Deals
Spirit Pharmaceuticals has secured a growth capital investment from NewSpring Capital, Tecum Capital, Leedon Park Capital, and PNC Bank. The investor group backed CEO and Founder Ajoy Joshi to support the Company’s continued growth.
eSalesHub, a Yorkshire tech firm analysing big data using AI to optimise clients marketing spend, has secured a GBP1.65 million funding round from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven).
The NPIF – Maven Equity Fund invested GBP1.35 million, alongside the GBP300,000 from the Maven VCTs.
eSalesHub will invest the new funds, alongside internally generated cash, to scale the business and further develop its proprietary A.I technology solutions. Expansion is expected to create 25 new jobs across technology, data science, business development and sales & marketing at
‘Smart antenna’ designer Sofant Technologies has completed a follow-on fundraise of GBP740,000 in an oversubscribed funding round led by venture capital investor EMV Capital. The fundraise builds on last year’s GBP2.3 million pre-series A round for the Edinburgh-based 5G and satellite communications antenna developer.
The UK wireless telecommunications services business WHP Telecoms (WHP), backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has completed the acquisition of Intelligent Communications Solutions Limited (ICS Group), a telecoms rigging installations and design company, marking the group’s third acquisition in the space of a month.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a global private equity firm, has invested in Prime Global Medical Communications Ltd (Prime Global), in partnership with the company founder and existing management team.
Founded in 1997, Prime Global is a global medical communications and market access group that provides the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses with full-service professional communications, including healthcare strategy and consultancy, scientific and medical communications, consumer health, patient-integrated science, and market access. The Company is an active player in a market that is poised for rapid growth as a result of increased spending on pharmaceutical research and development
UX-Republic joins Smile, a specialist in open source technologies known through its brands Neopixl, the mobile applications specialist, and SensioLabs, creator of the Symfony framework.
UX-Republic will continue to operate under its own brand and will benefit from Smile’s capabilities to strengthen its customer offering – particularly on the technological side – and roll out its expertise in France and Europe. The acquisition benefits from the active support of the two companies’ management teams and Smile’s shareholders: Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout1 investments, and Eurazeo PME.
Smile and UX-Republic are bringing
Ecommerce startup aisle 3 has completed a successful follow on funding round, raising GBP250,000 via Angel Investment Network.
Aiming to become ‘the Wikipedia of product search’ the business secured the funds in just six weeks with the company’s valuation more than doubling in the past five months. Experienced angel investors have backed the founders’ vision for a new, disruptive ecommerce marketplace offering truly personalised experiences for large networks of engaged shoppers.
This raise is the second completed successfully in just five months, with the company being backed with almost GBP500,000 in pre-seed funding. It represents an impressive trajectory for a
Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, and LMCA, a brand extension specialist, have launched brand acquisition firm Full Sail IP Partners.
Full Sail IP Partners will acquire brands with untapped potential and build out their business through relevant, revenue generating licenses.
“Our partnership with LMCA demonstrates our commitment to identifying prime brand target acquisitions with strong fundamental growth potential,” says Justin Sadrian, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. “As long-term growth investors, we look forward to building out the Full Sail IP Partners brand portfolio and accelerating the growth and expansion of brands globally through licensing,” added Michael Ding, Principal, Warburg Pincus.
Unreasonable Collective has closed Q1 2021 with investments in Classcraft, Goodr, At One Ventures and Turtle Tree, totalling more than USD3 million.
The Collective, a private co-investment club launched by the Unreasonable Group at the end of 2020 with racial and gender diversity at its core, explicitly directs capital into Unreasonable ventures operating at the intersection of high impact and disruptive innovation. With a mandate to ensure its investments are channelled into deals and founders that are diverse in nature, and with a commitment that at least 50 per cent of its members are women, people of colour, and/or identify
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a specialist investor in fast-growing consumer brands, on its GBP5 million investment into Wild Nutrition, a natural health supplements brand.
Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Henrietta and Charlie Norton, Wild Nutrition has disrupted the UK’s GBP20 billion health and wellness market. The brand offers supplements that are ethically and sustainably formulated by an in-house team who source the highest quality, fully traceable ingredients to provide solutions to common health needs – including pregnancy, fertility, immunity, energy, gut health, sleep, stress and anxiety and hormonal health.
Piper’s investment will
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