LGB Corporate Finance, which provides M&A advisory and capital raising services to companies, entrepreneurs and financial sponsors, has raised £7m for RHEON Labs in an over-subscribed Series A equity capital raise. The funding will enable the accelerated commercialisation of RHEON Labs’ patented technology in Europe and North America, where it is experiencing strong growth as its technology becomes recognised as the global standard for impact resistance and energy control. 

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has achieved £100 million client funds in use through fundingUK SMEs. The company’s audited 2018/19 accounts show a 39 percent growth in funding provision, as compared to FY17/18, highlighting the continued drive by the independent asset based lender to support the growth aspirations of UK businesses despite an unsettled economy.

Unquote Data’s preliminary figures for Q2 2019 show that activity in the European private equity markets continues to cool after a strong year in 2018. 

Astarte Capital Partners LLP, an alternatives co-investment platform, has announced the appointments of Richard Templer as Finance Director and Bruno Fumach as Investment Director. The two new hires join the real asset manager’s team in London, bringing with them 24 years of combined experience.

Six inspiring young entrepreneurs have overcome fierce competition to impress the country’s business leaders with their innovation and business capability and have been selected by NEF Fast Track, the UK’s leading entrepreneur development programme, for the prestigious David Pearl pitch prize & CVC Young Innovators award. 

Simulation software developers Simul Software Ltd, has received a £150k investment from NPIF - Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.  The Fund is delivered by MSIF working with Maven in the Liverpool City Region.  Founded in October 2007, Simul is a simulation software company that specializes in real-time rendering. TrueSKY, one of the company’s best-selling products, offers real-time rendered weather & sky for 

Beauhurst analyses the top tech VC deals so far in 2019.

Law firm, Ashfords LLP, has appointed Chris Sutoto-Haywood as an Associate in the firm's Intellectual Property Team.

MEIF Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners has backed pop-up retail specialists, Rapid Retail Limited (“Rapid Retail”), with a £300,000 business loan. The loan will enable the Worcestershire company to accelerate its growth plans by expanding its portfolio of products, exploiting new growth opportunities overseas and support the creation of new jobs.

Stuffstr, the game-changing solution to consumer waste, has raised a total of $2.9 million in its seed funding round, led by Mustard Seed, with co-investors adidas Ventures and London Co-investment Fund.

adidas’ investment comes on the back of including Stuffstr in its sports accelerator program, Platform A, which launched in January at Station F in Paris.  It also aligns with adidas’ FUTURECRAFT.LOOP vision for sustainability, which aims to end the concept of “waste” entirely.

Triple Point's Belinda Thomas considers what alternatives there are for investors seeking income generating investments in a climate of political and economic uncertainty.

Mergermarket, the leading provider of M&A data and intelligence, has published its 2Q19 report that shows a reluctance among companies to acquire within Europe. Confidence among corporates to invest heavily across the continent has been replaced/spurred by political and economic uncertainty. Just USD 391bn was spent on European assets across 3,223 deals, down 38.8% compared to last year’s USD 638.9bn during the same period.