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Payhawk, a payments and expense solution with offices in London, Sofia, Berlin and Barcelona, has raised USD112 million just three years after its inception, valuing the company at USD570 million.
The Series B round is led by the San Francisco-based investor Greenoaks, who has a strong track record of investing in high-growth technology companies such as Gorillas, Robinhood, Stripe and Brex. All existing investors, including QED Investors, Earlybird Digital East and Eleven Ventures are participating in the round.
Currently, finance teams are still bound to a high amount of manual work as they are using multiple disconnected tools for
Borderless Capital, a Miami-based venture capital firm dedicated to the Algorand ecosystem, has closed PLANETS.Fund, a USD10 million fund focused on building a green data economy.
The fund will invest in the ecosystem surrounding PlanetWatch, the world’s first decentralised indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring network built on the Algorand blockchain.
“PlanetWatchers” or Air quality sensor hosts participating in the PlanetWatch network are compensated with PLANETS tokens for streaming air quality data. The PLANETS.Fund is planning to invest the raised capital to deploy a global network of thousands of PlanetWatch air quality sensors across the globe. The Fund will also
Private investment firm Littlejohn & Co has acquired American Health Staffing Group (AHSG), a provider of healthcare talent and technology solutions.
As part of the transaction, the senior management team, led by CEO and founder Mark Smith, will continue to lead the Company and will be supported by an experienced team of industry veterans. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2010, AHSG is dedicated to meeting the needs of healthcare facilities and positively affecting patient outcomes. The Company provides travel nursing, allied health, pharmacy, dialysis, interim leadership, managed services, non-clinical and SaaS technology solutions in thousands
Cyber Manufacture Co, a narrative-based Web3 platform behind the next generation NFT project GAMA, has closed a USD6 million pre-Series A funding round led by Synergis and Collab+Currency.
Seneca Partners’ EIS portfolio company, Manchester-based Wejo Limited (Wejo), a specialist in connected vehicle data, has completed a reverse merger with Virtuoso Acquisition Corp (VOSO.O) and the enlarged business is now trading on Nasdaq.
The deal will enable Wejo to accelerate expansion of markets across traffic management, advertising, fleet management, insurance, remote diagnostics, car sharing and rental, roadside assistance, payments, SaaS solutions and more.
Every day, Wejo collects in near-real-time 14.6 billion data points and analyses 66 million journeys across a network of 10.7 million live vehicles from a supply base of over 50 million connected vehicles. Wejo expects its
ScaleUp Capital, a specialist in investing in and supporting scaling B2B digital businesses with revenues of GBP1 million to GBP10 million, has closed a GBP4 million investment round in Sifted.
The investment will enable the media outlet to continue scaling the definitive resource for insights on the European startup ecosystem. It will use the capital raised to expand its existing team of 40 employees to double that number next year, adding to its editorial, commercial, marketing and tech and data teams. The editorial team already consists of 15 journalists in London, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona, with plans to expand
Ravesncroft has announced plans to acquire the Channel Islands’ operation of MitonOptimal Group.
Future Planet Capital, a global university, impact and innovation investment group, has completed the acquisition of two venture capital firms: Milltrust Agricultural Investments and RT Capital.
Eatron, a fast-growing scale-up with its unique ‘intelligent automotive software’ platform for the edge and the cloud, has raised USD11 million in a Series-A round led by MMC Ventures with participation from Aster Capital and Vinfast.
Eatron has a long-standing collaboration in different projects with Vinfast to explore and accelerate deployment of the company’s software platform into Vinfast’s rapidly expanding range of electric cars. Eatron entered into a similar strategic partnership with the Hirschvogel Group from Germany in the summer of 2020 when Hirschvogel also invested USD1.5 million-plus.
Eatron, which is headquartered in the UK with a world-class
North west-based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced it has led a GBP3 million investment into experience analytics platform, Uncrowd.
Created by retail and systems experts Richard Hammond and Rocky Howard, Uncrowd is a cutting-edge platform that allows global retailers and brands to measure customer experience through innovative methods of data collection. It was recognised as one of Silicon Valley’s best retail tech start-ups at this year’s Plug and Play Fall Summit and has earned a place on the Plug and Play accelerator programme.
Unlike traditional customer analytics, Uncrowd works by collecting objective data and observations to generate an
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