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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.
Pontiff’s has led a EUR87 million Series A funding round in biotech company Emergence Therapeutics.
Existing and new investors also participated along with the Emergence Therapeutics management team which was advices by ARQIS.
Proceeds from this funding round will be used to advance the company’s next-generation antibody drug conjugate (ADC) targeting Nectin-4 to clinical proof-of-concept as well as the development of additional ADC programs. Antibody drug conjugates are among the most promising areas of research in the fight against cancer.
MVI Advisors AB (MVI) has held the final closing of its second private equity fund, MVI Fund II AB (Fund II) with commitments of SEK1.1 billion, exceeding its target of SEK1 billion.
MVI’s previous fund, MVI Fund I AB (“Fund I”), had commitments of SEK 478 million.
The Fund, led by Stefan Karlsson and Daniel Nilsson, is pursuing the successful strategy implemented by MVI since 2011 of completing buyout investments in high-quality, small companies in the Nordic region, with a particular focus on Sweden. Its focus will be to acquire control positions in companies that take advantage of sustainable industry
Muzinich & Co SGR, acting on behalf of Azimut ELTIF Capital Solutions Strategy, has invested EUR18 million in Italian textile producer Canepa.
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