cheqd – a start-up providing technology that could drive widespread uptake of digital IDs – has secured a USD2.6 million (GBP1.9 million) investment to support the launch of its product later this year. The latest funding round was backed by Outlier Ventures, Evernym, TitanBlock, Torque, 3GR and a consortium of

Global Technical Group (GTS), a Romanian developer of software for the security industry, backed by Abris Capital Partners (Abris), has acquired Lummetry.AI, a Romanian artificial intelligence business.  The transaction will further strengthen GTS’s position as a market leader in software solutions for physical security automation.    GTS was founded in

Sunamp, a thermal storage technologies company, has secured a GBP6 million (USD8.3 million) convertible loan note investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank. Sunamp will use these funds to increase its sales in the UK, scale up production, and to accelerate international expansion into China, the Americas and continental Europe.

Mirakl, an enterprise marketplace SaaS platform, has raised USD555 million in a Series E funding round led by Silver Lake, with participation from long-term investors 83North, Elaia Partners, Felix Capital, and Permira. The new funding increases the company’s valuation to more than USD3.5 billion. Mirakl’s valuation has more than doubled

LightEdge, a provider of colocation, cloud and managed service solutions, has acquired Cavern Technologies, an enterprise-grade data centre provider in Kansas City. Cavern Technologies was founded in 2007 as the area’s first colocation data center and is Kansas City’s largest colocation provider today. The natural limestone environment of Cavern’s underground

Seraphim Space Investment Trust (LSE: SSIT), the world’s first listed fund focused on Space Tech, has acquired a holding in Arqit Quantum Inc. (Arqit) from the Seraphim Space LP (Seraphim Space Fund).  As set out in the IPO prospectus, Seraphim Space will acquire four assets from the Seraphim Space Fund