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GigaIO, a creator of data centre rack-scale architecture for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, has completed a Series B round of funding totalling USD14.7 million.
Impact Venture Capital led the funding round, which was oversubscribed by 50 per cent and included participation from Mark IV Capital, Lagomaj Capital, SK Hynix, and Four Palms Ventures.
GigaIO has fundamentally changed the HPC and AI landscape by creating the world’s only enterprise-class, universal composable fabric―an open standards solution with limitless flexibility, cloudlike agility, and an added layer of security. This enables faster time to achieve results as workloads run as
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a GBP1.75 million growth capital investment into Previsico Limited (Previsico), developers of an accurate flood forecasting and warning system.
The investment is jointly funded by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and Foresight Williams Technology and will enable the Loughborough University spin-out to further develop the Previsico platform, allowing it to be used in more cities, and support the creation of new jobs in Loughborough. The aim is to increase the headcount from 17 to 70 by 2024.
Flooding is currently one of the most damaging natural
Coinfirm, the global leader in RegTech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem, has closed its USD8 million Series A funding round.
The company has also appointed Mircea Mihaescu as its new Chief Executive Officer.
The investment will enable Coinfirm to continue its rapid growth trajectory and strengthen its market-leading position in the EU as well as enabling the company to expand its offering to the Asian and US markets. The funding will especially strengthen the firm’s enterprise and financial institution offering, to complement its strong offering for crypto market participants.
The Series A is co-led by SIX Fintech
Venture capital firm btov Partners announces the final closing of its new digital technologies early-stage fund with a volume of USD135 million.
It’s the second fund that focuses entirely on digital technologies, and the ninth for btov Partners in total. Investments in earlier fund generations included companies such as DeepL, Raisin, SumUp, Orcam, Seven Senders, Ottonova, Urban Sports Club, Ledgy, Foodspring (acquired by Mars) and Data Artisans (acquired by Alibaba).
The fund works very closely with btov’s Private Investor Network of experienced entrepreneurs. Over 70 of the network members invested personally in the new fund and will work closely with
Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its portfolio management and value creation team with the appointment of Ben Hollowood as a portfolio director.
Ben joins Bowmark after eight years at AnaCap Financial Partners where he was a managing director and provided strategic and operational support to the firm’s portfolio companies. Previously, he worked in the private equity practice at Bain & Company which he joined from LEK Consulting.
Bowmark’s portfolio management and value creation team works throughout the investment lifecycle to help its portfolio companies accelerate their growth and to develop and implement strategies for building long-term value.
Charles Ind, managing
Growth capital investor BGF has invested GBP8.5 million in Birmingham-headquartered Antser, an innovator in social care.
Antser delivers transformational solutions to the social care, health, and education sectors, in partnership with local authority and independent providers. The investment will allow the company to continue to scale its business within the children’s social care sector, as well as increase its reach across adult social care and the adjacent markets. Antser employs 150 people across four UK offices.
With a presence across all 152 Local Authorities in England, as well as a host of public sector bodies and independent care providers,
Global investment firm Capria Ventures is partnering with Indonesian venture capital firm AC Ventures to invest in investing in the next generation of technology entrepreneurs.
AC Ventures manages a total AUM of USD300 million and plans to complete the final close of a USD120 million target fund by this year. The partnership is in line with Capria’s commitment to invest and impact the lives of millions across the Global South including Southeast Asia, India, Latin America and Africa.
Jakarta based AC Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology enabled solutions addressing billion dollar market opportunities in
DiligenceVault, a digital diligence platform that delivers data collection and information exchange solutions for asset owners, allocators and fund managers, has released its latest white paper entitled “2021 Manager Survey: How RFPs and DDQs Get Done.”
The paper presents the results of its recent survey of over 170 private equity, hedge and long-only managers fund managers exploring how marketing, investor relations and compliance professionals are optimising their staffing, processes and technologies to meet the due diligence needs of the allocator community.
The primary areas of focus for the survey are centred around Investor Requests and Team Sizes, Consultant vs Third-Party
Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that it represented NatWest Markets on its role as lead arranger and facility agent for Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) on a EUR2.3 billion environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-linked credit facility for its European private equity and real estate platform.
The facility was formed to support Carlyle’s 30 per cent board diversity target, to tackle climate change by having more accurate and comprehensive measurements of greenhouse gas emissions across all portfolio companies, and to improve ESG outcomes through better governance by providing ESG-competent board training for all Carlyle board directors.
The Reed Smith team
A record number of refinancings and recapitalisations were completed in the first half of 2021 in the UK, according to research from global investment bank GCA Altium.
Data provided by the firm’s MidCapMonitor identified that over the course of H1 2021, 114 transactions were completed in the UK, resulting in the most active first half to a year since the company started the publication in 2016.
The report, which analyses debt transactions across several major European markets, found that in comparison, during the same period 70 deals were completed in France, and 60 were finalised in Germany. A further
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