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How and what we eat in restaurants or on-the-go is changing thanks to new robotics startup Karakuri which has secured a GBP7million seed investment, led by Ocado.
With growing demand for personalised nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle, Karakuri uses the latest innovations in robotics, machine learning, optics and sensors to allow restaurants and food retailers to offer personalised, freshly prepared, high quality meals, which maximise nutritional benefits and minimise food waste.
Research shows that almost two-thirds of consumers globally follow a diet that limits or prohibits consumption of some foods or ingredients. Whether you have a food intolerance
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM) – a Cambridge-based health tech startup that helps doctors and healthcare providers to deliver personalised treatment regimens – has raised GBP2.1 million in venture capital funding, raised from Longwall Venture Partners, IQ Capital and Martlet, the investment arm of the Marshall of Cambridge group.
Several leading Cambridge Angel investors took part in the financing, including the well-known serial entrepreneur, Sherry Coutu CBE.
Closed Loop Medicine is a new breed of therapeutics company that combines proven drug treatments with digital therapeutics. Digital therapeutics deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients that are driven by high quality software programs
Omnes has completed the buyout of Camerus Group which it has invested in since 2013. Omnes becomes a minority shareholder alongside Bpifrance and Siparex Mezzanine.
This refinancing deal allows Camerus Group to continue its ambitious organic development and external growth strategy. In this instance the Group has completed a build-up deal on Lign’Expo.
Camerus Group is one of the leading French furniture rental companies for trade fairs, conferences and professional events. With three locations in Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, the Group generated more than EUR16 million in revenues in 2018. It is the preferred partner for major trade fairs
Akin Gump has advised Lighthouse, one of India’s leading, middle market private equity firms, in the final closing of Lighthouse India Fund III, with a value of USD230 million, and with additional capital available for co-investment opportunities. Fund III closed on 30 April, 2019.
Investors in Fund III include global institutions and a number of global endowments, pension funds and family offices. Including predecessor funds, Lighthouse now advises and manages cumulative assets under management of nearly USD500 million.
Akin Gump served as international legal counsel for Fund III, assisting on fund structuring, fund documentation and investor negotiations. Investment management partner
Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity consulting firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has acquired inCyber Security, inCyber Compliance’s consultancy division.
The acquisition gives Drawbridge Partners a portfolio of high-profile and long-term clients as the firm continues its impressive growth and focus on expanding its advisory, product and application portfolio.
Through the acquisition of inCyber’s best-in-class cyber advisory business, Drawbridge reinforces its holistic consultancy and solutions-based offering, providing financial services firms more tailor-made cyber programs, technical assessments, and strategic advice to ensure they have access to the highest degree of protection against internal and external threats.
Commonfund Capital has held the closing of its second secondaries fund, Commonfund Capital Secondary Partners II with USD450 million of capital commitments sourced from investors including endowments, foundations, pension plans, insurance pools and family offices.
The total raised is more than double the USD170 million committed to Commonfund Capital Secondary Partners I in 2016.
“We are pleased to have received such a strong response from limited partners for our latest secondaries fund,” says Cari Lodge, Commonfund Capital Managing Director and Head of Secondaries. “With the size of the private capital secondaries market more than tripling since 2008, this fund
Wind Point Partners (Wind Point), a Chicago-based private equity firm, has acquired A&R Logistics (A&R).
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, A&R is a provider of integrated dry bulk logistics solutions for the chemical and plastic industries and offers a comprehensive suite of services including transportation, warehousing, packaging, and fully outsourced logistics management for many of the world’s largest producers and distributors of chemicals and plastics. The Company operates a national infrastructure of nearly 50 facilities, the industry’s largest fleet of specialised tractors and pneumatic trailers, and a leading technology suite customised for dry bulk transportation.
Wind Point will be partnering with
Zayo Group Holdings is to be acquired by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners (Digital Colony) and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund (EQT). The transaction would result in Zayo transitioning from a public company to a private company.
Under the new ownership, the Zayo team would continue to execute the Company’s strategy and remain headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Under the terms of the agreement, which was unanimously approved by Zayo’s Board of Directors, shareholders will receive USD35.00 in cash per share of Zayo’s common stock in a transaction valued at USD14.3 billion, including the assumption of USD5.9 billion of Zayo’s
Asoko Insight (Asoko), an African corporate data platform, and Orbitt, an African deal origination and processing platform, have formed a partnership to establish an expanded digital platform for companies, investors and advisers across the continent.
Combining Asoko’s unique data acquisition model and growing database of over 50,000 companies with the 1,000 Africa-focused investors and investment service providers on Orbitt’s platform will drive the development of a more mature and highly efficient technology and data-driven investment ecosystem.
The complementary business models are expected to accelerate the reach of African companies looking to grow and access institutional capital, while reducing the time
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, is to sell SecureLink Group, one of the largest dedicated cybersecurity infrastructure and managed services providers in Europe, to global telecoms group Orange for an enterprise value of EUR515 million.
Investcorp first acquired SecureLink, a leading player in the Benelux region, in December 2015 with a view to consolidating the highly attractive but fragmented European cybersecurity market. Over the last three years, SecureLink has experienced strong organic growth, added leading providers in Scandinavia, the UK and Germany to its platform and expanded in China. Investcorp, in partnership with management and founders of
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