In this week’s podcast Private Equity Wire speaks to Sumit Mehta, Managing Director of Arrow Capital, about the growth of SPACs in emerging markets. The podcast looks into the differences between the US ecosystem versus emerging markets and forecasts the challenges that need to be resolved in order to fully
UK start-up LGN has secured USD2 million in funding to help businesses outpace their competition by building better and more resilient AI models, faster and at scale. With backing from the likes of Trucks Venture Capital, Luminous Ventures and Jaguar Land Rover, LGNenterprises to scale out their use of edge
PhoreMost, a UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to ‘Drugging the Undruggable’, disease targets, has completed an oversubscribed GBP33 million (USD46 million) Series B investment round. The round was led by BGF, the UK’s most active growth economy investor, and included new investors XtalPi Inc, Astellas Venture Management, Trend Investment Group and
KLAR Partners (KLAR) has held the final closing of its debut fund, KLAR Partners I (KLAR I), at its hard cap of EUR600 million. The fund is one of the largest European first-time funds raised in the last 10 years and by far the largest raised during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Kempen European Private Equity Fund, the private equity investment fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen), has acquired a direct interest in the new entity that will be created as a result of the merger between software companies Medisys and Cityzen. The merger will form a major software supplier in
DunPort Capital Management (DunPort) has launched a EUR50 million fund to provide tailored and flexible capital solutions to Irish small and medium sized enterprises whose businesses have been directly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Argonaut Private Equity, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based private equity fund, has acquired the assets of Pioneer Well Services, a subsidiary of Pioneer Natural Resources. Located in the heart of the Permian Basin, the operation is now doing business as American Well Services and provides well service rigs for workover or completions
Unit4, a specialist in enterprise cloud software for people-centric organisations, has secured a majority investment from TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm. Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, will invest alongside TA, on behalf of its clients, while Mike Ettling, CEO of Unit4, will continue
Toscafund, a multi asset fund management group, has become the leading shareholder in VoxSmart, a communications surveillance software provider, by investing USD25 million of growth capital to enable the business to continue its rapid growth trajectory. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Partners Group, the global private markets firm, has provided a bilateral ESG-linked unitranche debt financing to Kusters Beheer, a Dutch manufacturer of precision components. The funds will be used to support Equistone’s acquisition of a majority stake in the Company, as well as facilitating investments into capacity expansion. Headquartered in
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