Grafton Capital, a growth investor in Europe’s leading technology companies, has appointed Tom Morrell as its Chief Financial Officer. 

Foresight Group has invested into Titania Group Limited, a cybersecurity automation software business. The investment will be used to support the senior management team in taking Titania through its next stage of growth, assisted by Foresight’s expertise in the sector.

Keysource, a specialist in data centres and critical environments, has successfully completed a management buyout (MBO), led by Stephen Whatling. 

Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, has released investment figures for the global FinTech sector in 2020 that reinforce the UK’s position as a global and European leader.

Subsea technology firm, Rovco, has completed a £3.9 million Series A investment from Foresight group via the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and Foresight VCTs. The investment was part of a larger round totalling £5 million which included funds from existing shareholders including Green Angel Syndicate. 

The funds will be used to support its international expansion and Rovco’s continued development of its state-of-the-art 3D Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence subsea technology.

BGF has invested $11 million in Genflow, a London & LA based Influencer brand building agency with a unique ecommerce and mobile tech platform, to support its global expansion plans.

Albion Capital, the leading independent investment manager, has completed the sale of its stake in full fibre broadband operator G.Network to the Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited (USS) and Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube), generating a 3.8x return for its venture capital trust (VCT) investors.

Personio, the all-in-one HR platform has completed $125 million of new and preemptive Series D funding in an investment round that values the business at $1.7 billion.

The new funding will accelerate the further international expansion of the software company, supporting its ambition of becoming Europe’s leading HR platform for SMEs. It follows a strong year of growth for the business in 2020,which saw it double revenues despite adverse market conditions.

Skyqraft, an AI-driven powerline inspection solution-provider from Sweden, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. The latest fundraise was led by Subvenio Invest, and also include participation from Antler, Next Human Ventures and selected angel investors. The company is on a mission to become the leading powerline issue detection system globally enabling its customers to conduct smarter and safer powerline inspections in a more cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable way.

The boardroom gender gap is finally beginning to narrow, but women entrepreneurs still have a chasm to cross to catch up with their male peers. Changing that will not only massively improve equality, but will also hugely improve the economy, says David Newns a serial disruptive entrepreneur and investor.

A group of successful Bristol-based entrepreneurs has invested £192,500 into a research and development project in the city that is searching for faster diagnosis and treatment of Sepsis, which is the number one cause of death worldwide.  Sixteen members of Bristol Private Equity Club have backed GenomeKey, which is carrying out the pioneering research programme in Bristol. The investment will enable GenomeKey to leverage additional grant funding.

Perchpeek, the AI-powered relocation agent, has raised £2 million, led by early-growth experts Episode 1.  Founded in 2018 as a UK property marketplace, Perchpeek was originally dubbed ‘Tinder for renting’, but has since developed into a completely unique, global relocation service that is transforming the relocation industry.

The Perchpeek app combines  AI-powered recommendations with relocation experts to curate properties and additional services for the user. As they use the app, recommendations become more tailored until they’ve found the perfect home in the perfect area.