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New Water Capital, a private equity firm focused on lower-middle market companies, has acquired Nelson-Miller, a full-service provider of custom, engineered components and assemblies going into critical applications across medical, aerospace & defence and industrial end-markets.
Nelson-Miller will be New Water Capital’s newest platform investment, focused on serving the design, engineering and manufacturing needs of medical and industrial technologies, said New Water partner Brian McGee. “Our team sees huge market opportunity for companies such as Nelson-Miller that develop, produce and support the increasingly complex components used in a wide spectrum of today’s highly technical, essential products,” McGee says. “With its
BrainBox AI, a leader in autonomous building technology, today announced a USD24 million raise to further deploy its AI technology in the built environment and develop its next phase of innovation. The first close of its Series A round includes new lead investor, ABB, and investments by Esplanade Ventures and Desjardins Capital.
BrainBox AI offers predictive and self-adaptive artificial intelligence to optimise buildings’ energy usage, carbon footprint, and operational efficiency. To date, BrainBox AI has transformed over 100 million sq ft of building space across five continents by providing real estate asset owners with a scalable and impactful tool to
Summa Equity, which invests in companies solving global challenges, has been certified as a B Corporation, joining a growing group of companies reinventing business by pursuing purpose as well as profit.
The certification has been awarded by B Lab, the not-for-profit behind the B Corporation movement. Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. B Corporations are accelerating a global culture shift to redefine success in business and build a more inclusive and sustainable economy.
“The B Corporation certification is a significant
Blockchain development platform Moralis has raised USD13.4 million in a seed funding round, led by EQT Ventures.
The funding will be used for hiring and continued product development, enabling developers to build enterprise-scale blockchain applications rapidly, cutting cost and complexity. By providing a complete, end-to-end blockchain application development platform, Moralis uniquely allows developers and companies to focus on the front-end while handling the entire back-end. This saves time and money for projects that don’t have the resources or teams to build, manage, and maintain complex blockchain infrastructure.
dApps exist and run on a blockchain, or peer-to-peer (P2P) network, of
According to the first estimates obtained by the Spanish Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (ASCRI) through the European platform EDC, the volume of investment in Spain reached EUR4,844 million in the third quarter of the year with a total of 618 investments, 18.4 per cent more than in the same period of 2020.
Venture Capital has surpassed all record highs, with EUR1,228 million in a total of 512 investments.
According to the type of investor, the investment appetite of international funds, both Private Equity and Venture Capital, which have abundant liquidity and maintain their interest in Spain, has
Sphere Fluidics, a company that has developed and is commercialising single cell analysis systems underpinned by its proprietary picodroplet technology, announced today that it has closed a USD40 million (circa GBP30 million) investment round.
The round was led by Sofinnova Partners (Paris, France) and Redmile Group (San Francisco, USA) co-investing on equal terms.
Sphere Fluidics will use the funding to enable the expansion of the Company’s international sales activities in key markets and improving its support for customers. Furthermore, it will expand its product research and development programs, including novel applications for its proprietary Cyto-Mine Single Cell Analysis System.
Pan Cancer T, a biotech spin-off from the Erasmus MC dedicated to the discovery and development of novel TCR-T therapies against solid tumours, has closed an extended seed investment round.
All current shareholders participated in the round, with Thuja Capital joining as a new investor. The undisclosed proceeds add to the initial seed capital financing announced earlier this year. The Company’s syndicate of experienced life science venture capital investors now includes Van Herk Ventures, Swanbridge Capital, and Thuja Capital as well as founding shareholder Erasmus MC.
Katrien Reynders-Frederix, CEO of Pan Cancer T, says: “Despite certain successes of adoptive
AutoFill, a Dutch deep tech company specialising in inspection workflow processes for the automotive and rail industries, has secured EUR2.6 million in pre-series A funding.
The round was led by Innovation Industries, with participation from Deeptech Labs, an accelerator initiated by Arm and The University of Cambridge, among others. Rick Belluzzo, former COO of Microsoft, and Bram Schot, former CEO of Audi – both of whom joined the AutoFill Board of Advisors earlier this year – also participated in the round.
Currently, most object inspections in the automotive and rail sectors are performed by humans. Existing automated solutions, meanwhile,
K2 Management, a renewable energy consultancy, has appointed Carsten Nielsen as its new CEO.
The renewables and maritime industry leader will join from Semco Maritime in November, bringing with him 20 years of experience in offshore wind development and experience across a range of project-based industries.
Across a career that spans more than 30 years, Nielsen has successfully occupied a number of senior leadership roles at some of Denmark’s best performing businesses. Most recently, he has been Senior Vice President of the Renewables division at Semco Maritime in Esbjerg, an international engineering and contracting company dedicated to projects in the
3i Group (3i) has agreed the sale of its investment in Magnitude Software, a provider of data management software solutions, with offices in the US, the Netherlands, UK, Canada and India, to insightsoftware, Inc.
Proceeds to 3i are estimated to be cGBP344 million/USD477 million, which represents a c100 per cent uplift on its 30 June 2021 valuation. This sale represents a 2.6x multiple of invested capital and an IRR of 47 per cent. 3i will make a co-investment of cUSD50 million into insightsoftware.
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