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Limina, provider of a customisable cloud-native Investment Management Solution (IMS) for mid-sized asset managers, has completed a USD3 million Series A funding. The investment was led by Nordic venture capital firm Industrifonden.
Existing investors, including STOAF SciTech, Vidici Ventures, Almi Invest and Justin Wheatley, the founder of StatPro, also joined the latest funding round. The company’s enterprise SaaS model for asset management IMS has seen great traction from forward-looking asset managers across Europe in the past 18 months. Limina has delivered triple digit growth since 2019, with a steady stream of new client contracts, including Alquity and Lannebo.
Limina will
Specialized Packaging Group (SPG), a vertically-integrated provider of protective packaging products, has acquired Bay Area-based Specialized Packaging Solutions (SPS).
The acquisition will enhance SPG’s existing capability set in its Engineered Packaging division, expanding the company’s reach while adding approximately 100 employees to its 1,100-person workforce. SPS and its full workforce will continue to operate in Newark, California while founder and CEO Terry Besso will be retiring. SPG, one of the largest independent protective packaging manufacturers in North America, is a portfolio company of Altamont Capital Partners.
“The addition of SPS to our Engineered Packaging division means we will be
SCB 10X, the venture arm of Thailand’s oldest bank, has made another investment in the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector via the fast-growing asset aggregator and portfolio dashboard, Ape Board. The company aims to resolve poor user experience, complexities in generating yield and overcome fragmentation issues in DeFi.
“SCB 10X is excited to announce our investment in Ape Board, which now has more than 350,000 users, within four months of inception. This investment will further our goal of integrating traditional finance and decentralised finance by championing projects that resolve complexity and fragmentation issues in DeFi to bring a truly user-friendly experience.
Bower Collective, the sustainable consumer goods business has raised GBP2.1 million in a seed stage fundraising round led by Oxford Capital and Doehler Ventures.
The brand offers a range of sustainable home and personal care products and is on a mission to eliminate plastic waste. It has developed an innovative approach to ecommerce by providing a closed loop, plastic waste-free solution. Users subscribe to a range of products that are supplied in refill packages. Customers return the empty packages in pre-paid envelopes to Bower for reuse and recycling, ensuring zero plastic waste in their supply chain.
Since launch, the
Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in Pete & Pete Container Services, Inc and Boyas Excavating Inc (Pete & Pete/Boyas), the largest privately-held integrated waste management company in the Cleveland, Ohio region.
“Ironwood partnered with Pete & Pete in 2019 in connection with its acquisition of Boyas, the largest privately held C&D landfill in northeast Ohio, and the combined business has expanded dramatically since, even amid Covid,” says Dickson Suit, partner and head of the Environmental Services group at Ironwood Capital. “Pete and Lisa, the principals, and their team, have done an absolutely amazing job executing the strategic plan and
This Private Equity Wire webinar, produced in association with AssetMetrix, examines emerging trends in the field of data analytics, the various ways that managers are actively using analytical tools, and the best practices GPs need to consider, as they look to introduce more analytical firepower to their firms.
Varagon Capital Partners, LP (Varagon) has announced it is serving as Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger and Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the rapid growth of Paradigm Oral Surgery (Paradigm), a portfolio company of InTandem Capital Partners (InTandem).
TwinRiver is focused on serving a new generation of private, public and philanthropic investors looking to make a positive difference with their capital. The TwinRiver platform will provide those investors with opportunities to achieve tangible social and environmental impacts alongside financial returns – the “twin rivers” of a future financial system.
The launch of TwinRiver is timely. A heightened sense of urgency about tackling multiple global challenges is driving investor interest, and impact investing is moving into the financial mainstream. TwinRiver will source investment opportunities in critical areas such as health, environment, and economic inclusion. Within those broad areas is
Rural businesses, which are so vital for transforming our food systems, will get a much-needed boost from an ambitious new financing programme launched today by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as part of its broader efforts to address rising hunger and poverty levels in the world’s poorest countries.
The Private Sector Financing Programme (PSFP) aims to spearhead an increase in much-needed private investment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), farmers’ organisations and financial intermediaries servicing small-scale farmers, which are too often neglected by investors. It will provide loans, risk management instruments (such as guarantees), and equity investments.
Dopavision, a company pioneering the development of digital therapeutics, has closed a EUR12 million Series A financing round. Seventure Partners led the round and was joined by Novartis Pharmaceuticals and the Company’s existing shareholders such as Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Ababax Health, significantly broadening the Company’s shareholder base of leading international life science investors.
Myopia is recognised as a public health concern and is the leading cause of correctable visual impairment, expected to reach a global prevalence of 50 per cent by 2050. The condition manifests as blurring of distant objects due to image focusing in front of the
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