Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of The Big Issue, and the University of Oxford’s Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) within the Blavatnik School of Government, have release the ‘Exploring Social Investment – An Indigo Technical & Learning Report’ detailing their collaboration towards data sharing in the social outcomes
BGF has invested GBP4 million in fast-growing UK homecare business CSN Care Group (CSN) to support the company with its longer-term growth plans. CSN is a leading social care provider which operates a national network of owned and franchised branches across the UK with headquarters in Edinburgh and Milton Keynes.
Neuberger Berman has launched the NB Crossroads Private Markets Access Fund, a registered, continually offered closed-end fund that ‘further democratises the firm’s private equity offerings and increases access to these important portfolio solutions for individual investors’. Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
Jersey Finance, in conjunction with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, is formally launching a new initiative today, aimed at protecting wildlife and ‘re-wilding’ ecosystems around the world. The ‘Jersey Fund for a Wilder World’ is being officially launched at Jersey Finance’s Annual Review today, with the objective of effecting positive change
Singapore-based Tower Capital Asia has held a first closing of its Southeast Asia-focused private equity fund, Tower Capital PE Fund , at approximately USD250 million. The fund’s first-closing investors include a pre-eminent international institutional investor and highly respected single family offices from the Southeast Asian region. Danny Koh, Founder
Quaero Capital completed fundraising for Quaero European Infrastructure Fund II (QEIF II) at its EUR600 million hard cap, exceeding the initial target of EUR500 million set at its launch in July 2019. The management company is also expecting additional investment capacity given the strong interest from investors for co-investment opportunities.
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest and most active VCs in Europe, has appointed Emma Davies as Co-CEO. Davies has more than 20 years’ experience as an investor and portfolio manager and will work alongside the current CEO, Alliott Cole, as Octopus Ventures expands its
NovaQuest Private Equity (NovaQuest) has acquired CoreRx, a global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO). Based in Clearwater, Florida, CoreRx provides clinical and commercial CDMO services to a wide range of small to mid-sized pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Founded in 2006, the Company offers pre-formulation, formulation, analytical and stability, clinical manufacturing,
Tel Aviv-based global fund manager Liquidity Capital and Dubai-based Vault Investments are to form a joint USD100 million Venture Debt Investment fund based in Dubai. The new fund will deploy debt financing funding aimed at fuelling technology financing in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and will leverage technology
Fast-growth UK businesses closed 2020 in their strongest position, attracting more than GBP3.8 billion of Venture Capital (VC) investment during the final quarter of the year, according to new figures. Despite further Covid-19 related restrictions being in place, Q4 was the strongest quarter of the year for VC-backed deals, according
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