SEP has led a £5 million financing round for Metaforic, a company based in Glasgow and California, which has developed software that is highly effective in combating piracy and hacker attacks.

Skyscanner has launched a new facility which allows travellers to tweet destinations and dates and get an immediate tweet back with the best deal available and a link allowing them to buy a flight.

ARKeX provides geophysical surveys for the oil, gas and mineral exploration industry and has secured a contract with Saudi Aramco to deploy its BlueQube gravity gradiometry technology in a marine survey of three blocks off the western coast of Saudi Arabia.

SEP has led a £17.5 million financing round to take a minority stake in Media Ingenuity, a fast growing online marketing technology company, which owns financial comparison site, TotallyMoney.com, and is the UK’s largest online advertiser of financial services.

SEP has closed a Series B round multi-million Euros investment in Hetras, which has developed innovative hotel management software, investing in the business alongside German early stage venture investor, Target Partners. Hetras, which is based in Zell am See in Austria, is the first integrated software as a service (SaaS) offering in the international hotel industry, combining a unique blend of core functions including reservations and guest profiles on a single cost-effective system.