SVG Capital has completed the sale of 50.1 per cent of SVG Advisers to Aberdeen Asset Management. The combined business will be branded Aberdeen SVG and will be led by SVG Capital’s chief executive Lynn Fordham (pictured). Aberdeen SVG brings together SVG Advisers’ and Aberdeen’s private equity teams’
SoftBank Capital, a venture group affiliated with Japan’s SoftBank Corp, has raised an additional USD51.02m to invest in early-stage New York State technology startups. The additional capital extends SoftBank Capital’s position as a complete early-to-late stage investment partner with an ongoing commitment to New York’s emerging technology scene. SoftBank
Funky Chunky, a Consolidated Investment Group (CIG) company, has acquired the assets of Gracious Gifts, the creators of FunkyChunky and its line of customised gifts and artisanal gourmet snack items. “Funky Chunky will use the knowledge, vision, resources, and management expertise of Consolidated Investment Group to grow FunkyChunky into
TuneIn, a service for listening to the world’s radio, has completed a USD25m round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. TuneIn has also surpassed one billion listening hours in the first four months of
Mid-market private equity specialist Graphite Capital has sold Aberdeen-based oilfield services company Dominion Gas to Praxair. Praxair is a US-based Fortune 500 industrial gases group listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which conducts business in over 50 countries. With facilities in the UK, Norway, Singapore and West
Private equity and venture capital investment in Latin America soared to USD11.6bn in 2012, the second highest level in the past decade and more than double the performance in 2011, according to Venture Equity Latin America, an annual report from Thomson Reuters. The report describes the deal, fundraising, and exit
British Columbia Discovery Fund (VCC), a venture capital investment fund managed by Discovery Capital Management Corp (DCMC), has exercised warrants previously issued to it in May 2011 to purchase 1,153,846 common shares of its portfolio company, Vigil Health Solutions. These shares represent nine per cent of the outstanding common
Octopus has led a GBP2.95m investment round into Conversocial, a specialist in social customer service solutions whose clients include Tesco, Waitrose, Barclaycard, Groupon, Hertz and Net-A-Porter. With consumers increasingly using social media as a channel to communicate with businesses, Conversocial has developed a social media engagement system for customer
Venture capital performance for the 10-year horizon continued its upward climb for 11th consecutive quarter, as returns across the one, three, five and 20- year horizons fell slightly as of 31 December 2012, according to the Cambridge Associates US Venture Capital Index, the performance benchmark of the National Venture Capital
Littlejohn & Co, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, has made an equity investment in Gulf Coast Shipyard Group, a manufacturer of ocean-going and inland marine vessels for commercial and military markets under the brand name TY Offshore, as well as superyachts under the brand name Trinity Yachts.
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