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Sustainable waste water treatments solutions provider LAT Water Ltd has raised GBP4.7 million in a funding round led by IW Capital.
To support ambitious early-stage entrepreneurs developing technologies with the potential to shape the future economy, SFC Capital, the UK’s leading SEIS investor and most active seed-stage investor, has invested GBP25 million in 120 companies (April 2020 — April 2021).
In Q1 of 2021, SFC Capital raised its largest SEIS fund to date, with GBP5 million deployed in 40 companies in just two months. The funds have been raised from private investors (SEIS and EIS funds), family offices, the SFC Angel Network and a GBP10 million commitment from the British Business Bank in April 2020 as part of its Regional Angels Programme.
Embassy Group, one of India’s largest real estate conglomerates, has joined proptech investor, Pi Labs, as a limited partner (LP) in its current Fund 3.
The investment will support Embassy Group’s commitment to the transformation of the real estate sector through innovative technology, drawing on synergies from Pi Labs proptech ecosystem.
By participating in Pi Labs Fund 3 as an LP, Embassy Group is positioning itself to take the industry forward in technology adoption. Pi Labs is Europe’s most active proptech VC, with over 55 investments in its portfolio. The strategic investment by Embassy Group will form a gateway
Emmes, a global, full-service Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) dedicated to supporting the advancement of public health and biopharmaceutical innovation and a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, has acquired Orphan Reach, a CRO specialised in clinical research related to rare diseases.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
This marks Emmes’ second acquisition since Behrman’s investment in 2019 and builds on its recent acquisition of Neox SRO (Neox) in December 2020. Founded nearly 20 years ago, Orphan Reach has its headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices in Ireland, Germany, India, Canada, and the United States. The acquisition expands
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made a majority investment in Resource Innovations, a provider of demand-side management, energy efficiency, and energy consulting services.
Concurrent with BV’s investment, Resource Innovations is combining with energy software and consulting firm Nexant, Inc, to provide energy and software solutions for utilities and commercial, industrial, and residential energy consumers.
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Resource Innovations’ services to utilities in the US include portfolio administration, program implementation, public sector outreach, planning & design services
Praetura Group, the Manchester-based debt and equity capital provider to northern SMEs, provided more than GBP75 million of funding to SMEs in the first quarter of 2021, with demand continuing to rise.
The lending division of the Praetura Group, which comprises Praetura Commercial Finance and the Praetura Asset Finance Group, has seen its highest quarterly lending levels since it was founded in 2011.
Praetura Commercial Finance, which provides asset-based lending (ABL) solutions to SMEs, has enjoyed its best quarter to date, having completed transactions totalling GBP50.5 million in Q1 2021. All of these deals were management buyouts (MBOs) and
Omnio, a Banking-as-a-Service specialist, has closed a EUR30 million funding round led by pan-European venture fund GrayBella Capital.
Omniom a high-growth pre-IPO banking infrastructure leader based in London, will pursue its organic Pan-European growth strategy including selected acquisitions in its core markets.
Omnio offers a white-label, highly scalable service and is the secret ingredient that transforms retail banking. Omnio empowers smaller financial institutions, including credit unions and building societies to compete vigorously with their larger, tech-enabled rivals, and large brand driven corporations (non-banks) to deliver state-of-the art financial and loyalty products as part of their digital ecosystem. This is disrupting
Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners (SFW) has completed a majority recapitalisation of Granite River Labs (GRL), a specialist in test and certification services and automated test solutions for digital connectivity and charging technologies.
Co-founders Johnson Tan and Quintin Anderson will continue to lead the business and remain significant shareholders. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Santa Clara, California-based GRL specialises in helping product developers implement the latest connectivity and charging interfaces – such as USB, Qi wireless charging, Ethernet, and PCI Express – in a rapidly expanding universe of connected devices and applications, including consumer
Perceptive Advisors, an investment management firm focused on the life sciences sector, has held the first and final closing of Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund II (PXV Fund II) with USD515 million in capital commitments.
The close of PXV Fund II more than triples the firm’s assets under management to USD725 million in less than two years since the closing of the inaugural PXV Fund I, which launched Perceptive’s early-stage venture fund strategy. PXV Fund II includes existing investors from the inaugural fund, new investors including top-tier asset managers, endowments, foundations, family offices, and notable individual investors, and all of the
Velocity Capital Advisors, a leading UK EIS/SEIS investment fund focussed on consumer technology, has launched a new growth capital product – Juice Ventures – to cater for the specific financing needs of early-stage companies primed for exponential growth through cost effective user acquisition.
Juice Ventures www.juice.ventures is born from Velocity Capital Advisors’ understanding of the UK scale- up market whereby promising start-ups require debt financing in form of significant funding for digital UA, with lending focused on the company’s marketing data, rather than its revenues. According to CEO and Founder of Velocity Capital and Juice Ventures, Raj Saxena, “Juice Ventures
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