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VITL, the personalised nutrition platform, has finalised a GBP550,000 round of follow on funding, led by the Angel CoFund and backed by Zoopla founder and CEO Alex Chesterman, and Bulldog founder and CEO Simon Duffy.
The company will use the investment to expand its features and products, as it aims to become the most advanced health and wellbeing platform in the world.
VITL uses advanced diagnostic technology to create tailor-made nutritional solutions based on a user’s unique profile. Users complete a short consultation in the app or on the web, which has been developed in partnership with a panel
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) is to acquire a portfolio of interests in ten UK public-private partnership projects for just over GBP400 million from Aberdeen UK Infrastructure Partners (Aberdeen). PiP will manage the interests directly.
The acquisition, by the PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF), includes hospitals, highways operations and maintenance contracts, energy from waste projects and social housing.
Over the last 18 months PiP has acquired 2 infrastructure debt portfolios, a portfolio of 31 onshore wind turbines, a portfolio of six solar energy parks, a stake in a ferry company and now 10 social infrastructure assets, bringing all of
Investec Specialist Bank (Investec) has appointed Megan Chavkin to its Corporate & Acquisition Finance team, led by Callum Bell, Head of Corporate & Acquisition Finance at Investec.
Based in the team’s London office, Chavkin will be responsible for the origination and execution of leveraged finance and private debt solutions for clients across Europe.
Chavkin had three years’ experience within the Corporate Investment Bank at Nedbank. There she was a member of the Leveraged Finance team, which focuses on leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, share-backed and sponsor-backed funding in the large-cap corporate space.
Since it was established in 2012, Investec
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, is to administer Headway Capital Partners’ fourth secondary private equity fund.
Founded in 2004, Headway is an independent investment firm providing a full range of liquidity solutions to investors seeking exits or alternatives for their private equity assets.
Investing globally with a focus on Western Europe and North America, Headway purchases limited partnership positions in private equity funds, portfolios of direct private equity investments, and minority stakes in single companies. Headway also leads and participates in tail end transactions, provision of liquidity facilities for private equity portfolios, fund restructurings and
The team behind Swarm Fund, a decentralised capital marketplace that provides cryptocurrency investors with access to institutional style investments, has raised USD5.5 million through its public token sale.
Swarm has appointed serial tech entrepreneur Philipp Pieper as its CEO. The firm has also had what it calls its first ‘liquid democracy’ vote.
During the sale, 8.2 million tokens were sold to members of the Swarm and to discourage so-called ‘pump and dump’ buyers, Swarm Fund’s architecture leverages a ‘drip’ liquidity system to initially lock tokens on the platform, and release them over time for trading.
Immediately following the close of
Sustainable Technology Investors (STIL) has launced the GBP100 million Nobel Sustainability Growth Fund (NSGF) in partnership with the Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST), founded by members of the Nobel Family, and SET3, the global investment group founded by Gordon Power and Stephen Lansdown, co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown.
The Fund is backed by the Nobel Sustainability Fund (NSF) global group of funds which was launched in 2016, with backing from the Constitutional Reserve Fund of Monaco and the family office of Stephen Lansdown.
NSGF will make UK sustainable private equity investments to build technology, manufacturing, services and asset development businesses. The
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has reached an agreement to sell svt Group (svt), a provider of passive fire protection products and services as well as restoration management services, to Ergon Capital Partners III (Ergon).
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
svt is the leading company in Passive Fire Protection (PFP) and Restoration Management (RM) in Germany with c. 50 years of experience. The PFP business comprises the full value chain from R&D to manufacturing as well as installation services of fire preventing and resistant products that are sold either to OEM
BTL Group (BTL) has closed previously announced brokered and non-brokered private placements raising a gross total of approximately CAD15.3 million.
BTL will use the capital raised to deliver its blockchain platform Interbit in early 2018. The company is targeting enterprises that can license Interbit to either build their own applications or form partnerships. BTL is also aiming to encourage
“We are delighted to have completed this funding round, where we saw significantly increased investor demand given the recent progress and exciting news from the Company,” says Dominic McCann, CEO of BTL. “The capital will be used to rapidly expedite
Graham Bishop, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management comments on the latest downbeat growth forecasts for the UK economy…
Chancellor Hammond’s latest budget was generally unexciting and, arguably aimed at placating Westminster. Importantly, though, the budget marked a step away from austerity and did not deliver the usual ‘bad news’ coming from a newly-elected government. In this respect, the current government has little room for manoeuvre given its razor thin majority.
Over the next five years, the UK economy can expect to see an overall net loosening of GBP25 billion. The biggest fiscal stimulus will come in 2019/2020,
Britbots, an organisation devoted to promoting the fortunes of UK-based robotics companies, has invested the first part of a GBP300,000 funding package for Tethered Drone Systems.
Britbots operates the British Robotics Seed (SEIS) Fund and the equity crowdfunding platform, Britbots CROWD, which both support promising robotics-related businesses performing autonomous tasks on land, air and sea.
Dominic Keen, founder and CEO of Britbots, says: “Much is written about tomorrow’s world of driverless cars, where we are to be seamlessly whisked around by an all-pervasive fleet of unmanned road vehicles. However, the complexity of the road network and the high consequences
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