Venture capital firms commit to UK proptech developer Hammock
UK proptech Hammock has secured £1m in a seed funding round backed by Fuel Ventures, Ascension Ventures, Founders Factory and several unnamed angel investors.
UK proptech Hammock has secured £1m in a seed funding round backed by Fuel Ventures, Ascension Ventures, Founders Factory and several unnamed angel investors.
The German-listed private equity group acquired fire alarm systems provider Multimon after investing in Italian pre-wired conduits manufacturer PM Plastic Materials
Home insurance platform Kin Insurance has closed its Series B round on $35m, led by Commerce Ventures.
TSG Consumer Partners has made an investment in American Technologies, the nation’s largest family-owned and operated restoration contractor. American Technologies (ATI) was founded in 1989 by CEO Gary Moore and as part of this transaction
The executive, who ran Barclays during the global financial crisis, sees a future of stripped-down banks outsourcing non-core business lines — and is wary of them being turned into public utilities
Maturing biotech venture market in Europe drawing more venture capital
Finland-based venture capital investors Tesi and NordicNinja have participated in a $54m series-C round of funding for Finnish virtual reality hardware and software developer Varjo.
While buyout and exit volume dropped dramatically in the first half of 2020 in the UK and Ireland, venture investment volume has remained resilient and the technology sector has become an even larger focus for
Data science-focused venture capital firm Rocketship.vc has raised $100m for its second fund, more than twice the total raised for its debut vehicle.
Cross-border B2B payments company Vitesse has bagged £6.6m in a Series A round led by Octopus Ventures.
Egyptian digital payments company Paymob has secured $3.5m in its funding round, which was led by Global Ventures and Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank FMO.
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Robust fundraising and healthy demand from investors make the secondary market a bright spot for private equity in H1 2020. The global secondary market is now almost five times larger than
MiddleGround Capital has acquired majority ownership of Dura Automotive Systems from Bardin Hill Investment Partners. The buy of Dura is MiddleGround’s sixth platform acquisition in its first fund which closed in August 2019. Dura Automotive
Dublin-headquartered startup Antikytera E-Technologies has received an investment from a venture capital house to further expand its remote assistance software and artificial intelligence technology.
Germany-based venture capital investors EVentures, 468 Capital and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures have backed a €5m seed round for Klima, an app that allows users to make donations to mitigate their carbon footprint.
Arsenal Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of AIM-listed healthcare consultancy Cello Health for a purchase price of £181.8m.
Danish recycled glass firm Shark Solutions has raised funding from Scotland-based venture capital firm Circularity Capital.
La Famiglia has announced its second B2B-focused venture capital fund, which is targeting €50m.
Family offices are sticking with venture capital despite the growing coronavirus crisis - but their expectations of returns threw up a surprising result, new research shows.
