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Round2 Capital, an Austrian investment fund for growth financing, has invested a seven-figure sum in the Swiss EdTech scale-up Avallain. Round2 Capital is among Europe’s premier revenue-based financing ventures. This innovative approach to financing, which focuses on growth-stage companies, is easier to obtain than bank loans and offers more favourable conditions than venture capital. Round2 Capital invests in leading technology and software scale-ups in Europe. Avallain, the award-winning e-learning and edTech scale-up, plans to invest the funds in its product development pipeline for corporate use cases and in its international market expansion efforts.
Following Round2 Capital’s deepening of its two-year partnership
OpenFin, the operating system (OS) of finance, has secured a strategic investment from SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm of international banking group, Standard Chartered. The capital will accelerate new product development and brings OpenFin’s total funding to date to USD50 million.
OpenFin’s web-based OS has become the de facto standard in financial services for powering next-generation application and desktop experiences by creating interfaces that make the financial desktop simple and intuitive. Built on Google’s Chromium engine, OpenFin OS simplifies app distribution, unifies the digital workspace and enables seamless communication and workflow between apps. The software is now
Upvest, a Berlin-based startup offering the first plug-and-play pan-European securities API, has secured an additional EUR5 million in funding. The latest financing round was led by Earlybird and ensured the close of the Series A+. This additional funding follows an initial EUR7 million investment from Notion Capital, HV Capital and Partech. Upvest is also supported by fintech angel investors including Maximilian Tayenthal, founder of N26, Felix Haas founder of IDNow and Reiner Mauch, founder of Consorsbank.
Upvest’s Securities API is intended to transform the traditional, outdated and regulatory complex securities infrastructure. Designed as a simple gateway API that is easy to
Charterhouse Capital Partners (Charterhouse) is to invest in Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP), a professional advisory firm specialising in pensions, investment consulting and insurance. Charterhouse is partnering with the Partner group of LCP to acquire the Inflexion minority stake. As part of the transaction, LCP’s Partners will also increase their stake in the company.
LCP, which was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in London and Winchester, is the leading independent provider of pension and investment consulting services in the UK. The company also provides services in fast-growing areas including technology analytics; insurance regulation and risk advisory; health analytics; and
400 Capital Management LLC, an alternative credit asset manager specialising in structured credit with over USD4.4 billion of capital under management, has held the final close of its Asset Based Term Fund II (ABTF II) at more than USD430 million, above its USD400 million target.“400CM’s ABTF series continues to provide our investors access to unique, innovative and opportunistic credit investments that require a patient capital approach and seeks to provide attractive absolute returns,” says Chris Hentemann, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. “Despite recent market volatility, the private credit investing landscape is as attractive today as anything we have seen
Creator Fund, a university-focused venture capital fund making strides to unearth startup innovation within European universities, is now focussing on its next stage of support for student-led ventures following the close of a new GBP1.5million fund. Creator Fund has also secured further backing from Founders Factory and from Schmidt Futures, the philanthropic initiative co-founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. This new fund will allow Creator Fund to help more ground-breaking ventures and visionary PhD founders in areas of the UK where there is exceptional technology talent, but are outside the major networks of venture capital money.
Creator Fund, which launched
finnCap Group has promoted John Farrugia to the position of Managing Partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance, following eight years as a Partner at the UK M&A advisory firm. Farrugia brings 20 years’ experience to the role, 13 of which have been spent at Cavendish, where he has built up an outstanding track record of deal completions in the technology and tech-enabled business services sectors. He has successfully completed over 50 corporate finance transactions, including M&A deals, leveraged buyouts, and public takeovers, most of which were valued between GBP15 million and GBP100 million.
Farrugia succeeds Tom Hayward, who previously stepped into the
Forster Chase a City-based corporate finance, business advisory and executive search firm, has appointed two new partners – Adam Harris and Francis Martin, CBE.Executive Chairman Benny Higgins says: “We are delighted that Francis and Adam have joined our business, bringing their leadership, foresight and experience to help our firm and our clients achieve their growth objectives and goals. We look forward to working with Francis and Adam who not only add further depth to our corporate finance, strategic and transformation expertise in the partnership but also broaden the level and range of services which we offer as we continue to
geoLOGIC systems (geoLOGIC) has acquired DubsurfaceIO (SSIO), a digital technology provider of oil & gas cloud-based mapping & analytics solutions that connect and integrate public & proprietary data, enabling data access and workflows for users across different disciplines, domains, and teams.Based in Houston, Texas, SSIO’s modern and intuitive platform eliminates the requirement for continual data handling, cleaning, and loading processes through its unique data-agnostic micro-services architecture. When deployed and integrated with geoLOGIC’s trusted surface and subsurface data, users will be able to visualise, analyse and manipulate this wealth of information with the ease of use afforded by an advanced cloud-based
Rally Ventures, a specialist in business technology investing, has closed Rally IV, a USD250 million fund which will invest in Seed and Series A companies bringing innovative approaches to enterprise technology. Areas of focus will include cloud infrastructure, fintech, SaaS+ and security.
Rally Ventures had oversubscribed demand for this fourth fund, closing well above target, and bringing the firm’s total committed capital raised since inception to nearly USD600 million. The firm closed its last fund of USD150 million in 2018.
“We are committed to investing in the fastest-rising business technology entrepreneurs, and the close of Rally IV allows us
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