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The UK Business Angels Association has opened a new Angel Investment Hub in the heart of Bristol.
Housed in Brunel’s original station, dating back to 1841, the Bristol Angel Hub, in partnership with Engine Shed, is an exciting hub where investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics and corporates can collaborate, inspire and be inspired.
The hub showcases the strengths and innovations of the Bristol and Bath city region and is located within a minute’s walk of Bristol Temple Meads, one of the UK’s most connected transport hubs.
Jenny Tooth, CEO of the UKBAA, says: “There is a lack of infrastructure which means that neither
Sandton Capital Partners, a special situations investments fund, has acquired the Aspin Group (Aspin), a provider of engineered solutions for the UK’s infrastructure sectors focused on rail and highways, for an undisclosed sum.
Established in 2000; Aspin operates across the UK and employs 220 people. Aspin’s head office is in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire which is supported by other centres in the Midlands, the North and Scotland. Aspin has a turnover exceeding GBP30million and works for organisations such as Network Rail, Highways England and major infrastructure contractors providing engineered solutions, consulting and design, foundations and piling and inspections and investigations.
Next Coast Ventures has added Jason Dorsey to its team as a Venture Partner. He will focus on helping Next Coast Ventures and its portfolio companies with consumer trends, brand building and customer acquisition.
“Jason and his firm’s research have a comprehensive, birds-eye view on big trends in the marketplace and how the world is changing,” says Michael Smerklo, co-founder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures. “Jason’s expertise on the Millennial and Gen Z generations – what we call ‘digital natives’ – will give our firm and our portfolio companies the most cutting-edge tools to understand and quantify the
Matillion, the makers of cloud data integration tools Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake and Matillion ETL for Google BigQuery, has closed a USD20 million Series B round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures, existing investor Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), and new investor Scale Venture Partners.
The company, based in Altrincham, (Manchester, UK) and Manhattan (New York, US), was founded by Matthew Scullion in 2011, alongside Chief Technology Officer Ed Thompson and Commercial Director Peter McCord. Matillion has developed leading-edge software focused on allowing its customers to extract, load and transform data
Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the blockchain technology sector and crypto ecosystem, has closed Blockchain Capital IV, LP a USD150 million fund.
The fund, which is the firm’s largest fund raised to date and brings assets under management to USD250 million, was oversubscribed at its hard cap with institutional limited partners representing fund of funds, foundations, strategic investors and family offices.
Since its inception in 2013, Blockchain Capital has invested in 72 companies, protocols, and tokens, including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, Ethereum, 0x and Kraken. Blockchain Capital remains committed to working with the world’s best entrepreneurs
Nitesh Shah, director at ETF Securities, comments on the US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates for the sixth time since the financial crisis…
In the first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting with Jerome Powell as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the US Central Bank has raised interest rates. A substantial upgrade in forecasts paves the way for potentially three more hikes (for a total of four this year). Coming into the meeting, the market had only fully priced in three in total for the year.
Median GDP forecasts for this year were increased to 2.7 per
Professor André Spicer, Cass Business School, comments on Cambridge Analytica and questions what the costs will be to big tech firms?
Recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica will put pressure on not just Facebook, but many large tech companies. They will be forced to expand their compliance, privacy and social responsibility functions. Big tech firms are going from being darlings to being devils in the public imagination.
Big tech firms have a Californian mindset: they assume that people will generally do the right thing but this is being challenged. Now, they’re having to stop focusing on the sunny side of human
Averys, a European manufacturer of industrial storage systems, racking and metal furniture, backed by private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe since 2015, has acquired Storax from Ramada Aços Group SA.
Founded over 50 years ago in Porto, Storax is a leading provider of industrial racking and shelving systems and is a well-known and active brand in the materials handling sector. As well as its home market in Portugal, Storax has significant activities in Belgium, France and the UK. The Group generated total revenues of circa EUR80 million in 2017.
The acquisition provides Averys with a complementary industrial base in
The European M&A market remained buoyant throughout 2017 against a backdrop of political uncertainty, including national elections in France, Germany, UK and the Netherlands, according to the tenth edition of the CMS European M&A Study.
The study, which analyses more than 3,650 of its private M&A transactions and compares the CMS deals of 2017 against its deals from 2010-2016, reveals that, driven by solid European economic data, overall deal value climbed in Europe to USD929.3 billion, up 14 per cent compared to 2016. Structural changes arising from President Trump’s “America First” policy and Brexit, along with strong eurozone performance, continue
CoInvestor Connect, CoInvestor’s alternative asset investment platform for sophisticated private investors, has expanded its offering with the addition of private equity funds to the platform.
CoInvestor has continually strengthened its offering since its inception in 2016, transforming the management of alternative assets by digitising this traditionally offline, paper-based asset class.
The addition of private equity funds to CoInvestor’s range of investment products is a response to increasing investor demand for portfolio diversification and further widens the choice for private investors seeking non-market correlated investments.
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