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Cowgills business finance team has brokered a GBP5 million funding deal with Investec Capital Solutions for Wirral-based specialist technical recruitment company Russell Taylor Group.
Founded in 2005, the Group owns four businesses: Russell Taylor Group, Recruit Right, NMS Recruit and Perpetual Engineering Partnerships, providing technical temporary and permanent recruitment solutions for industries, including construction, engineering, manufacturing, oil, gas and energy sectors. Today, the business employs around 120 staff operating out of seven strategically located offices across the UK and has a combined turnover of cGBP35 million.
Having sold two further businesses in 2020, the Group’s working capital requirement was
Alpaca, a commission-free stock brokerage platform that offers APIs for fintech apps to connect and trade in US stocks, has closed a USD50 million Series B on the heels of driving 1500 per vcent year to date growth in brokerage accounts and expanding partnerships across Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, North and Latin Americas.
ZEDRA has appointed Murjel Breedveld Jagesser as Client Director in Luxembourg’s Corporate Services and Global Expansion team alongside Charles-Alexandre Houillon as Director of Fund Management Services.
KKR and Salesforce Ventures have invested USD62 million in a Series B round for Copenhagen-based, no-code software test automation platform Leapwork, to accelerate its global expansion.
VMG Partners, a private equity firm specialising in building iconic consumer brands, has appointed Brianna Rizzo as the company’s newest Talent Partner.
Among her many responsibilities, Rizzo will lead the Talent strategy for VMG Catalyst, a fund that launched in 2019 and seeks to invest in tech businesses, including digital consumer products, services, experiences and marketplaces as well as the infrastructure and technology stack that enable these businesses. In tandem with Rizzo’s new role, the San Francisco-based company also announces the firm’s expansion with a recently opened office in New York City.
A veteran in the field, Rizzo brings exceptional
Shore Capital portfolio company EyeSouth Partners has added Dr James H Guildford, MD based in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Guildford will join Retina Care Specialists in providing first-class treatment of retinal, macular, and vitreous diseases. He has served the West Palm Beach, Stuart, and Port St Lucie communities for decades, and saw the value in partnering with Retina Care Specialists and EyeSouth for the next phase of his career.
“I am delighted with our new association with Retina Care Specialists and EyeSouth, and see this as a great opportunity for me to continue to provide the highest quality of
KKR is to acquire Ritchies Transport (Ritchies), a transportation operator in New Zealand with an 86-year heritage.
The investment – which marks KKR’s first infrastructure investment in New Zealand – will be used to advance the Company’s mission to better connect local communities, support the country’s expanding public transport network and promote greener transportation solutions.
Founded in Temuka in 1935, Ritchies is one of the largest transport providers in New Zealand, with a fleet of more than 1,600 vehicles and a network of 42 strategically located depots across the country. The Company provides the government, local councils, and private customers
Picsart has raised USD130 million in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from new investors G Squared and Tribe Capital, as well as existing investors Sequoia, DCM, Graph Ventures, and Siguler Guf & Company.
With over USD100 million in annual revenue run rate, Picsart is now valued at over USD1 billion. The company has raised a total of USD195 million in capital since its founding.
“Picsart is powering visual culture and breaking barriers between inspiration and creativity,” says Hovhannes Avoyan, Picsart’s founder and CEO. “We want to make the world more creative and
ComplySci, a provider of regulatory technology and compliance solutions for the financial services sector, backed by K1 Investment Management, has appointed Wendy Fraulon as its Chief Financial Officer.
The addition of Fraulo to the executive team will help ComplySci further accelerate its organic, long-term growth as it continues to invest in its industry-leading employee compliance solutions and considers expansion through acquisition. The new hire follows a USD120 million strategic investment in ComplySci from K1 Investment Management and the appointment of two new members of the company’s Board of Directors: Stephen Marsh, Chairman and Founder of Smarsh, and Susan Theder, Chief
Invest Green, Inc (IGI) has launched with a mission of providing all investors access to institutional quality Cleantech opportunities managed by a team that includes some of the most experienced and respected pioneers of the ESG movement.
Utilising proprietary research which has twice been ranked No1 in the World, IGI is creating a public company with a portfolio of potentially disruptive technologies.
“IGI’s team has been involved in this sector since the very beginning of ESG investing. The timing is ideal for a new investment vehicle which allows retail investors to participate in early stage Cleantech opportunities which would normally
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