Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle-market debt and equity investments, is to invest USD100 million in Upstart loans over the next two years. Based in Palo Alto, California, Upstart is a lending platform that goes beyond the FICO score to finance people based on signals of
Topaz Energy and Marine has secured a USD75 million equity investment from Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE). Under the terms of the investment, SCPE will inject USD75 million of equity in return for a 9.8 per cent stake in the business. The funds will be deployed in support of
Private equity firm Riverlake Partners has made a majority equity investment in Guerdon Enterprises. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Guerdon is a producer of large multi-unit modular buildings. The modular construction segment is projected to increase during the next few years and continue gaining acceptance in an estimated USD3 billion
Rcapital, the private London based investor, has made a material growth investment in Drum Cussac, a business risk consultancy. The deal sees Rcapital take a majority shareholding in the business, backing the current management team of Jeremy Stampa Orwin, founder, Andrew Littlejohns, chief executive, and Craig Stoddart, chief financial officer.
CITIC Capital Partners has acquired a controlling stake in King Koil Shanghai Sleep System Co. The investment was made through CITIC Capital China Partners II, the firm’s second China-focused buyout fund. King Koil is a Shanghai-based manufacturer and retailer of premium mattresses in China and the exclusive licensee of
FreshGrade has secured USD4.3 million in seed funding from education and venture capital firms NewSchools Venture Fund, Emerson Collective, Accel Partners and Social Capital. Designed in collaboration with teachers and parents, FreshGrade is an education resource for administrators, teachers and parents allowing for maximum classroom engagement and real-time assessment by
HIG Europe has acquired the majority of the assets of Estro Group, a provider of childcare services in the Netherlands. The group has been re-launched under the name Smallsteps, operating 251 former Estro locations and employing 2,750 former Estro staff. The deal was completed shortly after Estro was temporarily
Albion Community Power (ACP), a local power generation company, has funded the development of a small scale landfill gas engine in Docking, Norfolk. Docking will be developed in conjunction with ACP’s biogas partner, AlphaGen Renewables, which will oversee the installation and operation of a 50kW microgeneration landfill gas engine.
GE Capital’s telecom, media and technology (TMT) financing business served as administrative agent on USD69 million of senior secured credit facilities to support the acquisition of AGDATA by Vista Equity Partners. GE Capital Markets served as sole lead arranger and bookrunner on the facilities. “GE Capital provided us with
Ridgemont Equity Partners is to acquire a majority interest in Cross River Fiber, a provider of dark fibre and communications infrastructure-based services. The proposed transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2014, following the satisfaction of customary regulatory closing conditions. The agreement has been approved by
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