Imbiba, the specialist leisure and hospitality investment group, has closed the Imbiba Growth Fund at its hard cap target of £50m. With an investment of £30m provided by the British Business, the Imbiba Growth Fund will provide growth capital and operational support to young and dynamic UK leisure businesses seeking to scale.

Investment levels in high growth tech companies in Wales have doubled in the past year, according to latest figures.

Pireta has closed its investment round after raising £500k from OION members. 

£18.2m new build development will bring 207 new beds to Stirling’s underserved and over-stretched student accommodation market.

SyndicateRoom research has revealed that investors in early-stage equities have enjoyed a seventh consecutive year of 30% growth.

We Got POP, the London-based FilmTech startup, has completed a fundraising round of £2m.

This latest raise was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from AllBright, Booking.com co-founder Andy Phillipps, and former KKR Partner Henrik Kraft.

We Got POP will use the fund to continue to develop its tech solutions and further expand across US geographical film and TV production markets.

Draper Esprit has co-led in a $12.3 million fund raising by Evonetix, a Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis.

BlackCurve, which provides online retailers with advanced pricing tools to improve their revenue growth and profitability, has secured a seed investment of £500,000 from Mercia Fund Managers and software entrepreneur and investor, Nick Kingsbury.

Founded in 2016 by Charles and Philip Huthwaite, BlackCurve helps its clients find the optimal price for their goods and services through sophisticated pricing algorithms and machine learning.

This investment will be used to expand the company’s core team across sales, software development and data science. Alongside this, BlackCurve will continue to develop its underlying software to deliver even faster accessibility, improved analytics and further scale its client-base through strategic platform integrations.

Augentius’ annual global survey of private equity and real estate firms and their investors reveals snapshot of industry sentiment.

NorthEdge Capital has invested in leading stairlift designer and manufacturer Platinum Stairlifts, backing the existing management team led by Founder, Tim Frear. 

National law firm Ashfords has received strong rankings in PitchBook's, 2017 annual global league table - a comprehensive ranking of private equity and venture capital (VC) activity worldwide.

The Finance Durham fund has completed a £650,000 investment in Consett-based biomass energy plant, SDS Inc Limited.