Firefly, a suite of school learning tools used in 40 countries, and first developed by co-founders Simon Hay and Joe Mathewson while preparing for their GCSEs, has secured GBP5 million funding from Downing Ventures, alongside BGF and Beringea. Firefly has the potential to cut school administration by 50 per cent
EQT Infrastructure has acquired Osmose Utilities Services (Osmose) from Kohlberg Investors VII, a fund managed by Kohlberg & Company. Osmose will maintain its corporate headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, under the continued leadership of CEO Ron Childress and the Osmose management team. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Prudential Capital Group provided USD12.53 billion of senior debt and junior capital to over 200 middle-market companies and projects globally in 2018. Prudential Capital Group is the private capital arm of PGIM, the USD1 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. “This year marked the continuation of
Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a UK specialist investor in consumer brands, on its GBP6 million investment into Mindful Chef. Since its inception in 2015, Mindful Chef, which creates and delivers healthy food boxes replete with recipes, has grown rapidly with a 178
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP1.25 million growth capital investment into Fertility Focus Limited (FFL), a fertility monitoring technology company that has developed OvuSense, a registered medical device that enables women to predict ovulation. The investment was led by Foresight on behalf of Foresight VCT plc and Foresight 4
Admo.tv, a TV and radio analytics platform, has raised a Series B funding round of EUR6 million led by Runa Capital, Entrepreneur Venture and Cap Décisif. The new round is in addition to a EUR1.5 million round completed in 2016 with Entrepreneur Venture and Kerala Ventures, bringing total investment in
Horizon Capital, a US private-equity firm investing in high growth and export-driven companies in Ukraine and the near region, has closed its third fund, Emerging Europe Growth Fund III (EEGF III) at its USD200 million hard cap, surpassing the fund’s USD150 million target. In what marks the largest private equity
Colony Capital is teaming with the existing management team to acquire the Abraaj Group’s private equity platform in Latin America. The transaction is expected to close during the first quarter, subject to certain approvals. The Company will rebrand as Colony Latam Partners. The company currently manages over USD500 million
O’Melveny has represented AutoGrid, a specialist in flexibility management software for the energy industry, in an equity investment from Shell Ventures. The deal closed on 18 January.

 This funding is an extension of a Series D investment round announced in September from a consortium of energy companies that includes CLP
Browne Jacobson’s corporate finance team has advised Growth Intelligence on its successful GBP1.7 million investment round led by private capital investment group 24Haymarket and supported by existing venture capital investment fund MMC Ventures. As part of the investment Stuart Dawson will join the Board as Chairman, along with Andy Robertson
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