Allocations
Riata Capital Group (RCG or Riata) has made a strategic investment in Greenix Pest Control (Greenix) in partnership with Bob Nilsen and the Company’s management team.
Greenix, estimated to be the thirteenth largest residential pest control company in the US based on subscribers, is a market-leading provider of subscription-based pest control services to residential customers in thirteen markets across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Eastern regions of the United States. This marks RCG’s first investment as a part of the firm’s strategy to allocate capital to opportunities in the residential home-services sector. Terms of RCG’s investment were not disclosed.
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MIG AG, through its MIG Fonds, has kicked off the year with a seed investment in deep-tech company Zadient Technologies, based in Chambéry, France. and founded in 2020.
Joining the financing round led by MIG is Vestel Ventures, the investment arm of Turkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel.
Zadient, which was founded in 2020, specialises in the production of synthetic silicon carbide (SiC) a building block for power semiconductors important for the rapidly growing electric vehicle market and used in a variety of other industrial applications. SiC occurs in nature as the extremely rare mineral, moissanite. Current processing methods of synthetic
A Cambridge University programme has produced a raft of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class innovators – attracting over GBP50million (GBP53,561,000) of funding and investments over the last four years for the alumni’s life-changing projects.
Notable alumni completing the programme have included:
Dr Steve Brierley, Founder/CEO of technology sensation, Riverlane – which is making landmark developments maximising the power and reach of Quantum Computing.
Dr Carmen Palacios Berraquero, national award-winning physicist and Co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology, which is making ground-breaking single-photon components to enable the next generation of commercially-viable photonic quantum technologies – creating a new era of communications,
Drug discovery and development company, Blueberry Therapeutics, has secured a GBP3.6 million extension to its previously successful GBP10.8 million Series B fundraising.
Japanese investor, Medical Incubator Japan (MIJ), and a private syndicate of US Board Certified Dermatologists – led by Dr Omar Ibrahimi of the Connecticut Skin Institute – have invested GBP3.1 million and GBP500k, respectively.
Blueberry Therapeutics specialises in dermatology-focused drug discovery and development, working in the field of nano-medicines for difficult to treat diseases of the skin and nail, including fungal nail infections, athlete’s foot, and acne.
Funding will be put towards the development of BB2603;
Private Equity Wire’s Technology Summit continued on Thursday, where LPs and GPs explored themes around digitisation and how the adoption of new tech is shaping private equity.
Nordea Asset Management (NAM) – a specialist in sustainable and responsible investing – has received an allocation in excess of USD550 million into its Emerging STARS Bond strategy.
The investment came from Danish pension provider Velliv.
Nordea’s Emerging STARS Bond strategy is an actively managed emerging market debt portfolio, which primarily invests in hard currency sovereigns. It avoids countries with poor ESG profiles, which helps to protect against financially-material ESG risks.
NAM, which manages EUR254 billion and forms part of the largest financial services group in the Nordic region, has been a pioneer in the responsible investment space and
Onecom has acquired its closest rival, Olive Communications, in a move which creates one of the largest business-to-business mobile, fixed-line and cloud specialists in the UK.
Together, Onecom and Olive will provide services to more than 500,000 corporate and business end users this year, generating combined annual turnover of more than GBP140 million.
The acquisition was supported with follow-on funding from mid-market private equity firm LDC, which invested in Onecom in a GBP100 million deal in July 2019 to fuel the Hampshire-based business’s ambitious three-year growth strategy. Growth capital investor BGF, which invested GBP10 million into Olive in 2016, has
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
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
PGIM’s Stephen Oxley asks whether the convergence of liquid and illiquid alternatives really is in the best interests of investors?
PGIM’s Stephen Oxley asks whether the convergence of liquid and illiquid alternatives really is in the best interests of investors?