BBVA has formed BBVA Ventures, which will invest USD100m in start-ups looking to transform the financial services industry. Through this effort, BBVA will work with entrepreneurs and venture capital investors to broaden the bank’s understanding of emerging trends, helping advance innovative initiatives in banking and finance. Based in Silicon Valley,
Semetric, the global data analytics firm behind Musicmetric, has secured significant new financing from two key backers. The GBP3m (USD4.7m) investment comes from Imperial Innovations Group, the AIM-listed technology investment firm, and existing investor Pentech Ventures, a venture capital fund specialising in software investments. It follows previous investments totalling GBP1.7m
Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm led by serial entrepreneur Meyer “Micky” Malka, has raised USD100m in venture funding that will be aimed at driving innovation around the world in lending, payments, insurance, accounting, tax preparation and personal financial management. Ribbit targets disruptive, early-stage companies that leverage
Merger and acquisition activity is expected to increase in 2013, according to a survey conducted by KPMG, the US audit, tax and advisory firm, and the research practice unit of SourceMedia, the publisher of Mergers & Acquisitions. The survey of more than 300 M&A professionals in the US found that
International aircraft leasing group Avolon’s fleet reached 167 aircraft as at 31 December 2012 while total capital raised by the group has now exceeded USD5bn. During 2012, Avolon raised USD300m of new equity from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and USD1.3bn of new debt finance bringing total capital raised
Monroe Capital has provided a USD27m unitranche facility to support the sale of Collaborative Neuroscience Network (CNS Network) to a 100 per cent Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) owned corporation. This is the first transaction completed by Monroe Capital’s newly-formed national ESOP lending practice. ESOPs offer corporate and individual level
BuyBox, a social payment solution provider for e-merchants, has secured a EUR1.7m equity increase from Iris Capital and Midi Capital. This financing will be used to develop the product portfolio and international commercial deployment. Founded at then end of 2010, BuyBox is today a well used solution of social payment
PineBridge Investments is to make an equity investment of EUR26m in Work Service, a temporary staffing and personnel outsourcing company in Poland. As a result of this investment PineBridge will hold 20.02 per cent of the company’s share capital and will have two supervisory board seats. The agreement is subject
Enterprise cloud management company Intigua has secured USD8.6m in series A financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) with participation from seed investors Cedar Fund and individual investors. Intigua aims to solve a major challenge faced by IT when transitioning critical applications to cloud infrastructures: how to extend deeply-embedded and
Avolon, the international aircraft leasing business, is to partner with Wells Fargo, a diversified financial services company, to form a new joint venture aircraft leasing business called Avolon Capital Partners (ACP). The formation of ACP is subject to a number of regulatory approvals. Since its inception in 2010, Avolon has
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