The UK Treasury has allocated Prudential Capital Group GBP200m from a total of GBP700m as part of a partnership to make more capital available to mid-sized UK businesses. Prudential Capital Group is an investment manager focused on providing capital for middle-market, public and private companies, and an investment business of
Costanoa Venture Capital has formally launched with a USD100m early-stage fund. The firm will focus on providing series A and seed investments from USD500,000 to USD3m in cloud-based services for businesses and consumers leveraging data and analytics. Founder and managing partner Greg Sands (pictured) started the firm after more than
Dutch private equity firm Egeria has reached a first and final close on its Egeria Private Equity Fund IV, successfully hitting the EUR600m hard-cap. The fund was oversubscribed, achieving the close after a swift and targeted fundraising that started mid-September. The fund will continue to target buy-out opportunities in the
Six months on from its launch in June, Cambridge & Counties Bank, which focuses on established small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), says it is on course to meet both its lending and deposit targets. The lending market continues to be difficult for SMEs, with recent research carried out by
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a national non-profit organisation, has launched an ESG Management Tool for the private equity industry. Created in collaboration with Irbaris, the tool defines for the first time the practices necessary to build a successful environmental, social and governance management programme and a framework to assess, analyse
Private equity investors (LPs) whose remuneration is tied to the performance of their portfolios have achieved significantly higher returns than their peers over the last five years, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer. Over half (55 per cent) of LPs with performance-related pay have achieved net annual
Hedge fund manager, Chris Rigg, manager of the Audley Japan Opportunities Fund and a 30 year veteran of the Japanese markets, has issued a stark message about investment in Japanese bonds… The level of debt Japan is running, which by some measures is far worse than in Greece, is unsustainable.
Quantum Wave Fund has raised USD30m in capital, with potential to reach USD100m, to fund breakthrough companies that use quantum materials and technologies. Quantum Wave Fund is the first fund specialised for companies developing technologies suitable for quantum technologies. Though typically considered far into the future, quantum physics is being
Private equity general partners are seeing an uptick in institutional investors asking for more reporting from their private equity fund managers and those fund managers are building up their back offices to meet these demands, according to a poll by iLevel Solutions. Supporting the results of the poll, carried out
D5 Capital, a London-based media-technology finance house, has closed a USD1.5m series A funding round for PlaySight Interactive to commence the roll out of its Smart Court sports analytics platform in tennis clubs across the US and UK. The investment continues D5 Capital’s record of raising capital for and investing
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