Outward VC Fund, a venture capital fund that invests at late-seed to series A stage in fintech category companies headquartered in the UK, has held a first close of its inaugural fund at approximately half of its GBP75 million target. The Fund’s founding investors, Investec Bank plc and NIBC, are
Middle market private equity firm HGGC is to acquire all outstanding shares of Monotype Holdings’s common stock for USD19.85 per share in cash, representing an aggregate equity value of approximately USD825 million. The USD19.85 per share cash consideration represents a premium of approximately 23 per cent to Monotype’s closing share
CAPZA, a private investment platform focused on small and midcaps, has joined forces with the management team at ITAL Express to buy the company as part of a majority LBO, the aim being to help the company shore up its growth. ITAL Express was founded in 1975 and is among
Schroders will acquire a majority stake in impact investor BlueOrchard, which was Founded in 2001, as one of the world’s first commercial managers of microfinance debt investments. Today, the firm offers investors premium impact investment solutions across asset classes, including credit, private equity and sustainable infrastructure and is an expert
With interest in infrastructure investing increasing significantly in recent years, AMP Capital’s David Rees explains how asset managers are looking to new technology to bring PE-like rigour to the sector and add value for investors… The McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2019 (Private markets come of age) notes that infrastructure expanded
UK-based videogame publisher Outright Games has signed a deal with specialist financier ExWorks Capital in order to support its expansion aims. The funding will contribute towards Outright Games’ growth ambitions, helping to further their plans for global expansion and welcoming a host of exciting new partners. Founded in 2016, Outright
Crypta Labs has completed a GBP2.7 million (USD3.4m) funding round led by Bloc Ventures and includes GBP1,000,000 (USD1.3m) debt finance from Innovate UK. Crypta Labs is a quantum cybersecurity company which develops IP, hardware and related software using the quantum properties of light to secure highly critical data and communication
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the burgeoning cryptoasset industry, has closed its first equity funding round, led by North Island, the investment firm of prominent technology investor and Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, along with his son, James Hutchins. After launching the Digital Assets
Macfarlanes has advised a fund managed by secondary private equity firm Glendower Capital on the acquisition of a circa 40 per cent stake in the famous London department store Liberty in a deal valuing the business at around GBP300 million. Liberty, which was founded in 1875, is a world-renowned store
Keensight Capital is to acquire a majority stake in Smile, a European specialist in digital and open source. Keensight Capital, which has built a strong partnership with Smile over the years having first invested in the company from 2013 to 2017, will replace Eurazeo PME as majority shareholder. Eurazeo PME
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