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Innovative digital payments company, Pomelo Pay (Pomelo) has raised USD10 million in a Series A round led by UK-based independent investment firm Inference Partners.
The investment will allow the company to expand its presence across global markets including Europe and Asia, starting with plans to double their workforce in London, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.
Launched in 2018 in the UK and Singapore, Pomelo allows merchants to digitise their payment infrastructure and take payments from anyone, in any location (physical or digital), at near zero costs. The company provides an integration with over 30 payment networks globally. Its payments
Lower-mid market private equity firm NorthEdge is celebrating a year of success with pure-play e-commerce brand, Lights4fun.
NorthEdge announced its investment into the direct-to-consumer business in November 2020 and has since achieved many key milestones with the brand.
Within the first twelve months of the partnership, NorthEdge has supported the management team at Lights4fun to make several key hires which help unlock the significant growth potential, both in the UK and internationally.
David Stern was appointed as the business’ first Chair, followed by Amman Boughan as CFO and Ikonya Nginyo, who was appointed to lead the
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington) portfolio company, BlueHalo, a provider of advanced engineering solutions and technology to the national security community, has acquired Asymmetrik.
Founded in 2008, Asymmetrik is a leading developer of software solutions and technology tools used to enable the Intelligence Community’s (IC) most advanced programs. With a strong presence in Ft. Meade, MD and Northern Virginia, Asymmetrik delivers leading Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) technologies to enable the collection and analysis of Publicly Available Information (PAI). The company has extensive experience developing applications across multiple domains including OSINT, AI/ML, cryptocurrency, block chain analytics, real-time streaming analytics, cybersecurity, and federated
Caixa Capital Risc, the venture capital subsidiary of CriteriaCaixa, has sold its portfolio company Sanifit Therapeutics to Vifor Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company that aims to become an industry leader in iron deficiency, nephrology and cardio-renal therapies.
Under the terms of the agreement, Vifor Pharma will acquire 100 per cent of the outstanding shares in Sanifit; receiving full global rights for its lead compound, SNF472. Shareholders of Sanifit will receive an upfront payment of EUR205 million (USD231 million), clinical, regulatory and market access milestones for up to EUR170 million (USD192 million) and tiered sales-based milestones that could reach mid to
Funds managed by Apollo affiliates have agreed to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Broad Reach Power LLC (Broad Reach), a leading utility-scale energy storage and renewable energy platform in the US.
The Apollo Funds will acquire the stake from existing investor EnCap Investments LP (EnCap) and its co-investment partners Yorktown Partners and Mercuria Energy. EnCap and its co-investment partners will retain the other 50 per cent stake and, together with the Apollo Funds, commit to invest up to USD400 million of additional equity to fund Broad Reach’s continued expansion and growth pipeline.
Broad Reach is a leading
LoQus23 Therapeutics (LoQus23), a company discovering small molecule therapies that target aberrant DNA mismatch repair (MMR) to treat Huntington’s and other triplet repeat diseases (TRDs), has closed its GBP7 million extended seed round.
LoQus23 secured the financing from Novartis Venture Fund (NVF) and its founding investor the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF). This round follows an initial GBP4.5 million seed investment by the DDF in 2019.
Triplet repeat diseases are genetic disorders that primarily affect the nervous system and are caused by abnormal trinucleotide repeat expansions. Human genome-wide association studies on Huntington’s disease and other TRDs has shown clearly
DWS has acquired RadioOnkologieNetzwerk GmbH (RON), the leading radiotherapy platform provider in Germany, on behalf of its third Pan-European Infrastructure (PEIF III) fund, in partnership with the founders, Dr Sandra Röddiger and Dr Ralf Kurek.
RON has a strong track record of providing high quality cancer care services to its patients, operating the largest radiotherapy network in Germany with 17 different sites across five states in the country. Together with DWS’s existing investment in Medipass, the combination with RON will create the leading European provider of cancer care and advanced diagnostic imaging services.
The combined company will benefit from
The MCG Group has secured a GBP20 million funding package from Tosca Debt Capital LLP (TDC) to support its ambitious growth plans.
The MCG Group was recently named as one of ‘The UK’s 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For’ as well as one of ‘Recruitment’s 40 Best Companies to Work For’ by the Best Companies List, with nearly 300 employees across the Group. It offers recruitment, consultancy and project-based solutions within construction, education, healthcare and technology sectors in the UK and internationally.
TDC is a private debt fund, headquartered in Manchester, with a focus on supporting the growth
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist mid-market private equity investor in technology enabled financial services, has made a majority growth investment in German FinTech fintus, a low-code software provider in the Financial Services sector.
AnaCap will partner up with fintus Founder & CEO Benjamin Hermanns and provide significant growth capital, financial sector & technology expertise as well as operational support, as fintus continues its ambitious growth strategy by solidifying its strong position in the DACH region and expanding its low-code banking platform (fintus Suite) across Europe. The fintus team will also benefit from significant investment in talent to expand operational
Payhawk, a payments and expense solution with offices in London, Sofia, Berlin and Barcelona, has raised USD112 million just three years after its inception, valuing the company at USD570 million.
The Series B round is led by the San Francisco-based investor Greenoaks, who has a strong track record of investing in high-growth technology companies such as Gorillas, Robinhood, Stripe and Brex. All existing investors, including QED Investors, Earlybird Digital East and Eleven Ventures are participating in the round.
Currently, finance teams are still bound to a high amount of manual work as they are using multiple disconnected tools for
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