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Isorg, a pioneer in Organic Photodetectors (OPDs) and large-area image sensors, today announces a capital increase of EUR16 million in series C financing.
Two major industrial investors, Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd and Mitsubishi Corporation, participated in the round. Greece-based Integrated Systems Development SA and five new French investors represented by fund manager Financière Fonds Privés also joined the round. Legacy shareholders Bpifrance, through its large venture funds, New Science Venture, CEA Investment and Sofimac Group (Limousin Participations) contributed, reaffirming their commitment and confidence in Isorg. The company has raised EUR47.8 million (approximately USD58.4 million) to date.
“This third fundraising
Innovate Finance, an industry body representing UK FinTech, has appointed Yvonne Bajela as its newest board member.
Bajela brings a wide range of expertise as an investment specialist, as well as being a strong and active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion.
Bajela is an Investor at Impact X Capital, an early-stage investment firm. Impact X’s mandate is to invest in underrepresented entrepreneurs across Europe. Her expertise in diversity and inclusion will reinforce Innovate Finance’s mission of ensuring that access to financial services is fair and equitable for all.
Prior to Impact X, Bajela was a Senior Investment
Rest Less, a digital platform for the over 50s, has raised GBP6.1 million (USD8.5 million) to further expand its services for its members. The funding round was led by venture capital firms MTech Capital and Viola FinTech with further participation from existing investors, QED Investors and Octopus Ventures. Viola FinTech Founder, Daniel Tsiddon, and MTech Capital Co-Founder, Kevin McLoughlin will join the board of directors.
Responding to major demographic shifts driven by an ageing population, Rest Less launched in early 2019 as the UK’s first membership community to offer its members flexible work, learning and volunteering opportunities. Rest Less’ mission
VTB Capital has invested in the pharmaceutical holding company Binnopharm Group, a subsidiary of Sistema.
Sistema Telecom Assets LLC sold a 11.2 per cent stake in Ristango Holding Limited, the owner of Binnopharm Group, to Nevsky Property Investments Limited, which is controlled by VTB Capital. The transaction value amounted to USD96 million (RUB7 billion).
As a result, Sistema’s effective share in Binnopharm Group, together with its financial partner VTB Bank, amounted to 75.3 per cent, with the remaining percentage shared between VTB Capital represented by Nevsky Property Investments Limited (11.2 per cent), a consortium of investors consisting of the
Nauta Capital, a pan-European venture capital firm investing in capital-efficient B2B software companies, has launched a new initiative to support pre-seed deeptech European startups.
Named Nauta Labs, the specialist venture programme will offer pre-seed B2B deeptech companies capital to accelerate their concepts and grow into the next generation of Europe’s deeptech category leader.
According to the European Commission, Europe’s ‘deeptech’ companies are worth a combined EUR700 billion, making Europe a rising digital power and a hotbed for deeptech startups to flourish. Despite this potential, research shows that only 20-30 per cent of pre-seed startups in the deeptech space
Crover Ltd, the Edinburgh based start-up and developer of the first robotic device able to “swim” deep in granular bulks such as cereal grain, has announced its first funding round through Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding platform.
After “bootstrapping”, raising more than GBP600,000 in innovation prizes and grants (including the likes of Converge, Scottish Enterprise and Innovate UK), Crover is opening a seed funding round accessible to seasoned and new investors that want to be part of a pioneering, multi-award-winning company.
Crover’s target is to raise at least GBP150,000 in equity, to begin small series manufacturing, that will help with the
Genstar Capital and TA Associates have signed a definitive agreement to merge their portfolio companies, Compusoft, an international provider of specialised visual Configure, Price, Quote (vCPQ) software to key retail and manufacturing industries, and 2020 Technologies (2020), a provider of specialised computer-aided design (CAD), configure, price, quote (CPQ) and enterprise solutions dedicated to interior design, space planning and furniture manufacturing industries.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021.
Compusoft and 2020 will be combined in a merger of equals to create a leading provider of space planning and manufacturing solutions for the residential and
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) has successfully completed a previously announced investment in ArchKey Solutions (ArchKey), a North American electrical and technologies contracting and services provider, alongside the Company’s management team. One Rock’s stake in ArchKey was acquired from funds managed by the GFI Energy Group of Oaktree Capital Management, LP (Oaktree).
Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, ArchKey is an industry-leading specialty services contractor providing scalable electrical and technologies solutions nationally. ArchKey offers electrical construction, maintenance and a range of sophisticated technologies services, including control and automation, mobile solutions, audio visual solutions, and security and life safety
Weinberg Capital has acquired shares in the Bourdoncle group, a key player in the French bistro-catering industry. This is the fifth acquisition of Weinberg Capital’s fund LBO WCP#3.
Led by catering specialist Thierry Bourdoncle, the group currently owns 16 establishments in Paris (Durand Dupont in Neuilly, Le Dôme de Villiers in the 17th arrondissement, Le Hibou, Le Mabillon in the sixth arrondissement, the hotel-restaurant le Central in Trouville sur Mer) and is in the process of acquiring five other restaurants.
The transaction reflects the buy-and-build strategy of the LBO WCP#3 fund. Weinberg Capital is aiming for a net
Finance for Tomorrow has announced the launch of Investors for a Just Transition, the first global investor engagement coalition focused on promoting a socially acceptable environmental transition to low-carbon economies.
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