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The Life+ Collective is on a mission to bring consumer-tech founders together, and to provide a pathway into the b2c industry for entrepreneurs from under-represented backgrounds. The Life+ team is keen to ensure ‘happiness’ is baked-in to consumer-facing startups at the outset.
Using funding from Isomer Capital, Life+ has announced a new grant programme. The Life+ Collective grant programme will offer grants of up to GBP20,000 to seven founding teams at pre-seed and seed stage. It is equity free money, to be used to help the business experiment and drive forward progress. In addition to cash, Life+ will offer three
Suntera Global has maintained momentum in its growing international funds business with the appointment of Ryan Taylor as Head of Funds for Jersey.
Taylor will play a pivotal role in establishing the firm’s funds business in Jersey, with overall responsibility for developing and managing the new fund administration team in the jurisdiction and growing its client base. Working closely with funds heads in other jurisdictions, Taylor will be focused on maximising Suntera Global’s multi-jurisdictional offering through Jersey to meet fund manager and investor needs.
His appointment comes shortly after Suntera Global was granted a licence by the Jersey Financial Services
CIL Management Consultants has promoted 22 of its client-facing staff, across both its UK and US offices.
The move follows a year of rapid growth for the firm, having experienced an almost 40 per cent year-on-year rise in the number of engagements served.
Mike Hallett has been promoted to Associate Director within CIL’s technology practice, having joined the firm in 2014. He has demonstrated deep expertise across the technology sector, with recent clients including managed and cloud service providers, software vendors (HCM, ERP, CRM, security), digital transformation consultancies, retail tech providers, contact centre providers, internet service providers, security vendors and data
A business that is aiming to transform the food allergy diagnostics market has secured GBP2.9 million investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures with follow-on equity investment from the Development Bank of Wales.
Reacta Biotech (Reacta), which is based in Deeside, North Wales, produces clinical diagnostics kits for food allergy testing. The business improves the efficiency, accuracy and safety of food allergy testing by producing pharmaceutical grade Oral Food Challenges (OFCs), the gold standard test for diagnosing food allergies.
In the latest funding round, GBP1.5 million came from Manchester-based Praetura Ventures, the venture capital fund manager that
Mediaocean, a platform for omnichannel advertising, is to acquire Flashtalking, an independent ad management platform.
The combined entity will infuse Flashtalking’s solutions for primary ad serving, creative personalisation, identity management, and verification with Mediaocean’s modern system of record used by the some of the world’s leading brands and agencies.
The announcement comes at a critical inflection point for the advertising industry as marketers seek trusted, independent solutions to manage the rise of big tech. Mediaocean and Flashtalking customers will benefit from comprehensive and future-forward solutions for global strategic planning, omnichannel media management, closed ecosystems optimisation, and financial reconciliation across
Blippar, a leading augmented reality (AR) technology company, has appointed Dahlia Basar, Mark McDonagh, and Patrick Timoney to its executive team, with Basar joining as Strategic Partnerships Director, McDonagh as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Timoney joining as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Basar joins Blippar with over 18 years of experience leading commercial and strategic partnerships globally, across roles that include tech giants Google and YouTube. As the Global Strategic Partnerships lead for YouTube, she oversaw integrating the UK team with global teams within Google and Alphabet, and drove partnership scheme development at scale. As Google Grants/Non-Profit Lead she built
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) has completed the acquisition of Metra Holding and Metra, (collectively Metra), a global manufacturer of extruded aluminium.
KPS has also completed its acquisition of Profile Custom Extrusions, (Profile), a US manufacturer of extruded aluminium, from Highlander Partners. Metra and Profile will be combined to form a global extruded aluminium profile platform with a strong presence across both Europe and North America.
Metra is a global, vertically integrated manufacturer of extruded aluminium profiles and related value-added services, including painting, oxidation, machining, welding and assembly. Metra offers a full range of extruded aluminium profiles, which are used
Specialist business advisory firm FRP has joined Eight International, a global advisory organisation, in a move aimed at strengthening its international presence.
Founded in 2016, Eight International was set up to meet a growing demand for dedicated financial and operational support for businesses with an international footprint. It was founded by a group of senior advisors, all of whom had experience working for a Big Four firm, and has since grown to become a network of more than 3,000 consultants that operate across five continents and 30 jurisdictions worldwide.
Today, through its member organisations, Eight International helps corporate clients,
CenterOak Partners (CenterOak), a Dallas-based private equity firm, has completed a majority recapitalisation of HK Solutions Group (HK Solutions), a leading regional provider of infrastructure maintenance services for municipal and industrial customers primarily in the Midwest.
Chief Executive Officer Wade Anderson and the existing management team will continue to lead the Company following CenterOak’s investment. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
HK Solutions, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, provides water and wastewater infrastructure inspection, cleaning, and repair services, as well as industrial services and wastewater treatment, to customers predominantly in Midwestern states. HK Solutions’ diverse set of service offerings
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has sold Apps Associates, an enterprise application services provider, to Quad-C Management Inc (Quad-C).
Founded in 2002, apps Associates is an enterprise applications services provider focused on helping organisations strategise, execute and integrate digital transformation initiatives across the enterprise. The Company has long-standing partnerships with several leading technology companies, such as Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce and Snowflake. By leveraging its global delivery platform with over 950 employees spanning the US, Germany and India, Apps Associates delivers on its
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