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Crover Ltd, the Edinburgh based start-up and developer of the first robotic device able to “swim” deep in granular bulks such as cereal grain, has announced its first funding round through Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding platform.
After “bootstrapping”, raising more than GBP600,000 in innovation prizes and grants (including the likes of Converge, Scottish Enterprise and Innovate UK), Crover is opening a seed funding round accessible to seasoned and new investors that want to be part of a pioneering, multi-award-winning company.
Crover’s target is to raise at least GBP150,000 in equity, to begin small series manufacturing, that will help with the
Genstar Capital and TA Associates have signed a definitive agreement to merge their portfolio companies, Compusoft, an international provider of specialised visual Configure, Price, Quote (vCPQ) software to key retail and manufacturing industries, and 2020 Technologies (2020), a provider of specialised computer-aided design (CAD), configure, price, quote (CPQ) and enterprise solutions dedicated to interior design, space planning and furniture manufacturing industries.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021.
Compusoft and 2020 will be combined in a merger of equals to create a leading provider of space planning and manufacturing solutions for the residential and
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) has successfully completed a previously announced investment in ArchKey Solutions (ArchKey), a North American electrical and technologies contracting and services provider, alongside the Company’s management team. One Rock’s stake in ArchKey was acquired from funds managed by the GFI Energy Group of Oaktree Capital Management, LP (Oaktree).
Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, ArchKey is an industry-leading specialty services contractor providing scalable electrical and technologies solutions nationally. ArchKey offers electrical construction, maintenance and a range of sophisticated technologies services, including control and automation, mobile solutions, audio visual solutions, and security and life safety
Weinberg Capital has acquired shares in the Bourdoncle group, a key player in the French bistro-catering industry. This is the fifth acquisition of Weinberg Capital’s fund LBO WCP#3.
Led by catering specialist Thierry Bourdoncle, the group currently owns 16 establishments in Paris (Durand Dupont in Neuilly, Le Dôme de Villiers in the 17th arrondissement, Le Hibou, Le Mabillon in the sixth arrondissement, the hotel-restaurant le Central in Trouville sur Mer) and is in the process of acquiring five other restaurants.
The transaction reflects the buy-and-build strategy of the LBO WCP#3 fund. Weinberg Capital is aiming for a net
Finance for Tomorrow has announced the launch of Investors for a Just Transition, the first global investor engagement coalition focused on promoting a socially acceptable environmental transition to low-carbon economies.
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP250,000 in Boiler Plan to support the company’s growth and training centre in Featherstone, West Yorkshire.
The transaction also includes a GBP500,000 investment from the North East Development Capital Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund also managed by Maven, and a further GBP750,000 was invested on behalf of the Government’s Future Fund.
The funding will support Boiler Plan’s long-term strategy to invest in its new operating platform to streamline efficiencies and infrastructure. This will allow the
Velocity Ventures, a hospitality and travel-focused venture capital firm based in Singapore, announces the initial closing of the first-ever venture capital fund dedicated to hospitality and travel startups.
The fund has a Covid-19 themed investment mandate, focusing on supporting distressed and disrupting seed and early growth stage hospitality and travel startups in Southeast Asia.
The initial closing brings the fund close to 40 per cent of the targeted USD20 million commitment. Investors in the new fund include strategic individual investors, family offices, and other institutional capital.
The first closing of this one-of-a-kind investment fund validates investor belief in a
Novalis Biotech, an early-stage venture capital investor in technologies aimed at revolutionising healthcare, has closed its EUR25 million second fund, the Novalis Biotech Acceleration Fund.
Both new and returning investors have participated in the fundraising. The second fund investor base includes institutional investors, such as Participatie Maatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV), family offices, as well as HNWIs.
The Biotech Acceleration Fund will continue to invest in start-up and scale-up companies that are transforming healthcare through “enabling technologies”. Examples of these technologies are genomics, bioinformatics, drug research or manufacturing tools, diagnostics and personalised medicine. Investments will be split between early-stage incubation projects
Investcorp has invested in Heritage Foods, a buy-and-build platform of condiments and sauces brands with long-standing heritage in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
The transaction was in partnership with China Resources and Fung Strategic Holdings Limited and concluded through the Asia Food Growth Fund I, a dedicated private equity fund investing in a diversified portfolio of food related companies in Asia.
Heritage Foods was established in 2015 and is principally involved in the investment and reorganisation of food businesses in the fast-moving consumer goods market in Asia, in addition to the acquisition of food brands with a strong Asian
Ladi Greenstreet and Daisy Onubogu have taken over the leadership of Diversity VC, as CEO and COO respectively.
The new leadership team was selected following a competitive application process using blind hiring platform Applied, and were assessed by independent VC and technology professionals.
Diversity VC has been led by a group of volunteers from the venture capital industry since its inception in 2016. Continuing in this tradition, Ladi currently leads Accenture’s Open Innovation program in the UK and Ireland; and Daisy is Backed VC’s Head of Network and Community. As communicated last year, co-founders Check Warner (CEO), Lillian Li
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