With interest in infrastructure investing increasing significantly in recent years, AMP Capital’s David Rees explains how asset managers are looking to new technology to bring PE-like rigour to the sector and add value for investors… The McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2019 (Private markets come of age) notes that infrastructure expanded
UK-based videogame publisher Outright Games has signed a deal with specialist financier ExWorks Capital in order to support its expansion aims. The funding will contribute towards Outright Games’ growth ambitions, helping to further their plans for global expansion and welcoming a host of exciting new partners. Founded in 2016, Outright
Crypta Labs has completed a GBP2.7 million (USD3.4m) funding round led by Bloc Ventures and includes GBP1,000,000 (USD1.3m) debt finance from Innovate UK. Crypta Labs is a quantum cybersecurity company which develops IP, hardware and related software using the quantum properties of light to secure highly critical data and communication
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the burgeoning cryptoasset industry, has closed its first equity funding round, led by North Island, the investment firm of prominent technology investor and Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, along with his son, James Hutchins. After launching the Digital Assets
Macfarlanes has advised a fund managed by secondary private equity firm Glendower Capital on the acquisition of a circa 40 per cent stake in the famous London department store Liberty in a deal valuing the business at around GBP300 million. Liberty, which was founded in 1875, is a world-renowned store
Keensight Capital is to acquire a majority stake in Smile, a European specialist in digital and open source. Keensight Capital, which has built a strong partnership with Smile over the years having first invested in the company from 2013 to 2017, will replace Eurazeo PME as majority shareholder. Eurazeo PME
Eurazeo has held the final closing of the EUR2.5 billion Eurazeo Capital IV investment programme, with Investment partners providing circa EUR700 million in funds, close to 40 per cent more than for the previous fund, Eurazeo Capital III. In line with previous programmes, Eurazeo Capital IV enables Eurazeo to invest
Tyk Technologies Ltd, creators of an API gateway and management platform, has secured GBP4 million in Series A funding, led by MMC Ventures to accelerate its business securing, simplifying and scaling organisations’ API programmes. The MMC Ventures-led Series A funding will be used to accelerate Tyk’s presence in rapidly-growing markets,
Mid-market private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) is to acquire Heras, a Netherlands-based provider of perimeter protection solutions. The company’s management team will also acquire a minority stake in the business. Heras will continue to be led by Gilles Rabot, who joined the business in 2015. The financial terms
O’Melveny has represented Mesmer, a Palo Alto, California-based Robotics Process Automation for Development (RPAD) company, in a USD15 million Series A round of funding. The funding round was led by Intel Capital with participation from True Ventures. Mesmer is founded by the Zenprise team that built and sold its leading
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