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To support ambitious early-stage entrepreneurs developing technologies with the potential to shape the future economy, SFC Capital, the UK’s leading SEIS investor and most active seed-stage investor, has invested GBP25 million in 120 companies (April 2020 — April 2021).
In Q1 of 2021, SFC Capital raised its largest SEIS fund to date, with GBP5 million deployed in 40 companies in just two months. The funds have been raised from private investors (SEIS and EIS funds), family offices, the SFC Angel Network and a GBP10 million commitment from the British Business Bank in April 2020 as part of its Regional Angels Programme.
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made a majority investment in Resource Innovations, a provider of demand-side management, energy efficiency, and energy consulting services.
Concurrent with BV’s investment, Resource Innovations is combining with energy software and consulting firm Nexant, Inc, to provide energy and software solutions for utilities and commercial, industrial, and residential energy consumers.
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Resource Innovations’ services to utilities in the US include portfolio administration, program implementation, public sector outreach, planning & design services
Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners (SFW) has completed a majority recapitalisation of Granite River Labs (GRL), a specialist in test and certification services and automated test solutions for digital connectivity and charging technologies.
Co-founders Johnson Tan and Quintin Anderson will continue to lead the business and remain significant shareholders. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Santa Clara, California-based GRL specialises in helping product developers implement the latest connectivity and charging interfaces – such as USB, Qi wireless charging, Ethernet, and PCI Express – in a rapidly expanding universe of connected devices and applications, including consumer
By Purva Aggarwal – Warburg Pincus has invested USD110 million into a Series C round for New York-based healthcare tech company Aetion.
This round is the latest in a string of similar investments within the health tech space for Warburg Pincus. The global growth equity PE group has poured in excess of USD12 billion and USD22 billion to date into health care and technology companies respectively, including Alignment Healthcare, Experity, Intelligent Medical Objects, Modernizing Medicine, and Outset Medical.
B Capital and Foresite Capital, as well as existing supporters New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flare Capital Partners joined the fundraise,
Money Alive, a regulatory technology business based in Bedford, is set for further growth following a GBP749,000 financial investment from Foresight Group (Foresight) using equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) as part of a GBP1 million funding round together with a number of private investors.
Founded by CEO Andy Kirby, Money Alive launched its first commercial product in 2018. Its proprietary video engagement platform is licensed to financial advisers, product providers and employee benefit consultants to provide their clients, policy holders and members with engaging, accredited and impartial information using Money Alive’s interactive video experiences. The firm
The value-based private equity arm of The Riverside Company has acquired Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc (dba SCRAM Systems), a provider of technology-enabled monitoring solutions and groundbreaking offender management software for state and local judicial systems and corrections departments.
SCRAM Systems will be combined with Riverside’s LMG Holdings, Inc (LMG) platform, with its flagship brand LifeSafer, a leading provider of ignition interlock devices used to help prevent drink-driving.
Founded in 1997, SCRAM Systems provides an extensive portfolio of continuous and intermittent alcohol- and location-monitoring technologies used by state, county and local criminal-justice agencies. The company’s offerings fulfil a dual mission of
Eurazeo’s small-mid buyout team has signed an exclusivity agreement with the aim of investing in I-TRACING alongside the company’s management and founders Theodore-Michel Vrangos and Laurent Charvériat, who would collectively hold 49 per cent of the company’s equity after completion of the transaction.
Keensight Capital, minority financial shareholder in the French cybersecurity specialist since 2017, would sell its entire stake while Sagard NewGen would invest as a minority shareholder in a holding company controlled by Eurazeo.
The transaction would value I-TRACING at EUR165 million. Eurazeo would become an anchor investor of the group by investing around EUR65 million.
I-TRACING was
Redwood Software, a specialist provider of cloud-based business and IT process automation solutions, has received a EUR315 million strategic investment from growth equity firm Turn/River Capital. The investment from Turn/River will enable Redwood to accelerate new feature development for its industry-leading IT and business process automation platform, which FeaturedCustomers recently recognised as a rising star in the Spring 2021 RPA Software Customer Success Report.
Statista estimates the global automation industry will generate USD214 billion in 2021, with process automation exceeding USD83 billion. “The modern enterprise needs sophisticated automation solutions to enable it to scale rapidly and still remain agile in
Multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures has led a USD40 million Series B funding round into Airkit, a low-code digital customer experience platform, on the back of the company’s recent USD28 million Series A announcement.
Private equity and real estate asset manager EQT has selected Hazeltree’s technology for treasury, cash and debt management. Recently, EQT IX closed with EUR15.6 billion, solidifying EQT’s position as a top ten global private equity player.
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