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Lyrical Partners announces the launch of Lytical Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on opportunities in Corporate Intelligence, including Cybersecurity, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence.
Lytical Ventures builds on years of research and investment in Corporate Intelligence by Lytical’s team. Veteran venture capitalists Lucas Nelson and Steve Berg lead Lytical’s team, joining from Evolution Equity and Antecedent Ventures, respectively. Their day-to-day efforts are supported by, among others, Roselle Safran, who joins as an Entrepreneur in Residence, and by Jeremy Kroll and Tuvia Barak, who join as Venture Partners.
“Corporations are generating mind-boggling amounts of data, in excess
Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP) has invested in Recycling Lives Limited (Recycling Lives), a leading UK recycling and waste management solutions provider.
The company operates a fully- integrated business model and provides total waste management for corporates and local authorities and is capable of processing a range of material including scrap metals, waste electrical and electronic equipment, plastics and cardboard.
Recycling Lives was founded in 2008 by brothers Steve and Danny Jackson and is led day-to- day by CEO Will Fletcher. The company ensures the success of its commercial operations deliver more than just environmental and economic value –
Digital wealth manager LIQID has closed a EUR33 million Series C financing round led by Toscafund Asset Management. Existing investors, including Project A, HQ Trust and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures, also participated in the round.
Following the transaction, Toscafund, through Tosca Private Investments Fund (TPIF), a new specialist vehicle targeting small/mid-market private equity opportunities in the European financial services sector, will become a significant shareholder in the Berlin-based disrupter. The transaction – subject to customary regulatory approvals – will be TPIF’s first investment in Germany. It ranks among the most substantial funding rounds in the country’s dynamic fintech space.
EO Charging, one of the UK’s leading electric vehicle (EV) charging manufacturers, has secured GBP13 million funding from London-based infrastructure investor Zouk Capital, also investors in rapid EV charging business InstaVolt.
Founded by Charlie Jardine in 2015, EO designs and manufactures EV charging stations for homes, fleets and destinations. Having previously worked at another UK-based charger manufacturer, Jardine was frustrated by the unreliability of existing charging infrastructure and setup EO with a pledge to make simple and reliable EV chargers.
The company is currently working with Uber, Addison Lee, Google, Toyota Portugal, Hampshire Police and many others to support
Talis Capital (Talis), a London-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies, has led a USD3 million seed funding round into Edge Intelligence (Edge), developer of the first geographically distributed analytics platform built for both edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.
Existing investors in Edge Intelligence include Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo; Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, as well as Morado Venture Partners and Wellington Partners. In partnership with Talis and its other investors, Edge Intelligence will invest further in building out its pre-sales, sales, marketing and support functions as well as in expanding its product portfolio, with
Silicon Line, a specialist in developing and providing innovative ultra-low-power optical link technology for consumer electronics as well as commercial and industrial markets, has raised EUR8.2 (USD9.5m) in a Series B financing round led by Capital-E .
Additional investors in the Series B round include LRM, Munich Venture Partners and Unixtar. The financing will be used to ramp-up production of the company’s optical modules – tiny circuit boards inside cable connectors; upgrades to the company’s module factory located in Hasselt, Belgium; the hiring of additional design engineers; and opening of local customer support offices in Asia.
Capital-E, LRM and Munich
Post Capital Partners has partnered with Smith Transportation Services’ existing management team – Steve Smith, Bill Nichols, Jeff Maser and Christine Postlmayr – to purchase the company with its affiliates, including Smith-Cargo and Cargo-West.
Sam Woodward, a Post Capital Executive Partner and transportation industry veteran also participated with the buying group.
Founded in 2001, Smith Transportation is a national full-service third-party logistics & asset-light transportation services provider, with a leading presence in the Florida market. The Company’s comprehensive brokerage servicing offering spans nationwide, across multiple modes of transportation, including Load-to-Ride (LTR), Less-than-Truckload (LTL), truckload and rail/intermodal brokerage. Additionally, Smith
Idinvest Partners has completed three new private debt financings in Technicis, Burger King France and r2p. The latest transactions bring Idinvest’s total direct lending investments amount to EUR330 million so far this year in 15 companies across continental Europe.
Eric Gallerne, co-head of Private Debt at Idinvest Partners, says: “At Idinvest Partners, we look for dynamic companies with high-growth potential to support into international leaders in their fields. These latest transactions and our investment pipeline demonstrate our continued conviction in the strength of the European market. Over the past decade, we’ve continued to develop our private debt activities to provide
Bedell Cristin Guernsey has acted again as lead adviser to EV Private Equity, an independent growth equity firm focussing on new technologies in the oil and gas sector, on the launch of its latest Guernsey fund, EV Private Equity V Plus LP, a Guernsey private investment fund (PIF).
Bedell Cristin worked closely with the PIF’s Norwegian counsel, Alex Lund of Advokatfirmaet CLP DA and Aztec Financial Services (Guernsey) Limited, the PIF’s administrator. The PIF was structured as a closed-ended limited partnership to make investments in oil and gas services companies which deploy technologies to enable oil and gas exploration and production
Great Rock Capital, an asset-focused commercial finance company specialising in middle market lending, has closed a USD10 million credit facility to a leading skilled nursing and assisted living provider that operates 64 facilities in the Southwest USA.
Great Rock Capital’s investment – USD10 million of a USD20 million credit facility – marks the firm’s first underwriting in the healthcare industry.
“We are pleased to partner with an experienced healthcare lender on this transaction,” says Stuart Armstrong, CEO of Great Rock Capital. “This investment is Great Rock Capital’s first opportunity to provide growth capital to a customer in the healthcare industry, an industry we are targeting to
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