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Hg, a software and services investor, has agreed to become a significant minority shareholder in Global cloud software company IFS and WorkWave.
Goodlord, a property technology company transforming the way people rent, has raised GBP27 million in its latest investment round, led by Highland Europe.
Columbia Lake Partners, Finch Capital, Latitude, and Oxx also participated in the round.
Goodlord will use the investment to accelerate its ambitious growth plans, including potential acquisitions in the UK and beyond.
LeapFrog Investments, a Profit with Purpose investment firm, has appointed Dominic Barton as non-executive Chairman of its Management Board, effective 1 April.
Barton was formerly Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company and was most recently Canada’s Ambassador to China. He accepts this appointment at an inflection point for the impact investing industry as firms attract global leaders and top-tier institutional capital.
LeapFrog is one of the world’s largest dedicated equity impact investors. The firm has raised USD2 billion to invest in purpose-driven businesses and its companies now reach 272 million people in 35 countries.
The Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) are joining forces to align lenders and private equity sponsors to support material and consistent ESG data disclosure within the credit markets.
This effort was kicked off last year by the PRI – which is supported by the United Nations and represents signatories with over USD120 trillion AUM – to standardise ESG information shared during the investment process.
The PRI worked extensively with a group of signatories to develop an ESG pre-investment due diligence template for target portfolio companies. The template maps the
tranScrip, a fast-growing contract drug development organisation which supports the development and lifecycle of medicines, and a portfolio company of UK mid-market private equity investor Palatine, has acquired Dublin-based Real Regulatory, a highly respected business specialising in European regulatory affairs, quality systems and compliance for medical products.
The strategic acquisition expands tranScrip’s regulatory affairs capabilities, strengthening its ability to provide comprehensive support to its customers. The deal is the first acquisition made by tranScrip since it secured the backing of Palatine in 2021 via its dedicated Impact Fund.
Grünenthal and NovaQuest, a life science investment firm with a focus on biopharmaceuticals, are to advance the global clinical Phase III programme of Grünenthal’s asset resiniferatoxin (RTX).
The investigational medicine is being developed with the aim of providing patients suffering from pain associated with osteoarthritis with a well-tolerated, non-opioid therapy option that is intended to provide long-lasting pain relief and functional improvement of the affected joints.
Under the terms of the agreement, NovaQuest will reimburse Grünenthal’s investments into the clinical phase III programme of RTX and share the clinical development and approval risks with Grünenthal. In case of successful development
Blackfinch Ventures, part of Blackfinch Group and one of the fastest growing VCs in the UK, has exited its investment in Candidate.ID, a specialist in marketing automation technology for recruitment.
The move follows the acquisition of Candidate.ID by iCIMS, the US-based talent cloud company, resulting in a strong return for Blackfinch investors over a two-year period.
This is the first exit for Blackfinch Ventures, which has invested a total of GBP28.8 million across 45 deals since it was established three years ago.
Founded in 2015 and based in Glasgow, Candidate.ID is marketing automation software built for talent acquisition,
Sixty per cent of Limited Partner (LP) respondents surveyed in the Brackendale Private Equity Technology LP Sentiment Survey H1 2022, produced in association with AssetMetrix, said that they would be more likely to consider allocating to a fund, if the fund manager had a tech-enabled partner to outsource their middle and back-office activities to.
Private equity and hedge fund assets are the most likely to see relevant levels of tokenisation as the market begins to build, new global research from tokenisation platform Token City shows.
Caterpillar, a digital rewards app for health promotion, education and behavioural change, has secured GBP450,000 in funding from investors including VC firm Jenson Funding Partners.
The healthtech company will use the funds to add new features to the app, expand the range of loyalty schemes it offers, and for other areas of business development.
The app was founded by ex-NHS Digital Director of Strategic Communications, Paul Baverstock, and draws on behavioural science, the academic study of human behaviour change. The app rewards users for physical activity and improved dietary habits, with loyalty points redeemable at popular chains such as
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