10 April 

NVM Private Equity has exited from Coventry based telecommunications and security systems integration provider Optilan following a secondary management buy-out by Blue Water Energy, delivering a 3.1x return on funds invested.  

7 April 

Foresight has invested £2.15m from Foresight VCT PLC into Fresh Relevance Limited (“FRL”), a leading marketing technology platform for eCommerce businesses.

5 April 

Foresight Group has completed a £3 million investment into Ollie Quinn Limited, a branded retailer of prescription glasses, sunglasses and non-prescription polarised sunglasses to fund the rollout of additional stores throughout the UK and Canada.

5 April

Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has closed its EIS fundraising after reaching its £20m target three months earlier than anticipated.

4 April 

NVM is delighted to announce that it has strengthened its investment team with two new Investment Associate hires, Victoria Howarth and Jason Warren.   These appointments continue the growth in the investment team over the last 12 months following on from the recruitment of Charlie Winward in 2016.  

30 March 

NVM has delivered a £3 million investment in Intelling Limited, a communications business which provides customer services support for companies such as Telefonica and Missguided.

24 March 

Quantexa Limited today announced that it has closed a $3.3 million investment, led by Albion Ventures and HSBC. Quantexa’s rapid growth has underpinned a Series A fundraising within its first year, with the new capital used to further accelerate product development and international expansion. 

20 March 

Business Durham has appointed Maven Capital Partners as Fund Manager for its Finance Durham LP, the £20m investment fund set up to help businesses located in County Durham. FDLP will commence the investment process from May 2017. 

15 March

Two thirds (65%) of small and medium-sized tech and telecom firms plan to grow dramatically or moderately over the next two years, according to a new report* launched by Albion Ventures, one of the largest independent venture capital investors in the UK. Only 7% think they will shrink or wind down.

Download the 2016 Albion Growth Report

7 March

Beringea has sold a majority stake in long term investment SPC international, a global IT hardware support company to TVS Rico Supply Chain Services Limited. 

2 March 

At a media roundtable held yesterday by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), Patrick Reeve, Managing Partner at Albion Ventures and David Hall, Managing Director at YFM Equity Partners, managers of British Smaller Companies VCT and British Smaller Companies VCT 2, discussed where they are finding opportunities now, demand from investors and the outlook for the sector.

27 February 

Maven Capital Partners has completed a £6.5 million management buy-out of Healthpoint Limited, which sources and supplies healthcare and beauty products into the retail sector. The equity investment was funded through Maven’s co-investment network for professional clients ‘Investor Partners’, with debt and working capital funding provided by Barclays plc.