Vauban Infrastructure Partners (Vauban), an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has acquired a majority stake in Progeni, a special purpose vehicle that manages the concession contract for the provision of non-medical services for the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, Italy. The sellers were mostly composed of Italian industrial players (CMB, Gemmo, Coopservice,
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has sold its stake in Agilitas IT Solutions Limited (Agilitas) to international private equity investor Perwyn, providing NVM funds with an 8.4x return.
FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), the developers of what is claims is the world’s lightest power to weight e-Bike motor, has secured GBP1.85 million from a heavily over-subscribed funding round. The new investment will support a move to a new headquarters and R&D facility in East Kilbride and further strengthen the team
Ekimetrics, a European specialist in data science solutions, has secured fresh investment from two minority shareholders: Tikehau Capital – via its growth capital fund, which was recently awarded the “Relance” label – and Bpifrance – via its MidCap fund. The founders of Ekimetrics, who will retain a controlling stake, hope to invest
Cinven, an international private equity firm, and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, are to acquire Compre, a specialist global consolidator of closed books of non-life insurance policies, from CBPE Capital LLP. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Compre is focused
By Gregory Bowes, co-founder and managing principal and Irene Rivera Calderón, associate at Albright Capital – Thoughtful investors will want to pursue investment strategies that can potentially achieve the equivalent to baseball’s rare “triple play,” ie, (i) attractive risk-adjusted returns, (ii) portfolio diversification benefits, and (iii) positive social impact. Providing
Innovative investment technology platform Vauban, which has seen over 120 digital Funds launched on its platform, has raised GBP1.6 million in Seed funding from leading tech investors. Europe’s most active proptech VC company, Pi Labs, is joined by Kima Ventures, Westloop Ventures, Argonautic Ventures and UFP Fintech, as Vauban leads
Newable Ventures and Bristol Private Equity Club (BPEC) have secured GBP10 million in new funding from British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, to fund early stage businesses across the UK. The GBP10 million commitment from British Business Investments’ Regional Angels Programme will be invested by
Mid-market private equity firm LDC and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), have agreed the sale of NBS to Byggfakta Group, a data and software provider to the European construction industry headquartered in Sweden and backed by private equity firms Stirling Square Capital Partners and TA Associates. Financial details
Longship, a Norway-based, lower mid-market buyout specialist, has closed its second buyout fund at its hard cap of NOK1.7 billion (cEUR160 million). The announcement of Fund II comes less than five years after Fund I closed. Longship now manages NOK3.1 billion (cEUR 300 million) in aggregated capital commitments across its
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