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Coinfirm, the global leader in RegTech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem, has closed its USD8 million Series A funding round.
The company has also appointed Mircea Mihaescu as its new Chief Executive Officer.
The investment will enable Coinfirm to continue its rapid growth trajectory and strengthen its market-leading position in the EU as well as enabling the company to expand its offering to the Asian and US markets. The funding will especially strengthen the firm’s enterprise and financial institution offering, to complement its strong offering for crypto market participants.
The Series A is co-led by SIX Fintech
Growth capital investor BGF has invested GBP8.5 million in Birmingham-headquartered Antser, an innovator in social care.
Antser delivers transformational solutions to the social care, health, and education sectors, in partnership with local authority and independent providers. The investment will allow the company to continue to scale its business within the children’s social care sector, as well as increase its reach across adult social care and the adjacent markets. Antser employs 150 people across four UK offices.
With a presence across all 152 Local Authorities in England, as well as a host of public sector bodies and independent care providers,
Apex Group Ltd has entered into a joint venture with VCP Advisors, a provider of financial, advisory and capital raising services for corporate and fund manager clients.
VCP Advisors works with companies as well as closed-ended and open-ended funds across the private equity, private credit, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and hedge fund asset classes, to provide advisory, capital raising and restructuring services to the institutional and family office investor community.
As part of this strategic partnership, VCP Advisors will re-brand as Apex VCP, enabling clients to benefit from VCP’s impressive track record in alternative asset management advisory, in
JTC, a global professional services business, has acquired Segue Partners (Segue), a fund services provider head-quartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
The initial consideration will be settled in cash and JTC equity. A further consideration is available on the achievement of performance targets in 2022 and 2023.
Michelle Murray, Managing Director and Founder of Segue Partners, created the business in 2010 and has led its successful growth since. Murray is a highly respected financial services professional and entrepreneur with over 28 years’ experience in venture capital and public accounting industries.
Segue differentiates its offering based on quality of service and
Ropes & Gray has advised Bridgepoint, an international private assets fund management group, on its acquisition of Achilles, a global leader and partner of choice for supply chain risk and performance management. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Over the past decade supply chain risk management has increased in complexity due to numerous environmental, social, and economic drivers. Issues such as sustainability, modern slavery and equality, diversity and inclusion, as well the increased risk of sophisticated cyber-attacks have changed the way in which supply chains need to be managed: Achilles’ solutions enable customers to mitigate risk and
EMV Capital (EMVC) invested in Cambridge-based proposed deeptech early-stage investor Martlet Capital, alongside private office Saranac Partners and other investors.
The investment enables Martlet Capital to complete the acquisition of a portfolio of 50-plus minority positions from Marshall Group, including companies in life science, healthcare, cleantech sustainability, industrial and semi-conductor technology. The total targeted investment for Martlet is at GBP22 million, providing Martlet Capital with significant firepower for further follow on and new investment opportunities.
EMV Capital is making a GBP1 million investment into Martlet Capital, and through its ‘capital light’ approach intends to syndicate a part of its initial
Compusoft Group, a global visual CPQ provider, has acquired Access Information Technologies (Access IT), publishers of contractERP — an ERP solution tailored to the window & door and adjacent industries.
The acquisition strengthens Compusoft’s offering to customers in the window & door industry by adding new capability to manage complex business, operational and manufacturing processes. Combined with the existing range of configuration and pricing software, Compusoft will provide an expansive solution for customers to grow and optimise their business from front-end estimation through to back-end financials.
In addition to a wider product offering, the acquisition continues to expand Compusoft’s
CGE Partners (CGE) has invested in ethiXbase, a provider of third-party risk assessment services to corporates, focusing on anti-corruption, human rights, labour, and the environment.
CGE is partnering with Leas Bachatene (CEO), Russell Potter (CFO) and Michelle Knight (Head of Operations) to back the company in its next phase of growth to become the leading global provider of supply chain risk assessment software solutions. CGE will bring significant experience and resource to support ethiXbase’s international expansion, future M&A and new product development initiatives.
Leas Bachatene, CEO of ethiXbase, comments: “ethiXbase’s mission to support organisations worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially
Clients of Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business, have collectively invested GBP5 million into HP Access Fund II, a specialist venture capital (VC) fund focused on buying secondary stakes in later stage investments in the UK and European technology companies.
SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal, two high-growth SaaS specialists in the digital employee experience (DEX) market have combined to create Firstup, a new company ‘built to reimagine employee connection through transformative workforce communications’.
Firstup reflects a vision for the future of the modern workforce, in which forward-looking, employee-first companies can reach, connect, and engage every worker, everywhere.
With over 15 million workers on the Firstup platform, spanning 180 countries, the company launches with the foundation of workforce communication pioneers. The strength of Firstup is elevated by the world’s largest customer community of employee experience and communications professionals from nearly 500 companies,
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