Icebreaker.vc, which invests in Finnish, Swedish and Estonian tech companies, has held a first close of its second fund at EUR50 million. The target size of Icebreaker Fund II, which will invest in very early stage tech companies, is EUR75 million. Already before the Corona crisis there was a gap
Ropes & Gray has advised K2 Insurance Services, a portfolio company of US private equity firm Lee Equity Partners, on its acquisition of Pioneer Underwriters, a London-headquartered underwriting services organisation. The deal will see Pioneer’s ongoing underwriting portfolio, together with underwriting and support staff, transfer to K2, a specialist insurance
Ogier’s Jersey investment funds team has advised Index Ventures on the simultaneous closings of Index Ventures Growth V, which has raised USD1.2 billion to invest in later-stage, growth rounds, and Index Ventures X, which recently closed at USD800 million to put into earlier rounds for smaller start-up companies.This latest USD2
Growth equity investor Verdane has partnered with Conscriptor, Sweden’s largest developer of medical journal documentation services and dictation software, and Max Manus, a speech recognition and dictation software company.
Bodhala, a data-intelligence and legal technology platform, has secured USD10 million in an investment round led by Edison Partners, a Princeton, NJ-based growth capital firm. The company will use the funds for product expansion and sales and market acceleration as it transforms and modernises the purchasing of outside counsel services.
Peak, a software maker helping businesses use AI, has raised USD12 million in an extended Series A funding round led by existing investors MMC Ventures and Praetura Ventures. This fresh investment brings Peak’s total amount of funding to USD18 million. Peak will use the incoming capital to support its rapid
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,
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