By the end of Q1 2013 total assets in the alternative UCITS space advanced by 29 per cent year-on-year to EUR155billion. But this is still a small share of total UCITS AuM of around EUR6.6trillion. With performance picking up, even as regulation tightens, the experts believe there is plenty of
Wynyard Group has secured the customer contracts and exclusive rights and intellectual property of the MHA Gateway service, an online anti-financial crime resource, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is in line with Wynyard’s strategy of growing its global customer base, and will further enhance Wynyard’s financial crime offering.
While the seed funding of early-stage European start-ups is healthy, there is a scarcity of follow-on capital for later-stage businesses, according to figures released by DFJ Esprit and Go4Venture Advisers. The data, compiled from the latest Dow Jones VentureSource figures, also reveals that the UK, which remains the top
Arthurian Life Sciences Limited, manager of the new GBP100m Wales Life Sciences Investment Fund, has arranged a GBP13.8m funding commitment from the Welsh Government to enable ReNeuron to relocate to Wales and continue to grow the stem cell R&D, clinical trials and manufacturing base of the company. The
Venture capital fund manager Mercia Fund Management has invested GBP150,000 in Oxford Genetics. The new biotechnology company is behind SnapFast – a system that simplifies the purchase of synthetic DNA molecules (plasmids). Chief executive of Oxford Genetics, Dr Ryan Cawood, invented the SnapFast system and likens it to
Private equity and venture capital firms invested USD126m across nine Indian agri-business companies during the first six months of 2013, 75 per cent more than the USD72m invested across six companies during the same period last year, says data from Venture Intelligence. The largest PE investment in the industry
HgCapital has made a majority investment in IntelliFlo, a provider of front and back office software to financial advisors, advisor networks and brokers. The investment was made from its Mercury Fund which was raised to specifically target software and other technology companies across Europe. Led by chief executive
Host Europe Group, the largest privately-owned hosting group in Europe, has been acquired by European private equity firm Cinven from Montagu Private Equity. Headquartered in the UK, Host Europe Group is a provider of hosting and domain services to small and medium enterprises, with around 600 employees. It offers an
HIG Capital’s Brazilian affiliate has completed a strategic investment in Creme Mel Sorvetes, a Brazilian ice cream company. Headquartered in Goiás, Creme Mel is the largest ice cream producer in the Mid-West of Brazil. The company has over 900 employees and sells ice cream in nine Brazilian states.
Venture capital funds TT Venture, a fund managed by Fondamenta SGR, and Atlante Seed, a fund managed by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, an Intesa Sanpaolo Group company, have invested in MilkyWay, a start-up in Modena focused on the design, manufacture and online sales of bike-trial and extreme sports equipment.
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