Scottish early-stage companies received over GBP15.6m through angel investment during the first nine months of this year, compared with GBP12.4m during the same period in 2011. This is according to figures published by the national business angel association LINC Scotland This significant increase in funding equates to 26 per cent
Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen (pictured), Head of Strategy at ING Investment Management on the outcome of the US presidential election… The combination of an Obama win and divided Congress was our and the market’s base case expectation and is therefore not expected to have a major impact on market sentiment. It
Turkish financial services company Ulusal Faktoring has closed its inaugural domestic bond offering. Blue-chip Turkish corporates, qualified high-net-worth individuals and a diverse number of institutional investors subscribed to the TRY60m (USD34m) private placement. Izak Koenka, chief executive of Ulusal Faktoring, says: “We are very pleased our first capital markets
The Riverside Company has completed its 300th acquisition with a deal to purchase Learning Seat, an Australian provider of online learning and compliance courses. It is the first investment of the firm’s affiliated Riverside Asia-Pacific Fund II. “Few private equity firms have the privilege to invest in so many
Changes in the way food is grown will soon represent risk to existing dominant players worldwide and create new opportunities in agriculture, according to a report by cleantech analysis and consulting company Kachan & Co. Increasing population, climate change, rising fossil fuel prices, ecosystem degradation and water and land scarcity
Nineteen per cent of private equity companies plan to invest in the manufacturing sector over next 12 months, according to the 2013 Capital Markets Report by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. Overall, private equity investors said that they expect further increases in demand for private equity, deal
Wall Street professionals can expect to receive flat to moderately larger year-end incentive payouts compared to the previous year, according to an annual compensation analysis released by Johnson Associates. The analysis found that this year’s incentives results are an improvement over 2011, when incentives fell sharply throughout the financial services
The outcome of this week’s US Presidential election will hopefully provide us with a signal for the direction of economic policy in a number of key areas. The most important of these is the “fiscal cliff” – a potent combination of lower spending and higher taxes which, in the absence
RRE Ventures has successfully closed the RRE Ventures V fund with capital commitments of USD230 million. RRE is a New York City-based venture capital firm focused on companies that leverage technologies to disrupt and transform many of the world’s major industries. Led by Co-Managing Partners James D Robinson IV and Stuart J
BVCA Chief Executive Mark Florman (pictured) welcomes Lord Heseltine’s ‘radical report on wealth creation… Lord Heseltine’s radical report looking at the urgency of reforms to unleash growth and wealth creation in Britain makes for compelling reading. His emphasis on a strategy for the cities and regions, not just London, is
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