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Dutch startup Beyond Outdoor has just raised another €1.3 million. Founder Danny Tournier raised €900,000 through a crowdfunding campaign via the Colling Crowdfund platform, with the remaining €400,000 invested by the shareholders themselves. In the last three years, Beyond Outdoor have raised €5 million, it raised its first €1.5 million with Rabobank and investors for […]

HEROFi, a revenue optimization company for physical retail, recently announced that it had completed a convertible debt financing of $3.5 million. HEROFi, founded in 2014, aims to put physical retail on equal footing with digital commerce, maximizing ROI by infusing physical places with the same speed, convenience and relevance customers now expect from the digital […]

RMG Networks Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:RMGN) has had to announce that a special committee of the board of directors of the Company and the board of directors of the Company each held a meeting on August 1, 2018 to consider an alternative acquisition proposal from a third party, namely Hale Capital Partners, Inc. Back in April […]

Almo Professional A/V, North America’s largest professional audio visual distributor last week announced that it has acquired certain assets of Insteo, Inc., a specialized digital signage content and creative company that programs and designs content for digital signage, then provides tools to manage the day-to-day changes in the cloud. As part of the acquisition, the […]

China’s Alibaba Group has become one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies by promoting online shopping and now it appears that it is dipping its toes into out of home. It was announced this week that Alibaba Group will acquire a minority interest in China’s Focus Media Information Technology. Focus Media is of course one […]

Volta Charging last week announced the closing of a USD 35M Series C Funding Round. The round, designed to accelerate the rapid expansion of Volta’s Electric Vehicle (EV) charging and media network, is led by the Invenergy Future Fund, with both the Invenergy Future Fund and Activate Capital assuming Series C Board seats. This round […]

DCC plc (LSE: DCC), a support services business and one of the largest companies in Ireland, has acquired two companies worth a total of €124 million. Before its annual general meeting in Dublin last week it announced that it had acquired Stampede and Kondor. DCC plc employs 11,000 people in four divisions operating in 17 […]

Searchlight Capital Partners are no stranger to good investments in OOH (think Ocean Group, TouchTunes etc.) and now they’ve made an in interesting USD 225 million investment in Ad-tech company MediaMath. New York-based MediaMath has raised more than USD 500 million to date and this latest round values the company at north of USD one […]

Branded Cities has announced the acquisition of a substantial portion of the Chicago assets of Red Star Outdoor, further increasing Branded Cities‘ North American footprint. The all-cash deal adds 21 iconic billboard faces to Branded Cities’ collection of high-impact signage. The billboard inventory is concentrated throughout the heart of the downtown core in Chicago. Steven […]

Chargemaster, which was founded in 2008 and runs POLAR, the largest public charging network in the UK, with more than 6,500 charging points and approximately 40,000 customers (many of whom pay by a monthly subscription), has been acquired by BP for GBP 130M. Chargemaster will be rebranded BP Chargemaster.