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Wallife, an Italian insurtech startup focused on protecting the individual from risks arising from technological innovation and scientific progress in the three areas of genetics, biometrics and biohacking, has raised USD4.8 million in its first round of funding.
The company now ranks sixth in Europe within the insurtech sector for the value of seed investment raised according to Crunchbase, one of the leading global databases of financial information on private companies, especially Start-Ups.
Founded in 2021 by Fabio Sbianchi, entrepreneur and founder of Octo Telematics in 2002, Wallife has attracted the interest of more than forty investors including Wellness Holding
Hiro Capital, a specialist European VC focused on video games, metaverse technologies, creator platforms and gamified fitness, has launched Hiro Capital II, a EUR300 million (USD340 million) fund focused on backing the world’s emerging gaming and metaverse innovators.
Hiro II will be announcing its first investments in April.
Hiro’s new fund invests in entrepreneurial teams at Seed A and B across the UK, Europe and North America (and selectively ROW), building innovative and disruptive leaders in Games, Esports, Creator Platforms and Gamified Fitness.
Experienced compliance professional Jen Townshend is the latest recruit to join the expanding team at YFM Equity Partners (YFM), taking on the role of chief compliance officer.
Over the last 14 years, Townshend has held a number of compliance and regulatory positions, most recently at Great Point Media where she spent the last three years as head of compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). Prior to that, she was a compliance consultant with Sturgeon Ventures for two years, as well as having been compliance manager and assistant MLRO with Ingenious Media for two years. Jen is a member of
The European asset management platform of Mediolanum Banking Group, Mediolanum International Funds Ltd (MIFL), has appointed Dermott Aspell asSenior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager and Marco Meijer as Fixed Income Portfolio Manager.
Aspell will join the firm’s multi-manager portfolio management team and will report to the firm’s Head of Multi-management, Bish Limbu. His primary responsibility will be to construct and manage the firm’s multi-manager fixed income portfolios, while collaborating with the manager research team.
Meijer joins as a Portfolio Manager in MIFL’s Fixed Income Investment Team responsible for internally managed fixed income portfolios and will report directly to Charles Diebel, MIFL’s
UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) has made the first investment for its Infrastructure Debt Platform High Yield strategy (IDP HY).
The transaction comprises a EUR35 million green loan to pan-European green energy firm Pacifico Renewables, which will be used to refinance the Group’s portfolio of operational renewable energy projects. The investment rationale and focus of the transaction underlines the wider strategy of IDP HY in deploying capital in mid-market infrastructure assets, alongside a focus on sustainable investment opportunities.
Pacifico Renewables, headquartered in Grünwald, Germany, operates a diverse portfolio of generating renewable energy assets across
Tyr Capital, a digital asset focused investment manager, has launched a new fund, Tyr Capital Venture.
Tyr Capital Venture SP is a discretionary hybrid venture capital fund offering investors exposure to long term returns across a portfolio of liquid tokens and illiquid digital assets (early-stage tokens and multi-stage venture capital equity) with a liquidity horizon of one to three years.
The fund combines the team’s venture capital and liquid trading backgrounds to provide access to asymmetric upside investment in early-stage deal flow, while capturing broader beta exposure in the digital asset market.
Portfolio construction is based on a
Solivus, the pioneer of new ‘skin-like’ solar panels, has secured a GBP2.4 million investment, led by Founders Factory and G-Force and supported by Crowdcube investors, to fund expansion plans putting solar power at the heart of the UK’s energy generation.
The seed investment sees Solivus join the Founders Factory G-Force sustainability seed programme where it will spend the next six months rapidly scaling its business – using the funding to grow its commercial rooftop business and mass market its recently launched ‘portable’ solar sculpture for homeowners
Solivus says its flexible, organic thin-film solar (OPV) panels that can be wrapped around
REBELS 0.0% has successfully completed a CHF1 million seed funding round led by the StartAngels Network.
Other private business angels, including experienced experts from the beverage and consumer goods industry in the DACH region, also participated in the round.
They REBELS 0,0% is the first Swiss company to offer non-alcoholic alternatives to various spirits and now wants to reach “conscious drinkers” throughout Europe.
The start-up REBELS 0.0% launched its range of double distilled alcohol-free gin, rum and aperitif alternatives on the Swiss market last year.
Darwin Group (Darwin), a Shropshire-based provider of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) buildings for the healthcare and education sector, has secured significant funding from Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for mid-sized companies.
Darwin is one of the UK’s leading providers of specialist offsite modular construction projects. Its innovative, high-specification modular systems are capable of rapid deployment in demanding environments and the Company is well-positioned to continue to support NHS Trusts in delivering new healthcare facilities across the UK.
Kartesia’s funds will support the management team in delivering its ambitious organic growth plans, including significant further investment
OakNorth Bank has provided Harwood Private Capital with a GBP20 million funding package to facilitate the management buyout (MBO) of family-run horticulture firm, Mr Fothergill’s Seeds Limited.
The deal enables the managed exit of the founding Carey and Fothergill families.
A member of the Harwood Capital Management family of funds (AUM>GBP1bn), Harwood Private Capital focuses on supporting growth orientated SMEs and lower mid-market companies in the UK. The firm’s flexible capital allows it to support business owners/management teams in meeting their growth objectives without the loss of control associated with traditional private equity investment.
Founded in 1978 by
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