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In today's business briefing, Remy and Robyn discuss the acquisition of a historic cricket club, multimillion pound investment for a green energy firm and the North West's top entrepreneurs.

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00:00The acquisition of a historic cricket club, multi-million pound investment for a green

00:04energy firm, and more of this year's 42 under 42.

00:08That's all coming up on today's Business Briefing.

00:15Hi, I'm Robin Hewson.

00:17I'm Remy Greasley.

00:18And welcome to today's Insider Business Briefing.

00:20So, Remy, what's your top story for today?

00:22Yes, so it's one from the world of green energy.

00:25Green energy firm GeoPure has secured 22 million.

00:28Wow.

00:29That's a big number.

00:30To fund renewable energy infrastructure and sort of support that whole transition to green

00:35energy.

00:36And the CFO for the company has called it a pivotal milestone.

00:40And it brings the total capital raised in the last two years by the company to a figure

00:45of $114 million.

00:46Wow.

00:47That's huge.

00:48That's a huge amount to have raised.

00:49Yeah.

00:50It really is, isn't it?

00:51And the money will be essential to accelerate their plans to build what's called a hydrogen

00:56power unit.

00:57So they're planning on building sort of globally over 3,600 of these things to sort of support

01:04that transition to green energy all across the world, I suppose.

01:08Yeah.

01:09Exciting times ahead.

01:10Have you got a story for us, Robin?

01:11Yeah.

01:12So over in the Northwest, we are focused on our 42 under 42 at the moment.

01:15So that's something that we do every year where we have the top up and coming entrepreneurs

01:20across the region.

01:22And what we're doing a little bit differently this year is we're releasing different sectors

01:26on the newsletter.

01:27So today's is tech and media.

01:29So some of the really interesting names on that list today include Ayaan Mohamad Ali,

01:34Digitech Oasis, if you've heard of them.

01:36I have heard of them, yeah.

01:37Yeah.

01:38So that is a company that is challenging the gender gap in the tech industry.

01:42So Ayaan started herself and has sort of grown it to have lots of different staff working

01:46for her.

01:47And they've even won a King's Award recently.

01:49So yeah, really exciting entrepreneur there.

01:52And another exciting one in the tech space is Eleanor Harry.

01:55So she founded HACE in 2020, which is a company that works with NGOs to try and eliminate

02:00child labor.

02:01Oh, wow.

02:02So yeah, really impressive.

02:03And Eleanor is actually speaking at our 42 under 42 event next week, which I think we're

02:09all really excited about.

02:10So if you're a former 42er or a current one from this year, you can join us at that event

02:14next week.

02:15So make sure to get your tickets and we can celebrate together.

02:18But yeah, if you want to see the rest of that list, it's in today's newsletter.

02:22And the full list with all the different sectors is also out in the November magazine.

02:26Yeah.

02:27So in the world of cricket, a deal has been struck for a Hampshire Cricket Club or specifically

02:34Hampshire Cricket Club down there.

02:36And yeah, so it will now be under new ownership after a majority stake was bought by GMR Group.

02:43And pretty much it's been called a landmark partnership.

02:46And they'll now see the new investments have committed to furthering the whole development

02:51of their cricket teams.

02:53And also enhancing its grounds, which is in Southampton.

02:56I'm not sure if you know the Utilita Bowl.

02:58Can't say I do.

02:59I know Northern cricket a little bit, but...

03:01I don't know anything.

03:02But yeah, back to you.

03:03Exciting.

03:04So yeah, that's all we've got time for today.

03:05If you want to hear more about any of the stories we've mentioned, you can go to our

03:12website insidermedia.com.

03:13And we'll be back tomorrow with more of the top business news from across the UK.

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