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BlackCurve, a pricing optimisation company, has closed GBP1.5 million funding round, led by Pan-European VC Nauta Capital.
Founded in 2016, BlackCurve’s pricing optimisation platform helps retailers manage and optimise the price of every item they sell to achieve their business goals. The platform, powered by Artificial Intelligence, ingests data sources ranging from sales history and website page performance, right through to competitor pricing and stock levels, enabling every retailer to create smart pricing rules for their specific business.
BlackCurve serves mid to large multichannel retailers across industries such as sporting equipment, DIY, garden & outdoor, kitchen & home goods, consumer electronics
AMP Capital has appointed Thomas Preising as a senior adviser to its infrastructure equity business.
Preising was most recently the Global Business Operations Director for Apple, based in Cupertino, US. He had joined Apple in 2004 as the Operations Director for Apple Europe, before moving to Delhi as the Sales Director of Apple India. In other roles at Apple, he established its first office in the Middle East and led sales operations and planning for its Latin America business. Before joining Apple, Preising had worked at Hewlett Packard for a decade. He began his career in infrastructure, working at US
Eze Castle Integration has added new features to the Eze Client Portal allowing clients to visually explore and analyse data associated with their IT environment and operations and create interactive dashboards and reports.
By incorporating Microsoft Power BI business analytics into the platform, the Eze Client Portal is more valuable than ever. Clients can easily customise interactive dashboards and drill-down to explore and analyse data and information. Modern visualisation capabilities, such as word clouds, allow clients to easily identify trends within their service ticket activity and technology environments.
The newest features complement existing Eze Client Portal capabilities including creating and
Veeqo, a retail automation platform that helps retailers sync their inventory across multiple sales channels and fulfil customer orders, has raised a GBP3.3m growth investment from the Development Capital team at Octopus Investments.
Octopus joins existing investors, Daniel McPherson and New Look founder Tom Singh, along with equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, in supporting the company through this next stage of rapid growth.
This latest round of fundraising will be used to further Veeqo’s position in the UK market, and to expand into the USA. Veeqo’s growth strategy will be driven by a mix of inbound marketing, outbound sales and strategic
UK mid-market private equity investor LD has strengthened its London team with the appointment of two new investment directors.
Joseph Fison and Joe Tager have joined the 11-strong team, supporting Head of London, Yann Souillard, and directors, Christian Bruning and Steve Aston, to help identify new investment opportunities across the capital, lead transactions and support the growth ambitions of LDC’s portfolio of companies.
Joseph Fison joins from Cumulus Asset Management, where he was a partner and Director of Principal Investments, leading a number of investments into technology businesses internationally. He has more than 15 years’ experience supporting the growth of
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised Livingbridge portfolio company, Carousel Logistics Limited, on its refinancing and acquisition of time-critical logistics company BDA Logistics Innovation (BDA).
Carousel provides specialist logistics solutions to high performance industries across Europe, in the Agriculture, MedTech, High-Tech, Scientific and Automotive sectors, plus other service-focused industries. Using its own marketing-leading technology platform, Gateway, Carousel clients have access to all available transport data from across their supply chain. By connecting its multinational, blue-chip clients to its flexible air and road network, Carousel ensures the reliable transportation of mission critical parts and products across Europe.
Logistics provider BDA
Ogier has added three senior lawyers to its Luxembourg team, which has grown by 16 in the past six months.
Head of Ogier in Luxembourg, Daniel Richards, says the appointments of Hélène Arvis, Walid Sharara and Anneleen Hofkens demonstrate the focus of the international law firm on its Luxembourg office, a full-service business law team acting for leading investment fund managers, banks, corporate and institutional clients.
“We are seeing strong growth in a number of areas in Luxembourg – including in private equity and real estate, with an increasing focus on regulatory matters – and these appointments further deepen our
Thinknum, a leading provider of web-sourced alternative data, has secured USD11.6 million in Series A funding round. Participants included Green Visor Capital, one of the original investors in the firm’s USD1 million seed round in 2014.
Thinknum will use the fresh capital to fund its continuing growth and allow it to further penetrate the institutional investment community and corporate market.
Thinknum’s SaaS-based platform empowers anyone who allocates capital – from “quantamental”-style investors to corporate strategy groups seeking an edge on the competition – to harness the disparate, unstructured data sources available today as a result of online commerce and
Finnish Invesdor Oy, a leading digital equity funding platform in the Nordics, and Austrian Finnest, a digital mid-size (Mittelstand) financier in the German speaking countries, have revealed plans to merge their businesses.
“Together, we create the 1st pan-European digital investment and financing platform for companies of all life stages, from startups to large corporations”, says CEO Lasse Mäkelä. “We offer them one of the widest ranges of digital financial instruments available in the market today. It is a place for top-tier companies as well as private and institutional investors across Europe”.
The service portfolio spans from equity investments, bonds, IPO’s, syndicated
Acuris, a BC Partners and GIC-backed provider of global data, intelligence, research and analysis, has acquired Blackpeak, an investigative research firm.
Co-founded by Jack Clode and Chris Leahy in 2011, Blackpeak has grown to become a premier provider of complex due diligence, research and investigation services, particularly in relation to capital markets, M&A and private equity. The team’s experience, strong brand and deep customer relationships have allowed Blackpeak to gain a market leadership position and expand internationally, all while generating consistent profitability.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Blackpeak now operates from key financial and economic centers, including Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing,
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