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Bought By Many, a London-based pet insurance provider, has secured a GBP78.4 million (~USD98 million) growth equity investment led by FTV Capital, a US financial services-focused growth equity investment firm, alongside follow-on from numerous existing investors.The capital raise follows impressive growth for Bought By Many, which launched its market-leading suite of pet insurance policies in 2017 and now insures over 200,000 pets.
Sales of the company’s cat and dog policies increased by more than 150 per cent over the last year. Thousands of pet owners voted Bought By Many the UK’s Most Trusted Pet Insurance Provider in 2019. The company
RLG Capital & Trinity Private Equity Group has made a USD38 million investment in learning solutions company eLearning Brothers, enabling its simultaneous acquisition of industry innovators Trivantis and Edulence. Co-investors include HCAP Partners and Eagle Marsh Holdings with a senior debt facility provided by KeyBank N.A. This investment launches eLearning Brothers as a unique eLearning platform that combines high-quality courses and related content with Lectora, an industry-leading rapid authoring tool, CenarioVR, a cutting-edge virtual reality course builder, and KnowledgeLink, a nimble learning management system (LMS), creating a complete online ecosystem to better serve learning professionals.
“This investment combines the industry-leading courses
Nordic real estate investor NREP has secured a minority investment from Novo Holdings. NREP, which is controlled by its senior partners, will now be able to invest more into its own funds while accelerating ventures into technology, sustainability and understanding customers.
NREP has developed a series of innovative real estate products within co-living, student housing, care homes and modern logistics. Novo Holdings becomes a non-controlling minority shareholder by injecting capital into NREP, to accelerate the company’s further development of customer-centric, sustainable real estate concepts and support NREP’s ambition to improve the built environment and pioneer the industry.
”Novo Holdings is well-reputed
Fitz Gate Ventures has completed the fundraising for its second venture capital fund. Founded in July 2015 by Jim Cohen and Mark Poag, Fitz Gate Ventures invests a majority of its capital in startups from the Princeton University ecosystem, with a minority of its capital available to be invested more broadly. Fitz Gate has 15 current portfolio company investments (and one exit), and all of the startups that have gone out to raise additional capital following Fitz Gate’s investment have done so successfully at premiums from some of the best known venture capital firms in the world.
For Fund II, Fitz
Ashburton Investments, the Jersey-based asset management business of FirstRand Group, has signed an agreement with JTC to administer fund shareholder accounts following full regulatory approval. The partnership will see JTC provide fund administration and fund accounting services to Ashburton Investments investors. The agreement will provide clients in Ashburton’s Jersey domiciled funds and nominee service with an enhanced administration service, delivered through the latest advances in fund administration technology.
This follows a review of Ashburton Investments’ operating platform to better meet the needs of the group’s global client base.
JTC is one of the largest providers of fund, corporate and private wealth
Alternative Investment Partners Private Markets (AIP Private Markets), part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has closed a new fund which will focus on climate solutions.The USD110 million fund seeks to address critical climate issues including global warming and pollution, depleting resources and eco diversity. This globally diversified private markets offering was launched in a first of its kind collaboration with the US congregations of Dominican Sisters to find investment solutions which focus on climate change and aiding marginalised communities that are disproportionately impacted by global warming.
Since its inception in 2000, AIP Private Markets has focused on providing innovative client
A Newcastle tech start-up whose software helps sales staff to find and close new leads has raised GBP400,000 to further develop its product and expand its team.Allegrow has secured funding from the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), which is supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia, along with investment from Mercia’s EIS funds and a number of private investors.
Allegrow is a sales automation platform for business to business companies – where generating new opportunities is a top priority. The platform puts sales representatives in touch with key decision-makers in their target industries through data-driven outreach,
A Liverpool-based chemical technology company helping in the fight against dementia, cancer and respiratory illnesses, has secured GBP2.25 million in a funding round led by the VC firms Deepbridge Capital and Praetura Ventures.Liverpool ChiroChem (LCC), the developer and manufacturer of chemical components that are critical to the research and development of new drugs, also saw investment from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
LCC is a chemistry-based contract research organisation (CRO) that produces and supplies chiral small molecules to the global pharmaceutical and biotech research and development sector. Its goal
A Coventry-based manufacturer responsible for producing all-electric, black taxis – ‘Hackney Carriages’ – approved by Transport for London (TfL) has secured a GBP1.25 million loan.The funding, which was provided by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and Maven Capital Partners, will enable Dynamo to recruit and train 50 new employees. The firm is also set to scale up its production capacity.
Dynamo produces an electric taxi known as the ‘Dynamo taxi’. A fully electric version of London’s iconic black cab, the zero-emission vehicle is based on the Nissan e-NV200 and is manufactured in association with Nissan.
Dynamo taxis were
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