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The London Technology Club (LTC), which includes some of the world’s leading technology investors, has invested in Reflektion, an AI-powered personalisation platform for the retail industry. LTC invested in Reflektion’s USD13.5 million funding round alongside leading venture capitalists such as Clear Ventures, Intel Capital, Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures.
Reflektion currently manages approximately USD18 billion of GMV (Gross Merchandise Value), over USD5.5 billion unique shopping sessions (since Jan 2018) and 300 million unique anonymous shopper profiles. The fund-raising will bolster Reflektion’s growth ambitions to move beyond only eCommerce and into grocery, and penetrate other online commerce markets such as B2B2C,
NorthEdge-backed Catalis Group is expanding its North American footprint with a second bolt-on acquisition completed during lockdown.Curve Digital, part of the Catalis Group, has bought Vancouver-based IronOak Games, an independent games developer. Curve Digital is a video games publisher based in London.
IronOak Games, headed up by Gordon Moran and Colby Young, was founded in January 2015 and it has previously collaborated with Curve Digital on the critically acclaimed title For The King, a game published for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.
The deal forms part of Curve Digital’s wider strategy of acquiring independent game
Homestead Capital (Homestead), a private equity firm investing in farmland in the United States, has held a final close of its third fund, Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund III, with USD596 million in capital commitments. With these additional commitments, the firm has surpassed USD1 billion in AUM across its three funds.
“We are grateful for the support and opportunity to invest on behalf of our broad range of returning and new investors,” says Dan Little, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Homestead. “We are humbled by our limited partners’ confidence in us as investors. Fund III represents an endorsement of our ability to
Inflexion has agreed to make a minority investment in Phenna Group (Phenna), a business focused on the testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) sector.
Foreside has bolstered its customised, tech-enabled governance, risk management, and compliance offering, for hedge fund, private equity, and other emerging alternative investments managers with the acquisition of Integrated Compliance Solutions Group (ICSGroup).ICSGroup is a regulatory compliance services firm serving the asset management industry in the US and Africa, with an emphasis on private funds and emerging managers.
Founded in 2008 and based in Hartford, Connecticut, ICSGroup has helped its clients adhere to regulatory requirements and industry standards by developing and managing robust compliance programs, effectively managing regulatory issues, and providing operational due diligence to instill confidence in their investors and
Pemberton, a European private credit asset manager, backed by UK insurer Legal & General Group, has appointed Scott Hamilton, to the newly created role of Managing Director for North American Business Development. Hamilton will lead institutional client coverage and consultant relations for Pemberton’s European private debt strategies in the US and Canada.
Hamilton brings 19 years of experience of client coverage and structuring solutions across a range of alternative credit opportunities, most recently as Managing Director, Institutional Distribution, at Alcentra. He previously held senior roles at Bank of New York Mellon and Thomas Weisel Asset Management and earned a BA
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (Stonepeak), a private equity firm specialising in infrastructure investing, is to acquire Astound Broadband (Astound), the sixth largest US cable operator in the United States that operates leading regional providers RCN, Grande, Wave and enTouch.
AI-focused VC-firm Air Street Capital has closed a USD17 million fund, targeting early-stage founders in Europe and the US who combine AI expertise with sector-specific knowledge in the enterprise, consumer and life sciences sectors.
Founded by general partner Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital aims to partner up with professionals in the AI community in order to apply technical expertise to spot new talent and “cut through the hype” to source AI applications, according to the newly founded firm.
Benaich’s prior seed and early-stage investments include Mapillary -which was later acquired by Facebook- Tractable, LabGenius, Thought Machine, Starship, Ravelin, PolyAI, Jukedeck,
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The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF) has co-led a GBP1.75 million funding round for Newcastle-based Hive HR Ltd (Hive), an employee engagement Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. The Fund, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP500,000, alongside GBP1 million of funding from Maven’s VCTs and GBP250,000 from existing shareholders.
Since the NEDCF’s original investment in Hive HR in April 2019 the business has enjoyed strong growth, doubling revenue in the past 12 months, and has continued to add to its impressive client base, which includes River Island, Hermes, Travelodge, Tarmac, and Northumbria Police. Today’s funding will assist
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