Pan-Africa private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners has made a US$32 million investment into IHS, a leading telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider. IHS was founded in 2001 and has grown into one of the leading tower infrastructure companies in Africa. The Company offers an end-to-end suite of telecoms infrastructure solutions and

EMPEA has been selected as a Strategic Data Partner and emerging markets private capital data provider for the Private Capital Research Institute (PCRI) global research initiative, led by Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner. The PCRI aims to facilitate high quality academic research on the nature and impact of private

The UK’s Business Growth Fund (BGF) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Scottish Investment Bank’s (SIB) Scottish Venture Fund to boost availability of equity funding for ambitious Scottish businesses. The partnership will create significant potential investment opportunities of up to GBP10 million for Scottish businesses with a solid

JZ Capital Partners Limited, the London listed private equity fund that invests in high quality US and European micro cap companies, has realised its investment in Dantom Systems, Inc (Dantom) for USD40.5 million. The realisation represents a 4.8x multiple of equity capital invested, and a 27.5% IRR. The price realised

Matrix Private Equity Partners has agreed to sell portfolio company App-DNA Group Limited for USD92 million (c. GBP58 million) to Citrix Systems Inc, subject to final contract.   Total proceeds from the exit will be approximately GBP16.4 million for the Matrix advised fund, The Income & Growth VCT plc. This

Rockbridge Growth Equity, LLC, a Detroit-based private equity firm that invests in financial and business services, consumer-direct marketing, and sports, media and entertainment industries, has led the acquisition of Purchasing Power, LLC, a niche e-commerce business that provides employers a unique benefit to offer their employees:  the opportunity to leverage

Mattel is to acquire HIT Entertainment for USD680 million in cash from a consortium led by Apax Partners funds. HIT Entertainment owns a global portfolio of popular preschool brands, including Thomas & Friends®, Barney, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam and Angelina Ballerina. With more than USD180 million of revenues, HIT

CDC Group plc (CDC), the UK’s development finance institution (DFI), has announced a new USD50 million investment in the first-ever equity investment fund to focus on the very poorest parts of India. CDC is an anchor investor in the Pragati Venture and Incubator Fund (‘Pragati’) and has played a significant

Aura Capital, a Finnish venture capital firm, has divested its share in Fromdistance, a device management software company, to the American-based Numara Software. Aura Capital invested in Fromdistance in 2008.    Fromdistance, founded in 2004, is a software company specialised in device management and sophisticated mobile applications for business use.