Latest News
Cairngorm Capital Partners portfolio company, Verso Wealth Management (Verso), has acquired Pavis Financial Management Limited (Pavis).
Established in 1992, Pavis is a chartered financial planning firm based in Liverpool, serving private clients across the UK.
The addition of Pavis to the Verso group, adds scale to Verso’s network and creates a hub in the North West as Verso builds its national footprint.
This is Cairngorm Capital’s 40th proprietary investment since 2016 and is typical of its buy and build strategy of providing investment capital, strategic guidance, operational and industry expertise, to support ambitious management teams in their drive for transformational
Cybersecurity specialist Saporo has raised USD2.7 million in a pre-seed round co-led by Session VC and Lightbird Ventures.
Saporo’s technology enables any organisation to model and measure its resistance to anticipate attacks and make better-informed decisions about managing its risk without the need to think like an attacker.
The Swiss cyber security startup launched in April 2021 after 18 months of research and development. Saporo was co-founded by the two brothers Olivier and Guillaume Eyries, and researcher Éric Blavier. Through shared experiences growing previous businesses and working in cyber security, the three share a vision to make cyber security accessible
Manchester-based technology start-up, SamsonVT, has secured USD5.1 million in a seed funding round led by Par Equity, with participation from US-based Blumberg Capital.
SamsonVT has developed Industry 4.0 solutions that are transforming product maintenance and after sales, a USD400 billion market.
The funding will be used to support SamsonVT’s aggressive global growth strategy, which includes plans to develop new and existing products, enhance customer service and scale production as the company expands into new territories.
Advisors at Sand Hill East are supporting SamsonVT through its next phase of growth in sales, marketing and business development, as well as strategically preparing
T-REX Group (T-REX), a SaaS provider supporting the asset-backed financing industry, has raised USD40 million in a Series C funding round led by Riverstone Holdings and Riverstone affiliates (Riverstone).
Existing shareholders Citi, ClearSky, Westly Group, Viola FinTech, and the Partnership Fund for New York City also particpated.
T-REX, with its support for private credit and ESG-driven investments, will become part of Riverstone’s Decarbonization Growth Equity platform.
T-REX brings together asset class expertise, critical data management capabilities, and a platform for deal structuring, cash flow modelling, scenario analysis, real-time performance tracking, and reporting. By giving institutions the modernised tools and validation
Polly, a SaaS technology company focussed on the mortgage capital markets, has raised USD37 million in Series B funding, bringing Polly’s total funding to over USD50 million.
The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation by new investors including Movement Mortgage, First American Financial, and FinVC. Existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall also participated in the round. Tyler Sosin, Partner at Menlo Ventures, will join Polly’s Board of Directors.
Newlight Partners (Newlight), a growth equity investment firm, has promoted Joshua Ho-Walker to Partner. In addition, James Antoniotti and Kristian Hila have been promoted to Principal.
Ho-Walker joined the Newlight team in 2008 from Merrill Lynch and leads the firm’s thematic investments in Evolution of Bandwidth Consumption.
Antoniotti joined the Newlight team in 2016 and focuses on investments across themes and sectors, while Kristian Hila joined the Newlight team in 2016 and focuses on investments across themes and sectors.
Harbour Point Capital (HPC), a private equity investment firm specialising in the healthcare services field, has completed a new investment in Midwest Medical Transport (MMT), a provider of ambulance transportation services.
HPC and healthcare industry veteran Kevin Ketzel, former president of Agiliti Health (NASDAQ: AGTI), partnered on the transaction.
Panorama Point Partners (Panorama) and its equity partners, Dixon Midland Company (Dixon Midland) and ORIX Private Equity Solutions (ORIX), prior investors in MMT, have sold their interests as part of the recapitalisation.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
DigitalOwl, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology for analysing and summarising medical records, has raised USD20 million in a Series A round led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Ibex and Fusion VC.
This latest round of fundraising will be used for additional hires that will strengthen existing teams, particularly technology development, sales, marketing and client service. The round quickly follows the company’s USD6.5 million seed announcement in February 2021.
DigitalOwl currently operates in the US, Canada and Israel to help companies get through the tedious process of manual
Blockdaemon, an institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure company for node management and staking, has closed a Series C funding round of USD207 million with a post-money valuation of USD3.25 billion.
BGF invested close to GBP60 million within the Scottish growth economy in 2021 – more than double the previous year’s figures.
BGF is a long-term patient investor, making initial investments between GBP1 million to GBP15 million for a minority equity stake. Deals completed in 2021 by BGF’s Scotland team have taken place across a diverse range of sectors, from technology to healthcare to consumer goods, while also supporting a range of company growth stages – from early-stage through to IPO.
Strong regional momentum comes off the back of a significant year for BGF as a whole, which has seen the
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
