Newport based communications company Talkative, is pleased to announce it has completed a Series A funding round, raising in excess of £350,000. Talkative is headquartered at the Wesley Clover Innovation Centre.  

Investly has appointed seasoned working capital executive Wayne Hughes as its new Chief Executive Officer to make Investly the leading receivables finance platform across the UK and rest of Europe.

The Danish/Swedish private equity firm Polaris and Falck have signed an agreement whereby Polaris will acquire 100% of the shares in Falck Safety Services Holding A/S and take over all Safety Services activities in Falck.

Falck Safety Services is the world's largest provider of specialist safety training for the offshore, maritime and renewables industries, operating from over 30 training centres in 21 countries. Each year, Falck Safety Services provides the most realistic and valuable training to thousands of employees from the energy and shipping industries.

The divestment of Falck Safety Services is in line with Falck’s overall strategy to focus on its core business. 

The scrapping of Entrepreneurs’ relief could discourage entrepreneurs’ from setting up businesses in the UK, say leading accounting, tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.

Readly, the global digital magazine newsstand, has raised €10m in additional funding to drive the next stage of its growth. The latest round of funding comes from new investor Swedish fund Swedbank Robur and London based Zouk Capital. The company will use the funds to further its international expansion and support growth in its existing markets.

ibis Styles Glasgow Centre West has opened in Glasgow’s International Financial Services District following an £11.25 million investment led by the UK-based private equity and property manager, Maven Capital Partners. The hotel has been funded by Maven’s co-investor network ‘Investor Partners’, with a bank facility provided Allied Irish Bank.

SeedLegals shares some fascinating insights into UK founder salaries and share vesting.

Kuber Ventures has produced a fifth in its series of CPD qualifying educational animations, which provides an educational insight into inheritance tax planning.

Howard Simms, Co-Founder of mobile technology group Apadmi and CEO of their investment arm Apadmi Ventures, has received an honorary Doctorate in Technology.

25 years after graduating with a Mathematics degree, Howard donned a cap and gown to receive an honorary Doctorate in Technology (DTech) from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), in recognition of his significant contribution to enterprise and the development of innovative technologies.

Howard commented: "When I first began my career in tech, I never would have thought my career path would have led me into the entrepreneurial world and to where I am now, with the chance to stand in front of hundreds of hopeful students and deliver a speech. It was an amazing day for my family and I, a real honour from such an esteemed university as MMU, and an incredibly proud moment in my life.”

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Shoosmiths has advised on the sale of specialist IT-provider Taylor Made Computer Solutions (TMCS) to Peach Technologies, creating one of the UK’s biggest IT managed providers as a result.

Spotinst has raised $35 million in a Series-B funding round for its AI based workload management platform, which helps companies to manage and optimize their cloud computing spend across several cloud providers.

The funding round was led by Highland, with participation from existing investors Leaders Fund, Intel Capital, and Vertex Ventures. Spotinst has now raised approximately $52m since launch.

Founded by Amiram Shachar, Liran Polak and Aharon Twizer in 2015, Spotinst helps businesses to manage their compute infrastructure across different cloud providers, while also achieving savings of 80% on average on regular cloud computing costs, by tapping into excess compute capacity in data centres operated by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.