Tangany, a BaFin-regulated white-label platform for custody of crypto assets, has raised €7m in a seed round led by Nauta Capital. Existing investor HTGF and new investor C3 VC Fund also participated in the round.  Tangany’s WaaS (Wallet as a Service) provides highly secure storage for digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, security tokens and NFTs. The company’s proprietary solution supports both hot and cold wallets to provide clients the easiest way to adopt blockchain.

Bowmark Capital has acquired a majority shareholding in WSD, a provider of document and workflow automation software solutions to the global structured products industry. WSD’s document, workflow, connectivity and data solutions enable straight-through processing and deliver improved efficiency, accuracy and insight for its capital markets clients. As part of the transaction, Peter Little will join WSD’s board as non-executive chairman, bringing extensive experience of growing financial services software companies.

Vaayu, a climate tech start-up that helps retailers reduce their carbon footprint in real-time, has closed an $11.5 million seed funding round led by Atomico. CapitalT also made a follow on investment as part of then round, while Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s firm Seven Seven Six, along with a select group of angel investors including Cristina Stenbeck, Chairperson of the Zalando Supervisory Board and non-Executive Director of Spotify and Bryant Chou, co-founder and CTO of Webflow, also participated. As part of this round of investment, Atomico Partner Terese Hougaard will join Vaayu’s board, making it 75% female.  This is the

After a successful first round of funding, multi-family investment office Arete is leading a £1 million round in digital scale-up platform, Vivify. Founded in 2020 by the current management team of Russell Teale and Alaine Swis, who have since been joined by finance director, Carl Cox and chairman Richard Millman, North West based Vivify works with schools across the country to hire out their facilities outside of school hours to enable them to generate much needed revenue that can be invested back into their facilities, teachers, and pupil experience. Arete first met the business before it launched its booking platform

Stone-Goff Partners has sold its investment in DSG Consulting LLC to Corporate Visions, Inc, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company. DSG is a technology-enabled growth consultancy that helps B2B companies accelerate revenue growth through a modern video-based playbook approach. The Company goes to market with a unique combination of messaging, video, training, and enablement services, as well as digital subscriptions used to deploy and reinforce customers’ strategic themes.   Stone-Goff Partners invested in DSG in November 2017, alongside co-founders Matt McClendon and Tanner Mezel. During Stone-Goff’s ownership, DSG accelerated its investment in vPlaybook, the Company’s digital subscription product, led

Kinara Capital, India’s fast-growing MSME fintech, has closed a fresh equity round of $50 million led by global investment manager Nuveen. Triple Jump, a Dutch impact-focused investment manager advising the ASN Microkredietfonds also participated in the round.  This new equity investment will lead to Kinara’s expansion of products and services to meet the rapidly increasing MSME credit demand in India. Kinara Capital aims to grow by 500% by 2025 with plans to disburse $1 billion of MSME business loans in the next three years. This round of equity financing for Kinara Capital comes from Nuveen’s Global Impact Fund which focuses

Lower mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has completed its investment in life sciences marketing agency, ramarketing, to support rapid service expansion and increased international presence. North-East headquartered ramarketing employs more than 50 people globally with offices in Newcastle, Manchester and Boston, MA. The full-service marketing firm, which supports clients operating in the high-growth pharmaceutical and biotech markets, is regarded as one of the fastest-growing life sciences agencies in the world.   NorthEdge is backing Raman Sehgal, Founder and Global President, and Emma Banks, Managing Director, alongside ramarketing’s highly experienced team to deliver an exciting and ambitious growth plan.

Norfund, a Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, has invested $8 million South Africa-based raisin processor and distributor Redsun Dried Fruit and Nuts (“Redsun”), a portfolio company of One Thousand and One Voices (1K1V). Redsun, located along the banks of the Orange River, is expanding its operations with two new state-of-the-art facilities, that will help it to grow its market share in the $33 billion healthy snacks market. 1K1V’s portfolio companies, including Redsun, have exported over $60 million worth of products from Africa to over 35 countries.  The growth investment by Norfund will enable Redsun to double its current capacity

Forecast Labs, a New York City-based venture group that’s a division of Comcast, has led a Series B-1 investment round in Colorado-based fintech Neat Capital. Previously, Neat Capital has raised more than $40 million in funding, with a Series B round announced in early 2021. Forecast Labs, a consumer-focused venture group, has worked with a variety of FinTech companies that include Acorns, Hippo, and Public.com. The amount of additional funding was not immediately announced.