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Fuse Venture Partners makes strategic Principal appointment in consumer tech team

Fuse Venture Partners (Fuse), a European internet growth venture investor, has appointed Dipam Patel as a Principal, bringing over 10 years’ technology and investing experience to the firm. Patel will work with the eight-person London-based European-focused team led by Managing Partner Spyro Korsanos as it looks to expand the firm’s

Bowmark Capital expands team

Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its investment, portfolio and origination teams with six new appointments. Jessica Collins, Ben Culverwell, Jamal Lakhani and James Swainston join Bowmark as investment executives, while Sam Beesley and Jemma Litkie become members of the firm’s portfolio management and origination teams.   Collins was previously a

XPhyto to acquire 3a-diagnostics

XPhyto Therapeutics Corp is to acquire 3a-diagnostics, Frickenhausen, Germany (3a), the company’s exclusive diagnostics development partner.  Pursuant to the definitive agreement, XPhyto will acquire all of the outstanding shares of 3a for EUR400,000, to be paid immediately, and EUR3.5 million, to be paid on closing, planned for on or around

Willkie adds partner to New York office

Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Wilkie) has appointed Dvir Oren as a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Financial Services Department, where he will be part of Willkie’s Private Equity Practice Group.  Oren, who was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, will be based in the firm’s New York office. 

Panakés holds first closing of new ‘Purple’ life sciences fund at EUR150m

Panakès Partners, an leading Italian venture capital firm focused on the Life Sciences sector, has held the first closing of its EUR150 million (USD180 million) Purple Fund, the firm’s second fund. Panakès’ Purple Fund is currently the largest venture capital fund actively investing in Italian companies and the most significant

Ntropy raises USD3.2m in seed round

Ntropy, a company aiming to remove the data barriers to understanding financial transactions, has closed a USD3.2 million seed round led by QED Investors, who has previously invested in fintech unicorns Nubank, Klarna, and Current.  Ntropy’s API enables businesses to convert raw data into contextualised and structured information understood by

Keensight Capital to exit ASTI

Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, is to sell, alongside the founder, its stake in ASTI, a global autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) manufacturer, to ABB. Founded in 1982, ASTI supports one of Europe’s largest installed fleets of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and has a

“ESG screen” grows in importance for private equity investments

The majority (62 per cent) of GPs have declined to invest in a company due to ESG or ethical considerations in 2021, according to Investec’s annual GP Trends survey. Last year, this figure stood at 55 per cent, showing the continued and growing importance of ESG to GPs. Investec’s research,

CMO IPO caps hat-trick of high multiple exits for KCP

The recent IPO of online building products retailer CMO Group PLC rounded off a busy and productive 12 months for private equity firm Key Capital Partners(KCP). The flotation represented the firm’s third high-value exit in the last 12 months; coming hot on the heels of the sale of nursing business

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