Beeline, a specialist in software solutions for sourcing and managing the global extended workforce, has secured a majority investment from funds managed by private equity firm Stone Point Capital. The strategic investment will allow Beeline to further accelerate its leading technology platform and bring additional solutions to market, helping businesses unlock the power of the extended workforce. Existing investor New Mountain Capital will remain a minority investor in the company, with representation on the company’s board of directors.

kevin. A Lithuanian fintech startup providing an A2A (account-to-account) payment infrastructure to replace card transactions, has secured $65 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Eurazeo and all existing investors, including OTB Ventures, Speedinvest, OpenOcean, and Global Paytech Ventures. Additional investors in the round include Harry Stebbings, Founder of 20VC, Ilkka Paananen, CEO & Co-founder of Supercell, Amitabh Jhawar, Ex-CEO of Venmo, and other angels.   The Series A funding comes just six months after the company secured its $10 million seed round and brings kevin.’s total funding to $77 million. Since the

Ingenio, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, and the owner of North America’s largest online marketplace and media platform focused on spiritual and emotional wellness, has acquired its largest European peer, adviqo Group. The transaction creates a global leader in this fast-growing segment of the media and technology sector, combining Ingenio’s 12 brands, which include Keen.com, Purple Garden, Horoscope.com and Astrology.com, with adviqo’s 19 brands, which feature Questico, Horoskop.de, and Kang.   Ingenio owns and operates one of the world’s largest astrology media companies, reaching over 20 million people monthly. adviqo reaches over 36 million households through its TV broadcasts,

TowerBrook Capital Partners (TowerBrook), a London and New York-based international investment firm, is to acquire Premium Credit Limited from Cinven. Premium Credit is a provider of premium finance for commercial and retail insurance products, as well as other specialist lending solutions. The company has driven consistent growth through the development of a sophisticated technology platform and expansion into new product areas, building on Premium Credit’s core capabilities.   TowerBrook is an experienced investor within the financial services sector, with highly relevant expertise across fintech, insurance and specialty finance companies. Current investments in the sector include the AA Ltd, Access Financial,

Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specialising in infrastructure and real assets, is to make a €1.0 billion investment in Inspired Education Group (Inspired), a global group of premium schools.

Engimmune Therapeutics AG (Engimmune), a Swiss biotech company developing novel T-cell receptor (TCR)-based therapeutics, has completed a CHF15.5 million (EUR15.2m) seed financing round, co-led by Pureos Bioventures and Novo Holdings. Engimmune is a platform company using cutting-edge technologies to engineer highly potent and specific TCR-based therapies for cancer treatment. By combining genome editing, functional screening, deep sequencing and machine learning, Engimmune addresses major efficacy and safety challenges that currently limit the full potential of TCR-T cell and soluble TCR therapies. Engimmune’s lead products are focused on oncology, with potential to expand to autoimmune diseases in the future.   Engimmune is

Wheel and tyre safety business Wheely Safe Ltd (WSL), based in Burntwood, Staffordshire, has secured a £500,000 investment from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven). Wheely Safe Ltd, which helps to prevent wheel loss and tyre underinflation, will use the funding to grow its national presence and scale up the business. Its key products protect lorries and large commercial vehicles from wheel loss, which is a major safety problem in the UK, where approximately 150 to 400 wheel-detachments occur annually.    Wheely Safe offers services to its commercial clients with tyre pressure

abrdn has provided a £38 million debt facility to Dalmore Capital’s 2012 vintage fund – (Dalmore Capital Fund LP – DCF). Dalmore Capital is a UK Public Private Partnership (PPP) investor.  The financing is expected to provide abrdn’s clients with reliable, fixed rate payments under a long-term fully amortising structure. abrdn’s investment participants included Phoenix Group, a longstanding funding partner to abrdn, and abrdn’s Multi Sector Private Credit Fund.

Tempus Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of Burkhan World Investments (Burkhan), has agreed terms to lead an institutional investment round into GMEX Group Limited (GMEX),  a specialist in digital business and technology solutions for capital markets players, exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure.

Olsam Group (Olsam), a company that acquires and scales category leading e-commerce businesses, has completed the acquisition of MarketFleet, a US-based incubator and aggregator of e-commerce brands. This is the second “aggregation of aggregators” by Olsam – the first being Flywheel Commerce in November 2021.  MarketFleet was founded in 2015, by a group of ecommerce experts including serial entrepreneur Chris Friedland, with the thesis around creating brands in markets where customers were being overcharged. With a focus on outdoors categories, MarketFleet has 11 brands that will be combined with Olsam, alongside its entire operational team who collectively bring on an