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Bacchus Capital Management invests in Maritime Wine Trading Collective

Bacchus Capital Management, a San Francisco-based private equity firm providing capital in the wine industry, has provided growth capital to Maritime Wine Trading Collective, a boutique wine import, production, and distribution company based in San Francisco. Concurrent with the Bacchus investment, Maritime is adding Nine North Brands to its portfolio.

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KarpReilly closes fund II

KarpReilly, a consumer-focused lower middle market private equity firm, has held the final closing of KarpReilly Capital Partners II (KRCP II) with total capital commitments of approximately USD210m.  In conjunction with the closing of this second fund, KarpReilly also closed KarpReilly Co-Investment Fund II, with approximately USD150m of additional capital. 

BBVA to invest USD100m in innovative companies

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 secures GBP3m to expand Musicmetric and target new sectors

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

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Ribbit Capital closes USD100m venture capital fund

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

M&A activity to increase in 2013, says KPMG survey

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

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Avolon fleet reaches 167 aircraft with USD5.1bn capital raised

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

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Monroe Capital provides USD27m for Collaborative Neuroscience Network ESOP transaction

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 raises EUR1.7m equity from Iris Capital and Midi Capital

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 to invest EUR26m in Work Service

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

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