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The Apprentice to train SMEs

On the back of the successful BBC television series The Apprentice, training group learndirect business is launching a new training programme aimed at growing firms.

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Debts entrant seeks £8m

Debts.co.uk is looking for a £34 million flotation on AIM in early June in order to tap into the worrying growth in personal insolvencies.

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Rutland cashes in on pawn star

Special situations private equity house Rutland has realised a £44.5 million return on its investment in pawnbroking business H&T, as a result of the company’s £54.2 million AIM float this morning. This represents a 2.9 times return on investment inside of two years.

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Capital pumps funds

Venture capital investor The Capital Fund has directed £250,000 towards the development of a revolutionary low-cost medical pump, developed by PDD Innovations.

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Harris finds Unicorn

Unicorn AIM VCT has named veteran investor Jocelin Harris as a non-executive director and chairman of its audit committee, with immediate effect.

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Our funds in the North

Enterprise Ventures has raised £10 million for its new RisingStars Growth Fund II, which will invest in early-stage opportunities and proof-of-concept technologies throughout the North of England.

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£220m bid for Systems Union

Luxembourg-based software group Extensity, which is backed by San Franciscan venture capital house Golden Gate Capital, has launched a £220.5 million takeover bid for Systems Union, one of the largest software business listed on London’s AIM market.

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Ingenious sells Lionhead Studios to Microsoft Game Studios

Ingenious Media has sold its investment in Guildford-based video game developer Lionhead Studios to Microsoft Game Studios.

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£220m bid for Systems Union

Luxembourg-based software group Extensity, which is backed by San Franciscan venture capital house Golden Gate Capital, has launched a £220.5 million takeover bid for Systems Union, one of the largest software business listed on London’s AIM market.

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Ingenious sells Lionhead Studios to Microsoft Game Studios

Ingenious Media has sold its investment in Guildford-based video game developer Lionhead Studios to Microsoft Game Studios.

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Octopus swallows Perfect Pizza

Octopus Asset Management – operator of the BioScience, Phoenix and Eclipse series of venture capital trusts – has invested £3 million in Perfect Pizza, the UK’s third largest pizza delivery outfit.

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Barclays sells Cabot

Barclays Private Equity has passed control of debt purchase group Cabot Financial over to European investment group Nikko Principal, via a £275 million secondary buyout.

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No crony of Tony

One entrepreneur who will not be buying a title from the Government is David Soskin, the former merchant banker who has built online travel information company Cheapflights into a market leader and one of the few British internet companies to launch successfully in the USA.

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Gina Athans sings the blues

Guests at AIM-quoted Tanzanite One's results reception at Tower Bridge the other evening had more to celebrate than the Bermuda-domiciled company's trebled annual profits.

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