In an extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Real Estate, Q2 2015, we investigate private real estate funds currently seeking investor commitments, featuring the latest data. The number and aggregate target capital of closed-end private real estate funds in market has remained relatively consistent during Q2, with 417 vehicles looking
Private equity fundraising is analyzed in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Equity, Q2 2015, featuring the latest data and breakdowns by fund strategy and geographic focus. Following the typical drop-off in the number of funds closed from Q4 to Q1, Preqin’s Q2 2015 data shows a levelling
Main Street Hub has closed a USD25 million Series C equity financing round from Vista Equity Partners. The investment will support the company’s rapid growth, which includes plans to introduce several new product offerings and hire 300 employees in its Austin and New York offices by the end of the
Fuel.Ventures, a newly formed fund led by one of Europe’s leading technology entrepreneurs and investors, Mark Pearson (pictured), partnered with Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs to give everyday investors access to a pipeline of high growth European e-commerce start-ups. To date, 274 investors have helped the fund push past
International investment bank Altium has had a strong start to 2015, advising on 26 deals worth GBP5.4 billion. The first half has seen a team, led by CEO Phil Adams, advise on the GBP1.9 billionn sale of UK retail business New Look to South African investment company Brait. Altium also
Exponent Private Equity (Exponent) is to acquire The BBI Diagnostics Group (BBI), a provider of products and technologies to the diagnostic, healthcare, research, defence and food industries, from Alere Inc for USD164 million. Founded in 1986, BBI became a listed company on London’s AIM market in 2004, before being acquired
Preqin’s Real Estate Online provides comprehensive information on 76 institutional investors based in Chicago that actively invest in real estate, which collectively represent over USD57 billion invested in the asset class. Nearly a quarter of all institutional real estate investors based in Chicago are foundations (Fig 1), closely followed by
BaltCap has sold its 48 per cent shareholding in the Latvian moulded fibre manufacturing company VLT Ltd. BaltCap invested in the company back in 2004 to finance two rounds of expansion of production capacity. While post crisis economic environment proved challenging to sustain growth of the company, the moulded fibre
Private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has acquired Avalign Technologies from RoundTable Healthcare Partners. Avalign is a manufacturer of implants and instruments, specialty instrumentation, cutting tools, and cases and trays to the orthopedic medical device and specialty surgical markets. Avalign offers its OEM partners a broad portfolio of manufacturing solutions
Red Rocks Capital’s Global Listed Private Equity (GLPE) finished the second quarter of 2015 up 5.59 per cent, compared to 0.47 per cent for the MSCI World Index. For the first two quarters of 2015, the GLPE index is up 11.20 per cent, compared to 2.97 per cent for the
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