Impetus Trust and The Private Equity Foundation (PEF) are to merge into one organisation, Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation. The proposed new entity will bring together 16 years’ experience of supporting charity scale up and sustainability through venture philanthropy. It will have a special focus on enabling best-in-class charities
Veggie Grill, a West Coast restaurant concept known for plant-based food, has completed its fourth round of equity funding with an investment from Brentwood Associates. Armed with 16 per cent same-store-sales growth, a more than doubling of restaurant locations in the most recent year, and strong investor confidence, the company
Frontier markets investment banking boutique Exotix has entered into a partnership with TLG Capital, a private equity investor in sub-Saharan Africa and frontier markets. The agreement will see Exotix provide advice and capital raising support to TLG Capital. It will also enhance Exotix clients’ access to opportunity rich markets in
Avillion has received initial funding from Abingworth and Clarus Ventures. Avillion, based in London, UK, is partnering with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to co-develop and finance late stage therapeutics. The company will use its clinical development and regulatory expertise to obtain global approvals for a broad range of drugs and
Investment into European companies continued its year-over-year decline during a weak fourth quarter of 2012, as Europe-based companies raised EUR967m from 233 venture capital deals, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. The drop represents a 26 per cent decrease in capital and a 22 per cent decrease in deals from the
Smedvig Capital, the London-based venture capital firm, has sold Swedish self storage company Selstor to Pelican Self Storage, another significant self storage player, operating in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Established in 2009, Pelican Self Storage is focused on the development, redevelopment, acquisition and operation of self storage facilities in Scandinavia.
PE-Nexus, the private market network for deal flow exchange between middle-market M&A professionals, facilitated a USD4m senior secured debt financing of HomeTown Oxygen by New York City-based Enhanced Capital Partners through its SBIC fund, Enhanced Small Business Investment Company (ESBIC). Sell-side representation to HomeTown Oxygen was provided by the Charlotte
Palatine Private Equity and Beechbrook Capital have backed the management of Selection Services, an IT managed service provider, in the acquisition of Aggregated Telecom, which trades as 8el. This is the first of what is set to be several acquisitions this year. The acquisition will significantly increase Selection’s service capabilities,
Kidd & Company (KCO), a private investment firm focused on the middle market, has teamed up with Centerfield Capital Partners to acquire Imaginetics, a manufacturer of precision metal components and assemblies for the aerospace industry. Located in Auburn, Washington, Imaginetics has begun to benefit from substantial growing demand in the
Larsen MacColl Partners (LMP), a private equity fund based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, has sold a majority stake in its portfolio company, S&S Worldwide, to Sansei Yusoki (SY). LMP made its original investment in S&S in 2009 and supported S&S’s subsequent growth with additional financial resources and strategic guidance as S&S
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