Station 12 Asset Management, the specialist venture capital investor in media, entertainment and knowledge, is to raise £60m in two funds - one aimed at institutional  investors and the other at the private EIS/SEIS sector.

Cellesce the cancer organoid bioprocessing and scale-up company has announced a successful six-figure funding round that will open up opportunities to introduce its organoid scale-up and expansion technology to the oncology drug discovery screening market. This funding round has, once again, been led by the Development Bank of Wales, a measure of the confidence it has in both the Cellesce technology and the founding team.

NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active SME investors, is pleased to announce an investment of £250,000 in tech company GradTouch Limited, a platform that connects graduates and employers, offering a cost-effective, unique solution for attracting, vetting and hiring graduates.

The investment, made on behalf of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), will increase the number of jobs by 50% in GradTouch’s Manchester office and will further support the company’s growth plans.

Westbridge Capital has appointed a new Investment Executive as growth continues.

The GM Co Investment Fund is a new approach to increasing the supply of capital 

Inflexion Private Equity has backed the management buyout of Calco Group B.V., a leading Dutch provider of outsourced IT recruitment and training services to large blue-chip corporates.

Transparency Capital has launched this week, and becomes the first and only world platform open to well-informed investors allowing them to access major European private equity fund managers for just €150,000.

PPeter Thiel has invested in many of the most famous companies of the last 20 years including PayPal and Facebook.

Idinvest Partners has appointed Guillaume Cavalin as Legal Director. He will report to Sylviane Guyonnet, Partner and COO at Idinvest Partners.

A development partnership has adopted a new funding model to unlock the potential of a residential development site in County Durham.  Durham-based Homes by Carlton has secured £400,000 of funding for a pioneering development of quality family homes in Chilton, near Bishop Auckland.

Unigestion, the boutique asset manager that focuses on guiding its clients with risk managed investment solutions, has completed the final close of Unigestion Secondary Opportunity IV (USO IV) at EUR 306 million.

Peakon has raised $22 million in a funding round led by Balderton and joined by EQT Ventures, IDInvest and Sunstone. The company will be using the investment to expand to the US, Germany and APAC, and Bernard Liautaud will be joining Peakon's board.