Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest pure renewables fund managers, has adopted Greenbyte’s monitoring platform to oversee the technical performance of its dynamic European wind and solar portfolio. Greenbyte will be fully integrated with Glennmont’s financial and commercial management systems, pulling data from Glennmont’s newest funds with an operational fleet exceeding 1GW to inform decision-making and create transparency with investors.

The Insights People, the Manchester-based company which is a global leader in kids, parents and family market intelligence, has secured a £500k investment from DSW Angels, the business angel network focused on UK regional scale-up companies.  The investment will allow The Insights People to boost its international growth and follows its expansion into Brazil, Mexico and Canada in recent months. The company expects to create around eight new jobs in Manchester in the next six months.

Quotevine, the forward-thinking solutions platform for the auto, asset and consumer finance industries, has announced its four-year renewal with the independent provider of finance facilities to the SME sector, 1pm plc.

By 2022, an operational stock of almost 4 million industrial robots are expected to work in factories worldwide. 

Omnipresent Group has raised $2m in a seed round led by Playfair Capital and Episode 1. The fundraise was closed within six  weeks during the height of the pandemic with participation from investors including Entrepreneur First, Truesight Ventures, Charlie Songhurst, Andrew Goodman, Akash Gupta, Srin Madipalli and Ian Hogarth.  The financing will be used to extend Omnipresent’s coverage to 80 markets by the end of 2020,  

The independent Iberian management company GED Capital has entered, through its Conexo Ventures fund, into the capital of SimpleCloud, a leading company in the transformation of the animation, video game, advertising and special effects industries. This startup, founded in 2008, and invested in by Inveready, Caixa Capital Risc y CDTI, offers a global platform based on the cloud for the management and creation of digital content focused on companies and also has one of the most powerful tools created for teleworking.

A new investment summit with the aim of bringing national policy makers together with equity investors, fund managers, big business, and Innovative SMEs will take place this autumn.

A new crowdfunding initiative has been launched by ACE Entrepreneurs to support early stage black-owned businesses. The ‘small diverse business’ crowdfund is for £25,000, being raised on GoFundMe, which will be distributed to 10 small diverse businesses with initial stage growth investment. Led by businesswoman and entrepreneur Nadine Campbell, ACE Entrepreneurs is a community for diverse entrepreneurs and is also a champion of women in business.

New data published has revealed the regional distribution of loans under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and the Bounce Back Loan Scheme. 

Anexsys Group, which provides technology and consultancy services for law firms, corporations and the public sector, has been acquired by private-equity-backed Xact Data Discovery from Hobs Group.  

Urgent action is required to close the UK’s growth capital gap, according to a report released by Innovate Finance, the ScaleUp Institute and Deloitte, in collaboration with the Business Action Council, industry and investors. This report focuses in on accelerating, evolving and expanding existing initiatives under a national framework for growth