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ScaleUp Capital, which specialises in investing in and supporting scaling B2B tech businesses with revenues of GBP1 million to GBP10 million, has appointed David Sparrow, as an Investment Director, and Oliver Yandell as a Strategy Analyst.
ScaleUp Capital differentiates itself as an investment platform with its Scaler Programme, working closely with its portfolio of businesses to ensure access to both capital and support needed to grow a business successfully. The additional resource and growth plans for ScaleUp will feed directly into the ambitions of the programme – providing the right support and expertise needed to help address challenges from skills
Micropep technologies (Micropep), an agricultural biotech company developing breakthrough peptide-based biological products for agriculture, has raised EUR8.5 million (USD10 million) in an oversubscribed Series A investment led by new investor Supernova Invest with participation from FMC Ventures, and existing investors Sofinnova Partners and IRDI Capital Investissement.
Based in Toulouse, France, Micropep was spun out from Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Toulouse University in 2016, a centre of excellence for AgriTech. The company has developed a proprietary technology to precisely enhance plant traits without altering DNA by spraying “miPEPs”, a unique family of natural peptides regulating plant microRNAs.
Keensight Capital portfolio company Sogelink-Geodesial Group has appointed Florian Cardi as Head of International Development and M&A.
Cardi’s appointment coincides with the European market entering a consolidation phase, and the opportunity for the group to accelerate in France but also abroad to establish itself as the leader in the construction tech sector in Europe.
Having trained as an engineer, Cardi began his career at Ernst & Young supporting French clients looking to expand abroad. After eight years in the Transaction Advisory Services department of the company, he was named Investment Director at TIME Equity Partner. At TIME, he contributed to
Eurazeo has entered into exclusive negotiations with the French infrastructure investor InfraVia for the sale of its 41 per cent stake in Grandir, an operator of nurseries and schools in France, Europe and North America. The closing of the deal is expected in the coming months.
Through the sale of its Grandir stake, Eurazeo is set to earn a 2.0x return on its initial investment, thanks to the company’s strong growth and international expansion between 2016 and 2021.
Over the last five years, Eurazeo’s mid-large buyout professionals have worked alongside Jean-Emmanuel Rodocanachi and his management team, bringing their expertise
Blockpit, a specialist in the development of legally compliant and audited tax reports for the treatment of crypto assets, has closed its USD10 million Series A funding round.
The capital increase comes from no less than five internationally renowned investors from the FinTech and blockchain sectors. Among others, those venture capital firms are or were also invested in Coinbase and the blockchain protocols Ripple, 1Inch, Near, and Polkadot. The capital increase is intended to further develop Cryptotax, a tax reporting software developed in-house and regularly audited by a Big Four auditing firm. Another goal of the investment is to make
BGF has exited its investment in business travel management company Click Travel. The business has been acquired by global travel management platform, TravelPerk.
Headquartered in Birmingham, Click Travel, is one of the UK’s fastest growing travel management companies. Its online booking platform reduces the cost and complexity of booking travel for their 2,000 business clients, including Five Guys, Red Bull and Talk Talk.
BGF backed Click Travel with a multi-million-pound investment in 2018 to support the business in delivering its vision for the future of travel management.
TravelPerk is a next-generation business travel platform, pioneering the future
Shamrock Capital (Shamrock) has held he final closing of Shamrock Capital Debt Opportunities Fund I (SCDOF I), a USD196 million fund focused on originating loan structures to owners of entertainment intellectual property rights.
Shamrock’s debt fund targets owners of entertainment IP across the film, television, music, games, sports media rights and other content sectors. SCDOF I is managed by the Partners of Shamrock and other investment professionals in Los Angeles, California. Shamrock has approximately USD3.8 billion of total assets under management.
“We truly appreciate the strong support we received from both existing and new limited partners, particularly in light
US Orthopaedic Partners (USOP), a comprehensive orthopedic care platform that provides the full continuum of musculoskeletal treatment to patients in the Southeastern US, is to enter into a strategic partnership with Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Alabama.
US Orthopaedic Partners is to partner with Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center a specialist in providing multidisciplinary sports medicine and orthopedic patient care, research, education and injury prevention.
This partnership produces a collaboration between some of the top orthopaedic practices in the United States. The practices are nationally recognised for high quality specialised care with fellowship training programs that have
StepStone Group Inc (STEP), a global private markets investment firm, is to acquire Greenspring Associates, a venture capital and growth equity platform, and certain of its related entities.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and receipt of requisite fund investor consents.
The combined team of over 70 venture capital and growth equity focused investment professionals working across the United States, Europe and Asia, would manage approximately USD22 billion of venture capital and growth equity assets, if measured as of 31 March, 2021. The combination would
LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, provided GBP180 million of investment to back eight new management teams and to support its portfolio companies in the first half of 2021.
The firm said its eight new investments demonstrated an ‘increasing appetite and ambition for growth’ amongst the management teams of UK mid-market businesses. Spanning a broad range of sectors and regions, investments included Bristol-based digital media group Hybrid, Southampton-based equestrian brand LeMieux and Rochdale-based Wireless CCTV, a market-leading supplier of surveillance solutions.
In the first half of 2021, LDC supported its portfolio companies in making a total
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