Allocations
Isomer Capital has completed the first close of “Isomer Capital Opportunities”. The new co-investment fund is backed by British Business Investments, through its Managed Funds Programme, amongst other global institutions.
The goal of the new opportunities fund is to build on the success of ‘Isomer Capital I’, the firm’s fund-of-funds that invests into early-stage venture capital firms across Europe. Isomer Capital Opportunities will enable the firm to continue early growth investing alongside its VC partners into the UK and Europe’s fastest growing technology companies.
Isomer Capital Opportunities will provide ongoing support to fast-growing technology scale-ups from within the
ThinCats, an alternative finance provider to mid-sized SMEs, has announced a strategic investment in the company from Wafra Capital Partners (WCP) of GBP160 million. WCP has partnered with Quilam Capital on the transaction.
Having lent almost GBP1 billion to UK SMEs over the last few years, the investment from WCP, alongside senior bank and institutional funding, enables ThinCats to lend a further GBP2 billion. Following its full investment, WCP will become a significant minority shareholder in ThinCats.
ThinCats will continue to serve mid-sized SMEs, alongside their advisors, across the UK with its pragmatic credit process, supported by proprietary
Prime Capital has completed the Third Closing of its commingled infrastructure fund. With this Closing PGEIF reached total commitments of EUR342 million.
The fund was launched in June 2020 and focuses on wind-powered energy assets in the Nordic countries. It aims to secure assets in their late development stage and exploit their full return potential by employing a value-add strategy. Prime Capital identifies and secures attractive opportunities at an early stage, optimising all technical and commercial aspects of the projects, including financing and power purchase agreements. It seeks to build its projects with the most efficient technology on the market.
nSure.ai, a predictive AI fraud protection company, focusing on the unique needs of digital goods retailers, has completed a successful seed fundraising round of USD6.8 million, led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, Kamet – an AXA backed venture builder, Moneta Seeds and private investors.
These funds will go towards further developing nSure.ai’s predictive AI and machine learning algorithms that have reimagined digital fraud detection, reducing decline rates by 90 per cent from an industry standard of declining 20 per cent to only 2 per cent.
Unlike physical goods, digital goods are instantly delivered and deposited. These include gift cards,
The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has in the last 12 months, invested over GBP3.6 million in eight dynamic growth businesses across the North East, driving economic prosperity and creating over 100 jobs.
Notable transactions include the GBP1 million investment into Fintech platform, Pockit, as part of Pockit’s GBP15 million Series B funding round to deliver on its ambitious expansion plans and embark on a recruitment drive to create 17 new jobs in Newcastle in 2021.
OCR Labs has announced a EUR12.5 million Series A round led by Turkish investors the Oyak Group, to expand its services and team to the UK and Turkish markets. The Australian founded company is viewed as a world leader in the digital ID verification space, solving major challenges including identity fraud and regulatory compliance, using its proprietary technology.
OCR Labs Founders Daniel Aiello and Matthew Adams wanted to create a product that streamlined customer onboarding whilst protecting organisations against the increasing risk of fraud and identity theft. They wanted to build a fully automated process, removing the need for people
Industry Services Co (ISC), a provider of industrial maintenance services and a portfolio company of Osceola Capital, has acquired three additional refractory and industrial maintenance services companies: Oak Mountain Industries, Bisco Refractories, and Glasrock.
Oak Mountain Industries (OMI), headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, is a refractory solutions provider specializing in refractory maintenance, installation, and product selection and supply. The company services industrial customers in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. OMI services a broad range of industries, including steel, coke, cement and aluminum.
Bisco Refractories, headquartered in Birmingham, AL, provides a full range of refractory services, including plant maintenance, installation services,
Private investor clients of Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business, have invested GBP6.75 million in MatOrtho, to support its international growth and product development.
Founded in 2010, MatOrtho designs, manufactures and commercialises performance leading, orthopaedic implant devices. It is one of the UK’s most innovative orthopaedic device designers. The company has achieved strong growth and has built a truly global presence, supplying implant devices into many of the world’s orthopaedic markets.
MatOrtho’s mission is improving the quality of life of all patients who receive one of its devices. Based in Leatherhead, the company has an international reputation
Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset management group, has completed the acquisition of a qualified minority stake in Ecopol, a fast-growing manufacturer of water-soluble and biodegradable films for household single-dose detergents.
Carbone, Ecopol CEO will retain the control of the Company and benefit from Tikehau Capital support to further accelerate and strengthen its development plan.
“I’m delighted to announce Tikehau Capital’s investment in Ecopol. This partnership strengthens our shareholders’ base and our ability to achieve our ambitious targets. We have grown significantly over the last three years thanks to our commitment to develop a high-quality film and to the support
LGT Capital Partners has held final close of Crown Global Secondaries V (CGS V), its fifth private equity investment programme investing globally in secondaries, at the hard cap of USD4.5 billion.
The programmes’s investor base consists of more than 100 institutions, including pension funds, endowments, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and financial institutions in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
André Aubert, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, says: “With CGS V, we continue to see increasing appetite from institutional investors globally for secondaries, together with our successful investment strategy and results from predecessor funds.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
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