Westbridge portfolio company APEM Group has completed its biggest acquisition to-date and its third in under a year. The Manchester-headquartered environmental consultancy has acquired GoBe Consultants, a planning and environmental services consultancy with offices in Devon and Glasgow.  The transaction follows APEM Group’s acquisition of Woodrow in July 2021 and AQUAFACT earlier this year. GoBe provides consultancy services to developers of offshore wind and other nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) as they navigate the consent process.   As part of this transaction, APEM Group secured a £25 million refinance from Virgin Money (formerly CYBG PLC) to refinance existing facilities and

Global growth equity investor Verlinvest has partnered with Sinomedica, a Swiss group of acupuncture centres. Sinomedica is pioneering a science-based approach to medical acupuncture that enables a range of treatments and applications, including to tackle obesity. This investment from Verlinvest will help Sinomedica to accelerate growth in its existing home market of Switzerland and into new European markets, as it capitalises on increasing interest in the acupuncture field.

Satori Capital, a Texas-based multi-strategy investment firm, has invested in Redbud Brands, an Austin-based company focused on creating, incubating, and commercialising “better-for-you” consumer packaged goods. As consumers continue to show an increasing preference for healthier and more beneficial products, Redbud identifies ideas that meet the “better-for-you” criteria in the food and beverage, health and wellness, beauty and personal care, and pet sectors, and pursues those that it believes can evolve into transformative, valuable, and sustainable market leaders. Unlike many traditional venture capital funds, Redbud provides its portfolio companies with a shared services infrastructure and offers guidance through critical early-stage milestones,

Web hosting business Miss Group has completed its second acquisition in May – US-based web hosting provider and WordPress specialist CloudAccess from Cloud Equity Group. Headquartered in Michigan, USA, CloudAccess was founded in 2008 and offers comprehensive hosting and support platform services, specialising in WordPress and Joomla content management systems.   CloudAccess currently hosts over 20,000 websites and services over 4,000 customers, primarily located in the USA, across a range of sectors including education, healthcare, non-profit, and governmental institutions. The business will add-on to Seravo – a premium hosting and WordPress provider within Miss Group that’s listed as the world’s

Roadgas, a Nottingham-based supplier of renewable gas refuelling stations, has secured funding from MEIF Maven Debt Finance, part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven). The business designs, manufactures, installs and maintains liquefied and compressed renewable gas refuelling stations, and will use the funding for the installation of dedicated refuelling stations across the UK. Established in 2007, Roadgas works with several fleet operators, including Nottingham City Transport, which owns and operates a fleet of 167 biogas double-decker buses as part of its campaign and commitment to improved air quality.

Liminal, a wallet operations infrastructure that secures digital assets in a simple and efficient way, has raised $4.7 million in its seed funding round led by Elevation Capital. The round also saw participation from prominent investors like LD Capital, Woodstock, Nexus Ventures, and crypto ventures like CoinDCX, Hashed, Cadenza Ventures, Vauld, Better Capital, and Sparrow Capital. There are also marquee angel investors like Andreas Antonopoulos, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Jaynti Kanani, Ajeet Khurana, amongst others. Liminal is the first wallet architecture to provide the MPC and MultiSig to secure digital assets across different blockchains.