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Forefront RF, a Cambridge-based fabless semiconductor company, has launched after raising GBP1.5 million from a syndicate led by Bristol-based Science Creates Ventures and including Foresight Williams Technology, BGF, and The Cambridge Angels.
Afilio, a Berlin based Insurtech, has secured USD13 million in highly competitive Series A funding to support the expansion of their ‘Peace of Mind-as-a-Service’ platform offering users digital estate management services.
The round was led by CommerzVentures, the specialist fintech investor behind successes including Bought By Many, eToro, Marqeta, and By Miles, who were also joined by Speedinvest, while existing investors Cherry Ventures and Cavalry Ventures participated.
Founded by university friends Till Oltmanns, Philip Harms, and Richard Musiol, Afilio offers its customers a comprehensive and easy to use digital platform for selecting insurance, managing policies, and storing documentation relating to
Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, a trusted partner to operations and facility managers across North America, has acquired American Maintenance. KBS is a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management (Cerberus).
Headquartered in Babylon, New York, American Maintenance is a leading provider of facility maintenance solutions. For more than 45 years, it has delivered high-quality janitorial and light maintenance services to clients throughout the United States. The company has experience in the government, education, manufacturing and retail sectors, as well as in sports and entertainment and Class A office buildings. American Maintenance shares the KBS commitment to sustainability, having implemented green cleaning as
Fabric RQ, a startup founded by veteran risk manager Richard Bookstaber to provide institutional quality risk management software to individual investors through their financial advisors, has closed a seed round led by Pandeavor Ventures, Vikram S Pandit’s family office, and John P Arnhold, managing member of Arnhold LLC.
SoftWorks AI (SoftWorks), provider of the Trapeze intelligent mortgage automation platform, has closed of a minority growth investment led by Long Ridge Equity Partners (Long Ridge), a private investment firm focused on the financial and business technology sectors.
CBC Companies (CBC), a holding company whose subsidiaries include Factual Data, DataVerify and Byte Software, also participated in the round. The investment will enable the Company to continue to expand its technological leadership and footprint in this important market.
“SoftWorks has consistently been at the forefront of AI-based mortgage automation, and our partnership with Long Ridge and CBC will allow us to
Founder and Lightning, a company that helps non-specialist, commercially minded business leaders to develop and scale new tech ventures, has secured a GBP1.5 million loan to invest in a new generation of tech trailblazers.
The funding will also help to support the company’s white-label platforms, which are used to enhance a start-up’s functionality without incurring the cost of developing single-use systems.
The business works with entrepreneurs who lack the specialist knowledge to launch new tech companies and products in sectors such as fintech, edutech and medtech. In the past five years, it has helped to build 25 companies, with
Objectway, Global Top 100 fintech leader in the Digital Wealth and Asset Management software, has acquired Die Software Peter Fitzon GmbH (DSW), a primary German provider of Core Banking solutions.
Crestbridge has received regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Ireland to provide fund administration services in Ireland.
Cambridge Judge Business School and Esme Learning, an AI-powered digital learning platform, have partnered to provide two six-week online executive education programmes in startup funding and regtech.
Startup Funding: From Pre-Seed to Exit, will help entrepreneurs overcome the trickiest funding challenges facing startups.
RegTech: AI for Financial Regulation, Risk, and Compliance, meanwhile, will prepare risk, compliance, innovation, and data sector business leaders to navigate the complexities of the industry, including technologies such as AI and machine learning that support automated regulation.
Successful programme participants will receive a certificate issued by the Cambridge Judge Business School. The first presentation of
Objectway, a global specialist in the Digital Wealth and Asset Management software, announced today the acquisition of Die Software Peter Fitzon (DSW), a primary German provider of Core Banking solutions.
Founded in 1990, Objectway provides leading financial institutions with state-of-the-art technology to support their digital transformation programmes, supplying front-to-back, intelligent and cloud-ready solutions that power up customer engagement, front-office productivity and back-office operational efficiency. Die Software is a leading provider of Core Banking solutions in German-speaking Europe, with more than 35 years of market presence. Its complete, open and modular platform fulfils the needs of prominent private banks,
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