Weinberg Capital has acquired shares in the Bourdoncle group, a key player in the French bistro-catering industry. This is the fifth acquisition of Weinberg Capital’s fund LBO WCP#3. Led by catering specialist Thierry Bourdoncle, the group currently owns 16 establishments in Paris (Durand Dupont in Neuilly, Le Dôme de
Finance for Tomorrow has announced the launch of Investors for a Just Transition, the first global investor engagement coalition focused on promoting a socially acceptable environmental transition to low-carbon economies.
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP250,000 in Boiler Plan to support the company’s growth and training centre in Featherstone, West Yorkshire. The transaction also includes a GBP500,000 investment from the North East Development
Velocity Ventures, a hospitality and travel-focused venture capital firm based in Singapore, announces the initial closing of the first-ever venture capital fund dedicated to hospitality and travel startups. The fund has a Covid-19 themed investment mandate, focusing on supporting distressed and disrupting seed and early growth stage hospitality and travel
Novalis Biotech, an early-stage venture capital investor in technologies aimed at revolutionising healthcare, has closed its EUR25 million second fund, the Novalis Biotech Acceleration Fund. Both new and returning investors have participated in the fundraising. The second fund investor base includes institutional investors, such as Participatie Maatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV), family
Investcorp has invested in Heritage Foods, a buy-and-build platform of condiments and sauces brands with long-standing heritage in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. The transaction was in partnership with China Resources and Fung Strategic Holdings Limited and concluded through the Asia Food Growth Fund I, a dedicated private equity fund
Ladi Greenstreet and Daisy Onubogu have taken over the leadership of Diversity VC, as CEO and COO respectively. The new leadership team was selected following a competitive application process using blind hiring platform Applied, and were assessed by independent VC and technology professionals. Diversity VC has been led by
The Project Finance Exchange (PFX), a ‘closed’ marketplace where capital-raising construction and infrastructure projects can connect and engage seamlessly with private fund managers, has grown to over USD30 billion aggregate capital available within its first three months of opening in April. Read the full story at Property Funds World…
Thymia has raised a GBP780k/USD1.1 million in a pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression. The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect
CAPZA has acquired a majority stake in Web Geo Services, a French API platform publisher and Google Maps’ partner operating in the booming “Location Based Services (LBS)” market. Founded in 2009, Web Geo Services has built its reputation by becoming the Google Maps No1 Partner and reseller of Google Maps
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