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Crypto venture capital fund Lemniscap has led a USD4.4 million seed funding round in JellyFi, a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that will soon enable uncollateralised crypto loans.
ParaFi Capital, Tioga Capital, White Star Capital, DeFiance Capital, True Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Genesis, Divergence Ventures, AngelDAO and several angel investors also participated in the round. The investment will be used to support JellyFi’s growth through R&D, key hires, and performing multiple audits.
Pollen Street Capital, an independent, alternative investment management company focused on the financial and business services sectors, has made a strategic growth investment in Blue Media SA, an online payments provider in Poland.
Blue Media is offers a range of payments and payment-related services to businesses and consumers via the Blue Media and Autopay brands. This year the business expects to process over EUR6 billion of payments, with over 33,000 active eCommerce merchants and is approaching 1 million users of the Autopay app.
Amundi, a European leader in responsible investment with over EUR800 billion in assets managed with an ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) approach, has launched a new social and climate action plan through to 2025.
With the ambition of further strengthening its commitments, this plan sets out objectives for both savings and investment solutions for clients and Amundi’s engagement policy with companies. ESG objectives will be included in the remuneration of its senior executives. Amundi will also present its climate strategy to its shareholders.
This plan is part of the Crédit Agricole Group’s Societal Project, which is built around three priorities: climate,
Existing investor Valor Siren Ventures has led a USD7 million funding round in Datasembly, a provider of real-time product pricing, promotions, and assortment data for retailers and CPG brands.
Other previous investors including Craft Ventures, Twenty 5 Twenty, Evan Brown and Launch Capital also participated.
As part of the deal, Richard Tait, Partner at Valor Siren Ventures and Lee Insigna, COO of Datasembly Added to Board of Directors have joined the Board of Directors.
Scale Venture Partners has led a USD50 million Series B investment round in healthcare technology company Robin. With the new investment, Robin will expand its service into new markets, as well as invest in its engineering, product, and sales teams to further deliver value for physicians nationwide.
Khosla Ventures also participated in the funding round along with existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Social Leverage, Meridian Street Capital, and IA Ventures.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has promoted Partner Jeffrey Gordon to Managing Partner and Co-Fund Manager of the Riverside Strategic Capital Fund (RSCF).
Gordon will work alongside Riverside Managing Partner George Cole to co-manage the fund. RSCF provides non-control capital solutions to sponsors and entrepreneurs, allowing them to retain control of all aspects of their business, including minority ownership of companies previously owned by other Riverside funds.
Battery Ventures, a global, technology focused investment firm, has acquired LI-COR Biosciences, an a specialist in highly engineered instrumentation systems for environmental research, agriculture, drug discovery, protein research and therapeutics development.
As part of the acquisition, current LI-COR Chief Executive Greg Biggs, the son of co-founder Bill Biggs, will transition to an advisory role. Thomas Reslewic, a current Battery executive-in-residence who previously served as group president for two business units within Teledyne Technologies, will become CEO.
Alexander Curry and Oliver Richardson have been promoted to Partner, further strengthening Ogier’s Corporate team in Jersey.
Curry’s corporate practice focuses on equity capital markets, cross border M&A and private equity (PE) transactions. He acts for a number of the world’s leading PE houses and has particular experience in natural resources, real estate, healthcare and fintech sectors as well as providing Private Wealth and Family Office clients with structuring and investment advice.
Richardson is a Legal 500 Rising Star and Lawyer of the Year finalist, whose legal career started at Ogier as a bursary student before he trained and practiced
Zeta Markets (Zeta), a decentralised finance (DeFi) futures and options exchange built on Solana, has completed a USD8.5 million strategic funding round led by Jump Capital.
The round, conducted via private token sale, had participation from Race Capital, Electric Capital, DACM, Airtree Ventures, Amber Group, Wintermute, Sino Global Capital, Genesis Block Ventures, QCP Capital, Alameda Research, Solana Capital, MGNR, 3kVC, Orthogonal Trading, LedgerPrime, and SkyVision Capital. This raise comes off the back of Zeta Market’s grand prize win in the Solana Summer hackathon which featured over 13,000 participants worldwide.
A new global study commissioned by Intertrust Group reveals the extent to which large cap private capital managers are leaving smaller firms behind in the race to invest in transformative technologies such as machine learning, robotics, big data and blockchain to gain a competitive edge.
The study, The Future of Fund Technology, based on interviews with 300 private capital fund senior decision-makers in the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia, found that 87 per cent of large cap managers with over USD3 billion of AUM plan to increase their tech spend over the next five years, of which 17 per
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