London private equity firm ADM Capital Europe’s Cibus Enterprise Fund has acquired a 11.7 per cent stake in the Norwegian agricultural robotics company, Saga Robotics. Saga is the first to commercialise the UV treatment of mildew, a fungus which has devastated commercial crops in recent years, using a fully automated,
Palo Alto-based Social Capital, a tech holding company founded by Chamath Palihapitiya that supports innovative companies in healthcare, artificial intelligence, climate change and space has acquired Hustle, a peer-to-peer text messaging platform. Chief executive officer Steven Pease and the Hustle management team will continue in their roles following the deal.
Thomson Reuters has acquired CaseLines, a cloud-based court document and evidence management platform, in order to digitally transform legal processes.
AlbionVC managed UCL Technology Fund, in collaboration with UCL Business, has held the first close of Fund 2, with a GBP100 million target.
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
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
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