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Par Equity, the Edinburgh-based investment manager that specialises in early-stage technology businesses with high growth potential, increased its new investment activity to a record £12.4m in 2020. Despite the challenges of a year dominated by Covid-19, the company also continued its run of successful exits, which means it has now returned cash to investors every year since 2013. The year closed with Par having completed 35 investment transactions in 12 months, up from a previous high in 2019. Additions to the portfolio included the likes of SICCAR, an IT technology company that enables organisations to securely exchange information, for instance in a healthcare setting, and Integrated Graphene, an advanced materials business which has developed and patented a way to mass manufacture 3D graphene at low cost.