Foresight Group LLP has to announced the completion of a €4.5 million top-up to the Project Bond issued in January 2019 by Pagano & Ascolillo S.p.A. and listed on Borsa Italiana, for the installation of LED street lights on behalf of the Foresight Italian Green Bond Fund.  The top-up will support four further street lighting projects to retrofit c.7,235 street lighting points across four municipalities in the Centre and South of Italy. 

Tech-led businesses, whose models have been further validated by the Covid-19 crisis, have seen unprecedented demand from investors in the last three months, according to tax-efficient platform Wealth Club. 

Technology consulting firm Invenio Business Solutions has completed a rebranding process to cement its preparation for further major growth 

Private equity-backed property, site and people protection specialist Orbis Protect has made its first acquisition following a strong period of growth despite the UK-wide lockdown.

Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, and Williams Advanced Engineering has announced a £500,000 follow-on investment from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Salvalco, to support the development of aerosol valves that use ecologically sustainable propellants.  Overall, the Fund has now invested £3.2 million into Salvalco, following the original investment in April 2018. 

YFM Equity Partners has appointed venture capitalist and entrepreneur Victor Christou who has become the new position of partner, head of growth, 

“We cannot be reliant on sectors that will inevitably fluctuate until there is a vaccine to drive the UK’s recovery. The Bank of England’s prediction today is based on a return to ‘normality’ that is still uncertain."

Clarilis, the high-growth legal technology business, has raised a further £6m in a Series B investment round. The funding has come from its existing investor the Northern Venture Capital Trust Funds which are managed by Mercia,and Gresham House Ventures, investing on behalf of the Baronsmead VCTs.  The funding raised in this round will be used to support Clarilis’ ongoing growth and international expansion.

Research has shown that UK 1 small and medium businesses are owed as much as £50bn in late payments at any one time, with the situation only likely to get worse in the current climate. In response to this epidemic, itsettled, an automated, proven and legally compliant process for SME’s to chase their outstanding invoices has been launched.

TaxScouts, the company making tax preparation effortless for the UK market, has announced a Series A investment round of £5M to further its mission to build a Pan-European Tax Service. The company is expanding into its first market outside the UK and is establishing a team in Spain, following the appointment of a Country Manager. 

Foresight Group LLP, a leading private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced a further £2 million follow-on investment into Envair Technology, a provider of containment solutions that facilitates faster and more flexible drug R&D and manufacture across the globe. 

UCL Technology Fund, managed by AlbionVC in collaboration with UCL Business (the university’s commercialisation company and part of UCL Innovation & Enterprise), announces first close of a £100m target Fund 2.