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Coro, an all-in-one cyber security platform for mid-market organisations, has raised USD60 million ins a Series C round of financing, bringing the total funding raised by the business in the last six months to USD80 million. The lates round has been led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investor Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP).  The funds will be used to further accelerate company growth, which has already seen significant momentum with 300 per cent year-over-year growth for each of the past three years and into 2022. Expansion plans include aggressive hiring to triple the Coro team globally, with an emphasis
RockX, one of Asia’s largest crypto staking providers, has completed a USD6 million Series A funding round led by Amber Group. Other prominent crypto industry leaders including Matrixport, Primitive Ventures, FBG Capital, Draper Dragon, IMO Ventures, Alpha CW and Megastake also participated in the round. RockX will use the funds to enhance its product and service offerings, as well as grow its team to better meet the increasing global demands for quality staking and data services.  The completion of this funding round values RockX at USD30 million.
Law firm Gordons has been chosen by funding connector Fund Her North as its legal partner following a competitive selection process. Fund Her North is a group of more than 25 women in venture capital organisations who collectively have a combined investment power of GBP650 million.   The funding connector is believed to be the only organisation of its kind in the UK that brings together women in the investment industry in this way to support female founders.   As exclusive legal partner, Gordons will provide female founders and their teams with legal advice throughout the funding process, including early
Into a portfolio company of private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), has acquired TheraCell, Inc, a California-based regenerative medicine company. The acquisition will strengthen Isto’s focus on offering extraordinary solutions for surgical and clinical care procedures within spine, orthopedics, and sports medicine. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition will expand Isto Biologics’ growing portfolio of orthopaedic grafts and introduce Theracell’s proprietary and patented TheraFuze DBF technology that will become part of Isto Biologics’ Influx line.
vHive, a software solution that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives to create Digital Twins of their assets, has secured USSD25 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG. Previous investors Octopus Ventures and Telekom Innovation Pool (TIP), Deutsche Telekom’s strategic investment fund advised by DTCP, also participated in the round. Ronen Nir, Managing Director at PSG, has joined vHive’s board of directors.  PSG’s investment in vHive aims to further accelerate the company’s expansion of its global customer base and enable the company to scale up operations in key markets, as well as to enter new ones.
HIG Growth Partners (HIG), the dedicated growth capital affiliate of HIG Capital, has completed a strategic growth investment in myKaarma, a growing, end-to-end SaaS platform for franchise automotive dealership service lanes. Founded in 2012 and based in Long Beach, CA, myKaarma’s unified solution includes an integrated suite of scheduling, interaction, communication, and payment tools that encompass the entire repair process, thereby driving efficiencies for dealer service lanes as well as improved experiences for vehicle owners.  HIG’s growth investment will be used by myKaarma to drive further innovation and product enhancement to meet the growing needs of the evolving dealer space,
GI Partners, a private investment firm with a long history of investing in technology and science real estate, announced the has concluded the initial fundraising period for the firm’s newest vehicle, the GI Real Estate Essential Tech + Science Fund (GI Partners ETS Fund LP – the ETS Fund). The initial fundraise period for the firm’s first commingled real estate fund surpassed expectations, exceeding the hard cap with total commitments reaching USD1.45 billion and representing one of the largest initial raises for an open end real estate fund in recent years.   The ETS Fund’s diverse investor base includes public
Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) has completed another equity closing in its pan-European High Yield I Real Estate Debt Fund taking the current equity commitment in the Fund to above EUR160 million. The capital was raised from a large German insurance company and a mix of international investors arranged through the Edmond de Rothschild Private Bank.  The Edmond de Rothschild High Yield I Real Estate Debt Fund is providing whole loans and mezzanine loans secured against real estate collateral across Western Europe. The Fund was launched in November 2020 with a target size of EUR300 million and
Corsha, a DC-based API security company that provides an innovative approach to securing API communication between trusted machines, has raised USD12 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Ten Eleven Ventures and Razor’s Edge Ventures. 1843 Capital also participated in the round.  With partners like Dell Technologies, Corsha offers a first-of-its-kind platform to secure communication in both on-prem and cloud environments. Its patented technology allows security teams to cryptographically assign dynamic identities to a set of trusted machines and pin API access only to those machines.
Climeworks has raised CHF600 million (USD650 million) in a funding round co-led by Partners Group (acting on behalf of its clients) and GIC, with further participation from (in alphabetical order) Baillie Gifford, Carbon Removal Partners, Global Founders Capital, John Doerr, M&G, Swiss Re, as well as other new and existing shareholders including long-term investor and anchor shareholder BigPoint Holding AG. JP Morgan Securities LLC served as sole placement agent for Climeworks in connection with the transaction.   Since its foundation in 2009, Climeworks has pioneered direct air capture technology and is the most advanced industry player, with the world’s largest

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