BGF has led a £2.5 million investment round into sustainable female underwear brand, Stripe & Stare, alongside a consortium of high-profile investors. 

 BGF provided £1.5 million of growth capital with the remaining amount coming from private backers, including Richard Longhurst, co-founder of Lovehoney, and Sam Galsworthy of Sipsmith Gin.

Headquartered in Devon, Stripe & Stare was founded in 2017 by friends and business colleagues Katie Lopes and Nicola Piercy, with the aim of creating the most comfortable and eco-friendly knickers in the world.

University of Sheffield spinout company Aegiq has secured seed investment from an investor syndicate led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, with participation of Deepbridge Capital and business angel investors. Together, with existing funding from Innovate UK, the seed investment brings Aegiq’s total available funding to over £3.5m ($4.8m). Having completed the first closing Aegiq is considering funds to join the second closing.

Cognism, the globally compliant international sales intelligence provider has secured $87.5 million in funding led by new investor Viking Global Investors.

Vienna-based GoStudent, which provides one-to-one video-based online tutoring, raised €300M in Series D funding led by new investor Prosus, with additional participation from Deutsche Telekom, SoftBank Vision Fund 2*, Tencent, Dragoneer, Left Lane Capital and Coatue. 

Inflexion Private Equity Partners supported 97 new investment opportunities for its portfolio in 2021, 

Deepbridge Capital portfolio company AlgaeCytes has secured €16m of funding to develop a commercial plant in Germany.  AlgaeCytes is a portfolio company within the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS.

BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor, has announced details of its 2021 investment activity that mark a record year for the firm and underline its critical contribution to the growth economy.

A strategically differentiated supplier of premium mountain bike and crossover brands, Silverfish UK Limited, which supplies some of the most desirable brands to UK retailers, is set to power ahead in 2022, after an £8.5m investment from Connection Capital, the specialist private client alternative investments business.

LoopMe, a leading brand-focused mobile advertising platform, has announced Mayfair Equity Partners, a leading tech and consumer growth investor, as its new investment partner. 

Software specialist Carebeans Limited has­­­ established an office in Monmouth, Wales, having secured a significant six-figure equity Investment for their leading social care management software from the Development Bank of Wales and Liverpool based MSIF.  The co-investment includes the trade and assets acquisition of the Software business of Standex Systems Limited and onboarding of five new staff who move to Carebeans from Standex UK.

Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has agreed the sale of Carousel Logistics to Danish private equity firm Axcel.

KYND, a leading provider of pioneering cyber risk management solutions for the insurance industry, has announced a £3.25 million investment from BGF. 

KYND will use the investment to accelerate its rapid growth and global expansion plans, as well as continuing to develop transformative cyber risk technology to launch new products.

The company has achieved a 1000% growth on annual recurring revenue since June 2020 and developed partnerships with high-profile insurers and brokers, such as Beazley, Howden, Paragon and Alliant.