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Europe’s leading online private investment platform, Buildiro.com, has launched a crowdfunding investment round on Seedrs.
The private equity fundraising market in 2022 will be the most congested yet – with 15 funds returning to raise more than USD15 billion each. Where does that leave everyone else?
CoinRoutes, an algorithmic trading platform for digital assets, has completed a USD16 million Series B funding round, led by Ayon Capital.
The CIO for Ayon Capital, Rahul Pagidipati, Co-CEO of Zebpay and Board Member for Brave Browser, will join the CoinRoutes Board.
The funding round includes investments from Susquehanna International, Cboe Global Markets, Celsius, CMT Digital, Genesis Global Trading, Galaxy Digital, Arca, Mirana Ventures (venture partner of Bybit and BitDAO), GSR Markets, AscendEX, and others.
CoinRoutes began operations in 2017 and has been providing the institutional community with pure-play crypto SaaS trading technology for over five years. Delivering the tools
Anaplan, the provider of a cloud-native platform for orchestrating business performance, is to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm, for USD66.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD10.7 billion.
Bionic, an application security posture management platform, has closed a USD65 million Series B funding round led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners.
Existing investors, Cyberstarts, and Battery Ventures also participated in the round.
Bionic will use this new funding to expand investment in R&D and scale its rapidly growing sales and customer success teams.
Since launching from stealth in December 2020, Bionic has experienced significant growth and helped dozens of customers such as GSK, Armis, Chipotle, Freddie Mac, and Inspire Brands significantly accelerate their digital transformation projects and de-risk their application security posture.
Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), a listed global infrastructure fund, is to invest EUR43 million (GBP36 million at current exchange rates) in a European transport and logistics company through Pomodoro Holdings Limited (Pomodoro), a company controlled by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management (Apollo).
Apollo is a leading global alternative investment firm with a successful track record in the transport and logistics sector.
This is PINT’s first investment since it launched on the London Stock Exchange following a successful and substantially over-subscribed GBP400 million initial public equity offering in November 2021.
The investee company is a specialist market leader
NIO Capital, a Chinese investment firm focused on decarbonisation and digitalisation, has held the successful final closing of NIO Capital’s flagship fund, Eve ONE Fund II at approximately USD400 million.
The fund was oversubscribed and quickly surpassed its original target fund size and hard cap. Notably, this Fund has nearly doubled the capital commitments of its predecessor fund, NIO Capital Eve ONE Fund LP, which held its final closing in 2019. With its comprehensive platform of strategies, NIO Capital supports emerging founders and innovative technologies across the company life cycle.
Despite various fundraising limitations and challenges arising from the Covid-19
Mutumutu International, an online life & income protection insurance startup, is aiming to raise EUR5.5 million in Series A funding.
The funding is to be used mainly for Mutumutu’s expansion across Europe.
Mutumutu aims to maintain a high level of customer engagement using a smart application with weekly sports challenges and regular cashback rewards for sports activities. This proposition leads to an excellent customer rating and a high Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 75.
In the past two has years Mutumutu successfully raised EUR3.7 million from French bancassurance giant Societe Generale Assurances. Mutumutu entered the French market in November 2021
ClearBank, a clearing and embedded banking platform in the UK, has secured a GBP175 million equity investment led by funds advised by Apax Digital, the growth equity arm of Apax, a global private equity advisory firm.
Existing investors, CFFI UK Ventures (Barbados) Ltd and PPF Financial Holdings BV, also participated.
The new investment will accelerate ClearBank’s global expansion of its clearing and embedded banking offering, initially in Europe before moving into North America and Asia Pacific.
The first new clearing bank in the UK in over 250 years at launch in 2017, ClearBank is the only next generation payments provider
Lune, a provider of software tools that make it easier for any business to integrate climate impact into its customer experience – starting with carbon emissions calculations and carbon removal, has raised USD4 million in a funding round led by early-stage VC Crane.
Fifteen angel investors, including Maximilian Tayenthal (co-founder of N26), Fredrik Hjelm (co-founder of Voi) and Tony Jamous (co-founder of OysterHR & Nexmo), also particpated in the round.
TErik Stadigh, formerly a VC investor at Crane, and Roberto Bruggemann, most recently a Principal Engineer at Freetrade, co-founded Lune on a mission to make every product and service climate
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