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Gregg Flinn

New ALTZ platform brings private placement investing to individual investors

Philadelphia area-based ALTZ Investment Strategies (ALTZ) has launched an alternative investment platform aimed at providing accredited individual investors with access to private opportunities. These investments, usually reserved for institutional investors, can be accessed through the ALTZ website, where users register as accredited or aspirational investors, open a brokerage account, browse

MMC backs smart content platform StoryStream

StoryStream, has closed a GBP1.8m Series A funding round, led by MMC Ventures, the London-based venture capital fund. Based in Brighton and founded in 2012, StoryStream’s technology is designed to solve the challenge facing global brands who are competing for customer attention in an increasingly noisy, ad-blocked online world. StoryStream’s

Goodwin Procter extends international PE and and M&A platform into France

A team of French private equity and M&A lawyers is to extend law firm Goodwin Procter’s international practice into Paris, France.  Partners Maxence Bloch, Christophe Digoy, Jérôme Jouhanneaud and Thomas Maitrejean will open Goodwin Paris following completion of their notice periods.   “Goodwin’s clients are increasingly globally focused as capital

Fiera Capital and Aquila Infrastructure Management create new infrastructure platform

Asset management firm Fiera Capital Corporation has formed a joint venture with Toronto-based Aquila Infrastructure Management, a manager of infrastructure investments.  The newly-formed alternative investment company, Fiera Infrastructure will have invested and committed capital of some CAD500 million and will benefit from a strong pipeline of investment opportunities. "The infrastructure

Wunder Capital raises USD3.6m to help investors tap solar market

Wunder Capital, an online lending platform that connects investors with large-scale solar projects across the United States, has raised USD3.6 million in Series A funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to USD4.7 million. The round was led by Techstars Ventures, Fenway Summer Ventures, and FinTech Collective, alongside existing seed

Andrew Frost

Institutional investors support external ManCos

Lawson Conner operates a specialist fund manager platform providing FCA license coverage as well as compliance and regulatory oversight on behalf of alternative fund managers. Over the last few years, the firm has seen a dramatic shift to ManCo structures as new managers, and, more importantly, institutional investors, appreciate the

Gerry Warwick

Heritage Depositary enjoying greater collaboration with AIFMs

Heritage Depositary Company (UK) Limited (Heritage Depositary) operates what the FCA refers to as a `PE Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) depositary'. Whilst it is able to provide full depositary services to most AIF structures, Heritage's depositary services are focused on, but not limited to private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture

Property Partner raises GBP15.9m

Property Partner – the property crowdfunding platform that allows anyone to invest in residential property at the click of a button – has completed a GBP15.9 million (USD22.4 million) funding round, taking the total amount invested in the company to GBP22.5m (USD31.7m). Launched barely a year ago in January 2015, Property Partner

UOB partners with OurCrowd to provide equity crowdfunding in Asia

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) has partnered with global equity crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd, allowing the accredited investors among UOB’s clients to broaden their investments into OurCrowd;s portfolio companies. The collaboration will see UOB making a USD10 million investment in OurCrowd.   Through this collaboration, Asian companies with differentiated and highly

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