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Wynnchurch Capital has acquired Trimlite, a manufacturer and distributor of residential doors and related door products.
Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Renton, Washington, Trimlite has developed a strong presence in the US and Canada by providing high quality products and value-added services to its diverse network of wholesale distributors, dealers, local door retailers, and OEM customers.
“Over the years we have developed a strong reputation in the market for providing our customers with exceptional service, quick lead times and a broad offering of quality door products. Wynnchurch shares our commitment to putting the customers first and we are excited
Topas Therapeutics GmbH (Topas), a private biotechnology company developing immune tolerance-inducing drugs to treat and potentially cure a variety of autoimmune diseases, today announced that the Company has successfully extended its Series B round with an additional EUR18 million (~USD22 million) raised, bringing the total for this financing to EUR40 million. All of Topas’ existing investors participated in the extension.
Secured Finance, a platform provider for the cryptocurrency loans and derivatives market, has raised USD4.0 million in its oversubscribed seed funding round.
Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital (Queen’s Gambit), the first special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) led by women, is to acquire Swvl, a Dubai-based provider of transformative mass transit and shared mobility solutions, in a deal that will see Swvl becoming a publicly listed company.
Upon completion of the proposed transaction, the combined public company will be named Swvl Holdings Corp and is expected to be listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “SWVL”.
Swvl, co-founded by Mostafa Kandil in 2017 when he was just 24 years old, is transforming the USD1 trillion global mass transit market. The Company’s proprietary mobility solutions,
Phoenix American, a transfer agent and fund administration provider for alternative investments and the Founder Institute, a global startup accelerator, have partnered to provide fund administration, investor services and fund accounting for graduates of Founder Institute’s VC Lab programme.
The partnership will enable program alumni to benefit from institutional-class back office infrastructure. The referral of top quality service providers to VC Lab alumni is part of the Founder Institute’s ongoing post-program support.
Founder Institute is the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Founded in 2009, the company has helped over 5,000 entrepreneurs get the focus and support needed to build businesses
Vira Health, a digital health company focused on improving long-term health for women, has raised GBP1.5 million in seed funding from LocalGlobe, MMC Ventures, and angel investors including Megumi Ikeda, Managing Director, Hearst Ventures, Andrea Zitna of Elvie, former Spotify executive Sofia Bendz, founder of GoCardless Matt Robinson, and Simon Lambert, former CTO, MOO.com, and Treatwell.
Vira Health was founded in 2020 by Andrea Berchowitz and Rebecca Love. Vira Health’s mission is to make high-quality personalised menopause care accessible to all women. Their ultimate vision is to improve healthy life expectancy for women by reducing the prevalence of later life
INKR, a digital comics platform, has secured USD3.1 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. Investors Stu Levy, Founder & CEO of TokyoPop, and VI Management also participated in the round.
The funding will be used to increase its content catalogue, further expand its product development and marketing to grow user base, and for talent acquisition.
“Comics have the power to transport us to entirely new worlds, teach enduring values, and nurture our imagination. We believe that everyone should be able to read any comic even if they do not know the language. In reality,
HMNC Brain Health (HMNC), a biotech company pioneering the development of personalised therapies in psychiatry powered by predictive companion diagnostics, has received an additional EUR9 million from its current investors.
The supplemental investment brings the total raised to date to EUR28 million and will secure HMNC’s financial position in advance of an expected Series B round later this year.
The current raise, in the form of convertible debt, was provided by renowned family offices, including that of Carsten Maschmeyer, the Jahr family and Dr Guntard Gutmann.
The additional funds will be used to accelerate HMNC’s pipeline development towards market maturity.
Biconomy has raised USD9 million in a private funding round led by DACM and Mechanism Capital, with strategic investments from Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, True Ventures, Bain Capital, NFX, Proof Group, Ledgerprime, Huobi Innovation Labs, Primitive Ventures, Genblock and Rarestone Capital as well as angel investments from Stani from Aave, Hasu, Stephane Gosselin from Flashbots, Prabhakar Reddy from Falcon X, Arbitrum founders and more.
The completion of this round of financing includes participation from previous investors including Woodstock Fund, Eden Block, and Zee Prime Capital.
Web3.0 applications face critical roadblocks to user adoption including complex user onboarding and confusing transaction experiences.
Airwallex, a global payments platform, is to establish Capital 49, a new venture capital (VC) fund set up by Airwallex founders, that will invest into early stage, high-growth technology-enabled companies powered by Airwallex’s infrastructure.
The new fund aims to raise USD200 million through the Airwallex founders and other investors, and will look for opportunities to invest among companies within Airwallex’s ecosystem, across a number of industries including e-commerce, SaaS, digital and technology, business services and enablers, and fintech. To date, Capital 49 has completed investments in two such fintech firms.
“We are so excited to share the news of our
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