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European special situations investor North Wall Capital has appointed Jonas Frantz as Head of the Investor Partnerships group.
Frantz will be responsible for building and maintaining long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with the firm’s investor base. His responsibilities will include capital raising, marketing and business development, in addition to the development and growth of the Investor Partnerships team.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has expanded its portfolio team with two senior appointments.
LDC’s portfolio team works alongside the management teams of its portfolio businesses. It provides them with advice and expertise to support them to grow their businesses, navigate challenges and unlock new opportunities.
Tracy Bownes joins the team as a partner. With a passion for helping businesses to achieve commercial excellence, she brings over 20 years’ experience supporting management teams across a wide range of sectors to grow their businesses.
In addition, LDC partner Rob Schofield will be moving into the portfolio team after 11 years
Velocity Global, a provider of global talent solutions, has raised $400 million in a Series B funding round, led by Eldridge and Norwest Venture Partners, increasing the company’s valuation seven-fold since the same time last year.
Eldridge and Norwest join Series A investor FFL Partners on Velocity Global’s board. The company retains majority ownership and founder Ben Wright continues as CEO and chair of the board of directors.
Velocity Global will use the funds to make further strategic investments in technology, sales and marketing, as well as potential future acquisitions to execute on its vision to provide a frictionless
Troob Capital Management (TCM), a private investment firm specialising in providing capital solutions to entities in underserved market segments, has closed its TCM Tactical Opportunities (TCM Tac Opps) Fund II LP at $209 million.
TCM Tac Opps Fund II offers an unconstrained approach for providing access to debt or equity capital to companies with liquidity needs up to $20 million. Fund II builds on its first fund which closed in 2019 and has since sourced and executed on a broad array of differentiated opportunities based on an investment mandate designed to listen to companies’ needs and provide flexible and tailored
Seraphim Space Camp, a VC-led accelerator for global startups in the spacetech industry, has announced the startups taking part in Mission 9.
Seraphim Space Camp is an 11-week programme that supports SpaceTech companies from inception to IPO. The latest cohort from the team behind the world’s leading space fund, features seven new startups, all of which are looking to develop key relationships with some of the world’s leading space corporates and agencies, and get themselves investment ready.
Mission 9’s cohort includes companies specialising in areas such as smart glove technology for space suits, next-generation Orbital Transfer Vehicles, data-driven solutions
Data protection specialist Seclore has closed a $27 million Series C funding round led by Chicago-based Origami Capital Partners and Salt Lake City-based Oquirrh Ventures.
The growth capital will help Seclore fast-track its journey to become the platform of choice for enterprise data protection initiatives.
The funding round brings the total raised to date to $46 million. With big government and defence agencies and more than 500 global enterprises, including American Express, Applied Materials, ADM, Saudi Telecom, and ICICI group as its customers, Seclore has established a leadership position in the data-centric security space.
Oxford Drug Design Limited (ODD), a biotechnology company with a proprietary computational and machine learning platform, has raised £2.2 million in funding from existing investors ACF Investors, o2h Ventures, Meltwind Advisory, a number of returning angels and new investors and the US-based R42 Group.
This round brings the firm’s total amount of grant and equity funding to over £10 million.
A spinout of Oxford University, ODD has been at the forefront of computer-aided drug design with its dual-track AI proprietary platform for drug discovery.
This growth capital will enable ODD to further its drug research and discovery starting with a
Cyscale, a graph-based, cloud security analysis company, has completedi a €3 million funding round led by Notion Capital.
Seedcamp, GapMinder, Micha Hernandez van Leuffen – previously founder of Wercker and now Fiberplane and NP-Hard Ventures – and David Mytton, founder of Console.dev and Server Density, also participated in the round.
Founded in Romania in 2019, Cyscale raised €350,000 on SeedBlink in 2021, ensuring sufficient working capital for 12 months for a small team.
N3TWORK Studios, a developer and publisher of blockchain games, made up of veteran game developers, has closed $46 million in a Series A financing round led by Griffin Gaming Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Galaxy Interactive, KIP, Floodgate, LLL Capital, and N3TWORK, Inc.
As part of the financing, Griffin Gaming Partners’ Peter Levin will join the Board of Directors. The funding will help further the development and launch of the studio’s first two web3 titles, Legendary: Heroes Unchained and Triumph.
N3TWORK Studios was formed in January 2022 from the games team of N3TWORK Inc, after Forte’s acquisition of the
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