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airfocus raises USD5m Series A

airfocus, the world’s first modular product management platform, has raised USD5 million in series A funding, led by XAnge with participation from Nauta Capital. 

Grant Thornton advises Milton Keynes software company Celaton on investment from renowned tech entrepreneur Vin Murria

GRANT Thornton UK’s Corporate Finance team has advised Milton Keynes-based software company, Celaton on an investment deal with serial investor and technology entrepreneur, Vin Murria OBE. Founded in 2004 by Andrew Anderson and Gary Grant, Celaton’s Intelligent Document Processing platform, inSTREAM, delivers consistent and measurable business technologies to processes such

Foresight agrees conditional sale of Ixaris

Foresight Group (Foresight), a UK-listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has agreed the conditional sale of Ixaris Group Holdings Limited (Ixaris), a specialist in travel payment technology, to Nium Pte Limited (Nium), a global B2B payments platform based in Singapore. Ixaris’ main product is a pre-paid debit

Mecenat to partner with IK Investment Partners

Funds advised by IK Investment Partners (IK) are to invests in Mecenat Holding AB Mecenat. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Mecenat is a marketing technology company which promotes unique discounts to its community of students and young professionals. The Company is headquartered in Gothenburg and operates

Oakley Capital invests in Afterbuy and DreamRobot to create ECOMMERCE ONE

Oakley Capital’ sOakley Capital Origin Fund (Origin Fund) has acquired controlling stakes in Afterbuy and DreamRobot, two providers of e-commerce software in the German-speaking region, which will be combined to become the newly formed ECOMMERCE ONE Group. The two companies provide a comprehensive suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions

KKR completes acquisition of Ensono

KKR, a global investment firm, and Ensono, a leading hybrid IT services provider, have closed the previously announced acquisition of Ensono by KKR. Ensono provides a comprehensive suite of services that help enterprises manage, optimise and modernise their IT systems across mainframe, cloud and hybrid infrastructure.  “Joining the KKR family

Fintech

General Atlantic’s dLocal IPO & changes in consumer patterns

Uruguayan fintech payments company dLocal, the country’s first unicorn, has raised USD617.65 million in its initial public offering, which started trading on Thursday on the Nasdaq under the symbol ‘DLO’.  Of the shares sold, close to 4.4 million were by dLOcal and 25 million by its existing investors. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs,

Maven 11 Blockchain Venture Fund II raises EUR40m

Dutch blockchain investment fund Maven 11 Capital has raised EUR40 million which it will invest in start- and scale-ups creating innovative financial services and building Web 3.0. using blockchain technology.  The new fund is a direct response to the explosive demand for investment in, and mentoring of, start-ups in decentralised

HiveHR secures GBP500,000 following strong growth

The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF) has led a GBP500,000 funding round for Newcastle-based HiveHR Ltd (Hive), an employee listening tool, operating in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space.  The Fund, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP250,000, alongside GBP250,000 from the Future Fund, a government backed

Maven backs construction software and procurement services business

Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a significant investment in Pagabo, a procurement services specialist, and Sypro, a contract management and compliance software provider.  The two businesses share common ownership and the transaction will allow for the creation of a formal group of companies (Group). Pagabo and Sypro have highly

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