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Natural Cycles, the first app to be certified as a contraceptive in the EU, has closed a USD30 million Series B round led by EQT Ventures fund (EQT Ventures), with participation from existing investors Sunstone, E-ventures and Bonnier Growth Media.
The investment will aid clinical research, product development, recruitment from the world of medicine and science, and international expansion.
Launched in 2014 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Natural Cycles helps to prevent pregnancies by empowering women with a deeper insight into their body. The app was co-founded by husband and wife Dr Raoul Scherwitzl and Dr Elina Berglund, the top
IGF, the leading commercial finance provider for SMEs, has reported a 180 per cent increase in funds out year-on-year in the first half of 2017, with a total of GBP53 million invested in businesses across the UK.
The sales volume within IGF’s clients was 87 per cent higher in H1 2017 than in the same period last year, and the average funds in use per client has increased by 120 per cent.
The increases come from sales growth and acquisition of new clients. A total of 49 new businesses were funded with invoice finance and asset based lending over
Crux Informatics has closed a USD10 million Series A financing, led by Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) and other institutional investors.
Crux helps companies reduce the effort and money spent acquiring, exploring and processing large amounts of data. The company implements and operates the data processing pipelines they create for their customers’ unique requirements. Crux says its clients can find actionable insights faster and easier.
“The emergence of unstructured data as an important input into the investment process creates a great opportunity for financial institutions, but only if actionable insights can be extrapolated from it,” says Darren Cohen, global
Capzanine, an independent European company specialised in private investment, is selling its stake in Taliance, following the latter’s reorganisation of its capital and its reacquisition by management.
Taliance creates, develops and distributes the first software solution for modelling alternative investment portfolios, combining the flexibility and the security that these specific assets require. Taliance helps GPs, LPs, pension funds, investors or investment managers to optimise the performance of their international alternative investment portfolios in sixteen countries.
Based in Paris, London and New York, Taliance employs 30 staff and generates annual sales of around EUR6 million. Taliance works principally for Generali,
Alpha Private Equity Fund 7 has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Waterland and its co- shareholders for the acquisition of 100 per cent of the share capital of IPCOM.
Founded by Waterland in 2010 and headquartered in Belgium, IPCOM is the leading European insulation solutions provider with sales of circa EUR285 million. The Group serves a large and diverse loyal customer base of installers, international contractors, wholesalers and OEMs. IPCOM delivers its products and solutions through a network of 50 outlets across the Benelux, the DACH region, Ireland and Scandinavia.
The new shareholders will continue to support
Catapult Ventures has appointed Chris Spencer as a Venture Partner with the firm’s GM&C Life Sciences Fund.
Spencer, who becomes the Fund’s fourth Venture Partner, will assess investment opportunities and work with the Fund’s smaller investments to help companies successfully grow, with a particular focus on digital health.
Catapult CEO, Nick Wright, says: “I am delighted to welcome Chris to Catapult as a Venture Partner specialising in digital health. Chris has been working with Catapult as our Digital Health Advisor for several months and his insights were invaluable during our investment in Gendius in September this year. Digital convergence
Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Investments, has acquired WightFibre and will invest a further GBP35 million to fund the expansion of the company’s infrastructure with a full-fibre, ultrafast broadband network across the Isle of Wight.
This is the first investment by Digital Infrastructure Investment Partners, a platform launched by Infracapital and Cameron Barney to invest in full-fibre broadband infrastructure in the UK, supported by funds from HM Treasury. The investment is being made jointly with Infracapital’s Greenfield strategy.
WightFibre is the first company in the country to receive investment from the government’s Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund,
OFI SteelPath, an OppenheimerFunds company, has launched the Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP & Energy Infrastructure Fund, which will primarily invest in the equity securities of North American midstream energy infrastructure companies while adhering to a 25 per cent limit on master limited partnership (MLP) holdings.
The Fund will focus on US and Canadian energy infrastructure companies with a 40 per cent limit on non-US holdings. Further, the Fund may invest up to 20 per cent in the fixed-income securities of energy infrastructure operators.
Stuart Cartner and Bob Coble will act as portfolio managers for the Fund.
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Pomanda PRO, an online platform which allows advisers and investors to evaluate business opportunities, connect discreetly with business owners and source mandates they would otherwise struggle to reach, has now launched.
The platform links investors and professional advisers with business owners who are looking for investment, providing the tools to produce company valuations in a confidential environment.
Richard Bland, CEO, Pomanda, says: “The concept for Pomanda PRO evolved from the genuine need amongst investors and professional advisers to find a more progressive, transparent path to serious business owners who are at the right stage in their company’s evolution. Reaching
qodeo, a company that monitors the global venture ecosystem, and is rolling out the first global service that automatically matches best fit investors with entrepreneurs, has announced a crowdfunding campaign on crowdfunding platform Seedrs.
Qodeo is raising funds to roll out its next generation global venture matching service, which aims to revolutionise the global funding landscape.
Qodeo has already raised half of its total funding target for this round of GBP500,000, from follow on investments by many of its 23 existing angel investors, plus new investors, including Christopher Clement Davies, formerly Director at S G Warburg and partner at
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