Blackstone’s private equity division saw assets reach USD174.7 billion, while the group’s hedge fund performance fell more than 8 per cent during a torrid first quarter. But the world’s largest alternative investment manager has grown its overall assets over the past year, and now has USD150 billion in “dry powder”
Cyprium Investment Partners has closed its fifth fund, with USD445 million of committed capital. Cyprium received support from its limited partners which include insurance companies, asset managers, pension funds, and family offices, many of which have been with the group for two decades. For the last 22 years, the Cyprium team
Keensight Capital, a private equity manager focused on pan-European growth buyouts, has completed the sale of smartTrade, a multi-asset electronic solutions firm. Earlier this year, Keensight Capital had announced that it had entered into an agreement to exit smartTrade Technologies. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in France, smartTrade Technologies has
With USD46 billion of dry powder available to deploy through year end, secondaries market activity is expected to increase in H2 2020, according to Cebile Capital’s Q1 2020 secondaries buyer report. New figures also revealed that the private equity market expects a material decrease in sellers in the secondaries market,
EQT Ventures has led a EUR4 million funding round in Helsinki-based mobile games studio Reworks, as well as the official release of its first game Redecor, a home decor game. Play Ventures and Anton Gauffin, founder and CEO at Huuuge Games also joined the round. The fresh capital will be
One Utility Bill, a tech firm focused on simplifying utility billing for tenants, landlords and letting agents, has raised GBP1.7 million to further develop its platform and expand its business. The funding round was led by DSW Angels, the venture capital business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, and included existing
Ingenious today announces that its Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has led a USD4 million A-series investment round in Shoreline. The Norway-based start-up has built an intelligent field operations and project development platform to help develop profitable wind projects by constructing and operating them efficiently using schedule optimisation and simulation.The investment
LGB Corporate Finance has advised multinational advertising and media company Whalar on the establishment of a secured working capital facility from Praetura Commercial Finance, an alternative debt and equity funding business.Based in London, with offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, Malaga, New York, and Singapore, Whalar is a modern media agency
IW Capital today announces the completion of a GBP2 million investment in GPDQ, providing a welcome boost to healthcare provision in the UK as demand surges during the Covid-19 pandemic.GPDQ delivers CQC-certified primary healthcare services by mobilising innovative NHS GPs, nurses, pharmacists and other specialists to meet patient demand right
CVC Credit Partners has managed to raise USD657 million for its second US focused direct lending fund, CVC Credit Partners US Direct Lending Fund II. Fund II will follow the same strategy as its predecessor fund, investing in established US middle market businesses. Fund II surpassed its USD500 million target and
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