Latest Venturing & Investment News – Page 6
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M&AVirgin Media O2 sheds further chunk of Cornerstone TowerCo
£180m+ fillip sees VM O2 reach monetisation milestone, with another minority offload, while continuing to consolidate TowerCo financially. Buyer Equitix extends digital infra portfolio, while UK tower landscape continue to shift…
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Financial & PerformanceCommunity Fibre keeps focus on customer connections with £125m funding windfall
London-based fibre altnet Community Fibre has secured £125m in debt financing but does not plan to ramp up network build, will instead use funds to support customer acquisition drive.
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M&ABT Ireland catches eye of Macquarie-backed Viatel — report
A new report from The Irish Times says Viatel Technology Group, a Macquarie-backed digital services provider, is looking with interest at BT Ireland as “all options” are being explored for the Group’s international B2B businesses…
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Partnerships & AlliancesPerplexity wins another telco fan with Telefónica funding and sales tie-up
Group becomes next telco to partner with and invest in GenAI-powered search engine. Fresh, TV-focused services harnessing Perplexity’s platform now live, as operator seeks to advance strategic objectives. Read more…
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Strategy & ChangeDigital 9 dumps Triple Point for InfraRed to manage wind-down
Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) has chosen InfraRed Capital Partners to manage the sale of its assets, including major shareholding in Arqiva, as part of ongoing wind-down.
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Venturing & InvestmentsDT targets data centre assets via new investment push
New ‘Project Xcalibur’ initiative to see DT plough investments into data centre specialists and tap into anticipated AI-led boom.
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Venturing & InvestmentsDTCP gives Irish data centre player a cash injection
Infrastructure investment group invests in Northern Ireland- and Republic of Ireland-focused Atlantic Hub, seeking to expand data centre ambitions beyond initial interest in Germany…
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PeoplewatchDT picks in-house exec to lead new €2bn tech M&A fund
Telekom Strategy Consulting’s Julia Kainz to switch to DT’s Group Development division, with responsibility for seeking out high-tech growth acquisitions.
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PremiumT.Capital: a dip into DT’s growing tech funding pool
TelcoTitans provides a rundown on the make-up and back story of T.Capital, DT’s evolving and expanding in-house stable of tech investments.
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Venturing & InvestmentsDeutsche Telekom plugs into nuclear fusion tech startup
Group’s T.Capital arm invests in Germany-based Marvel Fusion, which aims to have a nuclear fusion plant up and running within the next decade.
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M&AIQGeo: KKR’s latest tech buy adds geospatial smarts to sprawling infra portfolio
Private equity giant KKR is taking Cambridge-based geospatial software specialist IQGeo private in £333m deal, pledging to fuel new phase of growth. Log in to understand this hot specialist and what it provides network operators worldwide…
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Venturing & InvestmentsAltnet Ogi picks up £45m in funding from Cardiff councils
Welsh fibre altnet secures Cardiff Capital Region debt facility and additional backing from long–term investor Infracapital.
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Network & InfraeuNetworks lands €2.1bn to spend on European data centre comms play
Stonepeak, APG, and IMCO involved as London-based comms infra group completes a revamp of its finance base.
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Venturing & InvestmentsFibrus bags £100m, eyes positive EBITDA in 2025
Fibrus Co-Founder and CEO Dominic Kearns tells TelcoTitans that the operator is focused on its current build plan, growing its retail customer connections (including off-net forays in NI and Cumbria), and achieving the “milestone” of positive EBITDA in 2025.
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Financial & PerformanceSafaricom scaleup Circle Gas restructures, but yet to soar
Sharp jump in revenue as demand for pay-as-you-go gas rises, but restructuring for future expansion weighs on net losses.
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Venturing & InvestmentsUK Infrastructure Bank gives fibre sector another financial leg-up
National infra financing organisation backs another rural fibre altnet as Quickline secures a £250m debt package to support rollout in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
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Venturing & InvestmentsInfracapital: UK FibreCo fundraisers must graft to overcome global ‘bad rep’, new gov showing ‘green shoots’
INCA event provides platform for investors and altnets including Octopus and Netomnia to review early weeks of Labour government, with broad optimism on show despite still rocky funding environment. The capital exists, but what will Downing Street do to bring it to the UK? Read more…
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M&AVodafone takes another billion from Vantage kitty
Deleveraging-focused Group sells a third stake in tower business to partners KKR and GIP, raising €1.3bn.
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Venturing & InvestmentsGov-backed UK Infrastructure Bank provides funding to another rural FibreCo
Cornish Wildanet attracts £35m investment from UKIB, days after the bank ploughed £150m into Hyperoptic.
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Partnerships & AlliancesWWT joins partner carousel at Vodafone scaleup hothouse Tomorrow Street
Accelerator buddies with US SI major, as previous ‘tactical’ partnerships lapse. Diverse multi-speed tie-ups all part of the plan says Luxembourg JV, recalibrating to scaleups’ needs. WWT bringing test, field and AI support. Next stop: digitisation and CX…