BGF has announced the exit of its minority investment in Brownhills Glass, one of the UK’s leading independent glass merchants and processors.

Revolut, which raised on Crowdcube in 2016 just one year after they launched, has confirmed its meteoric rise as a global fintech heavyweight following investment from DST Global that values the company at $1.7 billion (£1.2bn), following a new $250m fundraising.

International private equity firm Pamplona Capital Management has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its investment in Partner in Pet Food to Cinven.

Headquartered in Hungary, PPF is a market-leading pet food manufacturer with nine manufacturing operations across Europe. PPF supplies pet food to more than 250 customers in Europe, including traditional retailers, discounters, speciality pet retailers and online specialists. Its product range covers the main categories of dog and cat food, including wet and dry food, and single serve products.  Established in 1999, the company employs more than 1,400 people and produces more than 450,000 tons of pet food per annum, distributed across 38 countries in Europe.

As many will know, GDPR will strengthen data protection for individuals and give them clear rights to their personal data. 

Resonance has made another investment from its Bristol Social Investment Tax Relief Fund of £112,500 to Social Impact Bristol Ltd, 

Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Grapeshot, a provider of brand safety and pre-bid contextual solutions to over 5,000 of the world's leading marketers. Every month, over 38 billion programmatic ad impressions are enhanced using Grapeshot's Contextual Intelligence Platform in dozens of languages, and this number has grown well over 100% year over year.

Current market activity indicates that cryptocurrencies are set for “another considerable surge in prices gains” in the near future and Ethereum’s price could reach $2,500 by the end of the year - but investors should exercise caution.

This forecast from Nigel Green, the founder and CEO of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations, comes after a strong few days in the cryptocurrency markets.

NorthEdge backs £40m turnover fleet management specialist NorthEdge Capital has supported the MBO of Prohire, a specialist provider of commercial fleet management solutions, backing the existing management team led by Managing Director Dave Barlow.

The Clearway Group, a vacant property services business, has received a £23m funding package from BGF and Santander to support its organic and acquisitive growth strategy. The funding is initially being used to make two acquisitions – Cerberus Security and Monitoring Services Limited (Cerberus), a Leeds-based security and monitoring business, and Protim SAS, a Paris based void property services company.

Deepbridge Capital, the tax-efficient investment manager, has fully deployed all Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funds raised during 2017/18 within the same tax year.

London-based investment management firm, Downing LLP, and BioScience Managers Limited, the international healthcare investment firm and advisers to the Downing FOUR VCT, have invested £1.14 million in Wales-based ADC Biotechnology Ltd.

ADC Biotechnology is creating innovative new technology, which aims to speed up, simplify and significantly lower the costs of the processes involved in the production of new antibody drug 

Foresight Group has iinvested £1.6 million into The Salford Valve Company, which provides aerosol valves for use with ecologically sustainable propellants, from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.

Salvalco has developed aerosol valve technologies (referred to as Eco-Valves) from original research carried out by Professor Ghasem Nasr of the Spray Research Group at the University of Salford, that enable safe inert gases such as simple fresh air or nitrogen to be used as a propellant in aerosols. This is significantly better for the environment and far safer than conventional propellants, most of which are hydrocarbons. The Company has developed a family of valve designs for a wide range of aerosol products and applications.