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valantic Financial Services Automation (FSA), a leading provider of cross-asset electronic trading and automation solutions, has completed a strategic investment in Velox Financial Technology.
Motorola Solutions has acquired Calipsa, a technology leader in cloud-native advanced video analytics based in London, UK.
Calipsa’s scalable platform enables businesses to optimise security with AI-powered analytics that verify alarms, enable content-based searches, detect tampering, and assess the health of cameras in real time. The solution is relied upon by enterprise and security monitoring customers around the world.
Calipsa’s unique cloud-based technology allows customers to add AI to existing IP-based cameras without additional hardware, enabling new analytics capabilities on the millions of IP-based cameras already deployed.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Software investor Main Capital Partners (Main) has acquired a majority stake in VideoVisit, a provider of software services for virtual healthcare and online consultations.
VideoVisit represents the first platform investment for Main in the Finnish market.
VideoVisit is a market leader in Finland with over 200 municipalities as customers, including Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere and Turku. VideoVisit provides a best-in-class software platform that is designed to digitalise both healthcare and social care visits. Its virtual care platform enables a wide range of healthcare services, including primary care, home care, home rehabilitation and disability services.
BaltCap Infrastructure Fund, AJ Power group and AJP Capital’s Solar Core Plus Fund have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture to develop solar energy generation in Latvia with 30 MW of solar farms to be built over the next three years.
The plan also foresees expansion across the Baltics and increasing the capacity of the solar plant portfolio to 100 MW.
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and SME investment manager, has made a £2.15m investment into HomeLink Healthcare Limited from Foresight VCT and Foresight Enterprise VCT.
Existing shareholders also invested £500,000 to further support HomeLink’s growth.
Formed in 2015, HomeLink has provided “hospital-at-home” services since 2018.
The new funding will support the scaling of the business by expanding the clinical team, allowing HomeLink to meet the demands of clients and prospects. HomeLink will invest in supportive technologies and plans to expand outside its current geography into new hospitals and regions. The Company also aims to explore additional treatment pathways and
Alantra, an independent global mid-market investment banking and asset management firm, has added to its Private Debt team with the appointments of Alberto Pierotti (managing director), Jean-Philippe Lantrade (managing director), Alfonso Sousa (director), and Carlos Pulido (associate).
The new appointments will support the growth plans of the private debt team and its internationalisation.
Alberto Pierotti joins to develop the private debt business in Italy. His most recent experience includes stints at Seaport Global and Avenue Capital. Jean-Philippe Lantrade joins from Be-Spoke Capital, a Madrid-based direct lending platform where he helped originate and fund more than 50 family-owned middle-market companies across
IK Partners portfolios company Blanchon Group has acquired Rigo Verffabriek and Rigo Verfcentrum (RIGO), a Dutch family-owned business specialising in the design and manufacturing of finishing products for wood and paints for heritage buildings, dedicated to professional customers.
This acquisition is part of the Blanchon Group’s strategy to accelerate its international growth and become a European leader in protection, maintenance, renovation and decoration of indoor and outdoor wood surfaces and vinyl flooring.
RIGO’s previous owners and top management will remain fully involved in the company and takes over the overall responsibility for the Benelux region, and have invested into the
17Capital has held the final close of its inaugural 17Capital Credit Fund, which raised $2.9 billion, hitting its hard cap and exceeding its initial $1.65 billion target.
It is the largest debut private credit fund raised globally since 2009 and is one of the largest debut funds ever raised .
17Capital’s credit fund provides NAV loans to high-performing private equity managers in Europe and North America, which are mostly used by managers to grow their portfolios but also to generate interim liquidity for their investors. It is a natural extension of 17Capital’s well established preferred equity offering that 17Capital pioneered
Tristone Healthcare, a buy and build social care investment group, has acquired Beyond Limits (Plymouth) Ltd.
The acquisition of the Plymouth-headquartered provider – which operates across Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Dumfries and Galloway – follows the addition of Seaside Care Homes to its portfolio of businesses in February. At the end of 2021, the investor announced it has the backing of £20 million of funding from Duke Royalty, which has supported this latest transaction.
Beyond Limits was founded in 2011 and specialises in supporting people with learning disabilities, mental health issues and other needs. Employing 131 staff and
Panthera Biosciences (Panthera) has secured £10 million of investment from BGF and Gresham House Ventures, the latter investing on behalf of the Baronsmead VCTs.
This investment will allow Panthera to further grow its network of dedicated clinical trial sites across the UK and Western Europe. Since launching in late 2019, with an initial investment from Gresham House Ventures and Catapult in 2020, Panthera has grown to become a major player in the UK with nine sites and a rapidly growing order book.
This investment round will be used to fund further expansion in the UK and Western Europe,
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