Industrial services and waste management firm, Harpers Environmental, has secured £2 million of funding from Independent Growth Finance (IGF). This invoice discounting facility is central to the company’s refinance for growth.

The company focuses on the extraction, treatment and appropriate disposal of waste, based out of two sites in York and Teesside. It serves clients across a range of critical sectors including food processing, manufacturing, petrochemicals and utilities. Clients include Yorkshire Water, Karro Foods, Sabic/lndaver and Biffa.

Tilney and Smith & Williamson have agreed a revised transaction structure for their proposed merger. The merged group will be known as Tilney Smith & Williamson and will be the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services business. 

Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has strengthened its team with the appointment of Dr. Edwin Moses and José Luis Martín as Operating Partners.

Navenio, the healthcare scale-up whose location-based technology has been shown to double the throughput of hospital teams, has received c. £50k from the UK government and Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, as part of a government boost for cutting-edge companies. 

Business lender Reparo Finance is further strengthening its team with the appointment of Daniel Jones as business development manager covering the South West and South East as the firm builds its presence across the UK.

Climeworks has successfully raised CHF 73 million (USD 75 million) in equity from private investors.  This is the largest private investment into direct air capture to date. The funding will help to drive forward the company’s scale-up roadmap and expand its carbon dioxide removal capacities.

Although the world is struck by a global pandemic, the urgency of the climate crisis does not subside. Investment in the large-scale deployment of climate solutions provides the opportunity to stimulate economies and build a more resilient world – meaning every dollar invested works harder, bringing additional benefit.

Following the launch earlier this year of a further £40million MEIF Debt Fund by the British Business Bank, appointed fund manager, The FSE Group, is revealing the team managing the fund.

Tech Nation, the UK’s leading growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has appointed Stephen Kelly as the new Chair.  Stephen Kelly succeeds Eileen Burbidge MBE who has served as Chair since 2015.

Service Robotics Limited, a health and wellbeing business focusing on supporting the vulnerable and elderly through innovative technology, has raised £600,000 in their latest funding round. The funding includes a £300,000 equity investment from the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Investment Fund (CIOSIF) and investment from Britbots and the Enterprise 100 Angel Investment Club.  The company has created an intelligent companion robot that will assist the elderly via patient-centred interactions. GenieConnect® helps users by providing companionship and support by offering services such as prescription management, medication reminders, daily welfare checks, video calls and music entertainment.

 Aberystwyth based Agxio has completed a £750,000 equity investment round to support the development of advanced data science and AI solutions in agri-tech and agri-fintech.

The £750,000 investment comes from a mix of existing investors and the Development Bank of Wales plus match funding from new professional investors.

Inflexion has sold Glide, the UK’s leading provider of infrastructure to difficult to serve markets, like high-density accommodation, to US infrastructure investor Alinda Capital. The sale follows a six-year period of transformational growth for the business, which became the clear UK market leader during its partnership with Inflexion.

Lenders have approved £27.5bn of emergency finance to businesses during the coronavirus crisis with most coming from the bounce back loans scheme, government figures show, according to a report by Peer2Peer Finance News. Treasury data as of 24 May showed more than 650,000 businesses have accessed coronavirus-linked finance schemes. The coronavirus business interruption loans scheme (CBILS), which launched in April offering loans worth up to £5m, has provided £8.1bn of finance to 43,045 businesses out of 84,607 applications. This is an approval rate of 50.8 per cent.