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YFM Equity Partners (YFM) in the North West is continuing to grow with the appointment of portfolio director Gavin Chadwick.
Chadwick joins the five-strong team in its new Manchester home in the recently-refurbished ABC Building, part of the St John’s and Enterprise City Development in Spinningfields.
With a strong financial background, Gavin’s 20-year career includes ten years’ board level commercial, financial and operational experience. He joins from Ardenton Capital where he was director of strategic development, responsible for a portfolio of operating companies in the UK, providing strategic support across all core business functions.
In his new role,
Turquoise, a UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has invested in bio-bean through its Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2).
The investment of GBP350,000 is part of an overall round of GBP1.25million. The round was led by LCIF2 with the participation of 2Enable Partners, Stellar Impact and the Gresham House Renewable Energy venture capital trusts (VCTs).
The UK consumes 95 million cups of coffee every day, generating hundreds of thousands of tonnes of spent coffee grounds each year. Much of this discarded resource ends up in landfill, emitting harmful greenhouse gases, including methane. bio-bean work with the
ECI Partners has reinvested in Avantia, a new investment for its ECI 11 fund delivering a full realisation for ECI 9.
Avantia is a high-growth virtual insurer, with world-class machine learning technology and a data-led decisioning platform. Its cutting-edge technology gives it the most effective online quotability of any household insurer in the UK, via its brand, HomeProtect. It returns a quote to over 98% of applicants in under one second, with c80 per cent of its new customers in what other insurers would deem to be ‘difficult to insure’ risk categories.
Since ECI’s investment, the business has invested
The Clearway Group (Clearway) has secured a significant growth capital investment from a consortium of institutional investors led by Next Wave Partners (NWP).
Headquartered in London, Clearway is a leading commercial security services provider specialising in securing vulnerable properties or assets. The Group delivers solutions that are tailored to their customers’ needs, utilising an extensive range of specialist services integrated with market leading technology. The Group’s critical technology-led security solutions include CCTV and alarms, to monitor, secure and protect properties and assets. Employing 230 people, the Group has nationwide operations across the UK and France.
Over the past four
Craft Prospect Ltd (CPL) has secured a significant investment from Capital for Colleagues plc (C4C), a business that focuses exclusively on advice, investment and support for Employee Owned Businesses (EOBs). Craft Prospect employs 20, based at the former headquarters of the Fairfield Shipyards in Govan, Glasgow.
CPL is a space engineering business that develops enabling quantum and AI-based products and mission applications for the small satellite market.
CPL is pleased to announce that it has raised GBP800,000 through the issue of new ordinary shares to C4C. Craft Prospect will use the new funds for furthering its flight heritage capability, recruiting
21 Invest France has continued to deploy its Fund V by taking a majority stake in TVH Consulting. The deal, signed on 5 August, 2021, allows the exit of the current shareholders led by Sparring Capital. The management team and all employee shareholders reinvested in the transaction.
Founded in 2003, TVH Consulting (TVH) supports SMEs towards more efficient business processes thanks to the integration of ERP and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions from Microsoft and SAP, as well as to the edition of business software.
Beyond being a Microsoft/SAP independent partner, TVH has developed in-house ERP and BI modules dedicated
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has provided a substantial debt funding package to Differentology Ltd (Differentology) via the North East Development Capital Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund.
The funding will enable the company to deliver on its ambitious expansion plans and embark on a management buyout to exploit opportunities in new markets.
Differentology provides market research and consumer insight services, working at the intersection of data, human behaviour, technology and creativity. The business already boasts an impressive client list including HSBC, Disney, Sky, Viacom, Tik Tok, and Bloomberg and it is well-positioned to cross-sell its growing range of
Blockchain technology company SIMBA Chain has closed a USD25 million Series A funding round led by Valley Capital Partners.
The round received additional participation from the Notre Dame Pit Road Fund, Elevate Ventures, Stanford Law School Venture Fund, and individuals affiliated with Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts (KKR), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, SpaceX, Gap, Estee Lauder, AppLovin, Microsoft, Moelis & Company, Stanford University, the Golden State Warriors, the founders of Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates and other individual investors.
SIMBA Chain, a startup incubated at the University of Notre Dame, offers a simple, time- and energy-efficient method for deploying blockchain
Medin Technologies, an orthopaedic industry contract manufacturer, and portfolio company of Seven Point Equity Partners, has appointed Bob Baker as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the firm’s board of directors.
Baker joins Medin with an accomplished background in strategic, commercial and operational leadership in the orthopaedic industry, having most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Glebar Company, a leading manufacturer of advanced grinding machine systems for the medical device industry and other end markets. In his tenure at Glebar, Baker led a strategic transformation of the business, restructuring the company to address new market challenges, upgrading operations, and
Startup investment bank for the emerging markets JPIN VCATS has completed a significant fundraise for Expertrons, the Mumbai based “Netflix for career tips”, which has over 100k minutes of video content, and 5000-plus global experts from top companies or business schools like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, IIM, etc.
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