Highgate Associates and Enterprise Corporate Finance’s EIS Fund, the HG Tech Fund, has reached the initial minimum funding target.  Further investment is anticipated during the final weeks of the tax year by investors looking to maximise their tax benefits. The fund has made its first high tech company investment in

Although public pension plans and their corporate counterparts were hit equally hard by the global market crisis, a study from Greenwich Associates shows they are responding to historic funding shortfalls in dramatically different fashions. With an eye toward constraints imposed by tougher accounting rules, companies that sponsor defined benefit pension

Eurazeo Group’s consolidated revenue was EUR3,785.4m in 2009, down 6.6 per cent as reported and down 5.9 per cent on a comparable basis. Revenue from private equity activity amounted to EUR3,707.3m, a decline of 4.9 per cent on a comparable basis. The real estate business increased 6.6 per cent in

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has formed a partnership with Progress Investment Management to support and cultivate smaller entrepreneurial investment management companies. Under the terms of the partnership, the Kellogg Foundation will establish up to a USD100m diversified portfolio of emerging fixed income and equity managers to be managed by Progress.

Water Street Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its gastrodiagnostic device company, Sierra Scientific Instruments, to Given Imaging. Given Imaging, a provider of patient-friendly GI diagnostic and monitoring solutions, will purchase the business for USD35m in cash. The

TLG Capital has added Compaqnie Fluviale du Mekong, a river cruise company based in Cambodia, to its portfolio. This represents TLG Capital’s third company under management following its first two investments in Uganda and Ghana. CFM is the oldest company to offer river cruises along the Mekong River. Its current

Avaak, a provider of ultra low power wireless video networking technology, has raised USD10m in series B funding led by Qualcomm. Qualcomm joins Avaak’s existing investors, Trinity Ventures, InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures, in backing Avaak’s wireless video technology being delivered in the Vue personal video network consumer product. The

MMC Ventures is launching an enterprise investment scheme fund for younger investors. From 22 March, any 18 to 35 year old who has GBP2,500 or more can invest in venture capital as an asset class, through the MMC Growth Generation Fund.  To encourage investment MMC has waived its usual management