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Addionics, a chemistry-agnostic battery technology company, has raised USD27 million in a Series A funding round to scale up its efforts to redesign battery architecture with the company’s Smart 3D Electrodes, which improves the cost and performance of batteries with any chemistry – existing or emerging.
IFC, LeapFrog Investments, and DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft – have invested USD165 million in convertible Tier 2 bonds issued by Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank), a Vietnamese private retail and SME bank.
While strengthening the bank’s capital base, the funding will help increase lending to retail and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including women-owned or -led ones.
The bond raise will also help HDBank enhance its environmental and social (E&S) risk management capacity by introducing IFC Performance Standards while improving the bank’s corporate governance policies in line with international best practices, including a
True Wind Capital (True Wind), a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on investing in leading technology companies, and Elyan Partners (Elyan), a member of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity partnership, have made a growth investment in Envoy Global (Envoy), a provider of software and services solutions to the global business immigration market.
True Wind and Elyan are partnering with Palladium Equity Partners (Palladium), affiliates of which acquired Envoy in September 2021 and which will remain the company’s largest shareholder.
Based in Chicago, Envoy provides workforce management solutions that empower companies to hire the best talent regardless of where
Synalogik, a company whose Scout data automation platform allows organisations to aggregate data, identify risk and create reports, has raised more than GBP3 million in a Series A funding round.
Spectrum Labs, an AI-based content moderation platform, has secured USD32 million in a s Series B investment round led by Intel Capital with participation from Munich Re Ventures, Gaingels, Harris Barton, and existing investors Wing Venture Capital, Greycroft, Ridge Ventures, Super{set}, and Global Founders Capital.
Intel Capital investment director, Divya Sudhakar, will join the company’s board.
The funding will accelerate the Company’s mission to ensure every digital interaction can be built on accurate and measurable Trust & Safety infrastructure. Spectrum Labs will scale the adoption of its leading AI-powered content moderation platform for online communities into new areas of the
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, is to sell Leaders Romans Group (LRG), one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to Platinum Equity.
LRG was formed from the merger of two Bowmark portfolio companies, Leaders Lettings and Romans Group, in 2016. It specialises in residential property lettings, sales and associated professional services including planning and surveying. The group has a nationwide network of 210 branches and offices, and manages over 62,000 properties across the UK.
Under the stewardship of Bowmark and LRG’s executive team, revenues have approximately trebled to GBP165 million, the number of employees has increased from
OakNorth Bank has provided growth capital to Innervation Capital Partners, a sector-focused, theme-driven investor to support the “buy and build” strategy of its newly-launched Special Educational Needs (SEN) provider, Melrose Education.
Innervation Capital focuses on investing in platform companies in essential services sectors such as education. It then works closely with the management team to accelerate growth through a mixture of organic and inorganic growth. In 2017, OakNorth Bank provided support to ICP Nurseries, and in 2019, did the same with Cresswell Nurseries – both were Innervation Capital-backed businesses.
ICP Nurseries and Cresswell Nurseries were combined to form ICP
Growth Capital Ventures has led a GBP150,000 seed investment round into n-gage.io, a technology company transforming the way audiences engage and experience leisure, visitor, and sporting attractions.
The funds will be used to drive the development of the technology forward and support n-gage.io’s market entry strategy. The funds are in addition to GBP150,000 worth of resource provided by Growth Capital Ventures through its GCV Labs venture builder division.
County Durham-based n-gage.io aims to transform audience experiences through a highly customisable, data insight driven Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform with an integrated mobile-web application. This will help operators deepen their audience and
BigTime Software, a provider of cloud-based software for professional services firms, has secured a USD100 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Augusoft, a specialist in enrolment management for continuing and corporate education programmes.
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