Deals
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 beyond [the already existing] areas of fertility and motherhood, including a space for women living with menopause.
Lyle Fong, partner at EQT Ventures, will use his expertise in community-focused products to aid Peanut’s next stage of growth.
“Lyle’s unprecedented experience of building and scaling community-focused products will be vital as
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 a modest USD13 billion in fundraising; down 39 per cent on 2018.
The big question for the region now, among global investment groups, is where strategic value opportunities might reside in light of the fall in market valuations caused by Covid-19. One only has to look at oil prices moving
Insulation and fire protection expert Aran Services has secured GBP1.5 million in working capital from Independent Growth Finance (IGF). The funds, which were raised using invoice discounting, were used to support the recent MBO and to provide working capital to support the continued growth of the business.Founded in 2004, the Suffolk-based company specialises in domestic and commercial energy efficiency and fire safety, working with schools, social landlords, local authorities, utility providers and home owners, to ensure their systems are up to scratch.
Aran Services serves the most vulnerable in society, with innovations lowering the cost of bills, reducing carbon emissions
Approximately 80 per cent of private equity sponsors believe there could be up to a 25 per cent reduction in the value of portfolio investments in their Q1 valuations, according to a new survey by Gen II Fund Services.The survey also shows there is still a high degree of uncertainty regarding the long-term effects of COVID-19 on investments and as a result, traditional methodologies for valuing portfolio investments are less reliable. For Q1, sponsors are considering a combination of approaches, including public company comparables, third party valuation services, and adjustments to previously applied valuation methodology.
“The survey gives our clients important
DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor in East Africa, has made a further investment in Moringa School (Moringa), a technology learning institute based in Kenya.The investment is to help Moringa accelerate the company’s transition to providing remote on-line learning. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, there has been an increased demand for online learning.
DOB says that equipping students with the right digital skillset to enter the job market is particularly important considering the increased economic uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As technology companies globally soar because of an increasingly digital world, the demand for software developers and data
A Cheltenham company whose software helps businesses to automate their processes more rapidly has raised GBP2.2 million from the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds, which are managed by Mercia.The investment will allow Enate to further develop its platform and expand its customer base and distributor network across Europe and Asia.
Launched in 2017, Enate now has customers worldwide ranging from smaller services firms to major insurers, banks and professional services firms like EY and Capgemini. The company has been growing revenue by 200 per cent year on year and has seen increased demand since the lockdown, as businesses
Bought By Many, a London-based pet insurance provider, has secured a GBP78.4 million (~USD98 million) growth equity investment led by FTV Capital, a US financial services-focused growth equity investment firm, alongside follow-on from numerous existing investors.The capital raise follows impressive growth for Bought By Many, which launched its market-leading suite of pet insurance policies in 2017 and now insures over 200,000 pets.
Sales of the company’s cat and dog policies increased by more than 150 per cent over the last year. Thousands of pet owners voted Bought By Many the UK’s Most Trusted Pet Insurance Provider in 2019. The company
RLG Capital & Trinity Private Equity Group has made a USD38 million investment in learning solutions company eLearning Brothers, enabling its simultaneous acquisition of industry innovators Trivantis and Edulence. Co-investors include HCAP Partners and Eagle Marsh Holdings with a senior debt facility provided by KeyBank N.A. This investment launches eLearning Brothers as a unique eLearning platform that combines high-quality courses and related content with Lectora, an industry-leading rapid authoring tool, CenarioVR, a cutting-edge virtual reality course builder, and KnowledgeLink, a nimble learning management system (LMS), creating a complete online ecosystem to better serve learning professionals.
“This investment combines the industry-leading courses
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