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BGF has bolstered its presence in the North East with the appointment of John Healey as an investor.
Healey joins BGF from business advisory firm, UNW, where he has spent the last eight years advising on a number of high-profile acquisition, disposal and fundraising transactions across the North East. Prior to this, he worked with the Coutts commercial banking team, before spending a decade at PwC specialising in corporate finance.
With an established network, Healey has a strong track record in the region and will utilise that experience and expertise to forge relationships with those regional businesses going for growth.
Scintil Photonics, a supplier of advanced silicon photonic integrated circuits with monolithically integrated lasers and optical amplifiers, has secured €13.5 million ($14.4m) in second round funding.
Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC) led the round, with historic shareholders Supernova Invest, Innovacom and Bpifrance, through its Digital Venture fund, reinvesting to bring the company’s total funding to €17.5 million ($18.8m), to date.
Scintil Photonics’ optical communications aim to significantly enhance traditional high-speed system and chip interconnections. The company’s Augmented Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (IC) product is a single-chip solution consisting of active and passive components, all made entirely from standard silicon
Platform.sh, a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running and scaling web applications, has raised $140 million in a Series D funding led by Munich-based Digital+Partners, San Francisco-based Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, and Paris-based Revaia.
UK-based healthtech company Psyomics has closed a £2.4 million funding round led by Parkwalk, a UK investor in the university spin-out sector.
Meltwind and other investors also participated, along with new investment from Newable Ventures.
Psyomics was spun-out from the University of Cambridge with a mission to develop technology to support earlier and improved mental health diagnosis and treatment management. With significant pressure on the NHS and other resources in recent years, there’s been a greater need for solutions when it comes to mental health, to ensure that people get the support they need, when they need it.
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OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI), a specialist decarbonisation investor, has invested in Turntide Technologies (Turntide), a developer of electrification and sustainable operations technologies.
The investment formed part of a $80 million round of equity funding, valuing the company over $1 billion, which makes it one of a handful of climate tech firms to achieve unicorn status in the first half of 2022.
Headquartered in California, Turntide produces an integrated hardware and software electric motor product that enables electrification and improves energy efficiency in commercial, industrial and mobility applications. Improving the efficiency of electric motors, currently the single biggest consumer
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has made a significant investment in Blis, a global programmatic advertising company, to support its international growth plans.
Blis is an audience-first platform that doesn’t rely on personal data. As an integrated media planning and buying platform, Blis builds audiences using accurate, consented location data combined with a broad range of rich and powerful anonymised datasets. It has an international team of more than 240 people working for some of the world’s largest and most customer-driven companies. The award-winning company has grown rapidly over the last five years, with revenues rising to c£60 million this
Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has invested in Lisam Systems, a global provider of Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) compliance management software solutions and services, with a local presence in over 20 countries.
Headquartered in Belgium, Lisam Systems serves more than 2,000 clients operating across various industries worldwide, including chemicals, detergents, paints and coatings, industrial and specialty gases, and fragrances.
Lisam offers a wide range of mission-critical software solutions, including notably a software suite to author, manage, and distribute GHS[2]-compliant Safety Data Sheets for chemicals in 55+ languages. In addition, the Company
Echobot, a provider of European sales intelligence, and Leadfeeder, a best-in-class web visitor intelligence platform, are to merge, creating an AI-powered sales intelligence and go-to-market platform.
Great Hill Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has invested €180 million to support the merger and help the newly formed company drive continued product innovation, scale go-to-market capabilities, and accelerate growth. Great Hill also committed an additional €50 million for the combined company to pursue strategic acquisitions.
The newly formed group will be led by Echobot CEO Bastian Karweg (BK) and Leadfeeder CEO Pekka Koskinen, headquartered
GIC and APG will acquire a substantial stake in The Student Hotel (TSH) and commit to invest to fuel further expansion for the hybrid hospitality leader, subject to customary regulatory approvals.
The transaction values TSH, including assets currently under development, at €2.1 billion.
The deal sees APG and founder Charlie MacGregor increase their current stake in TSH. APG first invested in TSH in 2015. MacGregor and Aermont Capital entered into business in 2014 after MacGregor opened the first The Student Hotel in 2012. GIC now joins as a new investor.
TSH is well-positioned towards Millennial and Gen-Z audiences, with its
Sonrai Analytics, an emerging global innovator in AI Cloud Data Analytics, has raised a ‘seed plus’ funding round of £2.175 million to accelerate the global adoption of its technology.
The investment will help Sonrai reach more companies globally to translate precision medicine’s complex multi-omics data into real insights leading to better-personalised treatments for patients.
The funding round was led by venture capital firm Forward Partners. Existing institutional investors Techstart Ventures, Co-Fund NI (managed by Clarendon Fund Managers), QUBIS, and Angel Investors also participated in the round.
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