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Food tech

The pandemic-spurred growth of food tech

Deals in the food tech space have been picking up lately, with Scandinavian food tech startups like Curb, which was founded by Delivery Hero’s former executive Carl Tengberg, and Danish food platform Superb, being the latest in a string of recent growth equity investments in this space.

Nauta Capital launches Nauta Labs

Nauta Capital, a pan-European venture capital firm investing in capital-efficient B2B software companies, has launched a new initiative to support pre-seed deeptech European startups.    Named Nauta Labs, the specialist venture programme will offer pre-seed B2B deeptech companies capital to accelerate their concepts and grow into the next generation of Europe’s

Crover Ltd announces first funding round through Crowdcube

Crover Ltd, the Edinburgh based start-up and developer of the first robotic device able to “swim” deep in granular bulks such as cereal grain, has announced its first funding round through Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding platform.  After “bootstrapping”, raising more than GBP600,000 in innovation prizes and grants (including the likes

Uberisation

PODCAST: Uberisation 2.0 – New ways of creating value and gaining scale

In this 5th and final podcast of the series, Steven Unzicker, Founder of ANZU Research, SEI’s Ross Ellis and Michael Neumann, Head of AI Quantitative Strategies and Partner at Arabesque, discuss how the decentralised model – as characterised by Uber and Airbnb – could inform the future of fund management. 

Team of former Insight Partners team launches New Equity

Nexa Equity LLC, a private equity firm focused on rapidly scaling lower middle market software and fintech businesses that address markets underserved by technology, has announced its official launch.  The firm was founded by Managing Partner Vlad Besprozvany, a former investor at Insight Partners and Managing Director at Greater Sum

WeMaintain raises EUR30m in Series B funding

WeMaintain, a proptech company based in Paris and London, has raised EUR30 million in Series B funding.  The raise follows WeMaintain’s acquisition of fire alarm solutions company Shokly, and allows WeMaintain to accelerate its international expansion and extend its state-of-the-art proprietary technology across the built environment. Supported by Eurazeo since

Oakley’s PRIMAVERA acquisition establishes new Iberian business software group

Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III) has agreed to acquire PRIMAVERA Business Software Solutions (PRIMAVERA), a Portuguese specialist in business management software.  The Company will be combined with existing Oakley Capital portfolio company Ekon, a Spanish provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, to create a new

GP Bullhound invests Lingokids as part of USD40m funding round

GP Bullhound has made a new investment in Lingokids, an educational platform for children, as part of a Series C funding round of USD40 million led by an undisclosed investor, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, and Ravensburger among others. Launched in 2016, Lingokids is the playlearning app for

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