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Swedish market intelligence and search startup My Telescope has raised EUR2.5 million in seed funding led by Vendep Capital and Trind VC to help marketers and brands measure and predict long-term trends in demand creation following their strategic marketing investments.
My Telescope will use the funding to accelerate its growth and entry into the US market.
My Telescope uses Share of Search analytics to measure and predict the long-term impact of market trends, brand strength, and campaign effectiveness in almost real-time. B
To date, My Telescope has raised EUR3.1 million in total funding.
Endless-backed educational resources supplier Findel has secured what is believed to be the UK education supplies sector’s first sustainability-linked loan facility from lender Santander UK.
Limak Investment and Actis, a global sustainable infrastructure investor, have completed a share transfer of Uluğ Energy Distribution and Retail Services Co (Uluğ).
The Share Purchase Agreement, which was first signed in September 2021, has met the necessary requirements of the Turkish Competition Authority, the Republic of Turkey Energy Market Regulatory Authority and other necessary authorisations. As a result, 100 per cent of shares in Uluğ have been transferred from Limak Investments to Actis.
Uluğ provides electricity distribution and retail services to the South Marmara Region of Turkey, which includes the provinces of Bursa, Balıkesir, Çanakkale and Yalova.
Tata Capital’s healthcare focused investment division, Tata Capital Healthcare Funds, has closed its second fund with USD126 million in capital commitments, according to a report by VCCircle.
The fund surpassed its original target and closed well ahead of Tata Capital’s first healthcare fund.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Sheppard Mullin) has appointed Chad R Ensz as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Securities practice in the San Diego (Del Mar) office.
Ensz, who was most recently a partner at Dentons, is the seventeenth transactional partner to join the firm since January 2021.
Ensz helps clients buy, sell, finance and operate their businesses through negotiations, documentation and advice for legal compliance. He focuses on general corporate transactional matters and regulatory compliance, including the representation of public and private companies in capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint venture and commercial transactions,
Swedish cybersecurity specialist Pointsharp, backed by Main Capital Partners (Main), has made its second add-on deal with the acquisition of German-based secure communication specialist Cryptshare AG.
Pointsharp enables companies to build a better, modern and more secure workplace. Main first invested in Pointsharp in 2020 to support the company in its next phase of growth, with a keen focus on international expansion.
In 2021, Swedish company Secmaker was added to the Pointsharp portfolio, which created a leading Nordic player in the Identity and Access Management market (IAM). This acquisition of Cryptshare further strengthens Pointsharp’s position as a leading security software
Invizius Limited (Invizius), a VC-backed biotechnology company developing treatments to suppress unwanted innate immune responses, has been awarded a GBP1 million grant to bring H-Guard, its proprietary priming solution, designed to reduce the life-threatening inflammatory effects of haemodialysis, to the clinic.
The funds will be used towards H-Guard’s First-in-Man safety study commencing in 2022.
Invizius is supported by a strong syndicate of investors including Mercia, Downing Ventures, Old College Capital, Scottish Enterprise, Solvay Ventures, Calculus Capital and experienced life science entrepreneur and investor, Dr Jonathan Milner. The Company has established the regulatory pathway for H-Guard in North America and
Private markets investment firm Hamilton Lane has partnered with digital securities exchange ADDX to tokenise a class of shares issued by Hamilton Lane Global Private Assets Fund (GPA), to enable access to the private markets for a broader set of investors in Asia.
The partnership marks the first time Hamilton Lane has tokenised a fund, making it one of the earliest major private markets firms to do so.
Hamilton Lane’s GPA Fund will be accessible to ADDX investors at a minimum ticket size of USD10,000, compared to the minimum of USD125,000 or more for investors who subscribe via traditional, non-tokenised
Singapore-based private equity manager Azalea Investment Management (Azalea) has launched the Altrium Sustainability Fund I (ASF I).
The fund will invest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) focused opportunities to achieve positive environmental and social outcomes alongside private equity financial returns.
ASF I is a PE fund-of-funds product that enables institutional and other accredited investors to build an ESG-focused investment portfolio. The fund is co-seeded by sponsor, the Azalea Group, together with homegrown financial services company Singlife with Aviva. Each party has committed USD50 million to kick off the fund.
ASF I will back funds which invest in
TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has closed a USD17 million Series A extension led by AlbionVC.
All existing institutional shareholders also took part in this investment round, which follows the original Series A of USD7.8 million, announced in April 2020.
TransFICC’s investors are AlbionVC, Citi, HSBC, Illuminate Financial, ING Ventures, and Main Incubator (the Early Stage CVC unit of Commerzbank Group).
The new investment will primarily be used to expand TransFICC’s Engineering teams, to support additional venue connectivity and automated workflows in US Rates and Credit markets, including US
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