Industry Ventures has held the closing of Industry Ventures Secondary VIII, a USD500 million secondary fund focused on providing exit alternatives for venture capital investments. Additionally, the firm closed a USD200 million Special Opportunities Fund that enables the firm to invest in larger transactions in parallel to the main fund.
Brookfield Asset Management has completed the spin-off of Brookfield Business Partners, the primary public vehicle through which Brookfield will own and operate the business services and industrial operations of its private equity group on a global basis. "The spin-off of Brookfield Business Partners completes the fourth pillar of our strategy
VCT provider Octopus has announced a successful exit for investors in its GBP300 million Octopus Titan VCT (Titan VCT) as Twitter acquired portfolio company Magic Pony Technology, a technology company which has pioneered new machine learning techniques for visual processing. Stuart Lewis, VCT Business Line Manager at Octopus, says: “There’s
The UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF) is making an investment of up to GBP1 million in biopharmaceutical company, Freeline Therapeutics (Freeline). Freeline is developing and commercialising gene therapies for bleeding and other life threatening or debilitating disorders. The therapies, which are from one single treatment, have the potential to provide long-term
Foreign investment rules should be relaxed to encourage a new wave of offshore funding and quarterly R&D tax credits introduced to help innovative, cash-poor firms as part of a bold blueprint to develop a high-tech Australian economy. On the eve of the 2016 federal election, AVCAL, Australia’s peak body for
transcosmos is to make an additional investment in UNQ (Shanghai) Co, a China-based e-commerce distributor. transcosmos is the second largest shareholder in the company after Wang Yong, President & Founder of UNQ. With this additional investment, transcosmos’s ownership ratio in the company increases from 26.3 per cent to 39.9 per
Quilvest Private Equity sold its cornerstone shareholding in Acrotec Group to funds advised by Castik Capital alongside the Management team. The acquisition, with an enterprise value of circa CHF280 million (EUR255 million), is the culmination of a common intiative by Management and Quilvest Private Equity to find a suitable long-term
eQ Asset Management held a record final closing of 160 million euros for the Northern Europe focused eQ PE VIII North Fund. In a very fast fund raising cycle, the fund held first closing in February 2016. eQ PE VIII North is a private equity fund of funds investing equity
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has made an investment in Geropharm, a Russian pharmaceutical company, specialising in restoring brain function and the treatment of diabetes. This investment utilises the mechanism designed to promote the development of companies with significant export potential. The proceeds will be used by Geropharm
Beacon Rail Leasing, a Pan-European rolling stock lessor, has closed on the acquisition of Ascendos Rail Leasing, a European locomotive and rolling stock leasing company, having received clearance from the German competition authorities. The combined Beacon and Ascendos portfolio includes 225 locomotives and over 1,000 freight wagons on lease in
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