PROfounders Capital and Calm/Storm Ventures have invested GBP1 million into sex therapy app Blueheart. The fresh capital will be used to expand the available suite of therapy sessions and advance therapeutic research, as well as improving the app’s AI capabilities. The app provides sex and relationship therapy based on
Humanloop, a UCL spinout, has attracted investment from UCL’s Technology Fund (UCLTF). Based on the world-leading research of two notable academics at UCL’s AI Centre Humanloop is teaching AI to improve performance with 10 times less human training than existing systems.The UCLTF has invested in Humanloop to help the team,
The Untitled Ventures, a seed and pre-seed stage VC investor that focuses on breakthrough technologies from Eastern Europe, is raising a new fund which will invest in early growth stage tech companies in the CEE region. The firm has offices in London, Moscow and Riga, acting as a venture capital
Pet owners’ love for their animals, along with the impact of Covid-19, are among the reasons private equity decision-makers feel bullish about the future of the animal care sector, according to a new survey of 100 industry leaders conducted by Katten.
New digital deal platform dubbed Maksab has officially launched with the aim of helping corporate advisers and consultants serve and assist SMEs with streamlined deal-making through exclusive emerging transactions and efficient management features. Maksab connects advisors and private professional investors with SMEs that are seeking growth capital in a virtual environment.
The increasing need for transparency and efficiency across the private equity industry has led to higher investments into modern IT platforms on a large scale within manager firms. This development will help GPs reach their goals of generating better quality data, responding to investor requests and keeping up to date
Private equity managers are being driven along the curve of technology adoption by greater institutional investor interest in the asset class. Managers are having to re-fashion their approach to data to ensure they can meet their clients’ demands with ease and simplicity in a scalable manner.
As terrible as the Covid-19 crisis has been, it has forced private equity players to accelerate their adoption of technology to replace previous practices. This will likely be the impetus needed for full implementation across the industry. “As an example, in June 2020, the US Department of Labor issued guidance
Providing investors with a compelling digital experience is becoming a key component to the service private equity managers offer their clients. When looking to implement such service, managers need to be aware of specific dimensions which can help support their efforts to deploy this successfully for their benefit and that
As private equity managers become more comfortable adopting technology, a measure of which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis, their needs are also developing further. The increased adoption of public cloud services is leading to more data-warehousing which in turn results in more in-depth analysis of that data. However,
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