Octopus has led a GBP2.95m investment round into Conversocial, a specialist in social customer service solutions whose clients include Tesco, Waitrose, Barclaycard, Groupon, Hertz and Net-A-Porter. With consumers increasingly using social media as a channel to communicate with businesses, Conversocial has developed a social media engagement system for customer
Venture capital performance for the 10-year horizon continued its upward climb for 11th consecutive quarter, as returns across the one, three, five and 20- year horizons fell slightly as of 31 December 2012, according to the Cambridge Associates US Venture Capital Index, the performance benchmark of the National Venture Capital
Littlejohn & Co, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, has made an equity investment in Gulf Coast Shipyard Group, a manufacturer of ocean-going and inland marine vessels for commercial and military markets under the brand name TY Offshore, as well as superyachts under the brand name Trinity Yachts.
LDC, a mid-market private equity house, has completed a significant investment to support the management buy-out and continued growth of Node4, a regional data centre, managed IT and communications specialist. Node4 provides a wide range of data centre and managed IT services, including colocation, connectivity, managed hosting, communications and hosted
Three-time entrepreneur Ed Bussey has closed a GBP1m investment in Quill, the content creation platform he founded in 2011. The investment comes from Ariadne Capital’s fund and entrepreneur investors, including Shakil Khan (Spotify, Summly, buy.at), Rupert Ashe (Graze, Videojug), Karen Hanton (toptable.com), Andrew Burge (King Content, iSUBSCRiBE), Nick Beare
The Park Hill Group, a division of Blackstone, has appointed Pablo Calo as a managing principal in the firm’s secondary advisory business based in London. This business delivers liquidity and capital solutions to private equity investors and managers. Calo has spent the last 16 years dedicated to private
Secondary buyouts (SBOs) helped to prop-up a deflated private equity market during 2012 as volumes and values hit an eight-year high, according to a report on global M&A trends. Since 2007, SBOs have on average represented 20 per cent of all private equity deals by volume and 30 per cent
Charles Steel has joined the Ares private equity group as a managing director, based in London. “We are pleased to welcome Charles to Ares Management,” say David Kaplan and Bennett Rosenthal, senior partners of Ares and co-heads of the firm’s global private equity activities. “Charles’ extensive experience investing across
Law firm Morrison & Foerster is representing Shanghai’s Fosun International in the USD3.5bn going-private transaction of Focus Media, a deal which closed on 23 May. Focus Media, Nasdaq-listed since 2005, is a multiplatform, digital media company and provides flat-panel digital advertising services on displays located in more than 100 cities in
Fenwick & West has released the results of its First Quarter 2013 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey, which analysed the valuations and terms of venture financings for 118 technology and life science companies headquartered in the Silicon Valley that raised capital in the first quarter of 2013. "During the first
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