Astorg has completed its acquisition of Corsearch, from Audax Private Equity (Audax). Corsearch’s suite of end-to end brand risk and performance solutions include trademark research, online brand protection, and anti-piracy. Building on Corsearch’s innovative tools for trademark clearance and brand and content protection, the new owners will invest in the
Kenect, a provider of business texting and communications technology, has secured a strategic growth investment from funds advised by PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies. The investment aims to fuel Kenect’s next phase of growth including: Continued product innovation, scaling the go-to-market, adding
TCG Crossover (TCG X), in partnership with The Column Group, has raised an inaugural USD824 million fund focused on crossover and public investments in the life sciences. The oversubscribed fund attracted an array of premier investors including university endowments, family offices, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. TCG X invests
Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), a middle market investment firm founded in 1961, has appointed Eric Kau, a proven operating executive and CEO advisor, as an operating partner.
In a yet a further sign of continuing maturity in private equity, its secondary market is being driven by GP-led deals, giving rise to a greater proliferation of single asset transactions. And as AlpInvest’s Neal Costello explains, this is presenting wider opportunities for liquidity providers.
Forbion, a European life sciences venture capital firm, has held the final close of the Forbion Growth Opportunities Fund I (Forbion Growth I) at its hard cap amount of EUR360 million (USD428 million). Forbion Growth I is focused on investing in late-stage European life sciences companies. Pantheon, Eli Lilly and
Feel, the UK-based digital health company, has closed a GBP4.5 million investment, led by Fuel Ventures and including TMT Investments, Sova VC, Richard Longhurst (founder of LoveHoney.com) and Igor Ryabenkiy (founder and GP of Altair Capital). Feel is on a mission to clean up the ‘dirty’ world of nutritional
In this week’s podcast, Sunaina Sinha, managing partner at Cebile Capital, discusses the findings of the firm’s recent survey of 100 global LPs, including how LPs have shifted their modus operandi in 2020, who the winners are in terms of allocation flow during the pandemic, and the fact that 51
musicMagpie, a re-commerce business in the UK and US specialising in refurbished consumer technology, has secured GBP20 million in growth financing through a GBP10 million committed revolving credit facility and a GBP10 million accordion facility from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) UK Branch.
Bite Investments, a fintech company with an alternative investment platform, has closed on its Pre Series A+ funding in a round led by JMP Group (JMP), an investment banking and alternative asset management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. “We are continuing to attract progressive partners who recognise the steady
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