Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, has set up its third fund with EUR150 million. “Robert Bosch Venture Capital successfully shapes the innovation leadership of Bosch through valuable connections to the start-up ecosystem”, says Dr Volkmar Denner, Chairman of the Board of
Tim Draper, founder of DFJ and the Draper Venture Network and early investor in Skype, Baidu, Tesla, TwitchTV, Hotmail, Cruise Automation, and Thumbtack, has closed a USD190 million early stage venture fund under the brand Draper Associates. Draper Associates has historically been a personal investment vehicle for Draper, and this
A GBP1 trillion coalition of 54 institutional investors, including Aviva Investors, Natixis, ACTIAM, Mirova, Coller Capital and Strathclyde Pension Fund, has launched an engagement campaign with ten of the biggest US and UK restaurant chains, to call for an end to non-therapeutic use of antibiotics important to human health in
Livingston-based Touch Bionics, the developer and manufacturer of upper limb prosthetic technologies, has been sold by its shareholders – including Archangel Investors, Scottish Investment Bank and management – to Össur Hf, the Iceland-based provider of prosthetic, bracing and supports solutions, in a GBP27.5 million deal. Touch Bionics was the first
The UK was the number one major European economic target for inbound deals from the emerging markets during the second half of 2015, according to KPMG’s Cross-Border Deals Tracker. The dataset analysed deal flows between 15 developed economies (or groups of economies) such as UK, US, Oceania, and Hong Kong
Octopus Investments’ Octopus Titan Venture Capital Trust (Titan VCT) has raised a record GBP100 million. This is the largest ever fundraise for Titan VCT, the UK’s biggest Venture Capital Trust (VCT). The news follows swiftly on the heels of the latest figures from the Association of Investment Companies, which revealed
Law firm Paul Hastings is advising COSCO (Hong Kong) Group Limited (COSCO HK) on its acquisition of 67 per cent of Piraeus Port Authority SA. COSCO HK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company. This marks one of the most high profile Greek privatisations of recent years
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has joined Georgia based JAM Capital Partners to raise a new USD100 million fund to invest in fast growing and innovative businesses in the Southeast. JAM Capital Partners is a private investment partnership that makes majority and minority investments in lower middle market growth companies.
Harvest Capital Credit Corporation (Harvest) closed a USD10.8 million junior secured debt financing for Yucatan Foods in support of a recapitalisation, as well as to finance the Company’s long-term strategic growth initiatives. The debt financing was comprised of two tranches; an USD8.2 million junior secured subordinated debt investment and a
Diversis Capital,, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and growing small- and middle-market companies, has acquired the majority of the assets of Caligor Rx, Inc. Based in Secaucus, New Jersey with an additional facility in Dartford, UK, Caligor provides services that enable pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to
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