Kellogg Company is establishing eighteen94 capital (1894) to make minority investments in companies pursuing next-generation innovation, bolstering access to cutting-edge ideas and trends. The investment mandate includes start-up businesses pioneering new ingredients, foods, packaging, and enabling technology. "As consumer preferences move toward more diverse tastes and trends, the pace of
Coriance, a French district heating company which is currently owned by KKR’s infrastructure funds and a co-investor, is to be acquired by First State Investments managed infrastructure funds. The proposed transaction is subject to customary approvals. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Coriance operates a portfolio of 29 regulated district
Dataloop.IO has raised USD5 million in Series A financing from Battery Ventures and Open Ocean, a European early-stage venture capital firm. Dataloop.IO — whose product is already in use with customers such as Moz.com, BBC Worldwide and Criteo — will use the funds to ramp up product development, sales and
BASF Venture Capital America has acquired EnerG2, a manufacturer of advanced carbon materials for next-generation energy storage devices. The two entities have had a strategic partnership since 2014. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. “Under BASF’s roof, EnerG2 will continue to develop innovative, high-performance materials,” says Dr
Tech-focused private equity firm Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation are to acquire the Dell Software Group from Dell Inc. The agreement bolsters Francisco Partners and Elliott Management’s technology portfolios with the addition of Dell Software’s diverse combination of security, systems and information management, and data analytics solutions. “We founded
Noerr has advised the Volartus Group on its purchase of HeliService International. Noerr acted for the Volartus Group with a team led by the Munich corporate partners Dr. Tobias Koppmann and Dr. Florian Becker. With a workforce of over 60, HeliService international GmbH operates a helicopter transport service for persons
Private equity firm Inflexion’s portfolio company, CableCom Networking, has acquired fast-growing utilities business Glide. The acquisition has the potential to revolutionise the student and shared housing market by giving landlords and tenants a simpler, faster way to connect, communicate and manage bills. The deal will boost CableCom’s growth, by widening
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
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