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Funds advised by Apax (the Apax Funds) today announced are to acquire CyberGrants, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for corporate social responsibility (CSR), employee engagement, and volunteer management, from Waud Capital Partners.
Financial terms for the transaction, which is expected to close in Q3 2021, have not been disclosed.
CyberGrants delivers market-leading CSR software solutions to some of the most respected companies and foundations in the world, helping them quickly activate their charitable causes to realize strategic, measurable outcomes. Its single platform solution enables customers, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies, to easily scale their
Addepar, a technology platform for wealth management, has raised USD150 million from D1 Capital Partners at a pre-money valuation of USD2 billion as part of its Series F financing.
Isomer Capital has completed the first close of “Isomer Capital Opportunities”. The new co-investment fund is backed by British Business Investments, through its Managed Funds Programme, amongst other global institutions.
The goal of the new opportunities fund is to build on the success of ‘Isomer Capital I’, the firm’s fund-of-funds that invests into early-stage venture capital firms across Europe. Isomer Capital Opportunities will enable the firm to continue early growth investing alongside its VC partners into the UK and Europe’s fastest growing technology companies.
Isomer Capital Opportunities will provide ongoing support to fast-growing technology scale-ups from within the
The specialist property lender Atelier Capital Partners has unveiled an expansion of its credit team as it ramps up lending and closes in on its target to deliver more than GBP300 million of development and bridge finance to Britain’s housebuilders within the next year.
The eight-strong credit team sits at the heart of Atelier’s operations, assessing the suitability of prospective borrowers, structuring and underwriting loans that are tailored precisely to their needs, and forging long-term relationships with developers – from due diligence to drawdown and beyond. Since Atelier’s launch in January 2020, it has provided more than GBP150 million to
ThinCats, an alternative finance provider to mid-sized SMEs, has announced a strategic investment in the company from Wafra Capital Partners (WCP) of GBP160 million. WCP has partnered with Quilam Capital on the transaction.
Having lent almost GBP1 billion to UK SMEs over the last few years, the investment from WCP, alongside senior bank and institutional funding, enables ThinCats to lend a further GBP2 billion. Following its full investment, WCP will become a significant minority shareholder in ThinCats.
ThinCats will continue to serve mid-sized SMEs, alongside their advisors, across the UK with its pragmatic credit process, supported by proprietary
Prime Capital has completed the Third Closing of its commingled infrastructure fund. With this Closing PGEIF reached total commitments of EUR342 million.
The fund was launched in June 2020 and focuses on wind-powered energy assets in the Nordic countries. It aims to secure assets in their late development stage and exploit their full return potential by employing a value-add strategy. Prime Capital identifies and secures attractive opportunities at an early stage, optimising all technical and commercial aspects of the projects, including financing and power purchase agreements. It seeks to build its projects with the most efficient technology on the market.
nSure.ai, a predictive AI fraud protection company, focusing on the unique needs of digital goods retailers, has completed a successful seed fundraising round of USD6.8 million, led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, Kamet – an AXA backed venture builder, Moneta Seeds and private investors.
These funds will go towards further developing nSure.ai’s predictive AI and machine learning algorithms that have reimagined digital fraud detection, reducing decline rates by 90 per cent from an industry standard of declining 20 per cent to only 2 per cent.
Unlike physical goods, digital goods are instantly delivered and deposited. These include gift cards,
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
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