UK start-up firms and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are set to get a GBP1.1m innovation boost to help them develop new ideas, improve processes and target new markets. A second wave of Innovation Vouchers is being made available through the Technology Strategy Board. The extra funding is for
Cortland Fund Services has been chosen by Singerman Real Estate to administer the firm’s private equity real estate fund, Singerman Real Estate Opportunity Fund I (SRE Fund I). Cortland will provide fund accounting, investor servicing, and other middle and back-office support and service for the Chicago-based investment firm’s fund. SRE
Elizabeth Conway, tax partner, Linklaters on the recent Swedish Administrative Court decision that carried interest should be deemed employment income… The private equity industry could be forgiven for wondering whether the Swedish Administrative Court’s decision last week on carried interest marks a turning point. The Swedish court held that carried
Blue Sage Capital, an Austin, Texas-based private investment firm, has held the first and final closing of its oversubscribed second fund, Blue Sage Capital II. Capital commitments totalled USD150m, above the USD100m target size. Blue Sage received strong support from existing investors as well as new limited partners. Blue Sage’s
By Jamie Berry, Chairman, Berry Asset Management – It was the night before Christmas; a solitary figure shuffled through the fast emptying streets around the Bank of England. The Christmas parties were coming to a close. He hadn’t been invited to any: his gloom laden Scrooge like views on markets
The UK Treasury has allocated Prudential Capital Group GBP200m from a total of GBP700m as part of a partnership to make more capital available to mid-sized UK businesses. Prudential Capital Group is an investment manager focused on providing capital for middle-market, public and private companies, and an investment business of
Costanoa Venture Capital has formally launched with a USD100m early-stage fund. The firm will focus on providing series A and seed investments from USD500,000 to USD3m in cloud-based services for businesses and consumers leveraging data and analytics. Founder and managing partner Greg Sands (pictured) started the firm after more than
Dutch private equity firm Egeria has reached a first and final close on its Egeria Private Equity Fund IV, successfully hitting the EUR600m hard-cap. The fund was oversubscribed, achieving the close after a swift and targeted fundraising that started mid-September. The fund will continue to target buy-out opportunities in the
Six months on from its launch in June, Cambridge & Counties Bank, which focuses on established small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), says it is on course to meet both its lending and deposit targets. The lending market continues to be difficult for SMEs, with recent research carried out by
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a national non-profit organisation, has launched an ESG Management Tool for the private equity industry. Created in collaboration with Irbaris, the tool defines for the first time the practices necessary to build a successful environmental, social and governance management programme and a framework to assess, analyse
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