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Inflexion has made a number of promotions in its 120-strong team, following a highly successful first half of 2022, which has seen company invest in seven businesses with a combined value of £1.8 billion, agree the divestments of seven businesses with a combined value of £2.4 billion and raise its largest fund to date with Buyout Fund VI which closed at £2.5 billion in March.
Andrew Stevens and George Collier have been promoted to partner. As General Counsel Stevens is responsible for Inflexion’s corporate legal, governance and compliance activities. Collier focuses on firm strategy, is heavily involved in Inflexion’s capital
UK M&A professionals are optimistic about deal activity and expect it to increase over the next 12 months despite foreseeing a reduction in multiples, even as inflation increases are priced into models, according to a new survey from Datasite.
When it comes to deal types, most UK M&A professionals surveyed expect to see the biggest increase in debt financing (50%) and transformational acquisitions or mergers (43%). Additionally, most UK dealmakers (75%) are pricing at least a 5-7% increase in inflation, if not higher, into their financial valuation models for the rest of the year.
Uncertain valuations, inflation and
Vibrant, a Danish app that turns Android mobile devices into points of sale, has raised a €4 million seed round led by byFounders, with Luminar Ventures also participating.
Vibrant’s mission is to make monetary merchant-customer transactions easier and more accessible than ever before. Vibrant can be downloaded instantly for use with Android devices (which are both affordable and constitute 80% of all mobiles in Europe according to the European Commission).
Having co-founded Vibrant in Copenhagen in 2020, Kasper Krog (CEO) and Kåre Sørensen (CPO) have built a multi-national team of 25 employees. The startup, whose transactions are currently increasing 70%
Afrikamart, a West African agritech start-up has closed a $850,000 seed round of financing from venture capital groups including the BLOC Smart Africa fund managed by Bamboo Capital Partners, Orange Digital Ventures, Launch Africa and Teranga Capital.
The proceeds from the financing will allow the company to ramp-up its purchases from smallholder farmers across the country and efficiently manage the logistics and last mile delivery of 14 fresh types of vegetables directly to street vendors and small retailers, restaurants and hotels in Dakar and Mbour.
Afrikamart’s end-to-end solution allows a formalisation of the fresh food value chain and the empowerment
Permira Credit, one of Europe’s leading alternative credit providers, has appointed Ian Jackson as head of its new Permira Strategic Opportunities (PSO) strategy.
Jackson, who joins Permira Credit on 1 July 2022, brings over 25 years of experience in private credit, with a proven track record of advising on special situations investment opportunities. He joins Permira Credit from Carlyle, which he joined in 2009, and was most recently a managing director and head of Carlyle Strategic Partners.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Jackson was a senior research analyst with Deutsche Bank’s European Distressed and Special Situations Group, investing across the capital
Black Swan Data – a data science and consumer behaviour prediction company – has closed an $18.5 million growth fundraise led by Oxx, a venture capital firm that backs Europe’s most promising B2B SaaS companies, with participation from existing investor AlbionVC.
The funding will be invested in developing more advanced features and capabilities in Trendscope, Black Swan’s core software platform, and continuing expansion in the US market.
By predicting consumer needs and trends with 89% accuracy rating more than six months into the future, Trendscope enables CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies to develop more relevant innovation ideas and improve their
US middle-market private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners has sold Mercury Healthcare, a technology and data analytics company, to WebMD Health Corp, an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The combination of WebMD and Mercury Healthcare will help transform the patient experience by supporting more efficient and effective communication with patients and caregivers.
Trinsic, the leading infrastructure for building user-controlled identity products, has secured $8.5 million in a seed funding round led by Georgian.
Jon Gelsey (Founding CEO, Auth0), Frederic Kerrest (Executive Vice Chairman, Co-founder & COO, Okta), Kickstart Seed Fund, Founder’s Co-op, Osage Venture Partners, Forward VC, and a dozen additional angel investors also participated.
The round is the largest of its kind in the decentralised identity category to date.
Dozens of banks, insurance companies, automobile brands, governments, and startups are building user-controlled identity products on Trinsic’s platform.
Trinsic plans to use this new capital to expand its team and accelerate its
SFC Capital, one of the UK’s most active seed-stage investors, has received a further £5 million commitment from British Business Investments to invest into innovative early-stage businesses across the UK regions.
This new commitment – part of its Regional Angels Programme, designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early-stage equity finance for smaller businesses across the UK – follows an initial £10 million commitment from British Business Investments made in 2020, which is now fully deployed.
The commitment is managed by SFC Capital and invested alongside its SEIS and EIS funds as well as the SFC Angel Network. In total,
The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has made a non-control investment in Apollo Interactive (Apollo).
Founded in 1995, Apollo is a tech-enabled lead generation provider that delivers its customers leads of high-intent consumers who are actively searching online for insurance or mortgage products.
The investment was made out of Riverside’s Strategic Capital Fund (RSCF).
Apollo uses its proprietary, custom-built technology platform to automate the lead generation process, serving clients that include leading insurance brokers, insurance carriers, mortgage lenders and lead aggregators across several industry verticals such as Medicare, under-65
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