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Palatine Private Equity has exited its investment in the telecoms arm of MJ Quinn following the sale to Visabeira/Constructel.
MJ Quinn, which is headquartered in Liverpool, specialises in the provision of a variety of telecoms services including access network solutions, fibre roll out for businesses and households and provision of energy efficient cooling solutions. Palatine initially backed the secondary buyout of the business in 2008 from its maiden GBP100 million fund.
Visabeira/Constructel is headquartered in France and is a major provider of telecommunication network infrastructure engineering with operations throughout Europe and Africa. The acquisition of MJ Quinn’s telecoms business
Talis Capital, a London-based VC family office focussed on early-stage technology companies and one of the largest investors, has announced a USD20 million seed funding round into Oh My Green, a concierge-style provider of healthy food and wellness services for corporations of all sizes.
Other investors that participated in the round included Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Powerplant Ventures, Backed VC, ZhenFund, and Stanford-StartX Fund. The new capital will be used to further advance Oh My Green’s innovative wellness platform, which incorporates artificial intelligence and IoT technology to enhance supply chain management and improve personalization of the company’s food services. Additionally,
London-based investment fund, Fuel Ventures, has invested GBP500,000 in an on-demand manufacturing platform Manufacturingsource.com, which connects design and production engineers with suitable and trusted manufacturers to create custom parts.
The site, which has attracted a global network of engineers and manufacturers, allows customers to get instant quotes and place orders, from prototypes to full scale production, on a single platform.
Entrepreneurs Sam Al-Mukhtar and Will Hoyer Millar launched Manufacturingsource.com in 2017, after the pair realised there was a clear opportunity to address a known problem within the Manufacturing sector, which was last year estimated at GBP384.5 billion in the
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP1 million investment into Nottingham-based Alpkit Limited (Alpkit) on behalf of the Foresight Nottingham Fund, alongside bank funding provided by HSBC.
Alpkit is a fast-growing designer and retailer of outdoor clothing and equipment. Targeting the outdoor adventure enthusiast, Alpkit provides high quality clothing and equipment at an affordable price and offers over 500 lines across clothing, equipment and bikes. All products are designed at the Company’s HQ in Newthorpe, Nottingham, with a focus on technical performance, providing their customers with “gear that costs less but works harder.”
Alpkit was founded in 2004 by
Cordillera Investment Partners has held the final closing of its second fund, Cordillera Investment Fund II, with total commitments of USD362 million, bringing the total AUM of the firm to USD648 million.
The fund was oversubscribed and capitalised by endowments, foundations, family offices, and wealth advisors.
Cordillera specialises in unique and less correlated investment opportunities in areas that it believes remain inefficient, misunderstood, and not over-capitalised. The firm has completed investments in various areas including in music royalties, international arbitration, permanent crops and water rights, boat marinas, broadband spectrum licenses, commercial litigation finance, and environmental markets.
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CuraSen Therapeutics, a privately held biotechnology company focussed on developing therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases, has closed a USD54.5 million Series A financing Led by New Leaf Venture Partners.
The investor syndicate also includes Longitude Capital, funds managed by Tekla Capital Management LLC, Alta Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), and Pappas Capital.
CuraSen is developing small molecule drugs targeting a novel mechanism in the brain to alleviate disabling symptoms and modify disease pathology in patients who suffer from less common (orphan) neurodegenerative disorders as well as Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease. These symptoms include cognition,
Roquette, a specialist in plant-based ingredients for Food, Nutrition and Health markets and a pioneer in new vegetal proteins, and Equinom Ltd, an Israel-based breeding technology company, have signed a partnership agreement for the development and sourcing of new pea varieties with high-protein content.
In addition to this new collaboration, Roquette and Equinom’s current shareholder Fortissimo Capital will jointly invest USD4 million in the company to support its further development. This is the first agreement and investment made by Roquette in Israel. Through this collaboration Roquette is able to be involved on the cutting edge of new non-GMO plant variety
The UK’s first fully-automated fashion manufacturing marketplace Sewport has secured GBP650,000, less than a year after it launched.
Only launched at the end of 2017, and founded by Latvian entrepreneur Boris Hodakel, Sewport has attracted more than 500 manufacturers and suppliers, as well as more than 4,000 brands internationally.
The company connects small to medium sized fashion brands and budding designers with manufacturers at all stages of development, enabling them to bring their designs to life in an easy and cost-effective way. Boris started the company after working with luxury high fashion brands and realising there was a gap
Dow Schofield Watts Angels – the Northern angel network – has completed its second deal, with a GBP300,000 investment in Miribase Limited, the company behind the Shopblocks e-commerce platform.
Over 25 angel investors took part in the funding round, which will be used to accelerate Shopblocks’ revenues by investment in new sales and marketing resources.
The Shopblocks platform provides a hosted website and online shop solution for SMEs. Shopblocks makes it possible for businesses to launch a bespoke website in an easy and cost-effective way. It fills a gap in the market between inflexible, template-based platforms and custom-built websites
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has added Applied Logic to its Censis Technologies platform.
Headquartered in St Louis, Applied Logic provides software and third-party hardware used in the sterile processing department (SPD) of hospitals and medical facilities. The company’s products assist with SPD workflows, tracking surgical inventory and alerting staff to issues such as insufficient sterilisation and missing items following surgery.
“Given the similarities between the two businesses, the combination of Censis and Applied Logic will create a very innovative offering,” says Riverside Managing Partner Loren Schlachet. “With its blue-chip customer base and compelling recurring revenue model, Applied
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