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Innova Capital, a private equity firm operating from Poland, has agreed to buy PayPoint Romania from LSE-listed PayPoint plc. The sale is subject to competition and regulatory approvals, as well as other conditions precedent, and therefore completion is anticipated to take place on 31 March 2021.
PayPoint Romania is a market leading consumer payments operator in Romania, collecting over 100 m bill payments for 85 per cent of Romanian utility and telecom providers through a wide network of retail sites. Its payment points are located within 500 meters of 81 per cent of customers. Its services aim to meet the needs
Araris Biotech AG, a company pioneering antibody-drug conjugate (ADC)-linker technology, has received an additional CHF12.7 million in seed financing, bringing the total amount raised to CHF15.2 million.The investment round was led by Pureos Bioventures with participation from new investors 4BIO Capital, btov Partners and existing investors Redalpine, VI Partners and Schroder Adveq. The proceeds will be used to nominate a clinical candidate and advance Araris’ lead program into preclinical and clinical development. The new funds will also support the development of a broad proprietary pipeline of ADC compounds.
Philipp Spycher, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Araris, says: “We see this
The world’s largest online angel investment platform, the Angel Investment Network, has supported the raise of more than GBP1 million in UK-based disease screening and diagnosis startup Occuity.
Launched in London by childhood friends James Badgett and Mike Lebus, Angel Investment Network (AIN) is an online platform connecting startups with a global network of angel investors.
“Healthcare is one of the areas of biggest interest to our investor database. In the year of a global pandemic this is perhaps no surprise – but this business really did tick all the boxes for our investors,” explained Ed Stephens, global head of
Benefit Recovery Group (BRG), a provider of healthcare subrogation services, has secured a strategic investment from Abry Partners (Abry).Abry, a leading Boston-based private equity firm, manages over USD5 billion of capital in its active funds and has completed more than USD82 billion in transactions.
BRG, a top choice of large Fortune 500 employers, will collaborate with Abry to accelerate its investment in sales efforts as well as the continued development of new and existing product offerings.
Tom Lawrence, Chief Executive Officer of BRG, says: “I am looking forward to the next chapter of our future with Abry Partners. They
A total of 88 venture capital transactions were conducted in Poland between July and September 2020, with 80 funds involved, according to a new report from PFR Ventures. The deals provided innovative Polish companies with EUR156 million.
Of the EUR156 million total, EUR73 million was secured by Polish and Finnish company ICEYE in a Series C funding round.
As much as 45 per cent of the funds invested in Q3 constituted public-private capital, and the share of international funds in the transactions was 65 per cent. At the same time, 71 out of 88 transactions were based on public-private capital. As
Outdoor lifestyle apparel specialist SA Company (SA) has secured a strategic investment from TZP Group (TZP), through TZP Capital Partners III, LP, a private equity firm based in New York.
TA Associate’s portfolio company RLDatix, a global provider of intelligent patient safety solutions, has acquired Verge Health, a credentialing software provider.
Edison Partners, a growth equity firm, has co-led a USD7.8 million investment in Budderfly, a Shelton, Connecticut-based energy efficiency as a service (EEaaS) provider. The funds will enable Budderfly to accelerate sales amid higher demand for energy savings in the Covid-19 environment. Edison Partners co-led the round with Balance Point Capital, with additional participation from Connecticut Innovations.
Budderfly provides energy savings and utility expense management services for quick service restaurants (QSRs), convenience stores, healthcare, retail, office and other enterprises that are highly focused on energy cost savings. The company’s advanced software and Internet of Things (IoT) energy measurement and control devices
Mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has agreed the sale of Ten10, a leading independent quality engineering and software testing consultancy, to Graphite Capital. The investment was originally made from Livingbridge’s Enterprise 1 fund.
Livingbridge established Ten10 in 2015, having identified the potential to create a market leader in the sector by acquiring and merging two existing companies, Centre4Testing and The Test People. Since then, Ten10 has become one of the fastest-growing software testing companies, with over 250 employees and offices in London, Leeds and Raleigh, North Carolina. Its portfolio of blue-chip clients spans the financial, legal, retail, and public sectors.
STX Next, a European software house specialising in Python software development, which supports international clients in their digital transformation, has acquired a new investor – a private equity fund advised by Innova Capital. The parties have not revealed the transaction value.
“The global market for new generation IT services is large, and its growth is driven by the increasing number and complexity of customers’ needs associated with their digital transformation,” says Michał Wojdyła, Managing Director at Innova Capital. “In such an ecosystem, success on a bigger scale can be achieved by businesses and teams that are able to differentiate themselves,
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