The North West Fund for Digital & Creative, managed by AXM Venture Capital, has made an equity investment of GBP150,000 into Liverpool-based Med ePad, alongside a personal investment from new management. A sister fund, The North West Fund for Biomedical managed by Spark Impact, had previously backed the company, and
Gresham Private Equity has exited 7city Learning through the sale of the business to Fitch Group. Fitch is combining 7city with its Fitch Training unit to form Fitch 7city Learning. Headquartered in London with operations in New York, Singapore and Dubai, 7city is a global training provider primarily servicing
Hamilton Lane, a private equity asset management firm, is expanding its Europe-based presence with the addition of Paul Waller to the newly-created role of partner in its London office. Waller (pictured) will focus primarily on client development and overall firm marketing initiatives. He will also draw upon his extensive experience
Bacchus Capital Management, a San Francisco-based private equity firm providing capital in the wine industry, has provided growth capital to Maritime Wine Trading Collective, a boutique wine import, production, and distribution company based in San Francisco. Concurrent with the Bacchus investment, Maritime is adding Nine North Brands to its portfolio.
KarpReilly, a consumer-focused lower middle market private equity firm, has held the final closing of KarpReilly Capital Partners II (KRCP II) with total capital commitments of approximately USD210m. In conjunction with the closing of this second fund, KarpReilly also closed KarpReilly Co-Investment Fund II, with approximately USD150m of additional capital.
BBVA has formed BBVA Ventures, which will invest USD100m in start-ups looking to transform the financial services industry. Through this effort, BBVA will work with entrepreneurs and venture capital investors to broaden the bank’s understanding of emerging trends, helping advance innovative initiatives in banking and finance. Based in Silicon Valley,
Options, a provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud services platform for the exchange, banking, trading and investment communities, has named former NYSE Euronext executive Danny Moore as chief operating officer. Moore (pictured) will be responsible for leading the firm’s day-to-day global operations, in addition to overseeing the expansion
Semetric, the global data analytics firm behind Musicmetric, has secured significant new financing from two key backers. The GBP3m (USD4.7m) investment comes from Imperial Innovations Group, the AIM-listed technology investment firm, and existing investor Pentech Ventures, a venture capital fund specialising in software investments. It follows previous investments totalling GBP1.7m
SS&C Technologies has released TNR Solution version 2013, an update to SS&C GlobeOp’s private equity technology platform. TNR Solution version 2013 features enhancements to its core fund accounting and portfolio management functionality, including on-screen reporting views to track investments across various fund structures. This new version also includes multiple enhancements
Global knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) firm The Smart Cube and London-based venture capital firm Smedvig Capital have appointed Gary Bullard as a non-executive director of The Smart Cube. The Smart Cube is a pioneer in the KPO space, specialising in delivering customised, high value research and analysis to their clients,
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