The UK-focused Blue Impact Fund, with a pipeline of an estimated value of up to GBP90 million, launched at the Natural Capital Finance & Investment Conference today (24 November). The fund focuses on ocean recovery and resilience and aims to harness the power of seaweed, mussels and oysters in order
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative asset management firm with USD42 billion of equity capital under management, has closed its third European Lower Middle Market Fund, HIG Europe Capital Partners III with aggregate capital commitments of EUR1.1 billion, exceeding its target. The Fund will continue the successful strategy of its
Bad Homburg-based FERI Group is cooperating with Target Global in the management and placement of a new venture capital growth fund. The two companies will work together in the selection of target investments and the placement of this new alternative investment fund for growth capital. This cooperation between one of
Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), a Chicago and Connecticut based private equity firm focused on high growth middle market companies in the marketing, information, and tech-enabled services sectors, has closed it debut fund GCP Fund I at USD130 million. GCP did not use a placement agent and secured commitments from a
Novalis Biotech, an early stage venture capital investor in healthcare, technologies has held the first closing of its second fund, Novalis Biotech Acceleration, raising an initial EUR8 million. With commitments for a similar amount already in place, Novalis anticipates a final closing in early 2021. The majority of investors in
NextStage AM, a specialist in growth equity in France, has held the first closing of its Relance-labelled NextStage Championnes III (Championnes III) fund, which will provide equity financing to innovative French SMEs established (particularly digital, environmental innovation, smart health). At present, the fund’s programme already has an investment capacity of
CBPE Capital LLP (CBPE) has held the final close of its latest fund, CBPE Capital Fund X at its hard cap of GBP561 million, surpassing its target of GBP525 million. The Fund is the successor to CBPE Capital IX, which closed in August 2016 with capital commitments of GBP459 million, and
Think Bigger Capital, Demium’s Asset Management Company, has launched its first fund (TBF I) with a target size of EUR30 million. The fund, which will focus on investing in technology and innovation companies in Europe, invests at least EUR100k of pre-seed funding for an equity stake in each company that completes
Pathway Capital Management has closed on a USD150 million custom secondaries fund for a US-based institutional investor. The fund will focus on making secondary investments in a wide variety of private equity strategies. The fund represents a continuation of Pathway’s successful 29-year history of investing in the private markets, which
Searchlight Capital Partners has held the final close of Searchlight Capital III, with total committed capital of USD3.4 billion. This is the third private equity fund the firm has raised since it was founded in 2010.“We are truly grateful for the support of our investors,” the Founding Partners of Searchlight
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