Foresight Group has invested £3 million from the Foresight Regional Investment Fund into the specialist engineering company ONFAB Limited, a leading designer and manufacturer of flexible containment solutions, primarily for use in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. 

A review of Venture Capital Trust (VCT) investment from the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), ‘Transforming small business’, found that VCTs are important providers of scale-up funding and play a vital role in delivering transformational change for smaller UK businesses.

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Albion Capital is proud to have supported four British companies included in the annual Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table this weekend, ranking Britain’s private technology companies with the fastest-growing sales - Black Swan Data, Egress, Grapeshot, Symetrica. 

http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/

Funds managed by Foresight Group LLP have provided a £40 million secured loan note facility for Reward Finance Group Limited, an independent lender which provides secured loans to UK-based SMEs seeking more flexible finance.

Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, is seeking to raise up to £38 million through top up offers for its six venture capital trusts (VCTs). The fundraising targets £8m for Kings Arms Yard VCT and £6m across each of Albion’s other VCTs. 

Funds advised by Foresight Group LLP have invested £1.9m into Regency Design & Print Limited, is a designer and manufacturer of printed materials for the beverage equipment and retail point-of-sale sector.

Ski Solutions, the London-based luxury winter sports travel experts, has attracted over £6 million of investment from Mobeus Equity Partners as part of a secondary management buyout.

SMARTASSISTANT, the global technology provider for intelligent Digital Advice, has secured €5 million in Series A funding led by growth capital investor Beringea. The funds will further SMARTASSISTANT’s mission to make Digital Advice ubiquitous and help people make smarter decisions.

Foresight Group LLP announces the investment of £500,000 on behalf of the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Southampton-based Utonomy, a  ground-breaking intelligent gas grid solutions provider. The transaction represents the Fund’s first investment.

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Mobeus Equity Partners has backed the management team of West Midlands based Arc Specialist Engineering in a buyout of the Group. The investment in Arc is Mobeus's latest and largest from its recently raised institutional fund and its fourth in the 12 months since the fund’s first close.

Mobeus Equity Partners has provided £5 million of growth capital to Wetsuit Outlet, one of Europe’s leading online retailers of technical clothing and equipment for water sports.