Foresight Group has made a GBP249,000 investment into usheru Limited (usheru), the firm behind a pioneering technology platform operating in the GBP50 billion film distribution market. The investment from Foresight, using finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, has been made alongside GBP224,000 from Enterprise Ireland, taking the total package
Bertram Nursery Group, one of the UK’s largest children’s nursery groups, has been acquired by its management team in a transaction funded by Apiary Capital and Santander. Bertram was founded in 2001 by Graeme Scott and Tom Lyons with the opening of the Strawberry Hill nursery in Edinburgh. It has
Keensight Capital and ISAI Expansion, a French Tech entrepreneurs’ fund, have acquired a majority stake in IVIDATA, a consulting group specialised in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence services, alongside Etienne Aboulker, IVIDATA’s co-founder and CEO. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Levallois-Perret, IVIDATA is a leading consulting group covering the
Funds affiliated with Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (BIP), have made a growth-oriented investment in Carrix, one of the largest marine terminal operators in the US and in the Americas. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Carrix is the parent company of SSA Marine and its related affiliates, with
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the sale of Resolute Industrial Holdings (Resolute), an independent provider of York-brand chilling products, compressor remanufacturing, refrigerant storage, and other heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) equipment services. The sale marks the first exit from the firm’s
SFW Capital Partners (SFW), a specialised private equity firm that invests in leading Information, Software, Industrial and Healthcare Technology companies, has made a strategic investment in Greenshades Software (Greenshades), in partnership with Greenshades’ co-founders, David Rosas and Matt Kane. SFW’s principals have supported a number of highly regarded companies in
UK venture capital firm Vala Capital expects to invest all the capital raised by the Vala EIS Portfolio before the end of this current tax year on 5 April. This will grant investors income tax relief of 30 per cent of the investment value for the current tax year or
StrongBlock, a Magnetic Capital incubated startup founded by four former technology executives from EOSIO-creator Block.one, has secured USD4 million in a seed funding round led byPangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus). The raise will support the company’s plans to be the blockchain standard
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc (LSE ticker: SEIT), managed by Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL), has acquired a 71 per cent interest in a high-quality Combined Heat and Power (CHP) portfolio of eight operating CHP projects on the east coast of the USA for a total cash consideration of USD5.0
Luminous Ventures’ existing portfolio company, Hadean – creator of the cloud-based operating system (HadeanOS) and distributed simulation engine (Aether Engine) – has secured a further GBP7 million investment in a third round of funding. Luminous Ventures – a venture fund which focuses on supporting early stage deep-tech companies – was
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