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Green entrepreneur Jo Bamford has joined forces with multi-family office Vedra Partners to launch HYCAP, a hydrogen investment fund which has set its sights on raising GBP1 billion.
contextflow, a provider of artificial intelligence for medical image analysis, has raised EUR6.7 million in a Series A funding round.
A second closing included an additional EUR2 million from new co-investor Peak Pride Management GmbH, HPH (Hans Peter Haselsteiner) Start-up Unit and current investor APEX Ventures with its “APEX Best in Class” fund. A first closing was led by B&C Innovation Investments GmbH (BCII) and included participation from new co-investor TTIP Beteiligungs GmbH and current investors APEX Ventures, Crista Galli Ventures, IST cube, Nina Capital and Novacapital.
The closing represents one of the largest Series A healthtech investments in Europe
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Jersey have advised European mid-market private equity firm Capvis on the disposal of the remaining portfolio of Capvis Equity III to a new Capvis-managed continuation structure.
The transaction was co-led by Committed Advisors SAS and Eurazeo IM, with the continuation vehicle providing time and additional capital for the exit of the existing portfolio companies, hessnatur, arena and Kaffee Partner.
Hessnatur is a German eco-fashion company with a focus on sustainability and a rapidly growing e-commerce business, arena is a global producer of swimwear and equipment for competitive swimmers and enthusiasts, and
Aurelia, the startup dubbed “IFTTT for financial admin” because it helps businesses automate tasks across third-party financial apps and services on a single platform – has raised USD3 million in seed funding from Blossom Capital and angel investors including Guillaume Pousaz through his Zinal Growth investment vehicle and Erez Mathan (ex-COO and CRO at GoCardless).
ARQIS has advised London Stock Exchange listed Oxford Metrics on the indirect acquisition of Contemplas, a specialist in video-based movement analysis.
Oxford Metrics in an international software company servicing infrastructure, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets. Sellers are Stefan Klippel and Thomas Seeholzer who founded Contemplas in 2005.
Based in Kempten, Germany, Contemplas is one of the leading providers in the field of video-based movement analysis, developing and distributing worldwide software solutions for general motion analysis. Contemplas Templo software can record and track motion across a range of activities including walking, running, sprinting and swimming among many others, whether
Funds advised by private equity firm Apax Partners (Apax) and global growth investor Warburg Pincus, have agreed to acquire T-Mobile Netherlands Holding from Deutsche Telekom AG and Tele2 AB. The transaction values the company at an Enterprise Value of EUR5.1bn.
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist mid-market private equity investor in technology enabled financial services, has made a majority investment in WebID, a German digital identification provider.
AnaCap will provide significant growth capital and partner with the founders and existing management team to extend WebID’s product offering to other industries outside of the core financial services and telecoms space where it has a market leading position, such as eGovernment, eHealth, eCommerce and eMobility as well as support inorganic growth through future acquisitions.
WebID provides a range of digital identification solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC) purposes, such as identification via video
A company, whose software helps hospitality businesses to boost sales, has raised GBP500 thousand from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).
The funding will allow Airship Services to take advantage of increased demand following the re-opening of bars and restaurants. Despite the restrictions in place during the pandemic, the Sheffield-based company has managed to increase its customer base by 400 per cent since the start of the first lockdown. Its products are now used by around 400 brands across over 4,000 locations, including YO! Sushi, Leon,
Turquoise, a UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has invested in bio-bean through its Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2).
The investment of GBP350,000 is part of an overall round of GBP1.25million. The round was led by LCIF2 with the participation of 2Enable Partners, Stellar Impact and the Gresham House Renewable Energy venture capital trusts (VCTs).
The UK consumes 95 million cups of coffee every day, generating hundreds of thousands of tonnes of spent coffee grounds each year. Much of this discarded resource ends up in landfill, emitting harmful greenhouse gases, including methane. bio-bean work with the
ECI Partners has reinvested in Avantia, a new investment for its ECI 11 fund delivering a full realisation for ECI 9.
Avantia is a high-growth virtual insurer, with world-class machine learning technology and a data-led decisioning platform. Its cutting-edge technology gives it the most effective online quotability of any household insurer in the UK, via its brand, HomeProtect. It returns a quote to over 98% of applicants in under one second, with c80 per cent of its new customers in what other insurers would deem to be ‘difficult to insure’ risk categories.
Since ECI’s investment, the business has invested
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