Allocations
Barkyn, a subscription service for pets that combines personalised healthy food with tele-vet services, has announced a further EUR3 million investment, extending its Series A to EUR8 million.
Barkyn had an impressive 2020 where it scaled fast to meet growing demand from dog owners. Due to its fast growth, FoodTech specialist Five Seasons Ventures has invested in Barkyn and will support its further expansion and future product development.
Five Seasons Ventures joins previous investors Indico Capital Partners, All Iron Ventures, Portugal Ventures and Shilling Capital, in supporting the company. Since its launch in 2017, the Portuguese business has raised a
Aksiom Services Group, a partnership between Ara Partners and the Aksiom Group, have px Group in partnership with company management.
px Group will continue to be led by its current senior management team and chairman, assuring complete continuity for px Group’s employees, customers, and other stakeholders. The transaction facilitates the exit of private equity firm Bluewater from px Group’s shareholder base, following a highly successful five-year partnership for both parties.
Geoff Holmes, px Group CEO, says: “For decades, px has provided safe and reliable operations to major infrastructure asset owners across the energy and industrial sectors. Working in partnership
Signaturit and Ivnosys, two providers of trust service and secure digital transaction management software in Southern Europe, have signed definitive transaction documents to join forces.
By combining Signaturit’s core cloud-based e-signature platform with Ivnosys’ suite of innovative, secure digital identities, digital notifications and digital signature solutions, the transaction seeks to create a full-service digital transaction management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, offering a broad suite of advanced tools to securely manage digital identity within the enterprise and provide trust-based process, contract and transaction management across functions and sectors. Going forward, customers are expected to benefit from the expanded combined product offering that
Dorilton, the private investment firm that acquired UK Formula 1 team Williams Racing in 2020, has launched Dorilton Ventures to lead significant minority investments in early to mid-stage technology companies focused on data-centric segments such as enterprise IT infrastructure, data science, and cyber security.
Matthew Savage, Dorilton’s co-founder and Chairman, says: “Dorilton Ventures brings the strength of our team and our approach – investing capital, time and expertise in long-term partnership with management – into the venture market.”
The Dorilton Ventures team includes investment professionals, data scientists, and IT infrastructure specialists. Dorilton Ventures will focus on delivering Dorilton’s capital, resources,
Private equity company Bluewater has sold px Group (px), having transformed the business during its five years of ownership to a market leader operating energy and energy transition assets throughout the UK.
Bluewater has overseen 27 per cent average annual growth, a near trebling of turnover, highly cash generative operations, and a seven-fold increase in EBITDA, from circa GBP2 million the year before acquisition to over GBP15 million in 2021.
Graeme Sword, Founding Partner at Bluewater, says: “I am pleased that this growth has been achieved during one of the most challenging economic climates in memory, impacted by the Coronavirus
Sovereign Capital Partners’ portfolio company ACOLIN, a provider of regulatory and cross-border fund distribution services, has acquired GFA, a SaaS-based data collection and analytics provider for asset managers.
This follows ACOLIN’s acquisition of digital fund distribution and data management business Fundbase in February.
Founded in 2014, GFA (www.gfa.lu) operates a SaaS-based data collection and analytics platform for asset managers and distributors to manage their increasing compliance obligations, and to enable asset managers to gain valuable insights into their distribution networks and identify opportunities to further improve business performance.
The acquisitions of both GFA and Fundbase (https://www.fundbase.com/) have accelerated
Spirit Pharmaceuticals has secured a growth capital investment from NewSpring Capital, Tecum Capital, Leedon Park Capital, and PNC Bank. The investor group backed CEO and Founder Ajoy Joshi to support the Company’s continued growth.
eSalesHub, a Yorkshire tech firm analysing big data using AI to optimise clients marketing spend, has secured a GBP1.65 million funding round from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven).
The NPIF – Maven Equity Fund invested GBP1.35 million, alongside the GBP300,000 from the Maven VCTs.
eSalesHub will invest the new funds, alongside internally generated cash, to scale the business and further develop its proprietary A.I technology solutions. Expansion is expected to create 25 new jobs across technology, data science, business development and sales & marketing at
‘Smart antenna’ designer Sofant Technologies has completed a follow-on fundraise of GBP740,000 in an oversubscribed funding round led by venture capital investor EMV Capital. The fundraise builds on last year’s GBP2.3 million pre-series A round for the Edinburgh-based 5G and satellite communications antenna developer.
In this week’s podcast, Anu Balasubramanian, partner at international law firm Paul Hastings, shares her views on whether US/European cross border M&A deal making will continue its upward trajectory, her outlook on the US economic recovery and what that will mean for European PE.
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