FreemarketFX, the peer-to-peer currency exchange has closed its latest Angel investment round and has surpassed its fundraising target to raise a final investment sum of GBP670,000. This brings the total raised by freemarketFX, in the last eight months, to just over GBP1.25 million. freemarketFX was publicly launched in January 2015.
Featuring the latest data, this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Equity, Q2 2015 looks at the rising amount of dry powder in the industry and up-to-date performance statistics. With the fundraising market remaining robust and average final close sizes climbing, dry powder has continued to increase. The level
Community Intervention Services, a portfolio company of HIG Growth Partners (HIG), has completed the acquisition of Futures Behavior Therapy Center, LLC (Futures). CIS was established by HIG in partnership with behavioural healthcare executive Kevin Sheehan, to acquire, develop and operate a national network of specialised behavioural health treatment facilities and
Private equity firm GTCR’s portfolio company Capella Healthcare, is to be acquired by Medical Properties Trust, a Birmingham, Alabama based self-advised real estate investment trust, for USD900 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close during the second half of 2015, following customary regulatory approvals. GTCR formed Capella in
Gloo Networks plc, a technology company established to acquire and operate companies in the media sector, is seeking admission of its shares to trading on AIM. The Company, which is led by digital transformation experts Rebecca Miskin, Chief Executive Officer (pictured), and Juan Lopez-Valcarcel, Chief Product and Operations Officer, intends
Expensify has launched Expensify Ventures, a new, strategic investment fund for early-stage startups in the growing financial technology sector. “Everyday, we meet with entrepreneurs and companies that have awesome ideas when it comes to solving some of the corporate world’s biggest pain points, and making life easier for both employees
The Sterling Group, a middle market private equity firm based in Houston, Texas, has closed on USD1.25 billion in investor commitments for its most recent fund, Sterling Group Partners IV. Fund IV was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap in three months. Consistent with Sterling's successful 33-year history, Fund
Hedge funds are on track to deliver solid returns in July, up 1.4 per cent month to date (0.4 per cent last week). In line with our overweight recommendation, CTAs and Global Macro managers outperformed other hedge fund strategies. Meanwhile, Event-Driven managers underperformed both last week and on a month-to-date
The ‘flowers through the letterbox’ gifting companyBloom & Wild has has raised a GBP2.5m Series A funding round, led by MMC Ventures, alongside existing angel investors including Samos, Catamaran Ventures and Scott Sage. Launched in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild have developed a unique flower
GSR Capital is launching a new USD5 billion mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fund, which will target cross-border buyouts and M&A of industrial and emerging technology companies with multi-billion dollar scaling opportunities in China. The GSR Global M&A fund is anchored with USD1billion committed from GSR GO Scale Capital Limited Partners
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