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Cathay Capital inaugurates Sino French Innovation Fund

Cathay Capital inaugurated the Sino French Innovation Fund at an official launch ceremony at CEIBS Beijing Campus last week along with CDB Capital and Bpifrance. As one of the new investors who have confirmed their contribution, Valeo, a leading automotive supplier, will partner with Cathay to reinforce its access to

Retency secures EUR5m in financing from Truffle Capital

Retail analytics specialist Retency has secured EUR5 million in financing from Truffle Capital, a European venture capital firm, which will be used to accelerate the company's development and boost its R&D activities. Founded in 2014, Retency provides physical retailers with analytics, marketing and advertising solutions equivalent to those used by

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Aberdeen completes FLAG acquisition

Aberdeen Asset Management has completed the acquisition of FLAG Capital Management, LLC (FLAG), a diversified private markets manager with offices in Stamford, CT, Boston, MA, and Hong Kong. The acquisition, together with the previously announced purchase of SVG Capital’s stake in the joint venture Aberdeen SVG Private Equity Managers Ltd,

Winsight acquires Technomic

Winsight has acquired Technomic, a leading provider of primary and secondary market information and advisory services to the food industry.  Technomic was acquired from its founder, Ron Paul, who spent much of the last 50 years establishing the business as the "go-to" source for food and foodservice industry insights and

Taylor Wessing merges with Deterink

Taylor Wessing is merging with Dutch firm Deterink. which will see the firm gain two new offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, covering the main financial and tech hubs of the Netherlands. Deterink is particularly known for Corporate/M&A (including Corporate Litigation), IP/IT (including Data Protection) and Employment. Its seven partners, who

Actis acquires stake in Coricraft group

Actis has acquired a significant minority stake in Coricraft Group, one of South Africa’s leading home furnishings retailers.  Actis is investing alongside majority shareholders Westbrooke a local investment group – and Coricraft Group management.   Actis focuses exclusively on investments in emerging markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. The

New VC firm announces market-focused investment strategy, portfolio and first fund

San Francisco-based venture capital firm Cloud Apps Capital Partners has announced its market-focused investment strategy targeting early-stage companies in the cloud business applications sector, and its first fund.  Founded by former salesforce.com executive and venture capitalist Matt Holleran (pictured), the firm takes an innovative approach to supporting early-stage companies. Leveraging

European IPO markets stay strong in 2015 despite obstacles

With 128 listings on European exchanges raising EUR31.3bn in the year to July 2015, the continent’s IPO market is in robust health despite economic and political hurdles, according to a new report from the Mergermarket Group. Deals still in the pipeline could see this year beat 2014’s bumper EUR42bn issuance.

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