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Seedrs, the investment platform backed by Neil Woodford, saw more than GBP85 million invested into campaigns on the platform and 159 deals funded in 2016.
The British fintech company has been live for four-and-a-half years and recently surpassed GBP190 million invested into campaigns with more than 450 deals funded since its launch.
October marked the platform’s biggest ever month with almost GBP20 million invested into campaigns, GBP4.35 million of which was invested into employee and customer engagement provider, Perkbox, becoming Seedrs’ biggest fundraise since launch.
In the same month almost 3,000 Seedrs investors backed peer-to-peer travel money platform,
Omnes Capital is selling its stake in DenyAll to cybersecurity specialist Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity.
Omnes Capital has been shareholder in the company alongside Truffle Capital for many years.
It played an active role in its consolidation strategy, which was made concrete with the successive acquisitions of VulnIT in 2012 and BeeWare in 2014.
More particularly, Omnes Capital has encouraged DenyAll’s international expansion. The company has been able to develop its operations in over 30 countries.
DenyAll shares with Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity the ambition of creating a European market leader in cybersecurity with an international presence.
Edison Advisors, the investor relations and consulting arm of the Edison Group, has launched a full-service investor relations business to give private and public companies access to its team of analysts and pools of investment capital through its global investor networks.
Established 15 years ago, Edison Investment Research has a team of 80 research analysts producing research across all sectors.
Edison has developed an intelligent distribution platform with analytics capability to identify global investment trends and market dynamics, which it has now evolved for the benefit of investor relations clients.
Rachel Carroll (pictured), global head of investor relations
Tikehau Capital has filed a tender offer with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) for the securities of Salvepar, a listed company that focuses on minority investments in listed and non-listed companies.
Tikehau Capital has also initiated a project to reorganise its shareholding structure and governance, as well as those of its consolidated subsidiaries, branches and interests as a whole, in order to prepare for a new phase of development.
As part of this project, Tikehau Capital, which holds 58.8 per cent of the share capital and 59.8 per cent of the voting rights of Salvepar, is filing a
Founded to facilitate access to drugs in development for physicians and their patients, myTomorrows has closed a EUR10 million growth funding round co-led by EQT Ventures and Octopus Ventures, with participation from existing investors Balderton Capital and Sofinnova Partners.
Former GlaxoSmithKline chief medical officer James Shannon has also been appointed chairman of the supervisory board.
Currently active in 17 countries, myTomorrows saw there was a problem that needed solving in the way physicians and their patients could access investigational drugs rendering potentially life-saving drugs out of reach. By applying technologies, myTomorrows has built a platform for doctors and patients
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Ministry of Cake, the UK’s largest dedicated dessert manufacturer, in a sale to French counterpart Mademoiselle Desserts for an undisclosed sum.
Headquartered in Taunton, Ministry of Cake produces over three million slices of hand-finished cakes, puddings and desserts every week, supplying many major restaurant, pub and coffee shop chains.
LDC backed a management buyout of the business from Greencore Group in May 2014 with an investment strategy to deliver major growth across all channels of the business.
The business subsequently completed the acquisition of The Creative Foods factory
BaltCap Private Equity Fund II, managed by BaltCap, is to buy the business operations serving the local markets in the Baltic States from European vending and coffee services company Selecta Group.
The Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian businesses altogether employ about 75 people and generate net sales in excess of EUR10 million.
“BaltCap considers Selecta’s Baltic businesses as very successfully managed entities with a fully committed and experienced staff delivering excellent client satisfaction and outstanding results," says Sandijs Abolins-Abols, partner of BaltCap. "Thus, we are excited to enter the business that will serve as a solid base for pursuing business
Vortex, a European renewable energy platform managed by the private equity arm of EFG Hermes, is to acquire 100 per cent of a 365 MW operational solar PV power portfolio in the UK owned by TerraForm Power.
The transaction is valued at an enterprise value of circa GBP470 million and comprises 24 operational assets, representing one of the largest portfolios of solar PV in the UK.
The closing of the transaction is subject to the completion of certain conditions precedents.
“This landmark acquisition caps a two-year period in which our private equity team has built Vortex from a
NewSpring Holdings, NewSpring Capital’s dedicated buy and build strategy, has acquired Vertical Management Systems (VMS), headquartered in Pasadena, California.
VMS is a technology innovation firm which provides integrated solutions to solve today’s key issues like fiduciary risk, fee transparency and revenue reconciliation.
VMS processes over USD600 billion in assets, five million accounts and 500,000 trades annually.
“Since joining NewSpring Holdings, we’ve been evaluating various platforms to launch a new financial services growth initiative,” says Jim Ashton, general partner, NewSpring Holdings. “When NewSpring learned of the VMS opportunity and given my years of experience working with Kevin and Bob, we
Livingstone's media and technology team has advised mid-market private equity house Bowmark Capital and the corporate private equity business of Rothschild Merchant Banking, Five Arrows Principal Investments, on the sale of Autodata to Solera Holdings for GBP340 million.
Livingstone had previously advised the founders of Autodata on its GBP143 million sale to Bowmark and Five Arrows Principal Investments in May 2014 and subsequently advised Solera on its GBP288 million acquisition of CAP Automotive in November 2014.
The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to complete in February 2017.
Established in 1975, Autodata publishes technical information on approximately 40,000 vehicle models from
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