industry, has appointed Mark Gudiksen as the firm’s second Managing Partner and Roxanne Tully has joined as an Investor.  Founded in 2019, Piva Capital believes emerging companies need investors who are global, fast-moving, engaged, supportive, and

Oakley Capital invests in contextual advertising specialist Seedtag

Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Origin Fund (Origin Fund) is investing USD35 million to acquire a minority stake in Seedtag, a specialist in contextual advertising in EMEA and Latin America. Founded in Madrid in 2014, Seedtag helps brands and agencies to deliver digital advertising that is directly relevant to the content

MODIFI raises USD24m in equity to create global trade management hub for SMEs

Global fintech MODIFI has raised USD24 million in a Series B funding round, which brings its valuation to more than USD120 million.  The round was led by new investor Heliad Equity Partners with a co-investment from Neva SGR, the venture capital investment vehicle of Italy’s leading banking group Intesa San

BioInnovation Institute launches Venture Lab programme

BioInnovation Institute (BII), an international commercial foundation with a non-profit objective incubating and accelerating world-class life science research, has announced the first cohort of participants in the Venture Lab acceleration program for early-stage companies.  Comprising a pan-European spread of start-up initiatives and university research projects, the seven ventures are developing

Vala British Ventures EIS to plug funding gap for homegrown start-ups

Vala Capital, a venture capital firm, has launched a new tranche for its EIS portfolio – targeting fast-growth British start-ups with strategies to scale quickly and become the next generation of British unicorns. Innovative small companies are key to the UK’s post-pandemic recovery, yet there is a significant funding gap

Edtech platform raises further GBP3m as it targets international expansion

A platform that helps parents and students to find online tutors has raised a further GBP3 million investment amidst a boom in business following the pandemic.  Tutorful has secured funding from Mercia’s Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) funds and NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and

Ropes & Gray advises ICG on Visma transaction

Ropes & Gray has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) in connection with an investment by Aeternum Capital, Government Pension Fund Norway (Folketrygdfondet), Vind, GIC and certain existing institutional investors in Visma – a provider of business-critical software to private and public companies in Europe.  The transaction values Visma at EUR16 billion

Nordic Capital partners with Qred

Nordic Capital Evolution has signed an agreement to invest in the fintech company Qred. The investment will be made in partnership with Qred’s management and founders, with the goal of continuing to significantly expand the business across Europe together. Since its inception in 2015, Qred has been a provider of

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