eSalesHub, a Yorkshire tech firm analysing big data using AI to optimise clients marketing spend, has secured a GBP1.65 million funding round from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven). The NPIF – Maven Equity Fund invested
‘Smart antenna’ designer Sofant Technologies has completed a follow-on fundraise of GBP740,000 in an oversubscribed funding round led by venture capital investor EMV Capital. The fundraise builds on last year’s GBP2.3 million pre-series A round for the Edinburgh-based 5G and satellite communications antenna developer.
In this week’s podcast, Anu Balasubramanian, partner at international law firm Paul Hastings, shares her views on whether US/European cross border M&A deal making will continue its upward trajectory, her outlook on the US economic recovery and what that will mean for European PE.
Freya Capital a venture capital fund that aims to provide investment support to early-stage companies has been added to the latest edition of the Polish Development Fund (PFR) Starter programme. The total capitalisation of Freya Capital is PLN64 million. Freya Capital intends to invest in seed/early-stage companies operating in Europe,
The UK wireless telecommunications services business WHP Telecoms (WHP), backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has completed the acquisition of Intelligent Communications Solutions Limited (ICS Group), a telecoms rigging installations and design company, marking the group’s third acquisition in the space of a month.
Boston-based NorthBridge Partners (NorthBridge) and New York-based Park Madison Partners have announced the final close of NB Partners Fund III, LP (Fund III), which was oversusbcribed at its USD500 million hard cap. Investors in the fund included a mix of public and private pensions, foundations, asset managers, family offices, and
Main Sequence, Australia’s deep tech investment fund founded by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has raised AUD250m for its second fund. The oversubscribed raise was supported by returning investors including Horizons Ventures, Hostplus, Lockheed Martin and Temasek, as well as family offices and private investors from Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a global private equity firm, has invested in Prime Global Medical Communications Ltd (Prime Global), in partnership with the company founder and existing management team. Founded in 1997, Prime Global is a global medical communications and market access group that provides the world’s leading biotech,
UX-Republic joins Smile, a specialist in open source technologies known through its brands Neopixl, the mobile applications specialist, and SensioLabs, creator of the Symfony framework. UX-Republic will continue to operate under its own brand and will benefit from Smile’s capabilities to strengthen its customer offering – particularly on the technological
AlpInvest Partners has raised USD3.5 billion for AlpInvest Co-Investment Fund VIII (ACF VIII). The Fund exceeds its USD3 billion target. Rob de Jong, Managing Director & Co-Head of Co-Investments at AlpInvest, says: “This latest fundraise underlines AlpInvest’s strong performance, and the appetite for our differentiated co-sponsored approach acting as a
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