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Curam, a UK-wide carer platform that has set out to use technology to positively disrupt the UK’s GBP38 billion social care sector, has launched of its Series A round of fundraising. Since its launch in 2018, Curam has raised GBP3.6 million from high net worth and angel investors, and has rolled out its Curamcare platform and app across all the UK’s 124 postcode areas. The software behind the platform and app was designed and developed in-house in order to suit precisely the needs of care workers and their clients. With Curamcare, carers receive on average 25 per cent higher earnings
Singapore-based fintech BondEvalue has raised USD6 million in its Series A round of fund raising, with MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia and Citigroup among the new investors. Both institutions are expected to be represented on the board. The latest round brings the total raised by the company to USD10 million and affirms investor confidence as its digital exchange for trading fractionalised bonds continues to gain momentum. Other investors included existing shareholders Potato Productions, a company helmed by entrepreneur Lee Han Shih, and Octava, a Singapore-based family office. BondEvalue was established in 2016 to provide electronic bond trading and to make bond
VTB Capital has entered the growing Russian carsharing market, acquiring a USD75 million minority equity stake in Delimobil Holding , which controls the Russian entities owning the Delimobil, Anytime and Anytime.Prime brands. The funds raised in this transaction by Delimobil Holding will be used by Delimobil for further development and to strengthen the Group’s position in the Russian carsharing market. A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum by Yuri Soloviev, First Deputy President and Chairman of VTB Bank Management Board, and Vincenzo Trani, founder and president of Delimobil and MIKRO KAPITAL. Vincenzo Trani, founder
Overhaul, the industry’s first and only software-based, supply-chain visibility, integrity, and security solution for the world’s leading brands, announced its USD35 million Series B funding today. The current round is led by Macquarie Capital, with participation from Edison Partners and Avanta Ventures (venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group). Overhaul will use the investment to accelerate its roadmap in continuing to optmise its current category-creating products. 
The Artisanal Spirits Company (ASC”, owner of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) and  the largest collection of single malt single cask whiskies in the world, as well as a complementary range of premium spirits, has begun trading on AIM with an opening price of 118.75p per share.  This price delivers a return of approximately 3x cost on the price Edinburgh-based private equity firm Inverleith Fund invested into the Company nearly three years ago.  Inverleith also has majority shareholdings in consumer brands Good Hemp, which produces food & drink products from hemp seed; Montezuma’s, a premium British chocolate manufacturer; Planet
Greenleaf Power Consolidated LLC (Greenleaf), backed by Denham Capital, has secured USD36.7 million in project financing from East West Bank through its wholly-owned subsidiary Greenleaf Biomass Holdings LLC. This transaction marks one of the largest biomass power project financings in recent North American history.  This financing will be used to recapitalize two of Greenleaf’s prime assets – the 30 megawatt (“MW”) Honey Lake Power (“HLP”) project in Lassen County, California, and the 22 MW St-Félicien Cogénération (“SFC”) project in Quebec, Canada. Both HLP and SFC are power generation facilities that convert woody biomass waste into electricity that is sold under
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An in-depth look at how Cambridge Innovation Capital is leveraging its position within the University of Cambridge’s ecosystem to seek out disruptive innovators in technology and life science.
Stackline, a Seattle-based technology company that builds subscription-based ecommerce tools for thousands of the largest consumer brands and retailers, has received a USD130 million strategic investment from TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm.   TA’s investment comes on the heels of a USD50 million investment from the Growth Equity team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) in November 2020. Stackline will utilise TA’s capital to continue growing the company’s product offerings and expanding its global footprint.  Ecommerce is changing the way brands interact with consumers – and Stackline is powering that change by helping companies reach their
Prevayl, a northern start-up powering up an advanced generation of data-driven luxe sportswear has secured a GBP7.5 million investment from Stonebridge, the digital-first consumer brand investment firm. Stonebridge is headed by DTC entrepreneur James Cox (Simba Sleep, Mahabis, Torque Brands).   Prevayl was founded by former personal trainer Adam Crofts (CEO), alongside serial entrepreneur David Newns (Chair), one of the UK’s youngest-ever FTSE executives with two exits already under his belt, in April 2019 and launching to consumers in Q4 of 2021.  The duo spotted a gap in the market for a connected clothing brand that would look considered, feel
Funds managed by KKR, a global investment firm, have provided a credit facility of up to USD150 million to Jet Edge International (Jet Edge), a specialist in full-service private aviation responsible for operating the largest fleet of managed Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft in the United States.   The funding will be used to support the acceleration of the Company’s broad infrastructure, digital initiatives, Reserve membership, and comes as Jet Edge rolls out its AdvantEdge charter management platform nationwide. Aimed at substantially optimising the inefficiencies found in the private aviation industry’s existing ownership and charter management procedures, AdvantEdge simplifies and enhances

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