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Echion Technologies (Echion), a developer of next generation materials for Lithium-Ion batteries, has raised GBP10 million in a Series A founding round led by led by CBMM – the world’s leading supplier of niobium products and BGF.
A new configurable investment vehicle is bridging the gap between capital raisers and financial institutions that want to offer a broader range of alternative investments to their clients.
With more firms looking to raise capital and close funding rounds in a shorter space of time, the investment structuring solution uses technology to meet all regulatory requirements quickly and in a more robust manner.
The investment vehicle, created by fintech company Delio, offers greater flexibility for firms when raising capital for their clients by enabling them to expand the distribution of opportunities beyond traditional institutional investors. At the same time, the
BurdaPrincipal Investments (BPI), the growth capital arm of media and tech company Hubert Burda Media, has invested in UK-based Oddbox, a platform that is leveraging technology to fight food waste.
Breakwater Management (Breakwater), a leading capital provider to the US lower middle market, has expanded its investment management platform to include a control private equity strategy.
This new effort builds upon Breakwater’s 12-year history providing growth capital and acquisition financing through both private debt and structured equity. The platform extension will focus on partnering with outstanding management teams and founders to create significant value through operational improvements, the execution of organic growth opportunities, as well as add-on acquisitions.
“With this new vertical, we’ve expanded our ability to meet the full range of financing needs a lower middle market company may
Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has raised USD210 million as part of a Series B financing on a valuation of USD3.2 billion. Investors include Baillie Gifford and iFinex.
The new funding comes alongside the acquisition of Spondoolies’ intellectual property, and the core team joining Blockstream to build Blockstream’s ASIC arm. Spondoolies is a bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer founded by top Israeli semiconductor veterans. Since its inception in 2013, the Spondoolies team successfully designed and built five different mining products and was one of the earliest teams in the bitcoin mining industry to deliver energy-efficient and high-performance mining hardware.
“Blockstream is bringing
Axcel Management (Axcel), an investor in the Nordic market, has closed Axcel VI at its hard cap of EUR800 million, an increase of more than 30 per cent compared to its predecessor fund.
Axcel is equally pleased with the continued strong support it received from existing investors representing approximately 65 per cent of the total commitments, as it is to welcome the many new investors.
As a result of its solid investment pipeline, Axcel VI has already completed six investments, which have seen strong, early momentum and a significant value increase.
Christian Schmidt-Jacobsen, Managing Partner at Axcel, says: “We are
Private investment firm Auxo Investment Partners has acquired Altus Industries Inc, a Grand Rapids, MI-based designer, manufacturer, assembler and marketer of medical, point-of-care workstations used across the healthcare industry.
As part of the deal, Spectrum Health Ventures, one of Altus’s larger customers, will join as a strategic partner in the transaction.
Serving the healthcare sector, Altus’s product portfolio includes powered and non-powered mobile technology workstations (also known as workstations on wheels, medical mobile carts or mobility workstations) and wall-mounted workstations, along with related accessories. The transaction is part of co-founders’ Craig VanderHeide’s and Eric Kahkonen’s succession plan for Altus,
eIVF, an innovator in fertility specific-software and a leading fertility EMR, has appointed Nimesh Shah as Chief Executive Officer and Tim Beaulieu as Chief Product Commercialisation Officer.
eIVF is the leading fertility-specific EMR managing every aspect of a fertility practice including billing, scheduling, patient communications, clinic/laboratory operations, cryo-storage, biometrics, patient, donor, pharmacy and research portals, calculation of cycle costs, and transaction amongst the practices and constituents. Its secure patient portal provides 24-hour access to health information, streamlined communication to a patient’s provider, appointment information, and electronic document signing.
Andy Wilkins, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Street Capital, which acquired
Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics, and reporting solution for private markets investors and asset servicers, has launched capital account statement, capital call and distribution notice processing.
Firms will now be able to streamline the data extraction from these critical investment documents leveraging the same cutting-edge technology used by clients worldwide to process thousands of private markets fund performance reports each quarter.
Accelex provides an integrated environment to manage, extract and audit data from an endless range of general partner reporting formats. The AI-powered capabilities are applied to a comprehensive suite of metrics across capital accounts, fund commitments, payment instructions and
Vistra, a provider of advisory and administrative support to Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund, Corporate, Capital Market and Private Wealth clients, has formed a strategic partnership with the AMR Action Fund, a public-private partnership supporting the development of new antibiotics.
Vistra was chosen by the AMR Action Fund to provide fund administration and a multi-country, multi-service solution to enable them in their goal to bring two to four new antibiotics to market by the end of the decade.
The AMR Action Fund, a global venture capital fund, is an initiative of the international body representing the R&D pharmaceutical
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