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Golding Capital Partners, a European independent asset managers for alternative investments, is combining all of its ESG functions into a new position filled by Christian Schütz, who will be the central liaison officer for implementing the company’s ambitious sustainability goals both internally and with regard to its investments.
Finnish startup Digital Nature has raised EUR1.5 million in seed funding to create new growth and attraction opportunities for shopping centres and other public venues.
The round was led by renowned business angels, including Mikko Kodisoja and Visa Forsten, co-founders of Finnish decacorn Supercell. The funding will go towards developing their technology and building their first on-sight attraction in one of the most prestigious shopping centres in Helsinki, Finland, with the world-famous Moomin characters as the theme.
Digital Nature creates digital attractions and interactive experiences for the hospitality industry. The company designs and develops content that transforms spaces via a
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, is enhancing its European service offering by making substantial investments in its central operations.
The initiative is focused on building additional technology capability, expanding its European footprint, and continuing to recruit exceptional, multilingual talent to support Alter Domus in providing corporate and fund services to investors and managers in private equity, real assets, and debt capital markets.
At the core of its EUR50 million investment is technology. Alter Domus is pursuing an ambitious digital agenda in software development, network and infrastructure, security and systems engineering, and quality
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a leaing specialist investor in consumer brands, on its GBP33 million minority stake investment in Omlet, a design-led pet accessories brand sold exclusively online.
Surge Private Equity (Surge) has acquired Optim Dental and Vogue Dental (Optim Dental) via its healthcare platform Access Dental Management (Access Dental).
With a reported transaction value of approximately USD10 million, the deal closed with debt financing provided by Corbel Capital Partners (Corbel).
Founded in 2014, Optim Dental has built up a growing network of five large dentistry practices throughout North Central Illinois, along with a sixth location in Indiana. The group serves patients with personalised dental treatment and advanced professional care distinguished by genuinely caring dental staff and assistants. Each clinic offers services ranging from general dentistry to specialty
Seraphim Space Investment Trust, the world’s first listed fund focused on SpaceTech, has made a new USD12.5 million investment in Astroscale Holdings Inc, a specialist in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits.
Astroscale closed a USD109 million series F round which was led by THE FUND Limited Partnership in Japan and backed by a group of investors including Seraphim Space, Japan Growth Capital Investment Corporation and AXA Life Insurance Co Ltd.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Japan, Astroscale is a truly international business with operational subsidiaries in the UK, US, Israel and Singapore and a growing
Proptech startup SearchLand has secured a GBP200,000 seed investment to accelerate its development of the world’s first fully automated site sourcing tool.
The funding, which came from a number of angel investors, is London-based SearchLand’s first investment to date. The round was part SEIS and part EIS.
Founded in 2020, SearchLand is an off-market site sourcing tool that allows property developers, architects and investors to find potential sites and contact the landowner directly through the platform.
The software-as-a-service platform automates and accelerates users’ hunt for viable plots of land by allowing them to search sites based on a range of
Oghma Partners, corporate finance advisers to consumer industries, has acted as exclusive financial adviser to the shareholders of UK-based Sykes Seafood Limited (Sykes) on the acquisition of Ruskim Seafoods Limited (Ruskim).
The combination of Ruskim together with Sykes Seafood and Klaas Puul creates a USD500 million, pan-European, shrimp-focused seafood business that will offer a market-leading range of products across the retail, wholesale, industry and foodservice sectors. The combined businesses will operate from five manufacturing sites and ten distribution centres in the UK, Europe and North Africa and employ over 3,900 people.
The three businesses already share many synergies and
Mednow Inc, a Canadian on-demand virtual pharmacy, has closed a CAD500,000 investment in Doko Medical (Doko Medical) by way of convertible debenture (the Doko Investment), for a 2.8 per cent equity interest at a CAD17.5 million pre-money valuation.
Doko Medical is a virtual healthcare provider operating across the US. Currently servicing 38 states, Doko Medical has over 100 physicians and health care workers engaged over its platform, which specialises in urgent care, mental health and erectile dysfunction. Doko Medical’s platform is used daily by physicians and patients, and patients can order prescriptions and send them directly to a pharmacy of
Global investment firm KKR is to acquire a minority stake in Southeast Asian private educator, Taylor’s Education Group’ (TEG) Taylor’s Schools.
Taylor’s Schools owns and operates six international schools – Garden International School, Nexus International School Singapore, Nexus International School Malaysia, Australian International School Malaysia, Taylor’s International School Kuala Lumpur, and Taylor’s International School Puchong.
Focused on the K-12 education system, Taylor’s Schools seeks to empower its learners to become productive leaders in the global community through innovative and creative teaching and learning methods, preparing them for future opportunities. Taylor’s Schools is a member of TEG, a leading private education
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