Managers
CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SME, has invested in Xenocs, a French deep tech company, through its new Growth Tech strategy.
Founded in 2000, Xenocs is a spin-off from the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL). The company operates on the nanoscale material characterisation market through the development and production of SAXS — Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering — instruments and software. It has made important technological advances in X-ray optics, as well as in data collection, processing and analysis software. This progress allows many industrial sectors to better optimize R&D, fabrication processes and control product quality. For
An investor group led by Swander Pace Capital (SPC), a private equity firm specialising in consumer products’ companies, is to acquire Mighty Spark Food Company (Mighty Spark), an all-natural protein brand ‘on a mission to impact food insecurity’.
In conjunction with the strategic partnership announcement, Mighty Spark has also the announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Sean Reid, who brings over 30 years of industry experience and most recently served as Executive Vice President of Sales at Jack Link’s and Chief Consumer Officer at Hillshire Brands.
“I am excited to welcome my new partners and a
The Boundary, an architectural visualisation (ArchVis) studio pioneering the use of digital technologies to represent the built environment, has attracted a GBP8.2 million investment from Mobeus, with further funding committed to support an existing acquisition pipeline.
The Boundary’s mission is to evoke emotion through imagery. Using proprietary technology and IP, The Boundary creates virtual reality (VR) experiences, short films, animations, and photo-realistic imagery to bring plans to life for architects and property developers.
Founded in 2014, The Boundary has rapidly gained an international reputation as a leading ArchVis studio, working with world-renowned architects including Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, and Foster
Crypto insurance company Evertas has raised nearly USD5.8 million in seed funding.
The funding round was led by Morgan Creek Digital, CMT, HashKey, Wave Partners, RenGen, 4RC, Centrality, Plug ‘n Play, Vy Capital, and a number of individual investors including James Slazas (CEO of VaultLink), Tyler Ward (Founder of BarnBridge), Quinn Abrahams (Partner of D64), Shy Datika (Founder & President of INX), and Sandra Ro (CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council and former Head of Digitisation at CME Group).
Evertas, which has developed a comprehensive underwriting framework for crypto (including blockchain/DLT systems) and the only full lifecycle insurance product for
Conquest is an alternative asset management firm, invested in long-term sustainable value stemming from European infrastructure and energy transition real assets.
Conquest has been approved by the French regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers, as an authorised AIFM and announces the launch of its second European infrastructure fund, Conquest Sustainable Infrastructure II.
Tailored for institutional investors, Conquest Sustainable Infrastructure II invests in equity with a majority position in core energy transition infrastructure assets at an advanced stage of development, with long-term cash flows and an attractive risk-adjusted return combined with an annual cash yield as soon as year three. The
An affiliate of global alternative investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) is to acquire CORA Health Holdings Corp and its subsidiaries, doing business as CORA Physical Therapy (CORA), an operator of outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics.
CORA’s management team, led by CEO Dennis Smith, will continue to run the Company and remain as shareholders in the business.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, CORA currently operates 228 outpatient physical therapy clinics across nine US states, primarily in the Southeast. The Company’s 850+ physical therapists, physical therapy assistants and other clinicians offer best-in-class outpatient physical rehabilitation services for orthopaedic problems, work-related injuries,
UK-based fund manager Downing has committed a seven-figure investment to consumer technology company Tactus Group (Tactus).
Founded in 1986, Downing is an FCA authorised and regulated investment manager with over 30 years’ experience. It currently has over GBP1.4 billion of funds under management.
The investment from Downing was made alongside a GBP10 million injection of private capital from multi-family investment office Arete Capital Partners, which enabled Tactus to complete its acquisition of CCL, a Yorkshire-based e-commerce PC gaming specialist. It will also support future fundraising for the wider group as it targets more acquisitions across the UK and globally.
Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics, and reporting solution for private markets investors and asset servicers, has closed a USD5 million seed round of venture financing co-led by Illuminate Financial and AlbionVC, with participation from Expon Capital and SixThirty Ventures.
This financing will accelerate the company’s global growth ambitions through further product development, client acquisition and support. Illuminate Financial and AlbionVC will join Accelex’ Board of Directors as part of this transaction.
Since the launch of the Accelex platform 12 months ago the company has achieved significant growth – now supporting a sophisticated global client base of investors and asset servicers.
eleXsysEnergy has raised GBP640,000 through Angel Investment Network, an online angel investment platform.
eleXsys Energy has developed a unique, international award-winning, enabling technology that will drive the transition of global energy grids to a clean energy future. The eleXsys technology enables large commercial and industrial rooftops to become grid-connected, solar power plants. eleXsys is the critical enabling technology being installed to build the IKEA eleXsys Microgrid at IKEA Adelaide, which will become 100 per cent powered by renewable generation by 2025.
The raise took four months and was part of a larger GBP5 million funding raise, including a Series A round of
Knox Capital, a private equity firm with significant assets in the legal and financial technology space, has made an investment in, and relaunched, bundle, a provider of legal real estate documents formerly known as ANADeeds.
Knox Capital completed its equity investment in bundle in late 2020, and since closing has helped lead a technology expansion and a rebranding of the organisation with a more modern, growth-focused identity. The more elastic identity and expanded service offerings better position the company to seize on significant growth opportunities in the coming 24-months as millions of homeowners buy, refinance, and exit Covid-related forbearances and
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