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AdTonos, which successfully monetises gaming, podcasts, audiobooks, music and radio streams for over 1000 recognised publishers across the UK, EU, LATAM and the US, has closed a seed funding round of $2 million, which is slightly more than the company’s monthly sales, from BlackSheep Fund and ProtosNext, among other investors.
This financing is a mid-step for a planned Series A round by late 2023. Current company plans include further development of their platform including new products for podcast and mobile games monetisation.
AdTonos also intends to improve its presence in existing markets, and expand into new geographic markets, including the
Global dealmaking by private equity funds has collapsed in the first half of 2022 as banks have pulled back financing in a risk-off environment.
SeatGeek has raised $238 million as part of a Series E financing round led by long-time investor Accel, with participation from Wellington Management, Arctos Sports Partners, and Ryan Smith, founder and executive chairman of Qualtrics and founder of Smith Entertainment Group (SEG) which includes the Utah Jazz.
Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has provided Real Drinks Group Ltd with a substantial funding facility to support its growth and future expansion. The funds provide working capital to sign on new customers and expand the variety of branded and supermarket own-brand drinks it supplies.
Founded in 2005 by Nick Dolan, the Middlesex-based company works with breweries, spirits producers, pre-mixed drinks businesses and vineyards to champion independent brands and share the best quality products available with consumers. Real Drinks Group supplies major UK supermarkets such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and M&S, as well as convenience stores including Nisa and One Stop.
Northern Gritstone, a university spin-out investment business based in the north of England, has appointed Alison Maughan as investment manager.
Maughan joins Northern Gritstone’s growing investment team, led by chief investment officer, Marion Bernard, who joined the company in January. She joins after nearly four years at Deepbridge Capital specialising in life sciences and will bring deep experience and expertise in this area to the team. Her appointment follows that of Mark Wyatt, who joined Northern Gritstone as Investment Director earlier this month from Mercia Asset Management.
Launched in July 2021 by the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield and
Ebury, a global provider of transaction payment solutions, is increasing its presence in the alternative investment sector to meet growing demand for better, more focused services as an alternative to traditional banking providers.
White Oak Global Advisors (WOGA) provided over $1 billion in loans across all platforms between 1 January and 30 June, 2022. The total dollar amount provided by the global alternative asset manager accounts for 45 separate transactions to middle and small middle market businesses across a wide array of industries.
The first half of 2022 saw traditional bank lenders increasingly distancing themselves from credit risk in a rising rate environment and closing their doors to prospective borrowers.
White Oak has died to stand out as a non-bank lender by offering highly tailored and flexible solutions underwritten by experts in borrowers’ respective industries.
VRGL, a provider of institutional-grade analytics and automated data extraction to the wealth management industry, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by MissionOG and FINTOP Capital. Founding investors Sallyport Investments and Checchi Capital also participated.
The round also included investments from other venture firms and strategic partners including Dynasty Financial Partners, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Flyover Capital, Fin Capital, and The Compound Capital.
VRGL is led by co-founders Josh Smith, CEO, and Josh Zimmerman, COO, both of whom have a proven track record developing multi-asset class analytics and SaaS-based platforms. Smith was the co-founder and CEO
Justhome, a next generation home financing startup, has raised €3.3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Target Global.
APX, the Berlin-based early-stage fund backed by Europe’s leading digital publisher Axel Springer and Porsche also participated in the round, alongside a number of industry-leading angel investors.
Launched this year to simplify what can be a confusing and intimidating homebuying process, Justhome is building a digital service to help more people afford a home against a challenging economic backdrop.
The funding will be used to further build out Justhome’s digital home financing platform and develop its own financing
Stafford Capital Partners (Stafford) has held the final close of Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund IV (SISF IV) with the €731 million in commitments from 33 investors across 13 countries, making it the firm’s largest fund to date.
Alongside these commitments, Stafford raised an additional £100 milion managed account for geographically focussed infrastructure secondary transactions.
With 13 closed transactions and a further three in exclusivity, Stafford expects to have committed 75% of capital commitments to the fund in Q4 2022. Following the closing of this fund, Stafford now has $1.7 billion in infrastructure assets under management.
SISF IV is
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