BlackRock Alternative Specialists’ David Lomas discusses how its three-pronged approach to deal sourcing makes it well positioned to support private market investors heading into 2021. Patience will be a virtue for investors as they seek to increase their exposure to private markets heading into 2021. Performance dispersion within private equity
Global Ventures, a UAE-based venture capital firm, has partnered with Capria Ventures (Capria), a Seattle-based global investment fund-of-funds. Capria is backed by international investors, including Vulcan Capital, the Ford Foundation, Bill Gates, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, Unitus Labs, and other leading impact investors. Global Ventures backs global-minded founders who
FSN Capital has signed an agreement to acquire a 45 per cent stake in Obton Group and enter into a partnership with the founders and management. Obton Group is a specialised alternative investment provider developing, structuring, and managing solar photovoltaic “solar PV” projects on-behalf of high net worth investors.Obton Group
Crestbridge is to acquire New Jersey based Ovation Fund Services, a provider of fund administration, accounting and reporting services to US domestic private equity and real estate funds. The acquisition complements Crestbridge’s core service offering in both asset classes. Ovation will become part of the Crestbridge brand from 31 December 2020
Advent International (Advent), one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, is to sell leading Danish food packaging company Faerch to Danish foundation-owned holding company AP Møller Holding. The transaction values Faerch at approximately EUR1.9 billion.
Alderley Park-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, has secured GBP3.9 million in funding for pioneering technology that could prove integral to the development of new drug treatments.
FORM.com, a global leader in mobile data collection, has acquired GoSpotCheck, a provider of mobile task management and image recognition software, in a carveout. The GoSpotCheck software platform will merge with FORM.com, a leader in the business automation space and backed by Diversis Capital, to further enable low-code/no-code mobile data collection
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led the GBP17 million management buyout (MBO) of Envitia Group (Envitia), an established data and geospatial technology and services provider to the defence and public sectors. The transaction has been fully funded by Maven’s maiden institutional fund
Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth software companies, has sold Comply365, a global provider of operational content and compliance management solutions supporting the aerospace and rail industries, to Liberty Hall Capital Partners.Tom Samuel, Chief Executive Officer of Comply365, says: “Over the last few years, Luminate’s team
German venture capital investor MIG AG’s MIG Fonds 8 und 16 has invested in GBS German Bionic Systems, Augsburg, Germany, in a Series A financing. Both participating MIG Funds are each investing EUR2 million in the USD20 round, a total EUR4 million (USD4.8 million) from MIG. Besides MIG Fonds, Samsung Catalyst,
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