Deals
PremFina Ltd, a UK-based company that increases access to insurance by providing financing options for the purchase of insurance premiums, has secured USD36 million in equity funding and a debt facility.
Rakuten Capital, the investment arm of Japan’s Rakuten, a global leader in e-commerce and fintech services and the main global partner of FC Barcelona and the UK’s Draper Esprit Plc led the financing, and were joined by global investors Thomvest Ventures, Emery Capital, Rubicon Venture Capital, Talis Capital and the company’s founder.
PremFina is the first premium finance company in the UK to receive venture funding, with the
Wala, a blockchain-powered financial services platform for the unbanked and underbanked, has secured an equity investment from Newtown Partners, the venture capital firm founded by Llew Claasen and Vinny Lingham.
Claasen is the Managing Partner of Newtown Partners and also the Executive Director of the the Bitcoin Foundation. Lingham is best known as the Founder of mobile gift card company Gyft, sold to First Data in 2015 and more recently, Civic, a Silicon Valley-based startup that completed a USD33 million token sale for a digital identity management platform in July 2017.
Newtown Partners previously assisted their portfolio company Augmentors,
Steele Compliance Solutions has added extensive training and awareness content to its third-party compliance management software and due diligence services, through the acquisition of Compliance Wave.
Compliance Wave is a specialist in compliance micro-training content. With a client base of Fortune 500 companies, Compliance Wave provides a library of over 2,000 micro-learning & communication tools in more than 30 languages. The content provides short, engaging and retainable information that is not only fun for the end user to consume, but is highly effective in getting complex compliance concepts through in a meaningful way.
Compliance Wave adds to Steele’s already robust
Alliance Etiquettes is actively pursuing its consolidation strategy in the wine, spirits and agri-food high-end labelling sector with the acquisition of Applic’Etains, its fourth build-up since Activa Capital’s investment in July 2015.
Applic’Etains is a French company based in Nontron (Dordogne) and specialises in the design and production of high-end pewter labels for the wine & spirits industry. The firm, which continues to grow strongly, is managed by its founder, Thierry Vandenbosch.
It is the 4th company to join the Alliance Etiquettes Group since its creation in July 2015; Alliance Etiquettes has tripled in size since Activa Capital invested.
ZOA Robotics has secured a GBP85,000 seed investment from the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The investment is the first of a series that have been made by the UK’s robotics-focussed investment firm, and is in a company that is raising further investment on the new and complementary robotics crowdfunding platform Britbots CROWD.
ZOA Robotics’ objective is to develop four-legged robots with the grace of animals that can move anywhere. The company is looking to introduce its low cost highly mobile robots to tackle movement of goods across sites with uneven ground and multiple levels, reducing the use of manual
An investment fund affiliated with private equity firm Lightyear Capital (Lightyear) has invested in Datalot Inc (Datalot), a provider of mobile and web marketing technology solutions for the insurance industry.
Josh Reznick, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Datalot, together with other management, remain significant shareholders in the business. The transaction terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 2009, Datalot connects consumers with insurance carriers and agents. The Company has built a marketplace for insurance shoppers by leveraging its technology platform and integrated contact center operations to qualify and efficiently route consumer inquiries for primarily auto, home, health and life
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-area private equity firm, has acquired Xebec Global Corporation (Xebec) a highly specialised provider of human intelligence solutions and services to customers in the Intelligence Community.
David Wodlinger, a Partner at Arlington, says: “Xebec has built a reputation for excellence in supporting our nation’s most critical intelligence missions. We are excited to be partnering with Phil Jones to ensure the Company continues to offer our core customer base the same unique subject matter expertise and dedication to the mission that our customers expect from Xebec. Furthermore, we plan to invest additional capital into the
Arma Partners is pleased to have advised on six major M&A transactions with an aggregate value of circa USD7.5 billion over the course of the summer.
The accelerating momentum underscores both the robust health of M&A activity in the global Communications, Media and Technology sector and Arma’s position as the preeminent CMT M&A boutique with an established track record of executing high value, transformational, cross-border deals.
Since June, Arma has acted as buy-side advisor to Investcorp on its USD210m acquisition of cloud-based telematics vendor ABAX; to a HgCapital-led consortium involving Montagu, GIC and ICG on the USD5.3 billion buyout
IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP100k invoice finance facility to Industro, a specialist engineering firm and labour provider based in the North East of England.
Industro sought a new finance partner to help fund its growth ambitions, with the aim of winning larger contracts and expanding their business. These new contracts will also give the business the capacity to employ more staff for on-site project work.
Established in July 2016, Industro specialises in design, fabrication, installation and structural inspection using drone technology on client sites, as well as providing specialist labour for the sector.
Maven and YFM-backed Indigo Telecom Group (Indigo), a provider of multi-vendor managed and project services to Tier 1 and 2 telecom network operators, equipment vendors, multi-national corporations and government clients, has acquired Belcom247 (Belcom UK Ltd).
The deal demonstrates the successful execution of the Indigo’s buy and build strategy and combines two trusted and experienced providers of remote managed services and expands their capabilities on a global basis.
Indigo specialises in the design, planning, build, supply, management and support of UK, European and global telecommunications networks.
Belcom247 is a, specialist provider of field engineering and data centre connectivity
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