Elbow Beach Capital, a decarbonisation, sustainability and social impact investor, has made a £1.5 million investment as part of a £4.1 million seed finding round in graphene technology innovator, Anaphite. Wealth Club, Blue Wire Capital, Oxford Investment Opportunity Network, Zero Carbon Capital, Silicon Roundabout Ventures and Deeptech Labs, also participated in the round.    Anaphite focuses on the enhancement of lithium-ion batteries for the electric vehicle industry. Roughly 30% of an EV’s costs come from its battery, and Anaphite’s technology can reduce battery manufacturing costs by over 10%. The company’s technology also improves battery capacity and charge rates, potentially reducing

Court Square Capital Partners portfolio company GoEngineer, a provider of 3D design and additive manufacturing solutions, has acquired Computer Aided Technology (CATI), a product development solutions provider specialising in 3D software and 3D printing hardware. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Chicago, CATI is a leader in the CAD and additive manufacturing solutions space, with over 30 years of experience in product development solutions designed to deliver unique services and innovative technologies to customers. The acquisition, which is GoEngineer’s eleventh add-on acquisition since 2013 and follows the most recent acquisition of Proto3000 in October 2021, represents the next strategic step

KKR has led a $75 million series B funding round in Digital Diagnostics, a specialist in AI healthcare diagnosis. Investors including Cedar Pine, Kinderhook, 8VC, Optum Ventures, OSF Ventures and the University of Iowa also took part in the round. The latest funding has almost doubled the company’s total outside capital raised to $130 million. In January, KKR closed its Health Care Strategic Growth Fund II on $4 billion, almost three-times bigger that it’s previous healthcare fund which closed with $1.45bn in capital commitments.

Cologne-based HR tech startup CATCH has closed a seven-figure financing round. The investment will help the founders, Marco Verhoeven and Justin Bous, to further expand and market their recruiting platform “Catch Talents”. CATCH sets out to automate recruiting for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany and Europe and thus make it more efficient. In addition to the lead investor TechVision Fund (TVF) NRW.BANK and Christian Greb, business angel and co-founder of the AI company PRECIRE, participated in the financing round. Catch Talents SaaS recruiting software fully automates candidate search and pre-qualification processes. It finds suitable, actively searching talent by

Sango Capital (Sango) and Tana Africa Capital (Tana) have made a minority investment in Sundry Markets Limited, one of Nigeria’s fastest growing modern grocery retailers. The transaction marks a partial realisation of the capital invested in the Company by Sango through its Fund I (Sango Fund I), and a new investment by Sango through its Fund III (Sango Fund III) and by Tana Africa Capital through its second Fund (TAC II).  Established in 2015, Sundry Markets operates the Marketsquare brand of supermarkets and convenience stores, providing a superior shopping experience to customers and a one-stop destination for prepared and packaged

Rivonia Road Capital, a global alternative asset manager, focused on credit for high-growth companies, has provided Tandym with $50 million in debt financing, and made an equity investment in Tandym’s most recent fundraise.

LDC has exited its minority investment in managed IT and cyber services provider Littlefish, to Bowmark Capital following a three-year partnership. The mid-market private equity firm backed the management team at Littlefish in April 2019 with a minority investment to support the fast growth business. Over the last three years, the business has almost doubled revenues from £18.6 million to £36.4 million in its latest financial year. Founded in 2003, Littlefish provides a comprehensive range of managed IT, cyber security, cloud and IT consultancy services to over 200 customers across both the private and public sectors.  Littlefish’s services are delivered

Huron Capital (Huron), a middle-market private equity firm has sold its majority interest in Pueblo Mechanical & Controls (Pueblo), a commercial HVAC and plumbing services company, to OMERS Private Equity (OMERS). Pueblo is a provider of HVAC and plumbing installation, maintenance, retrofit and repair services to customers in multiple end markets, including education, municipal, industrial, commercial and healthcare. Since Huron’s initial investment in 2017, Pueblo has made significant investments in people, technology, and corporate infrastructure, including the development of a deliberate regionally focused M&A program. Over the past several years, Pueblo experienced strong organic growth and completed 16 acquisition.

thirdweb, a technology platform for building NFT and Web3 apps, has closed a $24 million Series A funding at a $160 million valuation, led by Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Shopify and Polygon. thirdweb will use the funding to accelerate platform development to meet increasing demand, add support for additional blockchains and grow the user base by onboarding hundreds of thousands of new brands, individuals and creators, driving mainstream adoption of Web3.  Founded in 2021 by Steven Bartlett and Furqan Rydhan with a seed funding round of $5 million, from 20-plus industry entrepreneurs including Gary Vaynerchuck and Mark Cuban, thirdweb is