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Crover Ltd, the Edinburgh based start-up and developer of the first robotic device able to “swim” deep in granular bulks such as cereal grain, has announced its first funding round through Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding platform.
After “bootstrapping”, raising more than GBP600,000 in innovation prizes and grants (including the likes of Converge, Scottish Enterprise and Innovate UK), Crover is opening a seed funding round accessible to seasoned and new investors that want to be part of a pioneering, multi-award-winning company.
Crover’s target is to raise at least GBP150,000 in equity, to begin small series manufacturing, that will help with the
Genstar Capital and TA Associates have signed a definitive agreement to merge their portfolio companies, Compusoft, an international provider of specialised visual Configure, Price, Quote (vCPQ) software to key retail and manufacturing industries, and 2020 Technologies (2020), a provider of specialised computer-aided design (CAD), configure, price, quote (CPQ) and enterprise solutions dedicated to interior design, space planning and furniture manufacturing industries.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021.
Compusoft and 2020 will be combined in a merger of equals to create a leading provider of space planning and manufacturing solutions for the residential and
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) has successfully completed a previously announced investment in ArchKey Solutions (ArchKey), a North American electrical and technologies contracting and services provider, alongside the Company’s management team. One Rock’s stake in ArchKey was acquired from funds managed by the GFI Energy Group of Oaktree Capital Management, LP (Oaktree).
Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, ArchKey is an industry-leading specialty services contractor providing scalable electrical and technologies solutions nationally. ArchKey offers electrical construction, maintenance and a range of sophisticated technologies services, including control and automation, mobile solutions, audio visual solutions, and security and life safety
In this 5th and final podcast of the series, Steven Unzicker, Founder of ANZU Research, SEI’s Ross Ellis and Michael Neumann, Head of AI Quantitative Strategies and Partner at Arabesque, discuss how the decentralised model – as characterised by Uber and Airbnb – could inform the future of fund management.
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP250,000 in Boiler Plan to support the company’s growth and training centre in Featherstone, West Yorkshire.
The transaction also includes a GBP500,000 investment from the North East Development Capital Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund also managed by Maven, and a further GBP750,000 was invested on behalf of the Government’s Future Fund.
The funding will support Boiler Plan’s long-term strategy to invest in its new operating platform to streamline efficiencies and infrastructure. This will allow the
Thymia has raised a GBP780k/USD1.1 million in a pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression.
The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect signs of depression, as well as monitor whether symptoms are improving or worsening over time.
Through its online platform, Thymia is aiming to empower clinicians to make faster and more accurate clinical decisions by making mental illness as objectively measurable as visible physical conditions.
Kodori AG and Calm/Storm co-led this
CAPZA has acquired a majority stake in Web Geo Services, a French API platform publisher and Google Maps’ partner operating in the booming “Location Based Services (LBS)” market.
Founded in 2009, Web Geo Services has built its reputation by becoming the Google Maps No1 Partner and reseller of Google Maps Platform in Europe. The company focuses on five sectors: Retail, Finance, e-business, Smart Mobility, and Travel & Hospitality.
Web Geo Services has also developed its own proprietary platform, “Woosmap”, a set of independent APIs dedicated to B2B2C business use cases: store locator, geofencing, data search, payment transaction cleaning, etc.
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Apex Group has been appointed by American Ventures Partners (American Ventures), a commercial real estate investment company focused on the repositioning and operation of value-add and core-plus investment properties, to deliver fund administration, tax compliance and related corporate services to support American Ventures.
Apex was appointed due to its ability to offer a single-source suite of fund and entity administration services to American Ventures backed by its functional and real estate industry expertise and leading technology solutions. A distinguishing feature for American Ventures was Apex’s ability to support distribution and placement of their Fund.
In May 2021, American
Digital training platform Virti has raised USD10 million in a Series A to further its goal of improving human performance using world-class interactive technology. The round was led by deeptech investors IQ Capital and joined by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a new, UK-based learning technology VC fund.
Launched in 2018 by Dr Alexander Young – an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon – Virti helps organisations optimise learning, training and performance using interactive simulations and AI-powered data analysis. The technology turns traditionally subjectively-assessed skills (such as communication, teamwork and decision-making under pressure) into objective and measurable data to improve performance. The
London based Fintech Traydstream Limited has raised USD8 million as part of a Series A funding round from institutional and private investors.
gunnercooke Corporate Partner Kyri Papantoniou led the legal side of the investment process, which began in summer last year.
Traydstream is a global provider of an AI powered platform to digitalise and automate trade finance document checking and is now live across four continents and 17 markets.
Traydstream CEO Sameer Sehgal, says: “The pandemic has caused a high level of disruption in trade finance and highlighted the weaknesses in existing models, which has led to a growing interest
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