Petra Capital Partners, based in Nashville, has completed fundraising on Petra Growth Fund IV (PGF IV) with USD208 million of capital available to invest. The fund targets healthcare, business, and technology-enabled services companies and is structured as a small business investment company (SBIC) licensed by the US Small Business Administration.
Growth equity firm Edison Partners has sold portfolio company Zagster, a shared micromobility and fleet operations management company, to Superpedestrian, a Boston-based mobility engineering and technology company founded by urban transport experts from MIT. Edison Partners also announced leading a new USD15 million investment in Superpedestrian, joined by existing
Foresight Group’s Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) has surpassed its target performance of UK CPI +3 per cent over 12 months, with a total return 18.51 per cent. The Fund has provided a yield of 4.12 per cent over 12 months exhibiting significantly lower volatility levels than higher risk
UK-based private equity manager Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested an undisclosed amount in Zing Dev Limited (Zing), a technology services business.Zing is a specialist implementation partner for Twilio, a market-leading cloud communication platform. As one of a small number of accredited implementation partners across Europe, the Middle East and
Northstar Capital (Northstar), a provider of junior capital for middle market private equity transactions, has made an investment in PKWARE, a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP).Founded in 1986, PKWARE (www.pkware.com) created the .ZIP file format and provides leading compression, encryption, and data security platform solutions to highly
BNP Paribas Capital Partners (BNPP CP), BNP Paribas Asset Management’s specialist in external alternative manager selection, has held the final close of its European Special Opportunities Debt Fund (ESO). The ESO investment programme was launched in 2018 to provide institutional investors with exposure to the discounted private debt market in
Private equity firm Sverica Capital Management(Sverica) and Salesforce Ventures have made a strategic investment in Coastal Cloud an independent Salesforce consulting partners in the United States. Based in Palm Coast, Florida, Coastal Cloud was started in 2012 by Co-Founders and Managing Partners Sara and Tim Hale with the goal of
Triple Point has launched an initiative to help new start-ups, in recognition of the role innovation and technology will play in the UK’s economic recovery. Triple Point’s investment initiative, called Kick Start, is designed to target the very early stage businesses that have yet to raise funding. It will be
BNP Paribas, China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Eurazeo have held a first close of their France-China Cooperation Fund on EUR400 million. The fund, which will be managed by Eurazeo, manifests plans set out last year, including a letter of intent signed in the presence of China’s and France’s presidents Xi
By Michael Halford & Brian O’Neill, Goodwin – Until recently, an investor in a private equity fund could expect an investment to be tied up for at least 10 years. Historically and currently, private equity funds have a 10-year life with the option for the general partner (usually with some
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