KEO World Inc, a B2B Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) fintech, has closed a $20 million growth equity round led by Montreux Growth Partners. Additional funding wasprovided by Mayberry Investments and Avior alongside a debt facility from Hayfin Capital Management.  With this investment, KEO World will fuel the growth of its Workeo small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) inventory financing program across the USA and LATAM.

AMILI, a Singapore-based precision gut microbiome company, has raised $10.5 million in a Series A funding led by Vulcan Capital, the investment arm of the late Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen. Other new investors include Pruksa Group, TVM Capital Healthcare, Emtek Group, Capital Code, Pureland Group, Blue7 and SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore.  GK Goh and other existing investors also participated in the round.    The funds raised will be used to accelerate microbiome research partnerships and discovery, develop AMILI PRIME and deepen AMILI’s presence in Southeast Asia initially and the rest of Asia subsequently.

3i Infrastructure has agreed to acquire the stake in TCR owned by funds managed by DWS for c£334 million. This will result in 3i Infrastructure increasing its holding from c48% to 96% of the equity in TCR, alongside management. Completion is subject to certain third party consents and is expected to take place in the final quarter of 2022.   TCR is a global provider of Ground Support Equipment (GSE) rental solutions and services, supporting air industry customers in their ground handling processes.     Since acquiring TCR in 2016, 3i Infrastructure and DWS have supported management in growing the

Hiphops, which automates the complex business of releasing code, is emerging from stealth today following a $3.5 million pre-seed round co-led by firstminute Capital & Seedcamp. Tiny VC, RLC Ventures, and prominent Angel investors such as Matt Robinson, Will Neale, and Jack Kleeman also particpated in the round.

Software and services investor Hg has agreed to sell MEDIFOX DAN, a provider of digital solutions for the German care and therapy sectors, to ResMed, a leader in cloud-connected medical devices and out-of-hospital software-as-a-service (SaaS) business solutions, in a transaction valuing the business at an enterprise value of around $1 billion. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Hildesheim, Germany, MEDIFOX DAN is a leading provider of software solutions and services to care and therapy providers. Its core offering comprises digital solutions for resource and route planning, care planning & documentation, administration, and billing, as well as factoring and hosting services.

Allied Industrial Partners (AIP), an industrial-focused private equity firm, has made a strategic investment in Waste Eliminator, a regional provider of solid waste hauling, disposal and recycling services for commercial and industrial waste generators throughout Metro-Atlanta. The Company will continue to be led by its founder and CEO Wes Turner, who along with others on the management team, will be investing alongside AIP. Together, AIP and management have committed more than $150 million in capital to grow the platform. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Laserhub, the operator of an online platform for the procurement of customised sheet metal and turned parts, has completed a Series B financing round led by Finnish Evli Growth Partners. Two other international funds, Europe’s Fuse Venture Partners and FJ Labs from the USA, also participated in the round as co-investors, while previous investors Project A, Point Nine Capital and Acton Capital also committed again.

EcoVadis, a provider of business sustainability ratings, has raised $500 million in an investment round led by Astorg and BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic’s climate investing venture.

Consumer insights start-up Knit has raised $3.55 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Silicon Road Ventures. Bread and Butter Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Bootstrappers.mn, Operate Studio, and TiE Global Angels also participated in the round.  Knit’s technology enables customers to tap into a network of over one million Gen Z and four million Millennial consumers to gather on-demand video feedback and quick-turn quantitative data.

Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), a European technology investor, is to sell softgarden e-recruiting (softgarden), a provider of human resources software solutions to Grupa Pracuj, an HR Tech company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The transaction, which is expected to complete imminently, will result in a return of in excess of 3x invested capital in less than four years.   Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, softgarden offers an innovative recruitment software platform to a diverse set of mid-market and enterprise customers across Europe.  ITP acquired softgarden in 2018 as part of its Investcorp Technology Partners Fund IV and worked closely with