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Funds advised by KLAR Partners Limited (KLAR) have today completed the previously communicated acquisition of ISS Kanal Services, a Swiss specialist in underground infrastructure maintenance (UIM). The company is KLAR Partners’ first acquisition in Switzerland.
Funds advised by Gulf Capital and NBK Capital Partners, respectively, have announced a full and successful exit of their growth capital facility in Jordan’s Classic Fashion Apparel Industries (Classic Fashion).
Companies in the digital, media and internet sectors have taken advantage of the open public markets, with no fewer than 18 IPOs completed in the first quarter of 2021, up from just one the previous year, according to research from global investment bank GCA Altium.
The global trend of listings has been headlined by food delivery platform Deliveroo’s highly publicised GBP7 billion IPO on the London Stock Exchange, as well as the USD13 billion deal for US dating app Bumble on the NASDAQ.
GCA Altium’s ‘Digital, Media and Internet Monitor’ also identified a series of global mega deals on
Foresight has chosen leading flexible energy specialist Flexitricity to optimise a new battery site in West Gourdie.
The site in Dundee will house a 50MW lithium-ion battery and will be one of the largest battery storage units in Scotland, and will play a major role in helping National Grid ESO manage GB’s energy needs.
It is expected that the site will be fully operational and trading in the first quarter of 2022.
West Gourdie will have a 49.9MW import and export connection and Flexitricity will optimise it across all the available markets to maximise revenue, including various frequency response services
DeversiFi, a Layer 2 Decentralised Finance (DeFi) trading platform powered by StarkWare’s scalable technology, has closed a USD5 million strategic funding round led by ParaFi with participation from Defiance Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blockchain.com Ventures, Delphi Ventures and others, to scale DeFi trading on Ethereum.
The round saw 12.5 per cent of DeversiFi’s new DVF tokens sold to long term supporters of the project, including some of the top investors in the industry.
“Layer 2 scaling is essential to Ethereum’s roadmap. We are creating a hub to invest, swap, send, and lend tokens without the friction and cost of
The BIA has today welcomed the Government’s announcement that GBP18 million will be invested in innovative UK life science companies through a relaunched Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst competition.
Blue Point Capital Partners’ Blue Point III portfolio company, Sylvan Group (Sylvan), has acquired Great Lakes Mechanical (GLM).
Combining Sylvan and GLM positions the organisation for significant growth as a major player in the industrial and commercial contracting industries throughout the Eastern US and Canada.
The acquisition enables the Company to accelerate customer growth by serving as a one-stop-shop for innovative, sustainable and quality industrial and commercial building solutions. Leveraging GLM’s commercial and service capabilities alongside Sylvan’s industrial contracting expertise and geographic reach, the Company will deliver a full line of industrial/mechanical service solutions for its clients.
“We have enjoyed
Venture Capital investment firm JPIN VCATS today announces the completion of a GBP1.5million raise to drive forward the development of the world’s largest investment corridor between the the UK and India. The investment has come from a group of Super Angels, renowned Family Offices and Institutional Investors from the UK, India, Europe, Africa and the Middle East in a raise that spans a global ecosystem of investors. JPIN VCATS will look at backing growth to Series D rounds.
New research reveals some 36 per cent of eVTOL professionals predict a dramatic increase in the level of consolidation in the eVTOL market over the next two years, and 51 per cent think there will be a slight increase.
There are currently around 245 companies who have developed eVTOL concepts, but in five years’ time 60 per cent of professionals working in the sector believe this number will be smaller. One in three (33 per cent) predict there will be between 100 and 200 companies, and one in five (20 per cent) think there will be fewer than 100. Some
Astorg and Bridgepoint are to acquire Fenergo’s management team to acquire Fenergo, a provider of Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions, from Insight Partners.
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