Solutions
Cowgills business finance team has brokered a GBP5 million funding deal with Investec Capital Solutions for Wirral-based specialist technical recruitment company Russell Taylor Group.
Founded in 2005, the Group owns four businesses: Russell Taylor Group, Recruit Right, NMS Recruit and Perpetual Engineering Partnerships, providing technical temporary and permanent recruitment solutions for industries, including construction, engineering, manufacturing, oil, gas and energy sectors. Today, the business employs around 120 staff operating out of seven strategically located offices across the UK and has a combined turnover of cGBP35 million.
Having sold two further businesses in 2020, the Group’s working capital requirement was
Alpaca, a commission-free stock brokerage platform that offers APIs for fintech apps to connect and trade in US stocks, has closed a USD50 million Series B on the heels of driving 1500 per vcent year to date growth in brokerage accounts and expanding partnerships across Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, North and Latin Americas.
KKR and Salesforce Ventures have invested USD62 million in a Series B round for Copenhagen-based, no-code software test automation platform Leapwork, to accelerate its global expansion.
Stewart Information Services Corporation (NYSE-STC) is to acquire Informative Research (IR), a specialist in providing credit, consumer, and real estate data and technology services.
IR serves more than 3,000 customers across the United States and offers a wide range of mission critical solutions through its proprietary platform to streamline the loan cycle.
“Stewart continues to invest in the creation of an end-to-end, customer-focused real estate services and technology platform,” says Fred Eppinger, Stewart Chief Executive Officer. “By bringing IR into the Stewart family of companies, we further reflect that commitment and advance our data and analytics capabilities. I’m excited about
Serrala, a global financial automation and B2B payments software company, has secured a majority investment from Hg, a leading global software and services investor.
Following the transaction, Serrala’s CEO Sven Lindemann and existing investor, Waterland, will continue to support the business and remain as significant minority shareholders in the business.
Founded in 1984 and based in Hamburg, Germany, Serrala provides software solutions for financial automation and B2B payments to medium-sized to large Enterprise customers globally, with a strong footprint across Europe and the US.
Serrala enables the ‘Office of the CFO’ to automate and optimise all processes for
Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity investor, has invested in RealVNC, a vendor of remote access and remote support software.
Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, has led a GBP2 million investment in LITTA, a rapidly growing online platform for rubbish removals and waste collection.
LITTA was founded in London in 2017 by Aaron Georgiou, later being joined by Alexie Crassas, and Chris Yiannopoulos. LITTA provides a digital, cost-effective, on-demand platform for ethical bulky waste removal. LITTA’s online platform places jobs with approved suppliers and provides a speedy, seamless, and transparent user experience in an industry that has lacked digital solutions.
The process for disposing of cumbersome rubbish and waste has traditionally been painstaking, with few digital
North west based multi-family investment office, Arete, has led a private investment into business solutions group, Leonard Curtis, in a deal which values the business at GBP40 million.
The deal, which saw a GBP15 million investment into the professional services firm, was a venture led by Arete in partnership with Svella.
Arete and Svella will utilise their combined resource and expertise, working alongside the Leonard Curtis management team to enable the LC Group to enter its next phase of growth.
With 239 employees working across its 18 offices in the UK and the Channel Islands, the Leonard Curtis Business
Liti Capital’s wLITI token, a wrapped version of the Swiss company’s LITI equity token, has been listed on the Bitcoin.com. wLITI is trading with BTC and USDT pairs.
Liti Capital, a Swiss-based blockchain private equity fund specialising in raising capital for legal cases, is making waves in traditional investing by bringing litigation financing to the masses, an investment practice traditionally monopolised by hedge fund heavyweights and elite investors.
Danish Chaudhry, CEO of Bitcoin.com Exchange, says: “The Liti Capital team are providing an equity token which is the first of its kind, focused around easy-to-access private equity investment opportunities for basically
Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) portfolio company Enreach, a fast-growing provider of Unified Communications Solutions (UCaaS) active throughout Europe, has acquired Dutch cloud software provider and Microsoft partner DSD Europe and its sister company CloudLand (DSD), thereby continuing its long-term buy-&-build strategy.
Through the partnership, Enreach acquires additional expertise and reach for equipping digital workplaces with Microsoft software solutions.
DSD, founded in 2009, is a fast-growing provider of IT, security and other cloud products and services. Through its market-leading cloud marketplace, DSD’s services enable more than 5,000 active re-sellers in Europe to easily and quickly acquire, activate and manage various cloud
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