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Stafford Capital Partners (Stafford), an international private markets investment and advisory group, has invested approximately EUR100 million through a secondary transaction in DIF Capital Partners’ (DIF) fifth flagship infrastructure fund, DIF Infrastructure V.
Stafford acquired the investment from a single UK corporate pension scheme. The pension scheme sold the stake following a change in strategy that has seen it exit several fund holdings across its private markets portfolio in recent years.
The investment marks the first LP secondary to be completed in the 2017-vintage infrastructure fund and sees Stafford acquire a position as the fund reaches fully invested status with
how.fm, a SaaS training platform enabling warehouse operators to onboard, upskill, and support their operators every day, has raised $5.4 million in a seed funding round led by Join Capital.
Previous investors Kindred Capital and Capnamic Ventures also participated, along with new investors ex-Amazon UK CEO, Christopher North; CEO of Berlin-based logistics service, Forto, Michael Wax; as well as angel investments from Allegro CEO Francois Nuyts and business angel Andrej Henkler.
As part of the fundraise, Join Capital Partner, Jan Borgstädt will also join the how.fm board.
The company will use the funding to recruit across the business, grow its
Sonae IM, a corporate venture capital company from the Sonae Group and a prominent European investor in retail technologies, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies, is rebranding as Bright Pixel Capital (www.brpx.com).
The change comes with a new tagline – ‘Building a Brighter Future Together’ – and the ambition to continue identifying unique and industry-changing opportunities.
Bright Pixel Capital says its new identity conveys modernity and agility while emphasising its values of financial drive, and growth orientation.
Bright Pixel Capital distinguishes itself by creating deep and meaningful relationships with founders, co-investors, and other stakeholders, functioning as an active partner that
Capital provider Bloom Group has secured £300 million in a Series A finding round led Credo Capital Partners and funds managed by Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress), making the company the highest-funded revenue-based lending business in Europe.
Essex-based private investment group, Milbank Ventures, is to fuel its future growth plans with the support of a new funding deal facilitated by FRP Corporate Finance.
Titanbay, a private markets investment platform for sophisticated investors, has successfully closed a Series A funding round, securing the backing of Motive Partners, abrdn and FNZ.
Kapaga, a UK-based cross-border payment platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has secured £1.5m in a seed funding round led by Target Global and with participation from angel investors in the fintech space, Chris Adelsbach, Andreas Mihalovits, and Mark Ransford.
Launched in 2021 by Katya Dorofejeva, Kapaga provides a host of B2B payment services designed to serve this smaller but no-less globalised market of SMEs and start-ups.
Global law firm Shearman & Sterling has appointed Phil Baynes as a funds partner in London.
Baynes has wide-ranging experience advising investment fund managers on the structuring, marketing, fundraising and operation of a wide range of private investment funds –including private equity, infrastructure, real estate and debt funds – co-investment schemes, carried interest arrangements and secondaries transactions.
Baynes joins Shearman & Sterling from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
FluidOne, an invested company of UK mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge, has acquired Marathon Information Technology Services (Marathon), a Microsoft Gold Partner for Cloud Services Management.
The transaction marks FluidOne’s fourth bolt-on during Livingbridge’s tenure following the acquisition of SAS Global Communications in December 2021, a managed SD-WAN network provider with a focus on enterprise customers, the acquisition of PSU Business Technology Limited (PSU) in October 2020, which included skills in IT Managed Services and Unified Communications, and an investment in Cyber Security Associates Ltd (CSA) in November 2020, a dedicated cyber security consultancy and managed services specialist.
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has participated in a £1 million investment into dRISK, an autonomous vehicle (AV) testing and training company.
The investment was led by Foresight Williams Technology (FWT), a joint venture between Foresight and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE).
Founded in 2014, by CEO Chess Stetson, dRISK is an AI company which promises to revolutionise AV efficiency and safety by training AVs to avoid unexpected real-world “edge case” scenarios.
dRISK’s solution exposes AVs to edge cases in a different way and in a fraction of the time. It assembles the evidence of
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