Parcel2Go, the UK’s largest parcel delivery marketplace and e-commerce shipping platform, has announced the introduction of EQT Private Equity as a new cornerstone investor. EQT acquired its stake from Mayfair Equity Partners, management and certain selling shareholders.

The Maven UK Regional Buyout Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested in Titan Wealth Holdings to support their platform acquisitions and future acquisition strategy.

Clearco, the world's largest e-commerce investor and the company revolutionizing the way founders grow their businesses, has announced ambitious international expansion plans supported by two key executive hires

Gresham House Ventures – a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare and services sectors – has invested €5m into Scurri, a cloud-based software provider connecting and optimising e-commerce ordering, shipping, and delivery.  The investment is part of a €9m fundraising round that will support the creation of more than 100 jobs over the next two years, grow Scurri’s operations in the UK, and allow them to invest in marketing, sales and product development.

Ochre Bio, a biotech company developing RNA medicines for chronic liver diseases, has raised $9.6M seed financing led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Backed VC, Apollo Health Ventures, Selvedge, Hoxton and Hermes-Epitek. The funding will be used to advance the development of Ochre Bio’s RNA therapies and expand their deep phenotyping platform to identify and validate new liver targets.

Episode 1 backed car buying comparison leader, carwow has acquired used car buying platform,Wizzle.

A Midlands software company which uses the power of video games to help businesses manage and motivate their sales teams has raised a further £600,000 for expansion.  Stormburst Studios secured funding from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), and Mercia’s EIS funds. The latest investment follows an earlier funding round of £150,000 in 2017 from Mercia’s EIS funds.

YFM Equity Partners-advised funds have sold their shareholding in Deep Secure Limited to Forcepoint Federal LLC, a global cyber security solutions business specialising in serving government and critical infrastructure clients for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is subject to regulatory review and customary closing conditions and is expected to close in or before August 2021.

Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout1 investments, has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Adista, the leading alternative B2B hosted services provider. Upon completion of the transaction, Keensight will take over from Equistone Partners Europe as Adista’s majority shareholder alongside FEF, the co-investment partnership between Mubadala and Bpifrance and the management team led by Patrice Bélie.

GP Bullhound has announced a new investment into Lingokids, a leading educational platform for children, as part of a Series C funding round of USD40m led by an undisclosed investor, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, and Ravensburger among others.

OCR Labs has raised a €12.5M Series A round led by Turkish investors the Oyak Group, to expand its services and team to the UK and Turkish markets. The Australian founded company is viewed as a world leader in the digital ID verification space, solving major challenges including identity fraud and regulatory compliance, using its proprietary technology.

Beyond HERizons, a new initiative from London & Partners’ Silicon Valley comes to the UK (SVC2UK) programme designed to specifically tackle the funding gap that exists in the investment landscape, launches its inaugural cohort of female founders today. 

The 12-month business support programme will provide 15 female entrepreneurs with the skillset, network and confidence to scale their businesses and secure investment. Female founders joining the programme have been selected following a competitive application process and are actively looking to secure Series A investment within the next year.