The UK Treasury’s Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund (CIIF), which is managed by Zouk Capital, has now reached a total of GBP380 million in signed commitments (against a target of GBP400 million) following a third close. The close was anchored from the private sector by Willis Towers Watson’s clients and investment funds
OnePlanetCapital has launched a specialist sustainability EIS Fund to invest in sectors including green tech, tech, fintech and broader B2C businesses. Founded in 2019 by entrepreneurs Matthew Jellicoe and Ed Stevens, together with Tony Flanagan of Wilton Group, the OnePlanetCapital fund will focus on climate change, the environment and consumer
KKR has held the final close of KKR Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors SCSp, a USD3.9 billion fund focused on infrastructure-related investments across Asia Pacific.
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund, a UK operational utility-scale battery storage fund, has completed the acquisition of the 25MW Tynemouth battery project located in North Shields, Tyne and Wear. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Fast-growth web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired UK-headquartered Pickaweb as part of its ongoing buy and build strategy.The acquisition of Pickaweb is the twelfth acquisition for Miss Group over the last two years, and adds a further 7,000 SME customers across the UK and Spain. Pickaweb will be integrated
Vypr plans to strengthen its sales and marketing operations as it invests in its team and expands into new sectors and overseas markets following a GBP2.5 million growth capital investment backed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM) through its British Smaller Companies VCTs.
BGF, the UK’s most active investor in growth economy businesses, has completed a multi-million pound investment in Cirrus, an award-winning provider of omnichannel cloud contact centre solutions.Founded in 2013 by Jason Roos, Cirrus’ software is used by private and public sector organisations looking to digitalise their customer service operations. The
Investec Bank (Investec) has held the first close of its inaugural debt fund, Investec Private Debt Fund I (PDFI), a discretionary direct lending fund with capital commitments of EUR165 million.Investec PDFI (the fund) is a close-ended Luxembourg-based special limited partnership focused on providing senior secured debt (including unitranche) and subordinated
Unreasonable Collective has held the close of its first syndicate investment in Air Protein, a pioneer in producing nutritious, ultra-sustainable, alternative proteins that can feed the world’s growing population sustainably, founded by Dr Lisa Dyson.The Series A is led by ADM Ventures, Barclays, and GV (formerly Google Ventures). Unreasonable
Business advisory firm Quantuma has provided lead advisory services to the shareholders of Leading Labels on the sale of their entire share capital to turnaround specialists Baaj Capital.
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