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Investments

Foresight holds interim close of FEIP with commitments of EUR716m

Foresight Group Holdings Limited (Foresight), a an infrastructure and private equity manager, has held a further interim close for Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP), a sustainability-led energy infrastructure fund investing predominantly in Europe, with commitments of cEUR716 million. Including co-investments to date of EUR170 million, this represents a total capital

Food app

Food tech start-up Curb secures EUR20 million funding

Curb, a Nordic dark kitchen startup which uses technology and data in order to improve customer experience, has secured EUR20 million in funding by Point72 Ventures, with participation from its existing investor EQT Ventures. 

Meat Alternatives

The rise of food tech

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

Web design

EQT Ventures backs Vev

EQT Ventures has led a EUR5 million seed funding round into Vev – a visual editor for content creators to build and launch interactive websites.

Healthcare investing

Frazier Healthcare Partners closes 10th fund on USD1.4bn

Frazier Healthcare Partners has closed Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout Fund X, its 10th healthcare private equity fund focused on the middle market, a vehicle which was oversubscribed and hit its USD1.4 billion hardcap.  The capital came in from new as well as existing limited partners, including public pension funds, financial institutions,

Retail therapy

Why should private equity firms invest in retail?

By Gopi Krishnan, VP & managing partner, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd and Siddharth Raghuvanshi, manager of strategy, alliances & partnership, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd – Historically, private equity firms have always shown interest in retail. For instance, in the US itself, private

Tech investment

BGF invests in video software firm Odro

Growth capital investor BGF has completed a GBP5.2 million investment in Odro, a Scottish-headquartered tech business that provides video interviewing and engagement software to the recruitment industry. BGF has acquired a minority stake in the business in order to help fund a global expansion plan that will see the company

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