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The Finance Durham Fund, established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, the business support service for Durham County Council, has invested GBP185,000 in Project Control Tools, as part of a GBP300,000 funding package.
The investment through Finance Durham, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), will provide the business with a relocation package as it expands to open a site in County Durham, as well as allowing the business to invest in its in-house product development to grow its portfolio, and enhance its sales and marketing function.
Project Control Tools delivers intelligent software solutions to enhance
Omaha National Group, a tech-enabled provider of workers’ compensation insurance and payroll services, has raised USD45 million ins a Series B round led by Accomplice.
The company plans to use the funds to support its transition to operating as a direct insurance writer and to continue the expansion of its advanced proprietary software.
Omaha National was founded in 2016 by a team of executives with a track record of building successful workers’ compensation businesses at other carriers, including Berkshire Hathaway. They are combining their established strategic approach with new proprietary technology to provide care and support to injured workers while
Heydoc, an integrated clinical operating system and electronic health record (EHR), has closed a USD8.3 million Series A round led by Smedvig Capital with existing investors Hambro Perks, Triple Point Ventures and InHealth Ventures also participating. This brings the total amount raised to date by Heydoc to USD12 million.
The new funding will be used for further expansion in the UK healthcare market, where Heydoc is rapidly growing, and to expand its product offering to its existing and new clients. The raise will also allow Heydoc to expand internationally beyond their current nascent international footprint. The bulk of the
Lone Star Analysis, a provider of predictive and prescriptive analytics, and guided artificial intelligence solutions, has secured a new round of investment from HCAP Partners.
“We were pleased HCAP chose to exercise their full purchase option,” says Steve Roemerman, chairman and CEO, Lone Star Analysis. “Since the initial HCAP investment in 2019, we have built a solid working relationship, and the company has roughly doubled in size. We’ve demonstrated our ability to grow and with this new financial strength, we have even more opportunities.”
Principal Nicolas Lopez led the transaction for HCAP Partners along with Managing Partner Tim Bubnack. HCAP’s
ClimateView, a Swedish climate action technology company, has secured EUR10 million in funding to enhance its ClimateOS platform and make it available in additional markets in Europe, North America and beyond.
The funding round was led by CommerzVentures, a specialist fintech investor, and NordicNinja, a Nordic-Japanese venture capital fund. Norrsken, 2050. VC and Gaingles also took part in the round, bringing the company’s total investment to EUR14.5 million.
Launched at the start of 2021, ClimateOS was initially developed by ClimateView for the Swedish government to make their decarbonisation plans publicly available. Now supporting over 30 cities and municipalities across Sweden,
California Tacos is to acquire OnPlate, a mobile app technology company.
California Tacos owns and operates California Tacos Fast-Casual restaurants, Bandito Hot Sauce, and Bag-it-to-go Mobile app technology.
Upon the closing of the transaction, scheduled for 27 October, 2021, California Tacos will merge Bag-it-to go mobile app technology with OnPlate and consolidate all mobile app technologies under the OnPlate technologies brand going forward.
Robert Reynolds, CEO of California Tacos, says: “OnPlate has done an incredible job building their mobile app technology in a user-friendly, practical, and authentic way. We are excited to have OnPlate as our new foundational piece of
BrightPay, a provider of payroll and HR software solutions, and Relate Software (Relate), a specialist in post-accounting, practice management and bookkeeping software, have agreed to join forces to create a software company serving payroll and accounting bureaus and SMEs across the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Paul Byrne, co-founder and CEO of BrightPay, and Ray Rogers, co-founder and CEO of Relate, will remain as significant investors in the combined business and will become co-CEOs. Ross Webster and Richie McMahon, also co-founders of BrightPay and Relate respectively, will also remain as investors and will continue to focus on developing
High-net-worth investors across Europe, Asia, and South America have placed faith in private markets specialists over the last 18 months, as illiquid investment opportunities were seen as a safer bet during the uncertainty of Covid-19.
MDOTM, a European specialist in AI-driven investment strategies, has completed a EUR6.2m Series B fundraising. The funds will accelerate MDOTM’s international expansion, double the size of its teams in London and Milan, and see the company open a new office in the US.
The new funds have been raised from institutional investors, private individuals and leading finance professionals, including Federico Ghizzoni, Chairman of Rothschild Italy and former CEO of UniCredit; Lorenzo Pagani, Managing Director at PIMCO; and Alberto Zaffignani, Managing Director and Head of Global Markets Italy at Natixis. Zaffignani also joins MDOTM as a non-executive board member.
MDOTM was
Preqin has entered a partnership with the Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (IVCA), under eligibility from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), to produce performance benchmarks for alternative investment funds (AIFs) as an official benchmarking agency.
AIFs in India – classified as CAT I, II or III – operate across a wide range of asset classes including private equity & venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt, and hedge funds. With a total of more than 730 such funds currently, they represent a part of the alternative investments ecosystem that is growing and becoming increasingly important
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