Octopus has taken a 12.3 per cent stake in European impact investment bank ClearlySo as part of a GBP1.25 million growth funding round. Octopus will become the largest single institutional investor in the firm and Octopus Co-Founder Chris Hulatt will join the ClearlySo board as a non-executive director. The investment
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility (including an undrawn revolving credit facility) to support the acquisition of Ashley Stewart by its senior management and an affiliate of The Invus Group. Ashley Stewart, founded in 1991 and based
CHRONEXT, a curated online marketplace for luxury watches, has closed a series C financing round of EUR11 million led by Partech Ventures and joined by new backer Octopus Ventures alongside existing investors, Capnamic Ventures, NRW.BANK and InVenture Partners. Founded in 2013 in Switzerland, CHRONEXT is a secure marketplace where new
WorldQuant Ventures, an angel investment firm focused on disruptive companies in technology, has invested in Cycle Computing, a specialist in Big Compute software. WorldQuant Ventures’ investment allows Cycle Computing to expand access for financial services companies to flexible and affordable cloud-based computing solutions. “We are excited to announce our
Vivo Capital, a global healthcare investment firm, has closed a new healthcare venture capital focused fund, the Vivo PANDA Fund, at over USD100 million. Vivo plans to invest the capital primarily in innovative early-stage healthcare companies across the industry spectrum, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics. The addition of
NextEnergy Capital Group (NEC) has held the first close of NextPower II, a private equity fund focused on acquiring operating solar power projects in Italy. NextPower II has secured an initial commitment of EUR150 million, and will begin deploying capital imminently. NextPower II’s strategy is to consolidate the large but
Specialist finance and advisory firm TCA Fund Management Group Corp is planning to launch a small-cap private equity fund to invest in under-served growth stage companies, primarily in the US and UK. TCA Opportunities Fund I, LP, registered with the Guernsey Financial Services Commission will seek just to target 15
Private equity firm Inflexion’s portfolio company Succession has secured an investment package of over GBP25 million from HSBC and its existing shareholders, to continue its growth strategy through the acquisition of the best 50 firms from its affiliated membership by the end of 2017. In the last three years Succession
Two thirds of Limited Partners (LPs) believe that the rapid growth of private equity ‘shadow capital’ – direct investments, co-investments and separate accounts – will reduce the returns of commingled private equity funds, according to Coller Capital. The firm’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer explains the popularity of co-investments, a
Daphne Dufresne, Managing Director and founding partner of RLJ Equity Partners, is to leave the firm to pursue smaller, higher growth companies which are outside of the investment scope of the firm. Dufresne will continue to serve as a Special Advisor to RLJ. Rufus Rivers, RLJ Equity Partners' Managing Partner,
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