Private equity firm Inflexion’s portfolio company, CableCom Networking, has acquired fast-growing utilities business Glide. The acquisition has the potential to revolutionise the student and shared housing market by giving landlords and tenants a simpler, faster way to connect, communicate and manage bills. The deal will boost CableCom’s growth, by widening
Industry Ventures has held the closing of Industry Ventures Secondary VIII, a USD500 million secondary fund focused on providing exit alternatives for venture capital investments. Additionally, the firm closed a USD200 million Special Opportunities Fund that enables the firm to invest in larger transactions in parallel to the main fund.
Brookfield Asset Management has completed the spin-off of Brookfield Business Partners, the primary public vehicle through which Brookfield will own and operate the business services and industrial operations of its private equity group on a global basis. "The spin-off of Brookfield Business Partners completes the fourth pillar of our strategy
VCT provider Octopus has announced a successful exit for investors in its GBP300 million Octopus Titan VCT (Titan VCT) as Twitter acquired portfolio company Magic Pony Technology, a technology company which has pioneered new machine learning techniques for visual processing. Stuart Lewis, VCT Business Line Manager at Octopus, says: “There’s
The UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF) is making an investment of up to GBP1 million in biopharmaceutical company, Freeline Therapeutics (Freeline). Freeline is developing and commercialising gene therapies for bleeding and other life threatening or debilitating disorders. The therapies, which are from one single treatment, have the potential to provide long-term
Foreign investment rules should be relaxed to encourage a new wave of offshore funding and quarterly R&D tax credits introduced to help innovative, cash-poor firms as part of a bold blueprint to develop a high-tech Australian economy. On the eve of the 2016 federal election, AVCAL, Australia’s peak body for
transcosmos is to make an additional investment in UNQ (Shanghai) Co, a China-based e-commerce distributor. transcosmos is the second largest shareholder in the company after Wang Yong, President & Founder of UNQ. With this additional investment, transcosmos’s ownership ratio in the company increases from 26.3 per cent to 39.9 per
Quilvest Private Equity sold its cornerstone shareholding in Acrotec Group to funds advised by Castik Capital alongside the Management team. The acquisition, with an enterprise value of circa CHF280 million (EUR255 million), is the culmination of a common intiative by Management and Quilvest Private Equity to find a suitable long-term
International resource and emerging markets focused advisory firm Hannam & Partners has promoted two new partners – Ingo Hofmaier to Head of Mining and Andrew Chubb to Head of Corporate Finance. Both Hofmaier and Chubb were previously directors at Hannam & Partners. Their new titles, Head of Mining and Head
eQ Asset Management held a record final closing of 160 million euros for the Northern Europe focused eQ PE VIII North Fund. In a very fast fund raising cycle, the fund held first closing in February 2016. eQ PE VIII North is a private equity fund of funds investing equity
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