CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SME, has invested in Xenocs, a French deep tech company, through its new Growth Tech strategy. Founded in 2000, Xenocs is a spin-off from the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL). The company operates on the nanoscale material characterisation market
UK-based fund manager Downing has committed a seven-figure investment to consumer technology company Tactus Group (Tactus). Founded in 1986, Downing is an FCA authorised and regulated investment manager with over 30 years’ experience. It currently has over GBP1.4 billion of funds under management. The investment from Downing was made
Knox Capital, a private equity firm with significant assets in the legal and financial technology space, has made an investment in, and relaunched, bundle, a provider of legal real estate documents formerly known as ANADeeds. Knox Capital completed its equity investment in bundle in late 2020, and since closing has
Beacons, a business platform for social media creators, has secured USD6 million in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Li Jin’s Atelier Ventures, The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Fund, Night Ventures, Brazilian esports organisation LOUD and Crush Music. The new capital will fuel the company’s rapid growth
Leading mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in ID card printer and software business Magicard to listed international manufacturer Brady Corporation (BRC). LDC invested in Magicard in May 2016 to support the business’ organic and international growth strategy. During LDC’s partnership with Magicard, the business invested heavily
By 2022, the level of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity involving technology providers will surpass previous highs recorded in 2018, according to Gartner, Inc. Acquisitions of tech providers were briefly impacted in 2020 by the onset of the pandemic, but M&A activity quickly rebounded into 2021 as the economy
Faculty, a British artificial intelligence (AI) company, has raised GBP30 million in growth funding from the Apax Digital Fund (ADF). It is the largest investment Faculty has accepted to date, and brings total investment to nearly GBP40 million. The funding will be used to drive the expansion of Faculty’s pioneering
PSG, a growth equity firm that focuses on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, has acquired a majority stake in billwerk, a European provider of subscription management and recurring billing software solutions. The billwerk subscription management platform offers European companies across industries a one-stop shop to manage their
Exegy Incorporated, a specialist in low-latency solutions for global market data, predictive trading signals, and hardware-acceleration technology, and Vela Trading Systems (Vela), a provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, have merged business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm
New York based startup Polywork, a professional social network founded by Peter Johnston, has secured USD3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Caffeinated Capital (Ray Tonsing, first investor in Clubhouse, Airtable and Brex) with participation from the founders of YouTube (Steve Chen), Twitch (Kevin Lin), PayPal (Max Levchin),
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