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UK-based equity management platform, Capdesk, has raised GBP1.5 million from London-based VC fund Fuel Ventures and angels to digitise and provide liquidity to the billions of pounds’ worth of employee shares in unlisted European companies.
Capdesk was founded by Christian Gabriel and Casper Arboll as a response to a new trend of fast-growing companies staying private, and increasingly using employee shares to compensate staff. Since its launch in 2015, the company has attracted thousands of users in the UK and abroad, including Nutmeg, Secret Escapes and Tab Media.
Christian Gabriel, CEO of Capdesk, says: “Private companies are not equipped to
Audax Private Equity (Audax), in partnership with management, has completed the sale of CoolSys to the Private Equity Group of Ares Management Corporation. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Brea, CA, CoolSys is a leading refrigeration and HVAC services company and provides a full spectrum of services and solutions to customers in the retail, food service, commercial and industrial market segments. CoolSys and its operating businesses cover every stage of mission-critical systems through engineering and design, installation, service and maintenance, and energy optimisation. Since its founding in 2001, CoolSys has grown to employ more than 2,000
Under the legal leadership of ARQIS, the German Standards Setting Institute (GESSI) has published the “Term Sheet”, another standard document for startups and investors, especially business angels.
The GESSI is a joint project of the Business Angels Network Germany e.V. (BAND) and the Federal Association of German Startups e.V. (Startup Association). The “term sheet” is a detailed letter of intent, in which the parties define the key points of a transaction.
“Business angels are an important pillar not only in the US and Europe, but now also in Germany, in order to set up business start-ups and finance the
Singapore-based private equity investor Tembusu Partners is to launch several investment funds totalling at least RMB1.0 billion (SGD205.6 million) after securing the first Qualified Foreign Limited Partner (QFLP) status awarded to a foreign fund management firm in China’s Guizhou Province.
The pan-Asian investment firm also announced the appointment of Lim Ming Yan, former CEO of property giant Capitaland, as Chairman of its China Advisory Board as Tembusu seeks to increase in investments in China, coinciding with the central government’s efforts to liberalise the economy and promote innovation.
Tembusu’s 80-20 joint-venture with a Guizhou state-owned entity is the first in the
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has led USD26 million funding round in Las Vegas-based ecommerce security and website performance company NS8. The company will use the funds to accelerate product innovation and go-to-market expansion.
Ecommerce fraud is growing at nearly twice the rate as online sales, according to Experian, and experts estimate that fraud costs merchants more than 7.5 percent of their annual revenue. BI Intelligence also reports that US companies experience a loss of nearly USD9 billion annually due to false positive losses, in which retailers decline to make a sale because they mistakenly flag the order
BlackCurve, a pricing optimisation company, has closed GBP1.5 million funding round, led by Pan-European VC Nauta Capital.
Founded in 2016, BlackCurve’s pricing optimisation platform helps retailers manage and optimise the price of every item they sell to achieve their business goals. The platform, powered by Artificial Intelligence, ingests data sources ranging from sales history and website page performance, right through to competitor pricing and stock levels, enabling every retailer to create smart pricing rules for their specific business.
BlackCurve serves mid to large multichannel retailers across industries such as sporting equipment, DIY, garden & outdoor, kitchen & home goods, consumer electronics
Veeqo, a retail automation platform that helps retailers sync their inventory across multiple sales channels and fulfil customer orders, has raised a GBP3.3m growth investment from the Development Capital team at Octopus Investments.
Octopus joins existing investors, Daniel McPherson and New Look founder Tom Singh, along with equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, in supporting the company through this next stage of rapid growth.
This latest round of fundraising will be used to further Veeqo’s position in the UK market, and to expand into the USA. Veeqo’s growth strategy will be driven by a mix of inbound marketing, outbound sales and strategic
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised Livingbridge portfolio company, Carousel Logistics Limited, on its refinancing and acquisition of time-critical logistics company BDA Logistics Innovation (BDA).
Carousel provides specialist logistics solutions to high performance industries across Europe, in the Agriculture, MedTech, High-Tech, Scientific and Automotive sectors, plus other service-focused industries. Using its own marketing-leading technology platform, Gateway, Carousel clients have access to all available transport data from across their supply chain. By connecting its multinational, blue-chip clients to its flexible air and road network, Carousel ensures the reliable transportation of mission critical parts and products across Europe.
Logistics provider BDA
Thinknum, a leading provider of web-sourced alternative data, has secured USD11.6 million in Series A funding round. Participants included Green Visor Capital, one of the original investors in the firm’s USD1 million seed round in 2014.
Thinknum will use the fresh capital to fund its continuing growth and allow it to further penetrate the institutional investment community and corporate market.
Thinknum’s SaaS-based platform empowers anyone who allocates capital – from “quantamental”-style investors to corporate strategy groups seeking an edge on the competition – to harness the disparate, unstructured data sources available today as a result of online commerce and
Finnish Invesdor Oy, a leading digital equity funding platform in the Nordics, and Austrian Finnest, a digital mid-size (Mittelstand) financier in the German speaking countries, have revealed plans to merge their businesses.
“Together, we create the 1st pan-European digital investment and financing platform for companies of all life stages, from startups to large corporations”, says CEO Lasse Mäkelä. “We offer them one of the widest ranges of digital financial instruments available in the market today. It is a place for top-tier companies as well as private and institutional investors across Europe”.
The service portfolio spans from equity investments, bonds, IPO’s, syndicated
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