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Clearwater International has advised the shareholders of Littlefish, a mid-market outsourced IT services provider, on securing a significant investment from private equity firm LDC and debt facilities from HSBC to support its growth strategy.
Littlefish is a fast-growing and award-winning provider of outsourced IT services. The business delivers tailored managed IT service solutions and consultancy through a unique service proposition, with customer satisfaction at its core. Littlefish’s service solutions are provided to private and public companies, increasing business productivity and cost efficiency whilst delivering an enhanced user experience. The business employs over 200 staff, spread between its Nottingham and Manchester
London-based software and accreditation specialist, Accredit Solutions, has raised a significant sum of funding from angel investor Andy Center, ex-CEO of CloserStill Holdings Ltd.
Accredit Solutions will use the financing to continue expanding its global reach into Australasia and the USA, accelerate product innovation, development of a client resource centre, expansion of its account management team, and the launch of Accredit 365 – a new product focusing on day-to-day contractor management.
Recently celebrating its second birthday as a stand-alone company, Accredit Solutions’ pioneering accreditation software has been rapidly adopted by stadium operators and tournament organisers across the world.
Prestige Funds, a provider of private finance to the UK’s agriculture, clean energy and SME markets, has agreed to a GBP23.2 million funding deal to finance the construction of a 2.5MWe (700 nm3/h biomethane) ‘gas to grid’ anaerobic digestion plant in Kent.
The plant will take approximately 20 months to build and is the second project to be announced in Kent in 2019. The deal is the latest in a long series of financing agreements to fund anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities in the UK, which are helping farm, food and agri businesses to process waste into energy.
Prestige Funds, via
Videalert, a supplier of intelligent traffic management and enforcement solutions to local authorities, has been acquired by Marston Holdings, one of the UK’s largest transportation and enforcement services group.
David Richmond, CEO of Videalert Limited, says: “We are delighted to become a key part of Marston Holdings, as it will enable us to accelerate our development strategy and fully exploit the growth potential for our products and services within the Parking and Intelligent Transport sectors. Our rapidly expanding client base will not only see further developments from Videalert, but also the integration and application of technologies from the expanded Marston
Horizon Capital has invested in specialist software and data analytics businesses ResearchBods and Bonamy Finch to form STRAT7. The combination creates a leading customer insights group with proprietary software and a strong data analytics capability.
The group consists of three specialist capabilities; ResearchBods which utilises proprietary software to harness customer data and intelligence, LiFE which provides data enrichment services incorporating AI and machine learning, and Bonamy Finch which creates actionable insights through primary research and advanced data analytics.
Demand for STRAT7’s technology-led customer insight and advanced analytics services is growing at a significant rate driven by the proliferation in the
OpenGamma, a specialist in derivatives analytics, has raised USD10 million in funding led by early-stage fintech and B2B software venture capital firm Dawn.
The funding round includes participation from existing investors Accel, CME Ventures and ex-SunGuard CEO and prolific fintech angel investor Cristóbal Conde.
OpenGamma’s analytics solutions allow the world’s banks, hedge funds and asset managers to dramatically reduce the cost of trading derivatives. New regulation is forcing firms to post billions in capital to take market positions with significant increases over the next two years. This is at a time when returns are already under extreme pressure. As
Last week proved to be the biggest yet for VCT funding this tax year, with GBP46.4m being raised. Octopus Titan and ProVen took the bulk of this amount. Total VCT fundraising for 2018/19 amounts to GBP608.5 million so far, with GBP386.5 million raised in 2019 alone.
Commenting on the tax year demand, Alex Davies, CEO and founder of Wealth Club, says: “As the tax year draws to a close, VCT funding is less than 5% behind the 2017/18 total at the same point. Given the level of uncertainty regarding Brexit and the fact that much of last year’s business was rushed
RIO Investment Partners (RIO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new venture capital fund focused on Agri-Food investing across the North American ag-tech and food-tech value chain.
RIO invests in growth stage companies operating in the various segments of the agri-food tech continuum and seeking capital of USD3 to USD10 million to catalyse their expansion strategies. RIO is targeting USD150 million of total committed capital and has secured USD77.5 million in a first close.
RIO is the successor to Avrio Capital, a global pioneer in agricultural equity investing. RIO has recruited several members of the Avrio team, including
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing up to USD100 million in financing to the Middle East Glass Manufacturing Company (MEG), Egypt’s leading maker of glass containers. The partnership is designed to support the firm’s capital expenditure programme, create new jobs, and boost Egypt’s manufacturing sector.
IFC’s debt financing package will help MEG ramp up production of its containers, which are used by a variety of companies, from beverage makers to pharmaceutical firms. This will help MEG expand its international footprint and continue to grow its annual exports. It will also help the company expand locally and
Aliter Capital (Aliter), the private equity investment specialist in the support services industry, has brought together two of the fastest-growing companies in the sector.
The combination of Glasgow headquartered Boston Networks, Pinacl Solutions and Pinacl GDA, headquartered in North Wales, will create a UK-wide organisation with a staff of over 300 and a turnover approaching GBP50 million. The transaction establishes a major player with full design, installation, management and support capability across the areas of network infrastructure, smart buildings, Internet of Things (IoT) and life safety systems.
Boston Networks recently launched the pioneering GBP6 million IoT Scotland, the UK’s most-advanced
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