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Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has led a USD12 million growth financing round in next-generation health technology company, Capital Rx.
The company will use the funds to accelerate go-to-market execution and bolster its technology platform to transform the USD500 billion pharmaceutical benefits management (PBM) industry.
Prescription drug prices have skyrocketed and the public is demanding more transparency around the cost of healthcare, which is a centrepiece of the 2020 Presidential election campaign. Large PBMs are facing scrutiny as their revenues are tied to drug prices and they have done little to bring pricing transparency to the market
Curve, a banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and an app, has secured USD55 million from a leading group of investors as part of a successful Series B funding round, valuing the company at a quarter of a billion dollars.
The round is being led by Gauss Ventures, a fintech investor whose team has a track record of funding some of the brightest UK fintechs, as well as backing high impact technologies that reshape industries, and comes less than two years after Curve secured its Series A investment. The Series B round also welcomes
PMM Group, an alternative asset manager specialising in real estate & real estate debt, has appointed Richard Collins as Chief Operating Officer (COO), a newly created position.
Collins, who joins the firm as its seventh equity partner, will also be a director of PMM’s mortgage servicing business, Hampton Mortgage Servicing Limited.
Collins was formerly Chief Operating Officer and an equity partner at Europa Capital, the pan European real estate fund manager. During his 12 years with Europa, he helped to grow and diversify the business from solely real estate private equity into real estate debt, student accommodation and real
AppyParking, a kerbside management and mobility technology firm for local authorities and car park operators, has closed a GBP7.6 million Series A funding round.
The funding round includes new strategic investment from Hyundai Motor Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation. It was led by West Hill Capital, the London based venture capital firm, with participation from existing investors Aviva Ventures and Breed Reply. The investment brings AppyParking’s total funding since launch to over £11 million and will enable the company to accelerate product development, support domestic and international growth and continue to expand their talented team.
Founded in 2013 with the launch
London-based venture capital firm, Luminous Ventures has made a GBP1million investment in Optellum, the developer of the world’s first AI clinical diagnosis support software for personalised early lung cancer diagnosis and treatment.
When applied to CT scans, Optellum’s AI software platform enables doctors to diagnose, treat and cure patients at the earliest stages of the disease. It has been shown that 85 per cent of lung cancer patients could survive for more than five years, if their disease was treated at such an early stage (Stage 1A).
As well as identifying at-risk patients, the software may also minimise over-diagnosis
Crown Capital Partners (Crown), a capital partner to entrepreneurs and growth businesses, is to acquire WireIE Holdings International (WireIE), an Ontario-based network operator that specialises in the deployment and management of carrier-grade data networks across Canada and internationally to underserved communities.
Pursuant to the Transaction, Crown has acquired all the debt and equity of WireIE for a nominal amount on closing and a performance-based earn-out payment of up to CAD5 million. Crown had previously provided an income streaming facility to WireIE in July 2018 to support the company’s expansion. Crown has invested CAD7.6 million to date and will provide additional
A fast growing manufacturing firm based in Merseyside has secured an initial investment of GBP7.5 million from BGF to support its expansion. This deal marks BGF’s commitment of a total of GBP2 billion into UK and Irish SMEs, including GBP280 million for companies based in the North West.
Headquartered in Speke in Merseyside, Joloda International designs and manufactures loading technology systems that improve or automate the process of loading and unloading cargo into vehicles. The business, which employs 140 people, has a strong heritage of innovation and has invested heavily to develop its product suite in response to an increasingly
MPB, a European technology platform for trading high-end photography and filmmaking kit, has raised growth capital to further expand in Europe and the US.
Less than 18 months after closing its Series B, the company has announced a GBP9 million Series C funding round, led by growth VC firm Acton Capital and with participation from existing investors Mobeus and Beringea.
MPB is a scale-up transforming how photographers and videographers access and sell photography and filmmaking gear. The MPB platform offers the world’s largest curated and verified selection of second-hand equipment. Thanks to data-driven automatisation of the vetting process and a
Recipe box company Gousto has secured an additional GBP30 million funding round, led by Perwyn. The investment takes the total funds raised by Gousto to over GBP100 million.
With the UK recipe box market expected to exceed GBP1.5 billion by 2022, Gousto is in pole position to take advantage and the additional funding will accelerate its investment into its customer obsession. Perwyn, a family-backed private equity investment firm, joins existing investors including BGF Ventures, MMC Ventures, Canaccord Genuity, Unilever Ventures and Joe Wicks.
Gousto will use the investment to evolve its technology proposition, so it can continue to lead
Tyk Technologies Ltd, creators of an API gateway and management platform, has secured GBP4 million in Series A funding, led by MMC Ventures to accelerate its business securing, simplifying and scaling organisations’ API programmes.
The MMC Ventures-led Series A funding will be used to accelerate Tyk’s presence in rapidly-growing markets, specifically the US, where the company has established itself as the key challenger brand in the API space against competitors like Google’s Apigee, CA Technologies, and IBM. Tyk will be opening an office in Atlanta this summer to add to the Singapore office opened in 2017.
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