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Main Street Hub secures USD25m Series C Funding from Vista Equity Partners

Main Street Hub has closed a USD25 million Series C equity financing round from Vista Equity Partners. The investment will support the company’s rapid growth, which includes plans to introduce several new product offerings and hire 300 employees in its Austin and New York offices by the end of the

‘World first’ investment crowdfund reaches GBP500,000 target

Fuel.Ventures, a newly formed fund led by one of Europe’s leading technology entrepreneurs and investors, Mark Pearson (pictured), partnered with Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs to give everyday investors access to a pipeline of high growth European e-commerce start-ups. To date, 274 investors have helped the fund push past

Stellar first half for Altium as deals pass GBP5bn

International investment bank Altium has had a strong start to 2015, advising on 26 deals worth GBP5.4 billion. The first half has seen a team, led by CEO Phil Adams, advise on the GBP1.9 billionn sale of UK retail business New Look to South African investment company Brait. Altium also

Exponent Private Equity acquires BBI Group

Exponent Private Equity (Exponent) is to acquire The BBI Diagnostics Group (BBI), a provider of products and technologies to the diagnostic, healthcare, research, defence and food industries, from Alere Inc for USD164 million. Founded in 1986, BBI became a listed company on London’s AIM market in 2004, before being acquired

Raising real estate capital in Chicago

Preqin’s Real Estate Online provides comprehensive information on 76 institutional investors based in Chicago that actively invest in real estate, which collectively represent over USD57 billion invested in the asset class. Nearly a quarter of all institutional real estate investors based in Chicago are foundations (Fig 1), closely followed by

BaltCap exits moulded fibre packaging manufacturer VLT Ltd

BaltCap has sold its 48 per cent shareholding in the Latvian moulded fibre manufacturing company VLT Ltd. BaltCap invested in the company back in 2004 to finance two rounds of expansion of production capacity. While post crisis economic environment proved challenging to sustain growth of the company, the moulded fibre

Arlington Capital Partners acquires Avalign Technologies

Private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has acquired Avalign Technologies from RoundTable Healthcare Partners. Avalign is a manufacturer of implants and instruments, specialty instrumentation, cutting tools, and cases and trays to the orthopedic medical device and specialty surgical markets. Avalign offers its OEM partners a broad portfolio of manufacturing solutions

Red Rocks CLP advances in Q2 2015

Red Rocks Capital’s Global Listed Private Equity (GLPE) finished the second quarter of 2015 up 5.59 per cent, compared to 0.47 per cent for the MSCI World Index.  For the first two quarters of 2015, the GLPE index is up 11.20 per cent, compared to 2.97 per cent for the

IK Investment Partners to acquire Auxiga Group

IK Investment Partners (IK) is to acquire Auxiga Group, a French and Belgian leader of pledge inventory services. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Since its establishment in 1919 in Belgium and 1975 in France, Auxiga Group has been a bank guarantee expert, drawing up structured and

High Road Capital Partners acquires Cali Bamboo

High Road Capital Partners has acquired Cali Bamboo in what is the fifth platform acquisition for High Road Capital Partners Fund II. The transaction closed on 10 July, 2015. Cali Bamboo is a manufacturer and direct-to-consumer retailer of bamboo flooring and sustainable building products. Based in San Diego, California, the

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