INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund, the largest private equity investment fund for the Baltic region, has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Eco Baltia, a plastic recycling and waste collection company.
By Clare Flynn Levy, CEO & Founder of Essentia Analytics – There is nothing familiar about the situation we’re in today. So it’s easy – almost automatic, in fact – for us to assume that our familiar modes of behaviour no longer apply. But as investors, we know that uncertain
ARQIS has advised Agile Robots on its Series A financing round. The eight-digit investment round was led by C-Ventures, a Hong Kong based venture capitalist for innovative companies founded by cultural entrepreneur Adrian Cheng and further included the existing financial investors such as GL Ventures (Hillhouse), Sequoia Capital China and
It is unlikely that the full extent of mark-to-market valuations will be known until 30 June, when Q2’s financial reports are issued. And while this might cause investors to break out into a cold sweat, the advice being offered by investment consultants is, ‘Don’t make any knee-jerk decisions and keep
Scoota, a specialist in automated omni-channel digital branding technology, has announced a GBP2 million round from Notion Capital, the Angel CoFund (ACF) and VentureFounders. The growth funding will be used for rapid US expansion plans for the latter part of 2020 and early 2021. In the current climate this raise speaks
High Road Capital Partners’ portfolio company General Tools & Instruments (www.generaltools.com) has acquired Garden Weasel (www.gardenweasel.com), a provider of specialised lawn and garden tools, from Faultless Brands. The transaction marks General Tools’ second acquisition under High Road’s ownership, having acquired PacTool International in November 2017. The acquisition comprises Garden Weasel’s
SANNE, a provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has completed the acquisition of long-term investment specialists Inbhear Fund Service and Inbhear Management Services.
Digital financial services company Alpian, incubated by the Swiss banking group REYL & Cie, has completed a Series A funding round worth CHF12.2 million.
EQT Ventures has led a USD12 million Series A funding round in Peanut, a newly launched social network for women. Index Ventures and Female Founders Fund also participated in this round, bringing the company’s total funding to USD 21.8 million. The fresh capital will be used to launch new communities
Asia Pacific’s private market attracted USD117 billion in net capital inflow in 2019, led predominantly by private equity where fund raising topped USD94 billion according to McKinsey’s Private Markets Review 2020. This represented a 25 per cent reduction year-on-year, led principally by closed ended real estate, which closed 2019 with
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