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Augmentum Fintech, the UK’s only publicly listed investment company focusing on the fintech sector, and Tikehau Capital, the global alternative asset manager, have announced an enhanced partnership to promote further growth in the burgeoning European fintech sector.
Covid-19 has been a catalyst for many fintech companies with an increasing demand from both consumers and businesses for enhanced digital capabilities. As the only publicly listed Fintech venture capital fund in the UK, Augmentum Fintech is playing a key role in supporting fintech companies to maximise their growth potential. As at end June 2021, Augmentum has backed 22 companies across diversified fintech
Business development consultancy ThoughtSpark has released a new report on the skills levels in PE-backed companies. The report – based on a medium-range study conducted throughout 2020 and into 2021 – reveals the collective view of top PE firms on skills in the companies in which they invest. The report reflects PE professionals’ views across the recent global pandemic period, as well as anecdotal comments from leaders of PE-backed companies.
The new ThoughtSpark study is timely in that PE firms have been raising record funds, but now have the challenge of applying those funds in particularly turbulent markets. The current
PureCars, a martech and advertising intelligence provider for automotive retailers and marketers, which is backed by Diversis Capital Partners and Stage 1 Ventures, has acquired shopping personalisation (DXP) and fintech platform, truPayments.
PureCars’ tech optimises media buys to achieve lower ad costs per unit sold and per RO, resulting in increased profitability for dealerships. truPayments’ tech converts shoppers earlier in the buying process, further reducing advertising costs for dealerships, while providing an improved buying experience for their customers. PureCars is backed by Diversis Capital Partners and Stage 1 Ventures.
truPayments, is a financial technology company with deep roots in
Premier IT, a provider of e-learning, workforce planning and performance software for the healthcare sector, has secured a GBP1 million term loan that will be used to fund the acquisition of Zebra Workforce, a start-up business that specialises in creating automated employee schedules for the health and care workforces.
Premier IT provides its software to more than 200 customers, including GPs, hospitals and independent healthcare organisations, reaching healthcare professionals such as consultants, nurses, midwives and care support staff. Demand for its educational products is driven by the regulatory requirement for healthcare professionals to demonstrate continual professional development, as instructed by
Perwyn, a family-backed private equity and growth capital investor, has led a USD30 million Series C funding round in online personal shopping service Lookiero.
Founded in 2015 by Oier Urrutia, Lookiero combines the expertise of personal shoppers and a deep understanding of its customers with in-house recommendation algorithms to provide a fully personalised style experience to customers. By employing a customer’s style profile, Lookiero delivers a carefully curated selection of five pieces of clothing and accessories to fit a customer’s individual size, style, and preferences. Customers then decide which items to keep or return (at no additional cost), enabling Lookiero’s
Pemberton, a European private debt manager transforming traditional credit markets, backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group, has arranged and underwritten a EUR265 million bond to support circular economy and recycling leader ReLife Group’s growth via acquisitions.
ReLife is a leading private Italian circular economy player focused on recycling of urban and industrial dry waste. Xenon Private Equity is its largest shareholder. The company’s 18 production sites are located in Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Tuscany, with activities organised into four divisions: recycling, paper mill, paper packaging and plastic packaging.
The financing is aimed at
OTB Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology businesses with R&D in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and global potential, has launched the new OTB Growth Fund I.
The fund, totalling USD60 million, provides OTB Ventures with the capabilities to support its successful portfolio companies with additional follow-on investments as they scale-up to pursue and accelerate international growth opportunities. The fund is backed by the ESCALAR programme of the European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF), a new investment approach supporting venture capital and growth financing for promising European companies.
Today’s news follows from the 2020
ISA Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, has closed a EUR26 million funding round with participation from new investors including Invest-NL and existing investors including Regeneron.
The proceeds of this round will be used to advance the lead product ISA101b towards first marketing authorisation as well as to broaden the clinical pipeline of immunotherapies based on the Synthetic Long Peptide (SLP) platform technology.
Gerben Moolhuizen, CEO of ISA Pharmaceuticals, says: “We are very happy with the continued support of our existing partners and shareholders. Invest-NL’s support underlines the innovation at ISA Pharma and potential impact of our SLP immunotherapies for
Fondsdepot Bank, a German liability umbrella provider, has partnered with Moonfare, a digital investment platform for top-tier private markets funds.
Fondsdepot Bank will provide Moonfare with regulatory support to its continued growth across Europe. As part of the agreement, the fund platform has extended its liability umbrella license to operate in select European countries where Moonfare operates.
“At Moonfare, adherence to financial regulation is a topic where we absolutely refuse to compromise,” says Moonfare Managing Director and COO Lorenz Jüngling. “We may be a relatively young company, but in these areas we hold ourselves to the same standards as the
Apaczka, a provider of logistics solutions for e-commerce in Poland, backed by the Central European private equity investor Abris Capital Partners, has acquired Sendit, a parcel delivery platform for individual customers in Poland.
Apaczka is the largest online logistics platform in Poland, operating as an end-to-end multi-carrier shipment intermediary dedicated to e-commerce shops, SMEs and SOHO (small office/home office) clients, cooperating with leading players in the Polish courier delivery market such us UPS, DPD, DHL, FedEx and InPost. Abris acquired Apaczka in November 2020, with a plan to capitalize on the ongoing growth of e-commerce globally, at the same time
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