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John Davies has joined Pitalia Capital to launch a new investment fund in response to increased demand for capital and support from small to mid-sized businesses across the UK.
The firm, which is part of the Pitalia group of companies and funded by entrepreneur Anil Pitalia, will seek to invest across a diverse portfolio of ambitious businesses. This will include early-stage companies looking for growth capital to scale, as well as backing management buyouts of mid-sized firms.
It will focus on flexible deal structures, enabling its team to support a broad range of businesses by deploying up to GBP10
E-commerce specialist detected has raised GBP900,000 in its latest funding round bringing total funding raise to GBP2 million.
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has agreed to sell AOC, a global producer of specialty resins, to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds (Lone Star).
The contemplated transaction is subject to AOC workers’ councils information and consultation and relevant regulatory authorities’ approval.
Headquartered in Schiphol, The Netherlands, AOC is a global CASE & Colorants leader, producing and formulating unsaturated polyester resins, vinyl ester resins, and other solutions for applications in Coatings & Protective Barriers, Colorants & Visual Effects, Adhesives, and Conventional Composite Resins.
AOC serves customers globally with specialty products for the automotive, marine, corrosion, construction, and infrastructure segments. The
Vaayu, a carbon tracking software company for retailers, has raised USD1.57 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by CapitalT, supported by a number of angel investors including Atomico’s Angel Program, Planet Positive LP, Saarbrücker 21, Expedite Ventures and NP-Hard Ventures.
This comes as the fashion industry is still responsible for 10 per cent of annual global carbon emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
Vaayu integrates seamlessly with various point-of-sale systems, such as Shopify and Webflow, to pull data on logistics, operations and packaging so retailers can monitor, measure and reduce their carbon
InfanDx AG (Cologne, Germany), a privately held diagnostics company focusing on the development and commercialisation of novel diagnostic solutions for newborns, has held the first closing of a Series A financing round raising EUR4 million from new and existing investors.
In the transaction, new investor Alluti GmbH – Smart Invest, the family office of entrepreneur and brand specialist Bert Bleicher, joined existing investors participating in the raise, such as serial entrepreneur Jochen Tschunke and the LSI Pre-Seed Fonds GmbH of Life Science Inkubator Bonn, among others.
The proceeds will fund the further development of the Company’s lead product, the HypoxE
Valuation Research Corporation (VRC), a global provider of independent valuation support and advisory services, has completed of three solvency opinions in connection with the recapitalisation of three private equity-backed health and cosmetic care companies.
VRC was engaged to provide solvency opinions by the boards of Milan Laser Holdings, a physician-owned permanent laser hair reduction provider operating in 20 states; OB Hospitalist Group, a provider of on-site, board-certified obstetric and gynaecology hospitalist programmes and related physician support services; and Soliant Health, a nationwide healthcare staffing company.
“We are pleased that these three leading healthcare organisations chose VRC to provide solvency evaluations
An affiliate of Turnspire Capital Partners (Turnspire) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Daniel Measurement and Control business (Daniel) from Emerson Electric Co (NYSE: EMR).
Headquartered in Houston with a state of the art, strategically located manufacturing facility in Chihuahua, Mexico, Daniel is a global leader providing flow and energy measurement technologies and services to the natural gas and refined hydrocarbon industries. With an 85-year heritage as the preeminent supplier of engineered solutions for flow measurement in custody transfer applications, Daniel is the most trusted brand for customers across the energy and hydrocarbon supply chain.
The transaction
Augmentum Fintech, the UK’s only publicly listed investment company focusing on the fintech sector, and Tikehau Capital, the global alternative asset manager, have announced an enhanced partnership to promote further growth in the burgeoning European fintech sector.
Covid-19 has been a catalyst for many fintech companies with an increasing demand from both consumers and businesses for enhanced digital capabilities. As the only publicly listed Fintech venture capital fund in the UK, Augmentum Fintech is playing a key role in supporting fintech companies to maximise their growth potential. As at end June 2021, Augmentum has backed 22 companies across diversified fintech
PureCars, a martech and advertising intelligence provider for automotive retailers and marketers, which is backed by Diversis Capital Partners and Stage 1 Ventures, has acquired shopping personalisation (DXP) and fintech platform, truPayments.
PureCars’ tech optimises media buys to achieve lower ad costs per unit sold and per RO, resulting in increased profitability for dealerships. truPayments’ tech converts shoppers earlier in the buying process, further reducing advertising costs for dealerships, while providing an improved buying experience for their customers. PureCars is backed by Diversis Capital Partners and Stage 1 Ventures.
truPayments, is a financial technology company with deep roots in
Premier IT, a provider of e-learning, workforce planning and performance software for the healthcare sector, has secured a GBP1 million term loan that will be used to fund the acquisition of Zebra Workforce, a start-up business that specialises in creating automated employee schedules for the health and care workforces.
Premier IT provides its software to more than 200 customers, including GPs, hospitals and independent healthcare organisations, reaching healthcare professionals such as consultants, nurses, midwives and care support staff. Demand for its educational products is driven by the regulatory requirement for healthcare professionals to demonstrate continual professional development, as instructed by
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