Deals
Prestige Funds, a provider of private finance to the UK’s agriculture, clean energy and SME markets, has agreed to a GBP23.2 million funding deal to finance the construction of a 2.5MWe (700 nm3/h biomethane) ‘gas to grid’ anaerobic digestion plant in Kent.
The plant will take approximately 20 months to build and is the second project to be announced in Kent in 2019. The deal is the latest in a long series of financing agreements to fund anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities in the UK, which are helping farm, food and agri businesses to process waste into energy.
Prestige Funds, via
Videalert, a supplier of intelligent traffic management and enforcement solutions to local authorities, has been acquired by Marston Holdings, one of the UK’s largest transportation and enforcement services group.
David Richmond, CEO of Videalert Limited, says: “We are delighted to become a key part of Marston Holdings, as it will enable us to accelerate our development strategy and fully exploit the growth potential for our products and services within the Parking and Intelligent Transport sectors. Our rapidly expanding client base will not only see further developments from Videalert, but also the integration and application of technologies from the expanded Marston
Horizon Capital has invested in specialist software and data analytics businesses ResearchBods and Bonamy Finch to form STRAT7. The combination creates a leading customer insights group with proprietary software and a strong data analytics capability.
The group consists of three specialist capabilities; ResearchBods which utilises proprietary software to harness customer data and intelligence, LiFE which provides data enrichment services incorporating AI and machine learning, and Bonamy Finch which creates actionable insights through primary research and advanced data analytics.
Demand for STRAT7’s technology-led customer insight and advanced analytics services is growing at a significant rate driven by the proliferation in the
OpenGamma, a specialist in derivatives analytics, has raised USD10 million in funding led by early-stage fintech and B2B software venture capital firm Dawn.
The funding round includes participation from existing investors Accel, CME Ventures and ex-SunGuard CEO and prolific fintech angel investor Cristóbal Conde.
OpenGamma’s analytics solutions allow the world’s banks, hedge funds and asset managers to dramatically reduce the cost of trading derivatives. New regulation is forcing firms to post billions in capital to take market positions with significant increases over the next two years. This is at a time when returns are already under extreme pressure. As
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing up to USD100 million in financing to the Middle East Glass Manufacturing Company (MEG), Egypt’s leading maker of glass containers. The partnership is designed to support the firm’s capital expenditure programme, create new jobs, and boost Egypt’s manufacturing sector.
IFC’s debt financing package will help MEG ramp up production of its containers, which are used by a variety of companies, from beverage makers to pharmaceutical firms. This will help MEG expand its international footprint and continue to grow its annual exports. It will also help the company expand locally and
Aliter Capital (Aliter), the private equity investment specialist in the support services industry, has brought together two of the fastest-growing companies in the sector.
The combination of Glasgow headquartered Boston Networks, Pinacl Solutions and Pinacl GDA, headquartered in North Wales, will create a UK-wide organisation with a staff of over 300 and a turnover approaching GBP50 million. The transaction establishes a major player with full design, installation, management and support capability across the areas of network infrastructure, smart buildings, Internet of Things (IoT) and life safety systems.
Boston Networks recently launched the pioneering GBP6 million IoT Scotland, the UK’s most-advanced
Funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight) are to acquire a 26 per cent stake in Latécoère from funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, an affiliate of investment funds managed by Monarch Alternative Capital (Monarch), and CVi Partners.
Searchlight is paying a total of USD106.8 million, equivalent to EUR 3.85 per share.
The Agreement provides for a top-up provision in the event Searchlight files a tender offer on Latécoère at a higher price within 12 months following closing and such tender offer is consummated.
This transaction is still subject to usual regulatory clearances, including CFIUS and certain antitrust
Quilam Capital, a provider of both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its seventh investment since it launched late 2017.
Quilam has made a multi-million-pound investment into Propensio Finance Limited, a technology-led niche consumer finance platform, which provides unsecured loans to home owners to fund home improvements. The business has a strong network and relationships with home improvement product providers throughout the UK.
Propensio was founded and run by Dave Hindle who has significant experience in the sector having been lending to the home improvement market for over twenty years. The business
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organisation, announced new investments totalling USD117 million in 14 disruptive technology startups at the Intel Capital Global Summit on Monday.
The 14 companies joining Intel Capital’s portfolio are creating powerful artificial intelligence (AI) platforms; new ways to see and analyze materials for the built world and our bodies; more efficient and greener manufacturing technologies; and disruptive new approaches to chip design.
“Intel has driven disruption for the last 50 years, changing the way we live by making compute ubiquitous. Intel Capital is continuing that legacy of disruption with these investments,” says Wendell Brooks, Intel
Growth Capital Partners (GCP”) has made an investment in Infinity Works Consulting Limited, partnering with the founder management team to support significant additional scale and reach and help increase its share of the multi-billion-pound market for IT services.
Infinity Works is a software consultancy with a full stack offering from infrastructure to front-end delivery. Services include project and product delivery, technology consulting, organisational optimisation, training, cloud migration and strategy and managed services.
The founders left well-paid jobs in the Leeds technology sector to launch the business in 2014 with two short contracts with NHS Digital and a desk in a
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