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Oakley Capital Private Equity III is to sell its stake in TechInsights, an information services platform for the microelectronics sector.
The exit will generate a gross return on investment of c18.8x MM and c82 per cent IRR to Fund III. As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital Fund IV (Fund IV) will acquire a majority stake in TechInsights alongside CVC Growth Funds (CVC Growth) to benefit from the strong future growth potential of the business, as well as the significant strategic and sectoral synergies CVC Growth offers.
Fund III first invested in TechInsights in 2017 as a carveout from AXIO
Startup investment bank for the emerging markets JPIN Venture Catalysts (JPIN) has participated in a USD1.8 million investment round in BioSapien, a biotech that uses 3D Printed Biodegradable mesh designed to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumour sites with greater efficacy and reduced side effects.
Reposify, a leading External Attack Surface Management (EASM) provider, has raised seed round funding of USD8.5 million from two US-based VC firms, Joule Ventures and First Rays Venture Partners, alongside several industry expert angels.
Highland Europe has led a USD50 million Series D funding round in Signal AI, bringing total funding to date to USD100 million.
Other investors in this round include abrdn, existing investors include Redline, MMC, Hearst and Guardian Media Group Ventures.
Signal AI will use this new funding to further build out its innovative decision augmentation solution.
GREENPEAK, through its holding group PARATUS, has acquired a majority stake in DATA Corporation Softwareentwicklungs (DATA) in Vienna.
DATA is a leading provider of RIS and PACS solutions servicing outpatient radiologists in Austria led by a strong management team.
As the first investment by PARATUS, DATA is a building block in establishing a healthcare software and IT-service provider in the German-speaking region.
Blue Point Capital Partners has made a platform investment in National OnDemand, a communication and utility infrastructure service provider to the US fibre, wireless, energy and technology sectors.
Blue Point is the first institutional investor in National OnDemand, which, in the the four-plus years since its creation, has successfully completed 15 acquisitions.
National OnDemand provides its clients turnkey infrastructure services, including engineering, construction and last mile installation. The partnership with Blue Point will support the continued organic and acquisitive growth and expansion of National OnDemand’s services and geographic footprint.
Basakt Infrastructure Parteners has invested GBP100 million in Be Fibre, an internet service provider on a mission to provide hypersonic broadband access to 1,000,000 premises, over the next six years.
Be Fibre plans to reach 80 towns and cities by 2027, having already opened hubs in the Northwest of England (Cheshire), the Southeast (Essex), and the Midlands, with a fourth set to launch near the Scottish Border in 2022.
Alitheia IDF (AIF), Africa’s first women-led and women-focused private equity fund, has he’d it’s final close at USD100 million with European Investment Bank (EIB) joining as the closing investor with USD24.6 million.
With this final close, Alitheia IDF becomes the largest gender-lens private equity fund by value in Africa.
Led by principal partners Polo Leteka and Tokunboh Ishmael, Alitheia IDF invests in growth-stage companies across six African countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Zambia. The fund has a mandate to plug the over USD42 billion investment gap between male and female entrepreneurs as a means of catalysing the
BB Capital Investments has completed the sale of childcare software provider KidsKonnect to Five Arrows Growth Capital.
BB Capital initially took a majority interest in Flexkids in 2018 and subsequently formed KidsKonnect following a merger between Flexkids and Konnect. The childcare software provider, with headquarters in Haarlem, offers fully integrated software solutions for daycare centres, out-of-school care, childminder organisations and primary education centres.
KidsKonnect today serves more than one million children in the 0-12 year age group with childcare software solutions in the Netherlands and Belgium via its integrated platform, and has established itself as a market leader in the
Hypi, the London-based SaaS platform that makes no-code app development accessible to everyone, has secured GBP150,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital.
The funding will support the growth of Hypi platform and push their new no-code solution out to users who want a simpler, more visual way of developing and launching their app ideas.
Hypi’s low-code platform allows non-technical people to create their own ready-to-launch professional web and mobile apps in minutes, using a visual tool that aims to be as simple and easy to use as a standard word processor.
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