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Bodytrak, the first in-ear, multi-parameter body monitor and cloud analytics platform, is launching on Capital Cell, a dedicated life sciences equity crowdfunding platform, with the aim of reaching a GBP1.0 million seed-investment target.
Since its launch at CES in early 2017 Bodytrak has already attracted significant attention from a range of industries, the media and investors alike.
Bodytrak will be available for investment from Monday 16 October, with potential backers able to view the opportunity and pledge on Capital Cell’s discovery page 9 October. The company has already been backed to the tune of GBP3 million by several major
Gendius, a digital health start-up, has completed a Series A funding to launch Intellin – an App-based platform for people living with diabetes to better manage their condition.
The funding came from the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, managed by Catapult Ventures.
Diabetes is a global epidemic. The economic cost of treating diabetes in 2014 is estimated at over USD600 billion and the latest WHO report predicts there will be 592 million sufferers around the world by 2035. Healthcare systems are desperate for novel solutions to engage and empower people to manage their diabetes more effectively and mobile technologies are
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and Enso Ventures (Enso), a specialist early-stage venture capital firm, have invested GBP2million in Cognitive Geology (Cognitive).
The funding will accelerate the roll out of ‘Hutton’ to oil companies and enable Cognitive to develop its pipeline of advanced third-generation petroleum geoscience software modules. These are designed to further help geologists find, appraise, and develop both onshore and offshore conventional and unconventional oil & gas reserves.
Founded in 2014 by Geologist Luke Johnson, Edinburgh-based Cognitive recently launched ‘Hutton’, its first advanced geological data analysis tool. Petroleum geologists analysing the subsurface have to
Noerr has advised the Chinese motor manufacturer SEC Holding Co, Ltd, which also owns the publicly traded SEC Electric Machinery Co, on a strategic acquisition of drive technology specialist VEM, a member of the Merckle Group.
The VEM Group specialises in manufacturing electric drive systems, custom motors and special machines. The company, which is active worldwide and has 1,500 employees, had revenue of about EUR200 million during its most recent business year. In this transaction, the entrepreneurial family Merckle sold the shares in SEC that it had acquired in 1997. The sale includes all current worldwide locations of the electric
Secret Escapes, the London-based international online marketplace for affordable luxury travel deals, has closed a USD111 million (GBP83 million) Series D investment and debt facility.
This significant equity round was led by Singapore-headquartered Temasek, with participation from existing investors Idinvest Partners, and a debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank.
With the additional funding, Secret Escapes has now raised almost USD153 million (GBP104 million) in capital since its 2011 launch. In July 2015, the company raised USD60m (GBP37 million) in a round led by Google Ventures and Octopus Ventures.
Since the brand’s arrival onto the global travel scene in
Silicon Valley technology company Stellar Labs (Stella) has raised USD26.3 million in Series A equity financing from Global Jet Capital – a provider of corporate aircraft financing solutions capitalised by The Carlyle Group, Blackstone’s GSO Capital Partners, and AE Industrial Partners, Columbia Equity Partners (CEP), and Expa.
Together with previous equity rounds and funding from Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL), Stellar is investing over USD50 million in its next-generation technology platform for business aviation. Business aviation contributes USD150 billion to US economic output and employs more than 1.2 million people. It accounts for nearly 29 per cent of all consumer spending
McCarthy Denning has advised new Curzon Energy on the admission of its shares to the Standard List to trade on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company raised gross proceeds of GBP2.3 million by a placing and subscription at the time of admission.
Curzon Energy aims to be a global energy company which focuses on the exploration, appraisal, and development of oil and gas properties. The company, which listed with a market capitalisation of GBP7.2 million, will establish itself in this area by capitalising on its recent 100 per cent acquisition of Coos Bay Energy LLC,
Yorkshire-based Nationwide Window Cleaning has received new investment of GBP1.5 million from BGF to support its organic growth strategy and the acquisition of Reflekt Cleaning Company.
The investment follows a period of significant growth at NWC, with revenues increasing by close to 100 percent since BGF’s first investment, from GBP7.5 million in June 2014 to more than GBP14 million in June 2017.
Founded in 2009 by Thornton Tasker, NWC is now the largest window, gutter and high-level cleaning business in the UK. The company provides simple and complex cleaning services to customers including Heathrow Terminal 5, Royal Bank of
Security recruitment tech start up Broadstone has become the first Manchester business to receive Northern Powerhouse Investment Funding (NPIF) for its Broadstone Engage platform.
City centre based Broadstone offers an online recruitment marketplace for both jobseekers and employers in the private security industry. Broadstone has received GBP200,000 from Maven, one of the UK’s most active SME investors, and the NPIF, which aims to enable dynamic regional SMEs with innovative products and services to access funding which will develop their business.
Tom Pickersgill, director and founder at Broadstone, says: “We are proud to be the first Manchester-based business to receive
Hermes GPE, a specialist investor in global private equity, has successfully raised circa USD620 million for its co-investment platform.
The Hermes GPE PEC III Co-Investment Fund LP (‘PEC III’) has exceeded its USD300 million target fund size with total commitments of USD389 million raised from a club of global pension funds, professional investors and asset managers. This group includes the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, a leading US public sector retirement system, the Local Pensions Partnership, a collaboration between Lancashire County Pension Fund and London Pensions Fund Authority, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the global investment management organisation that
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