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Investcorp has invested in Heritage Foods, a buy-and-build platform of condiments and sauces brands with long-standing heritage in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
The transaction was in partnership with China Resources and Fung Strategic Holdings Limited and concluded through the Asia Food Growth Fund I, a dedicated private equity fund investing in a diversified portfolio of food related companies in Asia.
Heritage Foods was established in 2015 and is principally involved in the investment and reorganisation of food businesses in the fast-moving consumer goods market in Asia, in addition to the acquisition of food brands with a strong Asian
Ladi Greenstreet and Daisy Onubogu have taken over the leadership of Diversity VC, as CEO and COO respectively.
The new leadership team was selected following a competitive application process using blind hiring platform Applied, and were assessed by independent VC and technology professionals.
Diversity VC has been led by a group of volunteers from the venture capital industry since its inception in 2016. Continuing in this tradition, Ladi currently leads Accenture’s Open Innovation program in the UK and Ireland; and Daisy is Backed VC’s Head of Network and Community. As communicated last year, co-founders Check Warner (CEO), Lillian Li
The Project Finance Exchange (PFX), a ‘closed’ marketplace where capital-raising construction and infrastructure projects can connect and engage seamlessly with private fund managers, has grown to over USD30 billion aggregate capital available within its first three months of opening in April.
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Thymia has raised a GBP780k/USD1.1 million in a pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression.
The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect signs of depression, as well as monitor whether symptoms are improving or worsening over time.
Through its online platform, Thymia is aiming to empower clinicians to make faster and more accurate clinical decisions by making mental illness as objectively measurable as visible physical conditions.
Kodori AG and Calm/Storm co-led this
CAPZA has acquired a majority stake in Web Geo Services, a French API platform publisher and Google Maps’ partner operating in the booming “Location Based Services (LBS)” market.
Founded in 2009, Web Geo Services has built its reputation by becoming the Google Maps No1 Partner and reseller of Google Maps Platform in Europe. The company focuses on five sectors: Retail, Finance, e-business, Smart Mobility, and Travel & Hospitality.
Web Geo Services has also developed its own proprietary platform, “Woosmap”, a set of independent APIs dedicated to B2B2C business use cases: store locator, geofencing, data search, payment transaction cleaning, etc.
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Apex Group has been appointed by American Ventures Partners (American Ventures), a commercial real estate investment company focused on the repositioning and operation of value-add and core-plus investment properties, to deliver fund administration, tax compliance and related corporate services to support American Ventures.
Apex was appointed due to its ability to offer a single-source suite of fund and entity administration services to American Ventures backed by its functional and real estate industry expertise and leading technology solutions. A distinguishing feature for American Ventures was Apex’s ability to support distribution and placement of their Fund.
In May 2021, American
Digital training platform Virti has raised USD10 million in a Series A to further its goal of improving human performance using world-class interactive technology. The round was led by deeptech investors IQ Capital and joined by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a new, UK-based learning technology VC fund.
Launched in 2018 by Dr Alexander Young – an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon – Virti helps organisations optimise learning, training and performance using interactive simulations and AI-powered data analysis. The technology turns traditionally subjectively-assessed skills (such as communication, teamwork and decision-making under pressure) into objective and measurable data to improve performance. The
Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, is selling its ownership stake in Mobilitie, the largest privately-held wireless infrastructure firm in the nation, to global communications infrastructure provider, BAI Communications (BAI).
BAI’s acquisition of Mobilitie is a significant move towards becoming one of the leading connected infrastructure 5G players in North America, and globally. The deal combines Mobilitie’s extensive assets and operations across 5G outdoor and indoor wireless infrastructure, proven experience in small cell deployment, and work with transit operators across major US cities with BAI’s long-standing proven expertise in delivering communications infrastructure in dense urban and transit environments.
Primal Strength (Primal), a provider of performance strength products for the commercial and home fitness markets, has secured a multi-million-pound investment from Flywheel Partners (Flywheel) to accelerate its growth plans.
Primal, whose customers include leading professional sports teams, like Celtic Football Club, and an array of celebrity clientele, will utilise the investment and partnership with Flywheel to scale up the business and capture opportunities arising from the growth of strength training and post-lockdown health and wellness trends.
Primal has benefitted from the soaring spend in home workout equipment in the past year, with this set to continue alongside the
London based Fintech Traydstream Limited has raised USD8 million as part of a Series A funding round from institutional and private investors.
gunnercooke Corporate Partner Kyri Papantoniou led the legal side of the investment process, which began in summer last year.
Traydstream is a global provider of an AI powered platform to digitalise and automate trade finance document checking and is now live across four continents and 17 markets.
Traydstream CEO Sameer Sehgal, says: “The pandemic has caused a high level of disruption in trade finance and highlighted the weaknesses in existing models, which has led to a growing interest
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