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UK-based fund manager Downing has committed a seven-figure investment to consumer technology company Tactus Group (Tactus).
Founded in 1986, Downing is an FCA authorised and regulated investment manager with over 30 years’ experience. It currently has over GBP1.4 billion of funds under management.
The investment from Downing was made alongside a GBP10 million injection of private capital from multi-family investment office Arete Capital Partners, which enabled Tactus to complete its acquisition of CCL, a Yorkshire-based e-commerce PC gaming specialist. It will also support future fundraising for the wider group as it targets more acquisitions across the UK and globally.
Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics, and reporting solution for private markets investors and asset servicers, has closed a USD5 million seed round of venture financing co-led by Illuminate Financial and AlbionVC, with participation from Expon Capital and SixThirty Ventures.
This financing will accelerate the company’s global growth ambitions through further product development, client acquisition and support. Illuminate Financial and AlbionVC will join Accelex’ Board of Directors as part of this transaction.
Since the launch of the Accelex platform 12 months ago the company has achieved significant growth – now supporting a sophisticated global client base of investors and asset servicers.
Global law firm Dechert is growing its global private equity practice with the addition of Dominik Stühler as a corporate and securities partner in the firm’s Munich office.
Stühler will focus his practice on national and cross-border private equity deals and mergers and acquisitions. Some of Stühler’s high-profile mandates include advising Hg on the sale of STP Group, Apax Partners and its portfolio Neuraxpharm on the acquisition of Buccolam, Summit Partners on the initial public offerings of Westwing Group AG and Global Fashion Group and PAI Partners on the acquisition of Armacell Group from Blackstone as well as on the
eleXsysEnergy has raised GBP640,000 through Angel Investment Network, an online angel investment platform.
eleXsys Energy has developed a unique, international award-winning, enabling technology that will drive the transition of global energy grids to a clean energy future. The eleXsys technology enables large commercial and industrial rooftops to become grid-connected, solar power plants. eleXsys is the critical enabling technology being installed to build the IKEA eleXsys Microgrid at IKEA Adelaide, which will become 100 per cent powered by renewable generation by 2025.
The raise took four months and was part of a larger GBP5 million funding raise, including a Series A round of
GAPAVE, the association which owns Apave Group (Apave), a specialist in the field of technical, environmental, human and digital risk management, is in exclusive negotiations with PAI Partners, a European private equity firm, whereby PAI would become a shareholder of Apave alongside GAPAVE.
Following the transaction, GAPAVE would remain the Group’s largest shareholder.
For 150 years, Apave has evolved to meet major technological changes and advancements head-on, developing expertise in guaranteeing the safety of people, of goods, of production assets and of the environment. In a growing TIC (testing, inspection, certification) market that must integrate the challenges of digital,
Procuritas has appointed Carl Settergren as partner. Settergren brings extensive experience and a successful track record from international private equity and investment banking to the team, and he will contribute greatly to Procuritas’s ability to source and execute the large number of deal opportunities present in the Nordic mid-market.
Prior to joining Procuritas, Settergren worked for eleven years at PAI Partners based in Paris, then Copenhagen and Stockholm. Settergren started his career in the investment banking division at Deutsche Bank in London between 2004-2008. He holds an MSc from the Stockholm School of Economics (Major in Accounting and Financial Management)
Knox Capital, a private equity firm with significant assets in the legal and financial technology space, has made an investment in, and relaunched, bundle, a provider of legal real estate documents formerly known as ANADeeds.
Knox Capital completed its equity investment in bundle in late 2020, and since closing has helped lead a technology expansion and a rebranding of the organisation with a more modern, growth-focused identity. The more elastic identity and expanded service offerings better position the company to seize on significant growth opportunities in the coming 24-months as millions of homeowners buy, refinance, and exit Covid-related forbearances and
Katten’s 2021 SPAC Survey, which is baed on the results of one poll of 80 investment professionals in March and another of 100 investment professionals in May, has found that investors who participated in at least one SPAC transaction – as either sponsors, investors, advisors or underwriters – say they expect SPAC activity to increase at least through 2022.
The British Business Bank’s regional funds — the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) — have enabled more than GBP50 million of investment, including from the private sector, into small businesses in the Midlands and North of England to reduce their carbon footprint and support developing innovative solutions to tackling the climate emergency and reaching net zero.
Highlighting a commitment to contribute to funding the future of the low carbon and green economy, since launch the NPIF and MEIF have, in total, supported 45 businesses in their mission to drive the UK’s net-zero and wider sustainability
Printful, an industry-leading print-on-demand drop shipping and fulfilment company has secured a USD130 million non-control investment from private equity firm Bregal Sagemount.
The financing establishes Printful as the first privately owned company with Latvian roots to achieve unicorn status with a valuation of above USD1 billion. The new partnership will support the launch of additional products and services and the expansion into new channels and geographies.
Printful gives merchants, artists, and other creators the opportunity to run successful ecommerce businesses without investing resources in production and logistics. The company takes care of everything related to printing, product storage, and
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