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Blue Motor Finance (Blue), a financing company for used cars in the UK, has successfully completed a syndication of part of its existing GBP300 million forward flow transaction to Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered) and funds managed by Schroders Capital.
This is the first transaction Blue has undertaken with Standard Chartered and Schroders Capital managed funds and continues Blue’s desire to both diversify and extend partnerships across its funding platform. It demonstrates continued confidence in Blue’s platform and business model from a broad range of blue chip funders and investors.
The transaction highlights Blue’s continuing commitment to developing its funding
Vauban, a platform that provides venture capital fund managers with everything they need to raise a fund and invest capital quickly, has closed a GBP4.7 million funding round.
Investors include co-leads Pentech and Outward, in addition to 7 per cent Ventures and MJ Hudson. A roster of high profile angel investors have also participated; this includes the CEO of Nested, Matt Robinson; the founder of Grabayo, Will Neale; the founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, Charles Delingpole; Partner at Augmentum Fintech Perry Blacher; and Al Giles, from legal services provider Axiom.
Through its end-to-end platform, Vauban provides VCs and angel investors
LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor.
For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that are now French leaders in the design and online sale of home & garden products. Both companies have expanded rapidly, based on a strategy of tapping all digital channels to sell to BtoC customers for ID Market and BtoB customers for Sourcidys. In less than 10 years, they have become
NOS 5G Fund, created by NOS and managed by Armilar Venture Partners, and Triple Point Ventures, have co-invested EUR4.4 million in digital health start-up knok.
The investment round also includes participation from previous investors, the Social Innovation Fund and Social and Environmental Impact Fund MSM (Mustard Seed MAZE). The Portuguese start-up will use the investment to develop complete and fully integrated telemedicine solutions which benefit enormously from 5G technology.
knok’s platform incorporates video consultations and supporting tools for remote monitoring of patients via artificial intelligence, all through a single platform. Through this solution, the patients can identify symptoms, share clinical
everstox closes 20 million Series A to expand its Logistics-as-a-Service platform further across Europe.
“In today’s agile eCommerce environment, successful merchants scale demand for their businesses in no time. However, scaling logistics and warehousing operations is the missing piece that is still highly complex and breaks all growth momentum. We are here to change that and bring a fully automated and flexible solution to all merchants,” says Boris Bösch.
Bösch, Felix Haberland and Johannes Tress have developed everstox, a Logistics-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform. The everstox solution combines a network of professional third-party logistics operators with a tech platform for real-time management
Ecobank Group, a pan-African banking group, has signed an agreement for a EUR100 million long-term credit facility over nine years with the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The facility affirms joint Ecobank Group and EIB targeted support for business investment across Africa, with particular support for the sectors most impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ade Ayeyemi, Chief Executive Officer, Ecobank Group, says: “At Ecobank we are fully committed to providing a range of initiatives that support the growth and success of Africa’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and create employment opportunities. This informed the credit facility that we have just secured from
Golding Capital Partners, a European independent asset managers for alternative investments, is combining all of its ESG functions into a new position filled by Christian Schütz, who will be the central liaison officer for implementing the company’s ambitious sustainability goals both internally and with regard to its investments.
Finnish startup Digital Nature has raised EUR1.5 million in seed funding to create new growth and attraction opportunities for shopping centres and other public venues.
The round was led by renowned business angels, including Mikko Kodisoja and Visa Forsten, co-founders of Finnish decacorn Supercell. The funding will go towards developing their technology and building their first on-sight attraction in one of the most prestigious shopping centres in Helsinki, Finland, with the world-famous Moomin characters as the theme.
Digital Nature creates digital attractions and interactive experiences for the hospitality industry. The company designs and develops content that transforms spaces via a
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a leaing specialist investor in consumer brands, on its GBP33 million minority stake investment in Omlet, a design-led pet accessories brand sold exclusively online.
Surge Private Equity (Surge) has acquired Optim Dental and Vogue Dental (Optim Dental) via its healthcare platform Access Dental Management (Access Dental).
With a reported transaction value of approximately USD10 million, the deal closed with debt financing provided by Corbel Capital Partners (Corbel).
Founded in 2014, Optim Dental has built up a growing network of five large dentistry practices throughout North Central Illinois, along with a sixth location in Indiana. The group serves patients with personalised dental treatment and advanced professional care distinguished by genuinely caring dental staff and assistants. Each clinic offers services ranging from general dentistry to specialty
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