BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing companies, has appointed Spencer Woods as an Investor in its Manchester office. Spencer joins most recently from Wheatsheaf Group – part of the Grosvenor Estate – where he held the role of Senior Investment and Portfolio Manager, taking a lead
PEF Services, a fund administrator for alternative investment managers, has promoted Emily Chen and Delphine Jones, CPA to Managing Directors within the firm’s Client Services group, reporting to PEF Chief Operating Officer Beth Manzi. Chen and Jones each lead PEF Client Services teams responsible for the relationships and services provided to PEF
Gulf Capital, an active alternative asset management firms in the Middle East, is expanding and strengthening its executive team with the appointment of Sharaf F Sharaf as a Managing Director in Gulf Credit Partners, the Firm’s private debt business. Based in Dubai, Sharaf Sharaf will join as a Managing Director
Online investment platform Seedrs has launched full customisation in its AutoInvest product allowing users to select their personal investment criteria with the product then building them a portfolio of early-stage private companies automatically. First launched in July 2018, there have been over 4000 individual investments using AutoInvest in Beta mode,
Private investor Rcapital completed a franchisee-led buyout of Cash Generator on 1 March 2019. Cash Generator is a well-established retail business, focussed on being the first place to which customers come to sell and buy second-hand items. The franchisee buyout follows a successful and complex restructure of what was
Therapixel, the AI company winner of the DREAM Digital Mammography challenge, has secured EUR5 million in Series A financing, with Omnes and M Capital Partners joining its existing pool of investors. Sacha Loiseau, Chairman and Founder of Mauna Kea Technologies, has been appointed as independent Board Member and subsequently elected
Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has held the first and final closing of its new fund, Keensight V, at the fund’s EUR1 billion hard cap, exceeding the fund target of EUR750 million. The fund was substantially oversubscribed with strong support from existing LPs,
London-based VC fund Fuel Ventures has expanded its portfolio of early-stage companies, investing GBP2 million in CreditDigital which provides instant finance of up to GBP250,000 to businesses online or at point of sale. CreditDigital is an instalment payment option where businesses can spread the cost of their purchase over 12
Alternative investment specialist Aquila Capital has mandated KlimaInvest Green Concepts, a Hamburg-based energy and climate protection agency, to offset all CO2 emissions related to this year’s Global Summit 2019 by PEI Alternative Insight in Berlin, one of the world’s biggest conferences on infrastructure investments. The emissions, caused by travel and
BlueGem Capital Partners portfolio company The Private Clinic Group has acquired acquisition of The Cosmetic Skin Clinic (CSC) to create a high-end invasive and non-invasive cosmetic treatment provider in the UK and leader in Europe. The combined group will have revenue of approximately GBP30 million, with approximately 20 per cent
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