Leading online investment platform, Seedrs has announced the next evolution of its secondary offering. Opening up its popular secondary market platform to all private businesses, allowing founders, employees and early investors to realise secondary liquidity without having to wait for an IPO or exit event.

Humatica, the leading private equity specialist advisor for portfolio organisational effectiveness, has advised private equity firm Baird Capital on its acquisition of a majority interest in eCube Solutions Limited, a leading aircraft disassembly and end of life services provider based in St. Athan, Wales and Castellón, Spain.

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity managers, has invested £1.5 million in Gen inCode, a genetic testing business specialising in the risk assessment and prediction of cardiovascular disease. Gen inCode raised in total £3.4 million, where Maven invested alongside another institutional investor and existing private shareholders.  

Redis Labs, the company behind Redis, the most popular open source database and the provider of Redis Enterprise, announced it has closed $100 million in Series F financing at a company valuation of more than $1 billion. This investment was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures and TCV, with participation by the company’s existing investors Francisco Partners, Goldman Sachs Growth, Viola Ventures, and Dell Technologies Capital. With this funding, Redis Labs has now raised over $246 million to-date.

Having climbed the career ladder in the world of banking and consulting, working with so many interesting, intelligent and energetic women, Alexandra Tymann and Anna Rauch left their careers to concentrate on climbing a completely different type of ladder altogether.

Funds advised by Hilltop Credit Partners a specialist funding partner for SME residential developers, have completed a £3m loan to build a sustainable residential development in the historic market town of South Molton.

Dataiku, a leading global Enterprise AI and machine learning platform, announced a $100 million Series D investment round led by Stripes, with major investment by Tiger Global Management and participation from existing investors Battery Ventures, CapitalG, Dawn Capital, FirstMark Capital and ICONIQ. The funding comes as Dataiku continues to drive AI within the enterprise, serving over 300 customers who understand that a collaborative and end-to-end AI strategy is critical to their success.

Infront ASA (INFRNT) today announced its interim results for Q2 2020. Operating revenue was EUR 28.4 million, an increase of 160% from the same quarter last year. The increase reflects the inclusion of vwd Group.

Investors selecting the income paying option in Seneca Partners IHT service have received their quarterly dividend for the 11th consecutive quarter 

Award-winning investment syndicate, Equity Gap, this month celebrates 10 years as one of Scotland’s most successful angel investment groups with record investment figures and a healthy pipeline of new deals. Meeting the challenge of Covid-19 head on, the syndicate completed 22 investments in the first half of 2020, with total member funds invested since inception topping £20 million.

Apheris, a deep tech company based in Berlin, has raised €2.5 million to enable corporate enterprises to collaborate and analyse data without compromising privacy. UK-based seed investor LocalGlobe led the investment round with Dig Ventures, the family office of MuleSoft Founder, Ross Mason, and Patrick Pichette, former CFO of Google and current board chairman for Twitter. Additional investors include another.vc, System.One, and angel investors Charles Songhurst, NaturalMotion founder Torsten Reil, and Songkick founder Ian Hogarth.