Allocations
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
Aquis Technologies, the financial and regulatory technologies services arm of Aquis Exchange, has been appointed to supply trading technology to Estates and Infrastructure Exchange (EIE).
EIE will take Aquis’ complete suite of exchange technology including the Aquis Matching Engine (AMS), its state-of-the-art Aquis Market Surveillance (AMS), as well as operations tools and assistance in the post trade environment.
EIE, which is aiming to become a Registered Investment Exchange, is the world’s first infrastructure trading platform to create a bridge between the billions of underinvested capital and the thousands of globally unfunded projects. EIE was launched in mid-2017 and works
Investcorp has acquired KSI Trading Corp (KSI), a supplier of aftermarket auto body parts in the US.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1984, KSI is an industry-leading distributor of quality replacement auto body parts servicing over 10,000 collision repair shop customers across 25 locations in 14 states. In addition to top quality products, KSI has succeeded in providing superior customer service, rapid order turnaround and competitive pricing over the last three decades. Headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey, KSI has over 600 employees across the US.
KSI will be led by Christopher
A company backed by Private equity firm Permira has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Exclusive Group, a specialist in value-added services and technologies (VAST) for cybersecurity and cloud migration, for an undisclosed value.
Selling equity holders include former majority owner Cobepa and Andera Partners (formerly Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners).
The investment secures substantial new funding to fuel the next stage of the Company’s development. The Exclusive management team led by CEO Olivier Breittmayer will maintain a significant equity stake in the firm and continue to lead the company in their current roles.
Established in 2003 and
White Oak Global Advisors, on behalf of its institutional clients, has partnered with C2FO to offer new receivable financing options to C2FO’s extensive network of businesses throughout the US.
Established in 2008, C2FO is an industry leader in true dynamic discounting for businesses around the world. The C2FO “Name your rate” model lets businesses improve cash flow by offering their customers a discount they determine in exchange for early payment of invoices.
With the White Oak partnership, C2FO can provide businesses access to additional funding options when early payment is not available from out-of-network customers. In addition to this
Good Returns Group has secured USD1 million of funding from Inverdale Capital Management, an asset management firm focused on alternative investments.
The capital will enable Good Returns to serve the needs of its larger clients and strategically grow its impact programs.
This backing from one of Dallas’ leading asset managers highlights the significant potential of Good Returns’ approach to funding the growth of “impact organisations,” those that address social challenges using financially and operationally sustainable models. It also demonstrates a higher level of engagement from North Texas individual and institutional investors in the impact investment movement.
“Good Returns’ vision
Frontier Capital has made a majority growth equity investment in Agreement Express, a SaaS-based digital on-boarding platform provider focused on streamlining and enhancing the client experience for wealth management, payments, and insurance providers.
Frontier Capital is a Charlotte-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business services companies.
The Agreement Express end-to-end digital on-boarding platform aims to take the complexity out of the first crucial touchpoint of the customer lifecycle.
The investment is intended to support Agreement Express as it seeks to accelerate growth through expansion of sales and marketing operations, furthering technology innovation, and extending
Mobeus has made a GBP14 million investment in Geotech backing the roll-out of the company’s patented soil stabilisation system, which delivers compelling cost savings and environmental benefits to infrastructure projects.
Geotech is a specialist in ground stabilisation services for construction and infrastructure projects. Its unique and patent-protected “Geobind” system strengthens ground for temporary and permanent works in a fraction of the time of traditional methods.
As a result, Geobind delivers significant environmental, cost and programme benefits to main contractors which are rapidly adopting it as a preferred solution for the construction of access roads, highways, car parks and commercial
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