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Nu Quantum, a quantum photonics company, has completed a GBP650,000 pre-seed investment round led by Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from IQ Capital, Ahren Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Martlet Capital, the investment arm of Marshall of Cambridge Group.
The raise follows eight years of research at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Nu Quantum is building high-performance single-photon sources and detectors that work at room temperature. These devices are the building blocks that will enable a range of quantum technologies, the most near-term being Quantum Key Distribution (QKD): communication links which are completely secure as end users are
The Riverside Company (Riverside), a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has sold Fisher Unitech (Fisher), a provider of 3D design software tools and 3D printers, to Computer Aided Technology (CATI), a portfolio company of CIVIC Partners (CIVIC).
Based in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, Fisher has 17 locations with sales showrooms and training venues across the Midwest and Northeast. Fisher serves as a key channel partner to design software provider, Dassault Systemes Solidworks and 3D printer manufacturer, Statasys. Fisher aims to advance manufacturing in the US by selling, supporting and training customers on 3D
Global beauty brand SLG has acquired three high street brands – Amie Naturally Kind Skincare, Johnny’s Chop Shop Grooming and COLAB Dry Shampoo.
The three deals amount to a consideration of over GBP15 million.
SLG Brands was incorporated in 1985 and has evolved from contract manufacturer to award-winning multi-category brand innovator and global brand builder. It has fashioned a unique market positioning as a highly responsive and trend-led organisation, with integrated studios, brand development and R&D laboratory with headquartered in Cheltenham, England.
SLG received GBP10 million from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses,
Process Mining software provider Minit has raised EUR7 million in a Series A funding round, led by Target Global, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors, Earlybird’s Digital East Fund and OTB Ventures.
Founded in 2017, Minit builds intuitive Process Mining software that gives its enterprise customers insight into complex processes – like order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, customer journey or service delivery – and more importantly how these can be improved. Minit highlights opportunities for continuous process improvement and makes it easy to pinpoint and understand the sources of inefficiency – such as bottlenecks, or compliance violations – and their root
Funds advised by YFM Equity Partners (YFM) have backed a GBP4.5 million investment into SharpCloud Software Limited (SharpCloud) to support the continued growth and roll out of its enterprise SaaS product.
YFM’s investment comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies VCT plc and British Smaller Companies VCT2 plc, alongside YFM Equity Partners Growth II LP.
SharpCloud was founded in 2012 by Sarim Khan and Rusty Johnson, following the successful sale of their previous software business to Oracle Primavera. Having spent some time within the Business Intelligence (BI) and data analytics space, they noted a lack of powerful
Provate equity firm Permira has held a final closing for its latest buy-out fund Permira VII (P7), at its hard cap with total commitments of EUR11 billion.
P7 will follow Permira’s long-term strategy of investing in market-leading businesses that benefit from strong and resilient underlying growth drivers. The Fund will continue to deploy across Permira’s key sectors: technology, consumer, financial services, health care, industrial tech and services.
The Fund was strongly supported by existing investors. In addition, a substantial number of new relationships across multiple geographies made commitments to P7.
Tom Lister, co-managing partner at Permira, says: “We
Specialist alternative asset manager, Gresham House plc (Gresham House), has held the interim close of its British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) taking total commitments to GBP200 million.
The final close is expected in the first quarter of 2020.
Greater Manchester Pension Fund and Greater London Authority have made new commitments totally GBP35 million. Additionally, Greater Manchester Pension Fund has committed a further GBP20 million to a North-West co-investment portfolio. The LPs join Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund and Teesside Pension Fund.
The UK Government has identified UK housing and infrastructure as being structurally important areas requiring local
Aruwa Capital Management (Aruwa), a female founded and led private equity firm focused on Nigeria and Ghana, has launched a USD20 million co-investment vehicle. Aruwa‘s mission is to provide patient growth capital to established and rapidly growing companies in the small to lower middle market and it expects to execute four to five investments, averaging US USD1-5 million, over the next 24 months.
To date, capital has been raised from international and West African based family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The vehicle is domiciled in Mauritius and management have committed capital demonstrating an alignment of interest with co-investors.
Aruwa’s
ARX Equity Partners (ARX), a private equity firm with a 20-year track record supporting the growth and development of mid-sized companies in Central Europe, has completed the majority acquisition of TES Vsetin (TES).
Headquartered in Vsetin, Czech Republic, TES is an engineering company active primarily in the manufacturing of system components relating to electrical machines, in addition to both the design and manufacturing of its own proprietary machines, such as generators and electric motors.
TES supplies critical components and machines to several blue chip across multiple industries. The Company generated revenues of over EUR60 million in 2018 and currently employs
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has led a GBP4 million investment in language understanding business, Relative Insight (RI).
The transaction comprises a GBP3 million package from Maven’s VCTs alongside GBP1 million from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund. The funding will support the company’s growth strategy as it expands into the USA and develops its technology platform to help companies drive business value from language data.
The RI platform is used by companies to gain significant business value from their language data assets. Most companies have considerable language data assets; surveys, reviews, CRM and
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