FPE Capital (FPE), a specialist software and services growth investor into UK and Irish lower mid-market companies, has promoted Ben Cole to investment director and added further expanded its investment team with the appointment of Harry Gill as investment manager. Cole has been with FPE since 2019, when he joined
Catherine Lewis La Torre has been appointed CEO of British Patient Capital, returning to the role she held from 2018 until 2020 before she was named as acting CEO of the British Business Bank in September of that year. Lewis la Torre has also been appointed as Chair of British
Ares Management Corp is targeting more than €11 billion for a new new European direct-lending fund, making it the continent’s largest direct lending fund to date, according to a report by Bloomberg. Unnamed sources are cited as revealing that fundraising for the new Ares Capital Europe VI fund is slated
Ambienta SGR (Ambienta), one of Europe’s largest asset managers entirely focused on environmental sustainability, has held the first and final close of its fourth Private Equity fund after less than six months of active marketing, hitting its €1.55 billion hard cap. The fundraising attracted significantly more interest from investors than
Revelstoke Capital Partners portfolio company Fast Pace Health (Fast Pace) has invested in First Care Clinics (First Care) to expand its clinical footprint and increase access to care for underserved rural populations. The combination results in a multi-specialty provider of rural healthcare and value-based care population health management services through
Holland & Knight has bolstered its leading corporate, M&A and private equity practice with the addition of Chauncey Lane as a partner in its Dallas office. Lane structures and negotiates complex transactions for strategic buyers and sellers and private equity firms in the technology and financial services industries. Prior to
Crunchbase, a prospecting platform powered by best-in-class proprietary data, has secured $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by Alignment Growth. Existing Crunchbase investors including OMERS Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Emergence also participated in the round. As part of teh fund raising, Alex Iosilevich, Partner at Alignment
Crestbridge’s UK funds team has provided a comprehensive suite of administration services to support the recent successful first close of Shard Credit Partners’ inaugural technology-focused venture debt fund. The new ‘Venture Debt Fund I’ secured £16.5 million in commitments from the UK and European institutional investors, alongside UK technology industry
Charles has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce Ventures to become Europe’s leading conversational commerce as a service platform. Accel and HV Capital, who led the company’s seed round in 2021, also participated. Charles is an all-in-one, conversational-first operating system that is bringing everything associated
Boeing has made a $50 million investment in AEI HorizonX, a partnership the company established with private equity firm AE Industrial Partners to invest in transformative aerospace technologies. The new funding will anchor AEI HorizonX’s second venture fund (Fund II), which plans to raise $250 million to support promising start-ups
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