TechInsights, an Oakley Capital (Oakley) and CVC Growth Partners portfolio company, has acquired Strategy Analytics, a leading supplier of syndicated research across the global consumer technology sector. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with a significant presence in Europe, Strategy Analytics supplies syndicated research across the global consumer technology sector, providing the deepest wireless and automotive coverage in the market. TechInsights and Strategy Analytics enjoy highly complementary content and customers as well as high proportions of recurring revenues. Integrating Strategy Analytics’ content into TechInsights’ platform will strengthen the business’s market position as the go-to information provider for the semiconductor sector, while also

3173 Limited has secured an investment into its group of businesses in the pensions industry that includes Dalriada Trustees Limited, Mantle Hosting Limited, and Spence & Partners Limited, from Synova. The funding will be used to consolidate the group’s existing market-leading positions in pension scheme trustee services, unique pensions software, consultancy, administration, governance, actuarial and investment services and facilitate the next phase of the group’s growth in an increasingly competitive pensions and financial technology industry.

Swave Photonics, a specialist in holographic extended reality (HXR) technology to bring the metaverse to life, has raised €7 million in a seed funding round co-led by Imec.xpand, a value-add venture capital fund focused on nanotechnology innovations, and Flanders Future Techfund (FFTF), a Belgian/Flemish public investment fund. QBIC, a Belgian inter-university venture capital fund, is also participating.  The investment will be used to fund the commercialisation of truly realistic, immersive 3D HXR gigapixel technology for a wide range of emerging applications. The demand for eXtended Reality (XR) technology that enhances or replaces our view of the world is exploding with

Speechmatics, a speech recognition technology scaleup, has raised $62 million in a Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity with participation from existing investors AlbionVC and IQ Capital. The funding will be used to support Speechmatics’ vision to be a world-leading speech platform, understanding every voice with human-level accuracy. Speechmatics is headquartered in Cambridge, UK with offices in London, Boston, USA, Chennai, India and Brno, in the Czech Republic. The investment will be used to support global expansion across the United States and Asia-Pacific, improving infrastructure – particularly data centre capacity and adding further firepower to its research

Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), a New York-based middle-market private equity firm, has led the Series B financing of Code-X, a security software company that protects sensitive information and systems using its proprietary lattice-based technology. Code-X has developed the first-ever commercially available lattice-based data protection platform that protects data, at rest and in motion, from the threat of quantum computing. The platform protects sensitive information across all IT environments while enabling authentication, management and monitoring data and systems in real time. Code-X’s platform is relied upon by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the intelligence community. The Series B funding

The executive team of Safic-Alcan, together with existing private equity funds partners EMZ partners, Sagard and Société Générale Capital Partenaires, have started a new project. All three historical partners will continue to invest alongside the management with three new private equity funds – Equistone, IK Partners and GENEO Capital Entrepreneur – also taking a enormity stake in the new project   Safic-Alcan, a French independent distributor of specialty chemicals headquartered in Paris La Défense (France) and developer of a wide range of polymers, materials and additives for the rubber, coatings, adhesives, thermoplastics, polyurethane, lubricants, detergency, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals industries,