Deals
Duff & Phelps, a provider of governance, risk and transparency solutions, has launched its Equity Match service, which matches the equity funding requirements of UK based SMEs with specialist equity investors from a select network.Equity Match provides SMEs with access to difficult-to-find equity investors who are willing to inject smaller sums not usually associated with the appetite of the mainstream private equity market.
Paul Reeves, Managing Director, Restructuring Advisory, Duff & Phelps, says: “This new offering is about matching the requirements of an enterprise with potential investors who we feel most closely align in terms of cultural fit. We have
JAXJOX, a global fitness technology company known for its workout equipment and platform, has secured GBP7.7 million in a Series A round of funding with investors Dowgate Capital Ltd. and entrepreneur Nigel Wray, bringing total funding raised to date GBP13M. The funding is set to expand development of the highly anticipated JAXJOX InteractiveStudio, the world’s first digital at-home fitness platform with connected free-weight equipment that creates personalised data points based on the user’s performance, and hits the UK market early 2021.In 2019, JAXJOX debuted the KettlebellConnect, the first smart kettlebell with adjustable weights, at CES where the connected fitness tech
Bolt on acquisition activity has remained robust and proven to be a key feature of deal activity, despite Covid-related inertia in the broader buyout space. As Bloomberg data reveals, there were only two buyouts completed between April and June, one of which was Clayton Dubilier & Rice’s acquisition of Radio Systems. But for PE sponsors with platform companies in their portfolios, and an eye on consolidation opportunities, 2020 appears to have been very much a case of ‘business as usual’.
Cloud cyber resilience specialist Accurics, has raised USD20 million across seed and series A financing in the past six months. With Intel Capital leading the Series A and ClearSky leading the seed, Accurics, the new investment will support Accurics’ market momentum and help the company continue to develop technology that self-heals cloud native infrastructure by codifying security throughout the development lifecycle.
“We envision a world where organisations can innovate with confidence—and our mission is to fill the gap between benefit and threat by enabling cyber resilience as organisations embrace cloud native infrastructure,” says Accurics Co-founder & CEO Sachin Aggarwal. “We’re
Cebile Capital, the global secondaries advisor and placement agent, has closed a GP-led Continuation Vehicle process for two of Method Advisors’ fund-of-funds vehicles.
Actis has entered into agreements to acquire a controlling interest in Octotel, a fibre-to-the-home operator in South Africa for an enterprise value of ZAR2.3 billion (USD140 million). At the same time Actis signed agreements to acquire a non-controlling interest in RSAWEB, a leading Internet Service Provider in South Africa. The transactions are subject to regulatory approval.
Octotel is a leading fibre network operator in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Founded in 2016, its open access fibre network has passed more than 175,000 premises. Through this network, Octotel provides line rental services to Internet Service Providers on a fully vendor
DLA Piper has advised Prime Capital AG, an independent asset manager and financial services provider, and Enlight Renewable Energy (Enlight), the Tel-Aviv-listed independent power producer, on a co-investment in the ready-to-build Björnberget wind park project in central Sweden. This is Prime Capital’s first investment from its newly launched Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund (PGEIF).
The Björnberget wind farm is one of the largest onshore wind projects to start construction in Europe in 2020 and was developed by RES, the world’s largest independent renewable energy company. The project is expected to reach commercial operation at the beginning of 2023.
As well as
Abivax, a clinical-stage biotechnology company harnessing the immune system to develop treatments for inflammatory diseases, viral diseases and cancer, has obtained a EUR15 million non-dilutive debt financing from Kreos Capital, with an additional EUR5 million to be decided before 2020 year-end.This financing comprises two tranches of EUR10 million and EUR5 million respectively, with the first tranche to be fully drawn immediately, and a second tranche to be drawn before 1 November, 2020. The loan is expected to extend Abivax’s cash runway until Q2 2021, before any potential revenues from corporate partnering or any future additional funding, preferably non-dilutive.
Professor Hartmut
GoGet, an on-demand workforce and job platform based in Malaysia, has closed a Series A round of USD2 million led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. The funding will be used to scale GoGet’s services in Malaysia through product development, building and expanding its product and technology teams. GoGet will also expand its sales and digital marketing teams to grow user acquisition.
“The traditional labor market is inefficient during these challenging times. Businesses especially SMEs need to find innovative ways to cut costs while being profitable. Our robust technology provides these businesses a cost-efficient solution beyond what a traditional job matching service can
Though external economic headwinds due to the coronavirus pandemic persisted in the third quarter, venture capital (VC) exit activity saw a major uptick, achieving the second highest exit values on record, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, a quarterly report on VC activity jointly produced by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The positive momentum from the stock market in recent months, particularly the performance of new listings, has encouraged companies to move forward with IPOs if they were prepared and considering that exit route. On the dealmaking side, this report includes PitchBook’s proprietary deal estimation methodology for the
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
