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Piva Capital, a VC firm that’s backs ‘visionary’ founders and emerging technology companies transforming industry, has appointed Mark Gudiksen as the firm’s second Managing Partner and Roxanne Tully has joined as an Investor.
Founded in 2019, Piva Capital believes emerging companies need investors who are global, fast-moving, engaged, supportive, and connected. The firm takes a thesis-driven approach that includes using an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework to create value, having invested in 11 companies redefining trillion-dollar markets such as agriculture, manufacturing, chemicals, transportation, and energy.
Recent investments include Boston Metal, a company accelerating industrial-scale deployments of molten oxide electrolysis
Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Origin Fund (Origin Fund) is investing USD35 million to acquire a minority stake in Seedtag, a specialist in contextual advertising in EMEA and Latin America.
Founded in Madrid in 2014, Seedtag helps brands and agencies to deliver digital advertising that is directly relevant to the content that readers are consuming. Oakley’s investment will support the Company’s expansion into the US and fund further investment in its contextual AI technology at a time of profound change for the advertising industry.
Over the coming years, the increasing importance of consumer privacy and GDPR rules is expected to
Global fintech MODIFI has raised USD24 million in a Series B funding round, which brings its valuation to more than USD120 million.
The round was led by new investor Heliad Equity Partners with a co-investment from Neva SGR, the venture capital investment vehicle of Italy’s leading banking group Intesa San Paolo. Existing investors also participated significantly, including Global Founders Capital, Maersk Growth and Picus Capital. The funds will be used to grow MODIFI’s digital trade finance platform for SMEs into a global trade management hub.
MODIFI is the only digital trade finance platform for SMEs that spans the three
The investment will be used to significantly increase the company’s product and engineering teams to further develop its platform, alongside building its commercial team to support the growth of new and existing customers.
HHAeXchange (HHAX), a provider of homecare management solutions for payers, providers, and state Medicaid agencies, has secured a new investment from Hg, a global investor in software and services.
Cressey & Company LP (Cressey), a leading healthcare-focused private investment firm which first partnered with HHAX in 2018, will continue to be a significant investor in HHAX. Both investors will share joint governance of the business.
Greg Strobel, CEO of HHAeXchange, says: “We are proud to welcome Hg to the team for this next chapter of HHAeXchange’s continued success. With Hg’s track record of growing technology businesses and Cressey’s specialist
BioInnovation Institute (BII), an international commercial foundation with a non-profit objective incubating and accelerating world-class life science research, has announced the first cohort of participants in the Venture Lab acceleration program for early-stage companies.
Comprising a pan-European spread of start-up initiatives and university research projects, the seven ventures are developing revolutionary science across BII’s three sector specialised areas – therapeutics, bioindustrials and health tech.
Designed to help build research-based ideas with high-growth commercial potential into viable start-up companies, BII’s 12 month Venture Lab program supports business acceleration, scientific development and team development, and provides a risk-free convertible loan of
Vala Capital, a venture capital firm, has launched a new tranche for its EIS portfolio – targeting fast-growth British start-ups with strategies to scale quickly and become the next generation of British unicorns.
Innovative small companies are key to the UK’s post-pandemic recovery, yet there is a significant funding gap that threatens to stifle their growth. While there is a large pool of seed capital of up to GBP1 million available for start-ups, traditional venture capital companies are increasingly moving up toward later-stage and larger deals of GBP5 million-plus. This has left a funding gap between angel investors and later-stage
A platform that helps parents and students to find online tutors has raised a further GBP3 million investment amidst a boom in business following the pandemic.
Tutorful has secured funding from Mercia’s Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) funds and NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
The Sheffield-based platform achieved a 376 per cent growth in revenue from online tuition during 2020 as students took to distance learning, whether to support their existing school or university studies or to learn new hobbies and skills. The triple-digit growth has
Ropes & Gray has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) in connection with an investment by Aeternum Capital, Government Pension Fund Norway (Folketrygdfondet), Vind, GIC and certain existing institutional investors in Visma – a provider of business-critical software to private and public companies in Europe.
The transaction values Visma at EUR16 billion (~NOK165 billion).
Following completion of the transaction, Hg, a leading global investor in software and services, will continue to own a majority stake in Visma, alongside a group of co-investors comprising GIC, ICG, CPPIB, General Atlantic, TPG, Warburg Pincus, Visma management, and the new investors.
The Ropes &
Nordic Capital Evolution has signed an agreement to invest in the fintech company Qred. The investment will be made in partnership with Qred’s management and founders, with the goal of continuing to significantly expand the business across Europe together.
Since its inception in 2015, Qred has been a provider of financing and payment services to small businesses in the Nordics and the Netherlands, with its fully automated credit system, digital platform and easy, innovative solutions for entrepreneurs seeking financing. Nordic Capital will support the company in driving growth, investing in new products for responsible and inclusive lending, and increasing its
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