BEX Capital, an investment firm focused exclusively on secondaries in private equity fund-of-funds (FoF), secondaries funds and co-investment funds, has closed BEX Fund IV at USD765 million, in excess of its USD600 million target. This was the first close of BEX Fund IV, with fundraising completed in only three months.
Global private equity firm Advent International has acquired a minority stake in Medius, a provider of source to pay solutions. Following the deal, Marlin Equity Partners remains Medius’ majority shareholder. The terms of the transaction, which sees Douglas Hallstrom, Director at Advent join the Medius board, have not been disclosed.
Net zero is a priority for four fifths (80 per cent) of start-ups, with 72 per cent working to achieve carbon neutrality and 8 per cent already carbon neutral or negative according to research from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. Innovate UK found that while start-ups are passionate about
IsoTruss, an engineering, design, and manufacturing services provider, has raised USD4.5 million in a Series A funding round led by the SG Koenig Trust. The funds will be used to scale up operations and accelerate production of patented IsoTrust carbon fibre cell towers in support of 5G rollout by telecom
ConnectionPoint Systems Inc, a platform for collaborative funding, has raised USD1.5 million for the launch of CoCoPay, the first community-centric healthcare payment solution that tackles the issue of quality care affordability. CoCoPay helps healthcare providers mitigate this by enabling a patient’s community of friends and family to contribute toward the
CalSTRS, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, made more than 50 new private markets investments in the second half of 2020, according to a report by AlternativesWatch. The move bolstered the pension schemes overall private markets allocation by some USD7.4 billion last year. CalSTRS’ private equity investments have produced an
Ethos Capital (Ethos) has appointed Scott Stevens as a Principal. Stevens joins Ethos from Pamlico Capital (Pamlico). Prior to Pamlico, he was an investment professional at ABRY Partners (ABRY), where he collaborated on multiple transactions with Erik Brooks, Co-CEO of Ethos, and Chris Ritchie who recently joined as a Partner.
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a middle-market private investment firm investing in education, healthcare, and business services, announced today that it has appointed Dr Sabrina Kay as a Strategic Partner to the firm’s Senior Advisors team. In her role, Dr Kay will serve as a board member and advisor to portfolio
Motive Partners (Motive), a specialist private equity firm focused on growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry, has agreed, along with other shareholders, for JP Morgan to acquire Motive Capital Fund 1 portfolio company, Global Shares, subject to regulatory approvals
MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on the business services and consumer sectors, has promoted Sara Parker Badham to Managing Director and Partner. In addition, MidOcean has also promoted Steven Loeffler to Principal. Parker joined MidOcean as an Associate in 2012. Over the past decade, she
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