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The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active SME finance providers, has in the last 12 months, invested over GBP3.6 million in eight dynamic growth businesses across the North East, driving economic prosperity and creating over 100 jobs.
Notable transactions include the GBP1 million investment into Fintech platform, Pockit, as part of Pockit’s GBP15 million Series B funding round to deliver on its ambitious expansion plans and embark on a recruitment drive to create 17 new jobs in Newcastle in 2021.
Mercato Partners, a private equity firm that provides capital and guidance to brands in periods of high growth, has appointed well-respected restaurateur, James Park, to the firm’s Savory Fund Practice (Savory) as an operating partner.
This appointment follows the recent closing of Savory Fund II, a USD100 million investment vehicle devoted to backing emerging and profitable restaurant concepts. Park will utilise his well-curated network, deep understanding of operations within the F&B industry, technology and invaluable experience to partner with the fund’s investment professionals to maximize operational implementations and margins within the Savory portfolio.
Park brings two decades of restaurant and
OCR Labs has announced a EUR12.5 million Series A round led by Turkish investors the Oyak Group, to expand its services and team to the UK and Turkish markets. The Australian founded company is viewed as a world leader in the digital ID verification space, solving major challenges including identity fraud and regulatory compliance, using its proprietary technology.
OCR Labs Founders Daniel Aiello and Matthew Adams wanted to create a product that streamlined customer onboarding whilst protecting organisations against the increasing risk of fraud and identity theft. They wanted to build a fully automated process, removing the need for people
Industry Services Co (ISC), a provider of industrial maintenance services and a portfolio company of Osceola Capital, has acquired three additional refractory and industrial maintenance services companies: Oak Mountain Industries, Bisco Refractories, and Glasrock.
Oak Mountain Industries (OMI), headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, is a refractory solutions provider specializing in refractory maintenance, installation, and product selection and supply. The company services industrial customers in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. OMI services a broad range of industries, including steel, coke, cement and aluminum.
Bisco Refractories, headquartered in Birmingham, AL, provides a full range of refractory services, including plant maintenance, installation services,
Private investor clients of Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business, have invested GBP6.75 million in MatOrtho, to support its international growth and product development.
Founded in 2010, MatOrtho designs, manufactures and commercialises performance leading, orthopaedic implant devices. It is one of the UK’s most innovative orthopaedic device designers. The company has achieved strong growth and has built a truly global presence, supplying implant devices into many of the world’s orthopaedic markets.
MatOrtho’s mission is improving the quality of life of all patients who receive one of its devices. Based in Leatherhead, the company has an international reputation
In this podcast, Private Equity Wire chats with Jack Knellinger, co-founder & partner of Capria Ventures and Ik Kanu, one of the founding partners of Atlantica Ventures, about the rise of VC investments in Africa, where the startup ecosystem remained largely robust throughout 2020, with over 300 equity rounds raised totalling USD1.429 billion, as recorded by Partech’s VC data for the year.
Oakley Capital (Oakley) has appointed Valero Domingo as a Partner, based in London. It has also made six promotions within its investment team, including two promotions to Partner.
Domingo brings a wealth of experience to Oakley, while the recent promotions will also continue to support the growth of the firm, following considerable development in recent years. The Oakley team now comprises 61 staff across its offices in London and Munich, 32 of which are investment professionals.
Domingo has joined Oakley’s London office, where he will be responsible for the origination and execution of transactions and the development of portfolio
Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset management group, has completed the acquisition of a qualified minority stake in Ecopol, a fast-growing manufacturer of water-soluble and biodegradable films for household single-dose detergents.
Carbone, Ecopol CEO will retain the control of the Company and benefit from Tikehau Capital support to further accelerate and strengthen its development plan.
“I’m delighted to announce Tikehau Capital’s investment in Ecopol. This partnership strengthens our shareholders’ base and our ability to achieve our ambitious targets. We have grown significantly over the last three years thanks to our commitment to develop a high-quality film and to the support
LGT Capital Partners has held final close of Crown Global Secondaries V (CGS V), its fifth private equity investment programme investing globally in secondaries, at the hard cap of USD4.5 billion.
The programmes’s investor base consists of more than 100 institutions, including pension funds, endowments, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and financial institutions in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
André Aubert, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, says: “With CGS V, we continue to see increasing appetite from institutional investors globally for secondaries, together with our successful investment strategy and results from predecessor funds.
Hertility Health, a new women’s health start-up revolutionising the world of hormone and reproductive health, has closed a GBP4.2 million seed funding round led by LocalGlobe, Venrex, and some key angel investors including former CEO of Bupa, Evelyn Bourke, and CEO of Nested and the unicorn company GoCardless, Matt Robinson.
The funds will help Hertility Health expand its current product offering of fertility and hormone testing, menopause, miscarriage, postnatal care, polycyctic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and endometriosis testing, as well as aid the expansion of its current clinical trials which aim to reduce the diagnosis time for some of the most
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