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ArchOver, a P2P business lending platform, is now helping businesses to bridge the funding gap that prevents them continuing to grow their operation whilst waiting for their R&D tax claim to be repaid.
ArchOver’s Research & Development Advance (RDA) service is the first provided by a P2P lender funding advances upwards of GBP100,000. This bridging finance enables organisations to use their pending R&D tax credit, based on two years’ successful claims, to raise funds from ArchOver’s community of lenders.
“Investment in research and development is crucial not only to individual businesses, but to the wider economy as well,” says Angus
Unigestion has launched Unigestion Global Choice VII, a global small and mid-market investment programme and a continuation of the ‘Unicapital Global’ and ‘Euro Choice’ series of funds.
Unigestion Global Choice VII is seeking EUR300 million to build a portfolio of around 30 specialist buyout, growth capital and selectively special situations funds in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
In line with Unigestion’s conviction-driven investment style, the private equity team will continue to seek areas of growth, spot attractive investment themes and focus exclusively on managers with proven industrial and strategic transformation skills. Several fund investments have already been pre-selected for
Onex Corporation (Onex) is to acquire a stake in PowerSchool Group (PowerSchool) from Vista, which will also invest new capital in the business.
PowerSchool is an education technology platform for K-12 schools. Concurrent with the Onex/Vista transaction, PowerSchool will acquire PeopleAdmin, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based talent management solutions for the education sector, creating K-12 education’s most comprehensive and integrated suite of products. The transactions are expected to close in the second half of 2018 subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals.
PowerSchool provides best-in-class, secure and compliant online education solutions, which include the industry’s leading student information system, the
Beringea has advised and arranged debt funding worth up to GBP2 million to Edesix Ltd, a manufacturer of Body Worn Camera solutions.
The Edinburgh-based company will use the funding, provided through Beringea’s ProVen Legacy debt vehicle, to support the expansion of its sales operations as it targets growth in the US market.
Edesix’s VideoBadge wearable camera system enables users across a wide range of industries – from law enforcement and security to healthcare, retail, and public transport – to record high-quality video and encrypted footage. The company’s VideoManager software facilitates efficient and secure monitoring and control of cameras, as
Inflexion Private Equity has completed a minority investment in Huws Gray Limited (Huws Gray), one of the largest independent builders’ merchants in the UK.
Huws Gray, founded in 1990 on Anglesey, Wales, with one location, now operates from 57 trading locations with almost 800 staff. Over recent years, the company has achieved strong growth organically and through acquisitions.
Huws Gray will continue to be majority owned and led by the existing management team headed by John Llewelyn Jones and Terry Owen. The company is well placed to benefit from the consolidation of the builders’ merchants market and to expand
Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, Michigan’s venture capital fund-of-funds, has successfully attracted more than USD1.3 billion into the state’s startup ecosystem.
Since Renaissance launched in 2008, it has invested in 30 venture capital funds around the United States, with the goal of attracting venture capital from those funds and their network into Michigan startup companies. This work has resulted in more than USD1.3 billion invested in 39 Michigan companies—returning more than USD17 for every USD1 invested by Renaissance. Those companies have expanded Michigan’s workforce with more than 1,300 employees with average salaries exceeding USD75,000.
“Michigan has long had the technology
Semcon has acquired the German product information company HAAS-Publikationen.
HAAS-Publikationen is based in Troisdorf, Dessau and Berlin and has more than 25 years of experience in technical documentation and product information primarily for the German railway industry. Presently, HAAS-Publikationen engages almost 50 employees. Turnover for 2017 totalled close to SEK50 million. The acquisition is expected to have a positive effect on operating margin as well as earnings per share in 2018.
“With the extended knowledge from multiple industries and a solid service offering, from both HAAS-Publikationen and Semcon operations globally, we will become an even stronger partner to both
SWORD Health, the creator of the AI-powered digital physiotherapist SWORD Phoenix, has closed a USD4.6 million seed funding round. The investment, provided by Green Innovations and Vesalius Biocapital III and other investors from Europe and the US will be used to accelerate the development of new digital therapies and drive SWORD Health’s global growth.
SWORD Health is a technology platform pioneering a new approach to physical rehabilitation. Using a combination of high-precision motion tracking sensors and the latest advances in AI, SWORD Health’s core product, SWORD Phoenix, offers patients interactive physical rehabilitation exercises from the comfort of their own home,
Family-owned Kids Planet has received a further GBP6.5 million investment from BGF as it plans to double the number of nurseries within the group in the next five years.
Since BGF’s initial investment, the Greater Manchester-headquartered business has expanded from 17 to 23 sites across the North of England, including most recently in Preston, Stockport, Billinge and Swinton. Last year, it was awarded the top spot in the Nursery World Childcare League Table – a compilation of Ofsted ratings for the 20 largest nursery groups in Britain.
Kids Planet has a number of new sites already in the pipeline,
Chelverton Asset Management Limited (Chelverton), a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, has completed its first transaction of 2018 with an additional investment in VeloVixen.
Having supported the company initially in 2016, Members of the Chelverton Investor Club – a syndicate of High Net Worth private investors – have committed a further six figure sum as the VeloVixen looks to build on its recent rapid growth, with the launch in 2018 of its first own-brand products, as well as a concerted focus on its increasingly significant export markets.
Oxfordshire-based Pedalling Forth Limited, T/A VeloVixen, which
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