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Vinter, Europe’s fastest-growing index provider specialised in crypto assets, has raised a further USD3.4m as it continues to expand its range of crypto asset indexes for ETP and ETF issuers.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from the Ricketts family office, D4 Ventures, Pfeffer Capital and notable angels including Gokul Rajaram, Marc Powers and David Chreng.
Mention Me, a customer advocacy platform, has secured USD25 million in a Series B round, led by Octopus Ventures.
Lead investor from the prior round Eight Roads Ventures also participated.
The London-based scale-up, which helps businesses turn referrals into a strategic channel for acquiring high-quality customers, while gathering valuable first-party data that amplifies wider marketing activity, will use the funds to support its vision to make every brand think advocacy-first by expanding into the US, investing in its partner network (which includes Klaviyo, TrustPilot, Ometria and SAP) and developing its product offering.
Global investment firm NPX Capital, through its private equity arm, NPX Private Equity, has invested USD43 million into digital content developer Copin Communications.
Founded in 2017, Copin Communications is a digital content developer with specialties in character design, emoji, webtoon and animation productions.
In September 2021, NPX Capital made its first investment in Copin Communications worth USD13 million. Since then, NPX Capital has been closely cooperating with Copin Communications, which led to the additional investment, which will be used to strengthen and diversify digital content production capabilities as well as to support business expansion overseas, targeting promising global markets including
MidEuropa portfolio company intive has completed three acquisitions to expand its global footprint and accelerate its scale-up.
The digital design and engineering services specialist operates an outsourced digital product development model which combines local onshore presence with nearshoring delivery capability in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Latin America.
intive’s recent acquisitions are: US-based Spark Digital, a digital consulting, design, and development services provider; US-based SimTLiX, a digital transformation partner for some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies; and Ireland-based Ammeon, a digital transformation and solutions partner.
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) invested a total of GBP10 million in 18 dynamic, high growth businesses in the North East region in 2021.
This significant level of investment has been achieved through Maven’s management of regional funds in the North East, alongside its suite of private equity funds.
Local companies that received funding last year include innovative performance marketing services provider, Leaf; specialist food and beverage canning, sterilisation and pasteurisation business, CRL Foods; and intelligent software solutions provider for rail and construction, Project Control Tools.
This significant level of investment has mainly been achieved through Maven’s management of regional funds
Pierce Washington, a software system integrator executing enterprise-level configure-price-quote (CPQ) and digital commerce implementations, has been recapitalised by Kidd & Company, a family office doing direct thesis-driven equity investing in the lower middle market, as well as Ignite Labs, Spring Capital and Southfield Mezzanine.
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Pierce Washington has built a reputation for customer focus and delivery excellence. The recapitalisation will accelerate Pierce Washington’s growth and expansion, specifically in offering its customers a “total commerce” solution across the quote-to-cash business process.
Pierce Washington will continue to be led by its Partners: John
Gresham House Ventures has invested GBP1.4 million into ActiveNav, a developer of data privacy and governance software, as part of a GBP2 million series A+ round on behalf of the Mobeus VCTs.
Founded in 2008, ActiveNav, a data privacy and governance software provider, helps privacy and compliance teams quickly identify, inventory and map sensitive data.
The investment builds on a previous GBP5 million investment from the Mobeus VCTs, which form part of the broader Gresham House Ventures offering alongside the Baronsmead VCTs. This previous investment was part of an USD11 million Series A round for ActiveNav in November 2019, following
Gale Healthcare Solutions, a technology-enabled healthcare services and payments platform that provides per diem, contract, and travel temporary staffing services in post-acute and acute healthcare settings, along with daily pay for healthcare staff, has secured a USD60 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investment firm.
Gale Healthcare will use the funding to continue its rapid expansion in the USD24.7 billion healthcare temporary staffing market and make further investments in its industry-leading technology and payments platform.
Five Sigma, a cloud-native Claims Management solution provider, has extended its Series A round with funding from Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), bringing the company’s total funding to date to over USD20 million.
The company’s Series A funding was initially announced in September of 2021.
Five Sigma optimises claims management by adding automated claims processing workflows, using data modeling and AI to provide smart recommendations, resulting in increased operational efficiencies, an enhanced customer experience, accelerated times to resolution and the amelioration of the claims management process. Current customers include INSHUR, Hippo, Marshmallow, Qover and others.
8minute Solar Energy (8minute) has closed USD400 million in financing from EIG, an institutional investor in the global energy and infrastructure sectors.
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