German technology investor Target Partners posted the most active year for investment in 2015 since the founding of the firm in 1999, putting EUR25 million to work in 17 financing rounds for tech startups. New portfolio firms included Dedrone (drone protection, Kassel), Swarm64 (database acceleration, Berlin and Oslo), Sicoya (silicon
Relay Ventures Fund III and Relay Ventures Parallel Fund III have acquired over 6,666,667 units of Axios Mobile Assets Corp at a purchase price of CAD0.90 per unit on a private placement basis. Relay Ventures Fund III acquired 6,366,367 units and Relay Ventures Parallel Fund III acquired 300,300 units. Each
OrbiMed has held the closing of its next venture capital fund, OrbiMed Private Investments VI, LP, with USD950 million in limited partner commitments. Investors in the fund include some of the preeminent medical research institutions globally, along with leading endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds. Consistent with its predecessor
Eolus has, through its subsidiary Eolus North America, acquired two wind power projects under development in the state of Nevada. The transaction means that Eolus will acquire 100 per cent of the shares in the US companies Crescent Peak Renewables LLC and Comstock Wind LLC for the sum of 50 000
FGP Systems (FGP), a UK-based aerospace precision engineering company, is back in profit just three months after its acquisition out of administration by Cyrus Investment Management (CIM) with funds raised through the Cyrus Secured Loans Precision Engineering EIS Fund 1. FGP was acquired in September and following growth investment and
Private equity house WestBridge Capital has exited Aero Stanrew following its acquisition by TT Electronics plc, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications. WestBridge backed the GBP8.5 million management buyout of Aero Stanrew in February 2012 and has worked in partnership with the executive team for the
Octopus Ventures has invested GBP2 million in Segura Systems, a UK technology house delivering supply chain protection to a range of industries. The cloud-based technology creates a comprehensive audit trail that allows all businesses to track every element of their purchases, not only from direct suppliers but also throughout the
Hercules Technology Growth Capital has completed the previously-announced redemption of USD40.0 million of the USD85.9 million in issued and outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 7.00 per cent Senior Unsecured Notes due September 2019. The partial redemption of the Notes will result in an annual interest expense savings of
Global investment firm Summit Partners is taking a EUR31 million minority stake to support the growth of Signavio, a provider of SaaS-based software for business process and decision management. CMS Germany’s Berlin-based technology team headed by partners Dr Jörg Zätzsch, Jesko Nobiling and Dr Ole Jani advised the Signavio founders
Private equity firm Livingbridge has completed a GBP9.8 million investment in French restaurant group Le Bistrot Pierre, the Group’s first investment from its new, GBP220m, Enterprise 2 fund. Established as a single franchise restaurant in Nottingham in 1994 by school friends Robert Beacham and John Whitehead, Le Bistrot Pierre provides
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