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Mandarin Capital Partners (MCP) III, a Private Equity fund specialising in investments in Italian export-oriented SMEs, has closed the combination of three companies active in the sector of bakery machinery for shops, patisseries, and pizzerias.
British Patient Capital has participated in Quell Therapeutics’ USD156 million Series B funding round. The deal is the first life sciences investment from Future Fund: Breakthrough, a GBP375 million programme where British Patient Capital co-invests with private sector investors in innovative R&D-intensive UK companies.
Quell Therapeutics (Quell), which is based at the Translation & Innovation Hub in London, is a specialist in the development of engineered T-regulatory (Treg) cell therapies for serious medical conditions driven by over activity of the immune system. Quell’s platform technology enables it to design, engineer and manufacture at scale therapeutic Treg products, which have greater
Sports and event management business Cube International has secured an investment of GBP3.75 million from the alternative funder BOOST&Co following a series of new account wins.
The funding, which will be used to underpin the delivery and management of its new projects, will also help to support its work with future new clients, not least by creating a significant number of jobs.
The Midlands-based company, which has extensive experience in sports retail merchandising, creates and manages pop-up merchandising structures for events and supports its partners’ planning and implementation of experiential campaigns.
The firm recently secured some major contracts,
Adenia Partners, a private equity firm investing in Africa, has partnered with Proparco, the private sector financing arm of Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD Group), to buy Overseas Catering Services (OCS), a corporate catering and related services provider in Africa and the Middle East.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
OCS was established in 2009 by François Bonnot and René Lancien, founder of Ansamble Group, a leading caterer in France. OCS offers corporate catering services under the brand “Ansamble” to more than 180 clients across five countries: Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mauritania, and UAE. It
Current Health, a leading care-at-home technology platform that brings together remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organisations, has become Europe’s second-largest digital health exit following its acquisition by US-based consumer electronics retailer Best Buy – after announcing a value of approximately USD400 million in yesterday’s earnings call.
Blue Motor Finance (Blue), a financing company for used cars in the UK, has successfully completed a syndication of part of its existing GBP300 million forward flow transaction to Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered) and funds managed by Schroders Capital.
This is the first transaction Blue has undertaken with Standard Chartered and Schroders Capital managed funds and continues Blue’s desire to both diversify and extend partnerships across its funding platform. It demonstrates continued confidence in Blue’s platform and business model from a broad range of blue chip funders and investors.
The transaction highlights Blue’s continuing commitment to developing its funding
Vauban, a platform that provides venture capital fund managers with everything they need to raise a fund and invest capital quickly, has closed a GBP4.7 million funding round.
Investors include co-leads Pentech and Outward, in addition to 7 per cent Ventures and MJ Hudson. A roster of high profile angel investors have also participated; this includes the CEO of Nested, Matt Robinson; the founder of Grabayo, Will Neale; the founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, Charles Delingpole; Partner at Augmentum Fintech Perry Blacher; and Al Giles, from legal services provider Axiom.
Through its end-to-end platform, Vauban provides VCs and angel investors
LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor.
For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that are now French leaders in the design and online sale of home & garden products. Both companies have expanded rapidly, based on a strategy of tapping all digital channels to sell to BtoC customers for ID Market and BtoB customers for Sourcidys. In less than 10 years, they have become
NOS 5G Fund, created by NOS and managed by Armilar Venture Partners, and Triple Point Ventures, have co-invested EUR4.4 million in digital health start-up knok.
The investment round also includes participation from previous investors, the Social Innovation Fund and Social and Environmental Impact Fund MSM (Mustard Seed MAZE). The Portuguese start-up will use the investment to develop complete and fully integrated telemedicine solutions which benefit enormously from 5G technology.
knok’s platform incorporates video consultations and supporting tools for remote monitoring of patients via artificial intelligence, all through a single platform. Through this solution, the patients can identify symptoms, share clinical
everstox closes 20 million Series A to expand its Logistics-as-a-Service platform further across Europe.
“In today’s agile eCommerce environment, successful merchants scale demand for their businesses in no time. However, scaling logistics and warehousing operations is the missing piece that is still highly complex and breaks all growth momentum. We are here to change that and bring a fully automated and flexible solution to all merchants,” says Boris Bösch.
Bösch, Felix Haberland and Johannes Tress have developed everstox, a Logistics-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform. The everstox solution combines a network of professional third-party logistics operators with a tech platform for real-time management
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