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Projective Group, an international consulting firm, has acquired London-based DTSQUARED, a specialist data consultancy.
Funded by recent investment from Gimv in April this year, this acquisition is a key part of Projective Group’s European expansion and provides a significant addition to the Group’s capabilities and existing team of 35 consultants in London.
DTSQUARED’s team of 85 data experts will bring a wealth of experience in all aspects of data as well as access to an impressive client base across multiple sectors and strategic relationships with DTSQUARED’s global technology partners. This complements Projective Group’s current management consulting offering from
New research from KPMG has revealed that private equity investment, both in terms of value and number of deals, has reached levels not seen since 2017 in the first half of 2021.
A total of 785 deals were completed for an overall value of GBP73.7 billion pounds after factors such as the vaccine rollout and loosening restrictions increased optimism, while the depressed values of UK companies further fuelled demand for deals.
With optimism among business leaders continuing to rise and several high value deals going through in July and the start of August, this record investment looks set to continue,
Global venture capital (VC) funding volume continued to showcase a declining trend during the months in the second quarter (Q2) of 2021, with inconsistent activity across most of the regions.
However, North America continued to attract the highest number of VC investments during the quarter, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
The number of VC funding deals that were announced globally declined by 6.9 per cent from 2,461 in April to 2,290 in May, and further decreased by 7.8 per cent to 2,111 deals in June 2021.
Akin to the global trend, VC funding activity in North
MakerSights, a software platform putting the consumer at the centre of retail’s assortment creation process, has secured USD25 million ins Series B funding round led by new investors G2 Venture Partners.
The new round follows the company’s GBP8.5 million Series A led by Forerunner Ventures in 2019 and GBP3.1 million in seed funding led by Baseline Ventures in 2017, bringing the company’s funding to a total of GBP37 million over the past five years.
New funding will allow MakerSights to directly integrate its consumer analytics capabilities into the workflows of its brand partners, increasing the frequency and ease of
Early talent recruitment market specialist Careerpass has secured a GBP2 million investment from BOOST&Co to support the acquisitions of Gradcore.com and Graduate-jobs.com.
This move will add to the firm’s growing number of brands that consolidate the early talent recruitment space, to continue building the workforce of tomorrow.
A leader in graduate recruitment, Careerpass helps employers identify the best talent for their business by providing media and advertising support, tech solutions for virtual connectivity and even offering employability tools to universities.
More than three million students and graduates have used the Careerpass Network in the last 12 months, equating
Growth capital investor, BGF has exited its investment in J&B Recycling, generating a 2.4x return.
The company is specialist in waste management and recycling in the UK, providing an end-to-end service for commercial and local authority customers across the North and England and Scotland.
Urbaser Ltd – the UK subsidiary of the third largest environmental services provider in Europe – has acquired the business as the Madrid-headquartered group aims to continue to grow its UK footprint.
Chief executive Vikki Jackson-Smith says: “Our growth is a result of our continued investment in our people, capacity and plant, which has
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Sigmat, a UK specialist in light-gauge steel framing, to Etex, an international building products group.
Headquartered in Leeds, Sigmat is a leading provider of light-gauge steel framing and one of the UK’s first fully integrated offsite construction companies. Light-gauge steel framing is a cost-efficient, faster and more sustainable alternative to traditional building techniques. Sigmat offers design, engineering, manufacturing, assembly and installation services to a broad base of blue-chip customers across the residential, education and hospitality industries.
LDC invested in Sigmat in September 2016 to support its organic growth strategy.
Kapital Investment Group BV (KIG BV), part of the global financial services group Global Kapital Group, has acquired Işık Menkul Değerler AŞ, a multi-asset broker in Turkey.
The acquisition gives KIG BV a greatly increased product range, as Işık Menkul is a multi-asset broker offering trading in stocks, futures, FX, commodities as well as CFD products.
Işık Menkul increases the Group’s global presence by adding the MENA region after Europe, Australia, Asia and the US, marking a significant step in KIG’s plans to become a leading global multi-asset group.
Işık Menkul is a well-established company, with a 35-year track-record
Despite seeing growth significantly impacted during the pandemic, the vast majority of UK startups are now confident about the next 12 months. That’s the key finding of a survey of startup opinion, conducted by Angel Investment Network (AIN), the UK’s largest online angel investment platform.
In the largest study it has ever conducted, AIN surveyed the views of 645 UK startups 18 months after the pandemic first hit. Despite 59 per cent seeing growth negatively impacted, nearly three quarters are now optimistic about the next 12 months (72 per cent), with 42 per cent very optimistic – up from 23
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