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Browne Jacobson’s national private equity team has advised North West based Access Creative College (ACC) on its Apiary-backed acquisition of the sound and music institute, dBS for an undisclosed consideration.
Swapi, a brand-new loyalty e-wallet platform, has closed its latest funding round at GBP860k ahead of its launch this October.
This new injection of funds will help bring the app to market, while ensuring a strong customer experience as well as providing the means to expand the Swapi’s growing team. Swapi has today announced the appointment of Carolina Paradas-Mandato, previously Global Senior Affiliates & CLO Manager at Harvey Nichols, as its new Head of Strategic Partnerships. Carolina will be in charge of expanding Swapi into new and exciting international territories as well as handling all affiliate relationships with the 100-plus
Funds affiliated to Lightyear Capital (Lightyear) have agreed to acquire assets from and partner with Schellman & Company (Schellman) in forming a new venture that will set the standard for the delivery of information technology and cybersecurity compliance services.
Going forward, Schellman, a licensed CPA firm, will provide attest services, and Schellman Compliance, LLC, a newly formed entity, will provide non-attest services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2002, Schellman is a leader in the information technology and cybersecurity compliance space and currently ranks as the 65th largest CPA firm in the United States. Schellman has
Unigestion has led in the buyout of Home Instead Holding (Home Instead), a provider of home care services across Europe.
As part of the sale of Home Instead, Unigestion as lead investor has invested in the company, alongside the founder of Home Instead, Paul Fritz, who, together with Verium, continues to hold a majority stake in the company. With Unigestion’s investment, the shareholder base of Home Instead has been supplemented with an experienced institutional investor to support the successful implementation of the company’s ambitious growth plans.
Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of home care services, predominantly for the
Tyk, a London-based global tech company, has closed a USD35M growth equity funding round led by new investors Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), alongside existing investors MMC Ventures.
Tyk’s innovative API management solution helps to build mission-critical systems in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government. It is used by some of the world’s largest enterprises such as Societe Generale, Starbucks and Domino’s.
With businesses reinventing the way they work, software is now built across multiple clouds, locations, and teams. APIs are the backbone of this, and Tyk’s technology enables modern engineering teams to monitor, secure and manage
MyTutor, a UK-based trusted tutoring platform and a provider of in-school tuition in last year’s Government-backed National Tuition Programme, has raised GBP15 million in a funding round led by SEEK Investments, with support from existing investors including Mobeus Equity Partners.
The leading online tutor’s mission is to provide life changing tuition for all, regardless of background, and is unique in its offering by supporting both disadvantaged students through its schools programme and private tuition partnering directly with parents. With their base of 20,000 tutors they’ve supported over 1,000 Secondary Schools, hundreds of thousands of parents, and delivered over 2 million
AIM-listed Falanx Group (AIM:FLX), a global intelligence, security and cyber defence provider, has secured a substantial investment that will enable the Reading-based firm to strengthen its core cyber division, in addition to supporting its plans for organic growth. An initial GBP1 million growth loan from the alternative lender BOOST&Co is expected to rise to GBP2.5 million.
The business has a long track record of providing organisations with comprehensive cyber defence, intelligence and technology to deliver targeted threat prevention. With businesses subject to increasing cyber security and geopolitical threats, Falanx offers specialist services in areas around cyber security monitoring, cyber security
THG Ingenuity, the technology division of THG, has invested GBP1.4 million to acquire a minority stake in Civo, cloud native service provider.
Civo’s developer-focused Kubernetes platform will strengthen and accelerate development of the technology stack that underpins THG Ingenuity, its cutting-edge proprietary technology platform.
The deal is THG Ingenuity’s first strategic investment since it announced in May 2021 that Softbank Group had invested USD730 million in THG with an option for a further USD1.6 billion investment in THG Ingenuity, THG’s cutting-edge proprietary technology platform.
The funding comes at an important phase of growth for Civo as it creates
GigaIO, a creator of data centre rack-scale architecture for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, has completed a Series B round of funding totalling USD14.7 million.
Impact Venture Capital led the funding round, which was oversubscribed by 50 per cent and included participation from Mark IV Capital, Lagomaj Capital, SK Hynix, and Four Palms Ventures.
GigaIO has fundamentally changed the HPC and AI landscape by creating the world’s only enterprise-class, universal composable fabric―an open standards solution with limitless flexibility, cloudlike agility, and an added layer of security. This enables faster time to achieve results as workloads run as
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a GBP1.75 million growth capital investment into Previsico Limited (Previsico), developers of an accurate flood forecasting and warning system.
The investment is jointly funded by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and Foresight Williams Technology and will enable the Loughborough University spin-out to further develop the Previsico platform, allowing it to be used in more cities, and support the creation of new jobs in Loughborough. The aim is to increase the headcount from 17 to 70 by 2024.
Flooding is currently one of the most damaging natural
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