Leading Global Tech Executive Duncan Tait FRSA is adding his remarkable global experience and connections to ScaleUp Group* the unique team of successful technology entrepreneurs (over £4Bn in exits) formed to #GrowGlobalChampions from the UK tech sector.

Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has appointed Roy Mani as a partner.  Roy has over 20 years’ experience as a private equity investor, 

BGF has invested in The Chemistry Group (TCG), the London-based disruptive HR consultancy.

TCG is a fast-growing talent strategy consultancy that increases the value of companies by improving the performance of their people.  Founded in 2003 by CEO Roger Philby on the belief that everybody should have the opportunity to be brilliant at work, the business partners with clients to understand their context and strategy, and to help business leaders answer the critical questions regarding their talent through data analytics, technology and behavioural science.

Kuber Ventures is holding its next Manager Showcase event for advisers on 6th February 2020 in London.

Now in its fourth year, the Kuber Manager Showcase is the ideal event for Advisers to start their due diligence by actually talking to the Managers.

This year’s Showcase will take place at a new venue the Farmers & Fletchers Livery Hall, 3 Cloth St, Barbican,London  EC1A 7LD.

The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners, has provided LJ General Builders Limited, a general builders company which undertakes residential and commercial property builds, renovations and extensions, with a £250,000 funding solution. The loan will support the company’s ambitious expansion plans, enabling it to finance a new contract to build several properties for the Nottingham Community Housing Association.

Investment manager Downing LLP has sold Nightjar Sustainable Power Limited and Guillemot Green Energy Limited, the final exits by its EIS funds from a series of seven hydro investments based in Scotland.

You & Mr Jones, the brandtech group founded by former Havas chief executive David Jones, has invested in ethical video startup Good-Loop. The UK-based firm has closed a US $1.6m seed funding round.

Foresight Group has invested £3.9 million investment into disruptive subsea surveying company Rovco Ltd.  The investment comprises £2.0 million from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and £1.9 million from Foresight VCTs. The investment was part of a larger round totalling £5 million which included funds from existing shareholders.

YFM Equity Partners has appointed Aaron Lowery as Investment Manager. Based in the Leeds office, Aaron will focus on supporting YFM’s new investment activity, working with the existing team to deploy funds into growing businesses at points of transformational change.

Great Point Media, the London-based media and investment group, has appointed Jamie Lowe as Head of Institutional Distribution. Lowe will oversee the structuring and launch of Great Point’s global institutional project finance fund which will look to invest in large-scale media projects and finance film and television programming globally. Lowe joined Great Point from The Ingenious Group where he was a board director and Head of Institutional distribution.

More than five new tech startups launched every hour in 2019, contributing to a record 681,704 new business formations over the year – a 2.8% increase from 2018. These are some of the findings of the Centre for Entrepreneurs’ sixth annual analysis of Companies House data. 

Two-thirds (66%) of alternative investment professionals have a good understanding of the benefits of fund finance but cite negative perceptions among LPs as the biggest challenge to its wider adoption, according to a new survey commissioned by Intertrust [1], a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, at a recent seminar they hosted in London.