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Serial entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den winner, Lex Deak, has secured GBP2 million for his new app, BASKET.
Notable investors include Lightbank, the VC firm founded by Groupon co-founder, Eric Lefkosky, as well as co-founder and CEO of WorldFirst, Jonathan Quin, and Mumsnet founder and CEO, Justine Roberts.
Basket will revolutionise the online shopping experience when it arrives in January 2022.
Shoppers can bookmark potential purchases from anywhere on or offline and organise them in a single space. The BASKET app will then inform them of price drops or any discounts available on their items.
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VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has completed the sale of Coretelligent to Norwest Equity Partners.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Coretelligent is a provider of comprehensive managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services to customers within the financial services, life sciences, professional services, and related sectors. VSS will participate in Coretelligent’s next phase of growth as a minority investor in the Company.
Coretelligent provides comprehensive managed and co-managed white glove IT support, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery as well as cloud services. Founded by Kevin
Pharmacierge, a health-tech company that offers same-day prescription medicine delivery in London and next day delivery throughout the UK, today announces that it has raised GBP1.25 million from a number of leading clinicians and angel investors.
Investors include Alex Chesterman OBE, founder of Cazoo and Zoopla and Simon Franks, who co-founded Lovefilm. In a show of confidence from the medical profession, many practitioner users have also invested in the round, including two past presidents of the Independent Doctors Federation, and clinicians practicing variously at the Schoen Clinic, One Welbeck, Hormone Health, Physicians Clinic, Cromwell, Wellington, Lister and King Edward VII
NorthEdge-backed Altia has acquired VeriSaaS, a field intelligence and evidence collection software business.
Altia is a leading global provider of specialist intelligence and investigation software for government department and law enforcement agencies across the UK, Canada and Australia. The business, which is based in Nottingham and Glasgow, supports police forces and investigation teams to automate processes using technology – reducing time and money spent on investigations and improving prosecution rates.
Australia-based VeriSaaS develops software to support organisations to collect actionable intelligence. The business’ core proposition Verinote, a digital note-taking system, replaces the need for paper notebooks to document conversations, decisions
HIG Capital (HIG) is to sell CONET to private equity firm IK Investment Partners. HIG acquired a majority stake in the Company in 2017. The transaction is subject to clearance by the relevant antitrust authorities.
CONET is a digital transformation partner focused on public sector clients and with a dedicated SAP practice. The Company offers its blue-chip customer base services and solutions in the areas of IT consulting, software development and high-security IT operations. CONET, founded in 1987 and headquartered in Hennef, Germany, employs over 1,100 specialists across 13 locations in Germany, Austria and Croatia.
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Airbus Ventures has invested in ispace, inc, a company pioneering the future of commercial lunar exploration. ispace’s state-of-the-art lunar lander is on schedule to launch on its first mission, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the second half of 2022.
Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has secured a significant investment from August Equity to fast-track ambitious growth plans and realise AAB’s strategic vision of becoming a key UK regional player in the accountancy and wider business services market.
AAB is currently a leading Scottish regional player, with offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and plans to build its market share across the Central Belt of Scotland alongside growing the number of regional hubs it operates from in key major cities across the UK. AAB also has a London office focused on payroll, global mobility and virtual finance which supports some
Toca, provider of no code apps and automation fabric, has raised an additional GBP2 million of funding from private investors – an extension to the GBP1.4 million raised in a 2018 seed round.
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has completed the sale of Coretelligent (the Company) to Norwest Equity Partners.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Coretelligent is a leading provider of comprehensive managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services to customers within the financial services, life sciences, professional services, and related sectors. VSS will participate in Coretelligent’s next phase of growth as a minority investor in the Company.
Coretelligent is a provider of comprehensive managed and co-managed white glove IT support, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery as well as cloud
A UK company that provides an ethical alternative to the ad tracking techniques used by tech giants such as Facebook and Google has raised a GBP1.5 million investment to build its global presence.
CitizenMe has secured funding from the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia, alongside funds from 1818 Capital and private investors.
The platform was developed in response to concerns over current practices, where consumers’ data is collected via apps or website cookies and may be used by multiple companies for marketing purposes.
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