Inflexion Private Equity is to carve out GfK’s animal and crop health business, a provider of agricultural data and market information, from the Frankfurt-listed global market research organisation. GfK’s animal and crop health business delivers innovative, data driven market information to the agriculture and animal health markets, providing detailed insights
Fossil Group is to acquire Misfit, a specialist in wearable technology and connected devices. The acquisition will enable Fossil Group to expand its addressable market, offering consumers both traditional timepieces and fashionable connected accessories. Misfit brings to Fossil Group a scalable cloud and app platform, a world-class software and hardware
White Star Capital, a transatlantic Venture Capital fund with offices in London, New York and Montreal, has closed its first institutional fund with USD70 million in Limited Partner commitments. White Star Capital will deploy between USD500,000 and USD5 million in initial investments into companies in North America and Western Europe.
NexusCrowd has launched a new real estate redevelopment project on its online investment platform, after partnering with Downing Street Realty Partners, a Toronto-based real estate investment manager and merchant bank. Downing Street is the lead investor for the CAD12 million project, which includes three industrial properties in the Greater Toronto
Some 80 per cent of limited partners (LPs) have seen their co-investments outperforming private equity funds, with 46 per cent seeing their co-investments outperform by a margin of over 5 per cent, according to a survey by Preqin. This level of performance is the biggest draw for investors, with two-thirds
Funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management are to acquire RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. RegionalCare is the owner and operator of eight market-leading, non-urban hospitals located in Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Iowa, Montana, Ohio, and Texas. The transaction, which is conditioned on customary regulatory reviews and
Infrastucture fundraising hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2015 according to Inframation Group’s 3Q15 Infrastructure Fundraising review. The two largest unlisted infrastructure funds ever raised, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, kicked off fundraising of USD15 billion and USD10 billion respectively. GIP’s fund is due to
Elevar Equity has held the final close of Elevar Equity III (EE III) at USD74 million. EE III is focused on commercial investments in early stage companies providing financial services, education, housing and healthcare to low-income communities primarily in India and Latin America. With the new fund, Elevar manages over
Amicus Finance is to launch a new commercial finance business dedicated to serving the small business and professional services communities. Amicus Commercial Finance will be led by two highly experienced and proven market specialists, John Wilde and David Hogg, who built SME Invoice Finance Limited (SMEIF) from start-up in 2000
Rakuten has launched the Rakuten FinTech Fund, a USD100 million global investment fund focused on investments in disruptive early to mid-stage fintech startups that offer ‘attractive return potential with strategic relevance’. The fund will target investments in startups and growth companies primarily in the US and Europe and build on
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