EGYM, a leading global fitness technology developer, has received 41 million US dollars in a Series E financing round from Mayfair Equity Partners, a leading tech and consumer growth investor. Following the investment, Mayfair Equity Partners will own a minority stake, along with existing investors HPE Growth, Highland Capital Europe, Kreos, and others. Additional financial details have not been disclosed. 

Graphite Capital, a leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, has made several promotions and new appointments which reinforce the strength of its investment and value creation teams.

James Markham, Omar Kayat and Humphrey Baker have been promoted to senior partner, John Western has become a partner and Zoe Jackson has been made an investment manager. Graphite has also recruited three investment executives: Edgar Borg Rodriguez, Tom Llewellyn and Alex Hearne.

London-based startup, BEPPS Snacks, are all about their pea, pulse and grain snacks, whilst hero’ing the black eyed pea; the Great Taste Award winning brand is pioneering healthy, plant-based snacks that are loved by the whole family. 2021 sees the announcement of £400,000 investment from early-stage venture capital investors, Ascension Ventures, who seek to back entrepreneurs making healthy eating accessible to all with the ‘Good Food Fund’ (a fund also backed by challenger brand builders, Mission Ventures and Big Society Capital).

Print and Digital media business, Country and Town House, has secured a £400,000 loan from the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF).  The funding will enable the company to recruit additional staff across their marketing and sales departments and upgrade their web platform.

Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA), the alternative investment specialist of the Pictet Group, has completed the final close of its debut thematic private equity fund focused on technology at its hard cap of $350m.

Belfast-based livestock monitoring technology company, CattleEye, has completed a $2.5m seed investment. The funding round was a syndicate led by Techstart Ventures and including Paris based VC Seventure Partners and Turntide Technologies, a Silicon Valley venture backed by Amazon.  CattleEye uses Machine Vision Artificial Intelligence which provides automatic inspections and analysis for machinery.

Doccla, the healthtech startup pioneering virtual ward technology to ease pressure on hospitals, has secured £2.4m in an oversubscribed seed round, led by Giant Ventures, the leading purpose-driven venture firm, and early-stage technology VC, Speedinvest. Doccla is reimagining hospital care using innovative remote medical monitoring to deliver safe, effective care from the home. The investment will supercharge the startup’s ambition to make virtual hospitals a core part of modern healthcare.

PassFort, the SaaS RegTech provider whose platform automates financial crime and compliance processes, today announced the close of its Series A funding, which gives the firm access to $16.2 million. The money will be used to realise PassFort’s global growth plans and its ambition to be the category leader in compliance automation for regulated businesses.

Fintech infrastructure platform Integrated Finance has raised £2 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s most active early-stage VCs, with participation from 500 Start-Ups, SuperSeed Ventures, and prominent Angels Chris Adelsbach, Srin Madipalli, and John Erdimansinga.

The Integrated Finance platform gives fintech companies and financial institutions of all sizes access to the same financial infrastructure used by the world’s largest companies. The infrastructure APIs that Integrate Finance provides help developers at fintech startups and big banks alike build embedded financial services at greatly reduced speeds, enabling them to drive far more value from their existing technology, and their customer base.

London-based Kick Game, a luxury sneaker and apparel retailer, is on track to grow revenuesLondon-based Kick Game, a luxury sneaker and apparel retailer, is on track to grow revenues to £50m in 2022 following a £3.5m injection of capital from VGC Partners.  to £50m in 2022 following a £3.5m injection of capital from VGC Partners. 

Founded by sneakerhead brothers Rob (pictured, left) and David Franks in 2013, Kick Game is a destination-retailer to shop exclusive, rare and sold-out sneakers and streetwear from brands such as Air Jordan, Nike, Yeezy, Off-White, Trapstar, Fear of God Essentials and Supreme.

Bambino Mio, the UK’s most popular reusable nappy brand, has announced a £13m investment by BGF, the UK & Ireland’s most active investor. This is the largest investment ever in a reusable nappy firm in the UK, demonstrating the potential of the sector and the scale of Bambino Mio’s growth ambitions.

The independent Iberian alternative assets manager GED Capital has added three new technology startups to the portfolio of its Conexo Ventures fund: Vonzu, Pridactect and Feedzai. In this way, GED’s venture capital fund, which complements the multi-asset manager’s private equity and infrastructure strategies, now has nine startups in its portfolio and is 25% deployed.