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Carbon-neutral fulfilment and warehouse provider Airbox has secured a £3 million investment from the independent asset manager BOOST&Co to expand operations and grow its customer base.
The funding will be used to purchase a new 87,000 sq ft warehouse in Leighton Buzzard, which will significantly increase Airbox’s overall storage capacity from 45,000 sq ft to 222,000 sq ft, enabling the firm to support many more customers and brand owners with their fulfilment needs. Additionally, the new facility will create up to 200 new jobs in the local area.
Green Rock Energy Partners (Green Rock), a sustainable infrastructure focused private equity firm which invests in renewable energy companies and projects, has appointed Christine Gabbianelli as principal, head of investor relations.
Gabbianelli brings more than a decade of private equity and financial services experience to the firm, complemented by her previous experience in the industrial products industry. She joins Green Rock from Fairview Capital Group, a global, independent secondary advisory firm focused on GP-led liquidity solutions, where she was a founding member and Principal of Investor Relations.
Investment management platform-as-a-service Quay Partners Investments (Quay) has added Joe Vittoria and Sarah Donnelly to its team to provide a new regulatory hosting service.
The independent, standalone solution for new clients will operate under the trading name of Vittoria and Partners (V&P) and will support the compliance and risk oversight that current clients experience and provide scale to further grow the regulatory hosting business, including clients who solely require regulatory services.
This partnership is structured to ensure long-term client relationships are maintained and strengthened while allowing for strategic evolution as the two parties become more familiar with each other.
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Stable, the ‘home of hedging’ for the $5 trillion agricultural commodity industry, has closed a $60 million Series B investment led by Acrew.
FFL Partners (FFL), a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, has held the final closing of FFL Capital Partners V, and related vehicles , with over $900 million in total capital commitments.
FFL closed the oversubscribed Fund V well above its $750 million target, raising the firm’s total AUM to $5.4 billion.
This is the first fund raised since Cas Schneller and Chris Harris were named Managing Partners of the firm.
Similar to FFL’s prior funds, Fund V will continue to make equity investments ranging from $50 million to $200 million in control or significant
Upflex – a global provider of hybrid workspace solutions – has closed a $30 million Series A round led by WeWork with participation from notable strategic investors Newmark and Cushman & Wakefield.
Returning investor Ecosystem Integrity Fund, and top venture funds including GPO Fund, Coelius Capital, Industry Ventures, Inertia Ventures, Perennial Private Investments, and Silicon Valley Bank also participated in the round.
This brings Upflex’s total funds raised to-date to $34.1 million.
Upflex will utilise this capital infusion to further accelerate its core mission of creating a multi-faceted technology standard that connects occupiers, brokerage firms and flex space partners
Real estate private equity firm Madison International Realty has invested in the recapitalisation of Cologix, one of North America’s leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data centre companies.
Babel Finance, a wholesale crypto financial services provider, has completed an $80 million Series B financing round at a valuation of $2 billion.
The main investors in this round include Jeneration Capital and 10T Holdings, as well as existing shareholders Dragonfly Capital and BAI Capital. Other investors include Circle Ventures and a number of family offices in the Asia-Pacific region.
Babel Finance is one of the largest service providers to institutions in the crypto financial markets. The company limits its business to BTC, ETH and stablecoins, and serves a select clientele of about 500 customers. At the end of 2021,
Acuity Knowledge Partners’ (Acuity) FolioSure digital platform is transforming portfolio monitoring by enabling the accurate tracking and comparison of portfolio company performance.
FolioSure can be fully integrated into existing tech stacks and processes enabling private equity and venture capital (PE&VC) firms to take full control of their portfolios’ lifecycles.
FolioSure has multiple features, including a built-in cash flow engine to calculate gross and net total value to paid-in capital and the internal rate of return using fund cash flow, industry benchmarking for portfolio companies, foreign currency conversion and completely configurable reporting templates for limited partner reporting.
TARGAN (formerly Applied LifeSciences & Systems (ALSS)) has secured $35 million in a Series C equity funding round co-led by Mountain Group Partners and NovaQuest Capital Management.
Existing investors Merck Animal Health and Oval Park Capital also participated in the round.
TARGAN integrates its proprietary technologies consisting of high-speed imaging, feature recognition, artificial intelligence, robotics, and microfluidics in a system currently developed for the commercial poultry industry.
The Series C investment will allow TARGAN to accelerate the commercialisation of its automated and individualised poultry vaccination and gender identification systems.
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