New figures show UK equity investment is becoming more selective with fewer but larger deals and more capital deployed overall as investors refine their focus, according to MerciaVentures...Will Clark, Managing Director of Mercia Ventures, said.
Leumi UK has provided £44.4m of senior debt to MerciaReal Estate to refinance a multi-asset industrial portfolio across the Midlands, with MartleyCapital contributing an £18.7m mezzanine facility.
The funding from NPIF II - MerciaDebt Finance, which is managed by Mercia as part of the NorthernPowerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), will enable the company to fit out the building and invest in new equipment ...David Wright of Mercia Debt added.
MerciaVentures and the MidlandsEngine Investment Fund II have backed NuVision since its inception and provided successive rounds of funding in 2023 and 2024 ...Hannah Tapsell Chapman of Mercia Ventures added.
The funding round was led by the MidlandsEngine Investment Fund II through fund manager MerciaVentures, and included TwinPath Ventures, ROI Ventures and P3A Ventures ...AmritSami of Mercia Ventures added.
WestMerciaPolice is to restructure how it delivers policing by moving from away from five local policing areas to two ... An LPA is essentially a police team that is responsible for the overall policing and management of the area ... .
Ollie Gallant, who also runs the popular Gutology Podcast, has secured funding from the MidlandsEngine Investment Fund II through fund manager MerciaVentures, alongside ActivePartners and existing angel investors.
LukeDavis, 31, from Kidderminster, was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a woman who described contracting the sexually-transmitted infection as a 'life sentence' ....