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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange has backed the newly launched Kraken Ventures, an independent investment fund targeting early stage companies and protocols across the crypto and fintech ecosystem.
The fund will invest in the technologies powering the next wave of crypto and fintech innovation and provide entrepreneurs with the financial resources and industry expertise needed to build and scale their business.
Kraken Ventures will focus on areas including fintech, crypto companies & protocols, decentralised finance (DeFi) as well as enabling technologies such as AI, Machine and Deep Learning, Reg Tech, and cybersecurity. Kraken Ventures offers the best of both worlds in
Focus Group, a UK provider of business communications and technology solutions, has completed the acquisition of swcomms.
Focus Group has been looking to expand its portfolio of businesses again and swcomms was a perfect fit to accelerate its growth in the South West of the UK. With its expansion of data centre technologies, just one of the few located in this region this creates vast opportunities for Focus Group and further investments for the future.
The company will continue to operate under its brand name. The existing management team and employees will continue to lead and drive the business forward
Bunker Hill Capital, a Boston-based private equity investor in lower middle market companies, has sold Taos Mountain (Taos), a San Jose-based multi-cloud consulting firm, to IBM.
Bunker Hill Capital acquired Taos in August 2015 and was joined in the transaction with equity, senior debt and subordinated debt financing from Ric Urrutia, Abacus Finance Group, GMB Capital Partners and Brookside Mezzanine Partners.
“From the day we closed, we have had a great working relationship with the Taos team,” says Rufus Clark, a Managing Partner at Bunker Hill Capital. “Ric Urrutia, founder of Taos, was a true partner from day one
BlackRock Long Term Private Capital (LTPC) announces it has reached an agreement to acquire Aquila Heywood, a UK based market leader in pensions administration software and services.
The investment will enable Aquila Heywood to further grow its highly innovative suite of software solutions, supporting the current and future needs of a fast-growing customer base within the Pensions sector.
The existing management team, led by CEO Andy Ross, remain fully committed to leading the business and driving the next phase of the company’s growth.
The partnership with Aquila Heywood is BlackRock LTPC’s third investment overall and second in Europe.
IW Capital has completed an oversubscribed GBP800k investment in the latest round of a GBP2.9 million raise for Ubamarket LTD.
Ubamarket LTD – founded in 2016 – is a pioneer of ‘Scan Pay Go’ technology, offering solutions to providing the fastest ‘in and out’ visit to supermarkets, through features such as aisle sat-nav, automated lists, facial recognition and till-less check out. For their retail app Ubamarket, partnerships with SPAR and Central England Co-Op have reinforced the skill and innovation devoted to the app, as well as the highlighting the consumer need for such technology.
This top-up investment from
Private Equity Wire’s Technology Summit kicked off on Wednesday, an event that will look at how digitisation and the adoption of new technologies are shaping the world of private equity and some of the future trends in private equity tech.
Sovereign Capital Partners’ portfolio company ACOLIN, a provider of regulatory and cross-border fund distribution services, has acquired Fundbase, a digital fund distribution and data management business, from Swiss FinTech business Nectar Digital Wealth.
This is ACOLIN’s first acquisition since Sovereign backed the MBO of the business in June 2020 to further develop its client base and service offering through a strategy of organic and acquisitive growth.
Fundbase provides asset managers with access to professional investors through a digital marketing and communication portal. For investors, it delivers a sophisticated data and document management offering to track selected funds. The acquisition gives
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in ADEY, a UK specialist in solutions to protect water-based heating systems, to Polypipe Group plc (Polypipe), a provider of sustainable water and climate management solutions for the built environment.
The transaction values the business at GBP210 million.
Gloucestershire-headquartered ADEY specialises in the design, manufacture, and supply of innovative products and services that significantly improve the effectiveness of domestic and commercial heating and cooling systems and water treatment systems.
LDC invested in ADEY in June 2016 to support domestic and international expansion. During a four-and-a-half-year partnership, the business has
After the success of its Smart City I Venture fund, Eurazeo has announced the initial closing of its Smart City II Venture fund at EUR80 million to invest in the most promising energy, mobility proptech and logistics start-ups worldwide.
This first round of fundraising has brought together top-tier investors including longstanding partners of Smart City II Venture Fund as well as new partners in Europe and Asia: French, German and Asian groups (carmaker Stellantis, electric utilities EDF and Mainova, public transportation operator RATP, energy major Total, logistics champion Duisport and Thaï real estate developer Sansiri), institutional investors as PRO BTP
BGF has exited its investment in Arcinova, a UK-based multi-service contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO).
Following a period of growth and expansion, the business has been acquired by Quotient Sciences, a drug development and manufacturing accelerator, backed by the global private equity firm Permira.
Marking its first investment in life sciences, BGF invested GBP5 million into Arcinova in 2018. The funding was used to accelerate growth by increasing production capacity and recruiting more staff. BGF’s team provided strategic support to Arcinova’s growth strategy, including supporting the strengthening of its Board and management team, and recruiting chief executive Roger
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