The Honorable R James (Jim) Woolsey and Richard (Dick) Foster have joined venture capital firm, Lux Capital as Venture Partners. Woolsey will help identify novel breakthroughs and new investment opportunities in Energy that offer significant economic and environmental benefits, and can help end America’s addiction to foreign energy resources. Foster
Rockley Group, the sustainable technology funding group led by Andrew and Robert Rickman, has expanded the investment team for its Rockley China Fund with the appointment of Dr Yanong Ning as investment director, David Ding as investment manager and Ella Huang as investment associate. The appointments follow the Group’s announcement
Apex Fund Services is to create 50 jobs in Ireland over the next 18 months with the opening of a new office in Dublin. The new office opening is in response to Apex Fund Services rapidly growing client base internationally. With 21 offices internationally, Apex Fund Services located in
Private equity manager NewQuest Capital Partners has formed NewQuest Asia Fund I, a fund focused on investment opportunities in Asia. The fund is backed by a syndicate of limited partners consisting of Paul Capital, HarbourVest Partners, LGT Capital Partners and Axiom Asia. Simultaneously with its formation, the fund acquired
Aterian Investment Partners, a middle market private capital firm, has selected Navatar Private Equity Cloud to manage their fundraising, deal flow, portfolio and capital calls/distributions. Navatar Private Equity provides out-of-the-box functionality and workflows essential for private equity firms. It runs entirely in salesforce.com’s cloud and is available for a low
Carne Global Financial Services has appointed Roisin Cater as an independent director for the boards of client funds in the Cayman Islands. Cater is a highly experienced Cayman Islands lawyer with an extensive track record in the funds business, including with law firm Mourant, where she was Managing Partner, and
Jeffrey A Legault has joined Goodwin Procter’s Business Law Department in its Private Equity Practice. Legault will be based in Goodwin’s New York office and his practice will focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He joins Goodwin from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where
Runa Capital, a Russian seed-stage Venture Capital firm, has made a third investment; in Metabar (http://www.metabar.ru), a free platform that automates the process of creating browser-based applications. The platform is the first of its kind designed specifically to help increase web traffic and brand loyalty for Russian-based internet sites.
Figures released today show that CDC Group plc (CDC), the UK’s development finance institution, increased the level of its investment in developing countries to GBP420m for the year. The UK government-owned investor also made a return of GBP269m in 2010. By increasing both the level of investment and returns
CMG Partners (CMGP) has appointed Todd Redmon, a private equity industry veteran, to serve as Director for the strategic marketing consulting firm and spearhead the its private equity practice. Redmon will lead the firm’s efforts helping private equity firms and their portfolio companies by providing strategy, corporate development and operations
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