By Mark Lynch, partner at Oghma Partners – The food industry appears to be going through a revolution in its structure which may turn out to be as far reaching as the shift to factory made processed foods which we saw in the 19th and 20th century, when the likes of John Cadbury
Rothschild & Co has completed the fundraising for Five Arrows Private Equity Programme II (FAPEP II) with commitments totalling EUR366 million. This is the 17th fund raised above its expected target by Rothschild & Co’s Merchant Banking business over the last 10 years. This brings the total assets under management
BGF has broken the GBP100 million life sciences investment milestone, backing more than 30 businesses across the fields of diagnostics, medtech and digital health, as well as services, software and tools supporting therapeutic development. To support the organisation’s continued drive into the industry, BGF has now created a specialist advisory
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has opened a new office in Singapore and expanded its investment team in Hong Kong.  The new Singapore office expands the firm’s global footprint to eleven locations including Beijing, Bogota, Boston, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Toronto.  The Singapore office will be overseen by regional head and HarbourVest Managing
MAPAL Group (MAPAL), a European developer and provider of hospitality management software solutions backed by growth equity firm PSG, has acquired Easilys, a multi-site restaurant and kitchen management software provider based in France with offices in Paris, Geneva and Barcelona. The acquisition is the latest in a series of investments
HealthyHealth Group, a company focused on transforming the life and health insurance underwriting journey through digital data, has announced the closing of a USD10m series A financing round, led by MMC Ventures. Joining MMC Ventures are AdirVentures and a number of other family offices, as well as existing investors including
CMBOR, the Centre for Private Equity and MBO Research, has been re-established by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) within Nottingham University Business School, having been suspended in 2020. Founded in 1986, CMBOR will return to providing comprehensive data and insight around European buyout activity and extend its 35-year track record as
Moonshot, a data analytics company which designs new technology and methodologies to identify and mitigate online harms, has raised USD7 million in Series A funding from Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, and UK-based Mercia. Moonshot believes the internet is increasingly used to propagate harm, including in the preparation of
PlanetWatchers, a crop monitoring company that can provide detailed insurance claims assessment in just one hour, has closed a Pre-A series funding round, raising USD3.5 million to support the Company’s growth plans. PlanetWatchers is a world-leading technology company that uses advanced machine learning to support crop insurers in reporting planting
LeapFrog Investments, a with Purpose investment firm, reached 221 million people in 35 countries with essential services during the pandemic, according to its Annual Impact Results. Together, LeapFrog’s investee companies were able to reach 16 million more people compared to 2019, at a time when support was profoundly needed. They provided underserved
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