Allocations
Hillhouse Capital has held the closing of Hillhouse Fund IV, which was heavily oversubscribed with aggregate capital commitments of USD10.6 billion.
From partnering with visionary founders at company inception, to undertaking buyouts of iconic brands, the flexibility of Hillhouse’s mandate enables it to be highly selective in choosing investments. Hillhouse Fund IV will pursue opportunities across the healthcare, consumer, technology and services sectors globally, with a focus on Asia. With the new fund, Hillhouse will continue to work closely with entrepreneurs and management teams in pursuit of sustainable, long-term growth.
In its private equity investments, Fund IV will implement
LA-based private equity firm Westhook Capital (Westhook) has made an investment in Metco Landscape (Metco), a provider of landscaping installation and maintenance services in Colorado.
The Company will continue to be led by Mark Tomko, who will remain in his position as CEO immediately following the Transaction. Metco ranks No28 in Lawn & Landscape Magazine’s Top 100. Its services include the design, installation and maintenance of commercial landscape across the Front Range of Colorado. The Company operates out of its headquarters in Aurora, Colorado with two additional branches around Denver and one in Colorado Springs.
Tomko, founder and CEO
Harbert European Growth Capital (HEGCF) has held the final close of its second fund (Fund II) at EUR215 million, a substantial increase over Harbert European Growth Capital Fund I.
HEGCF, which provides debt capital to fund growth opportunities across technology, life science and other innovative sectors, attracted significant institutional capital, as well as numerous family office investors.
“We are grateful for the support and trust that our existing and new investors have placed in us,” says David Bateman, Senior Managing Director and co-head of HEGCF.
“The market opportunity remains strong with many companies across Europe seeking expansion funding
Optoscribe, a supplier of glass-based integrated photonics components, has closed an investment round of GBP2.8 million led by Scottish business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, and also supported by its other existing investors, Par Equity, Scottish Investment Bank and the Optoscribe management team.
Previous investors were joined in this round by UK private equity manager Maven Capital Partners.
The funding will facilitate an expansion of current manufacturing capacity, the hiring of key engineering resource and allow the business to meet the demands of a growing customer base.
Optoscribe’s innovative and proprietary laser direct-write technology produces optical components at a
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, has invested GBP200,000 as part of a GBP700,000 funding round in Biorelate, a technology platform using artificial intelligence (AI) to efficiently curate data in biomedicine.
Existing investors, Catapult Ventures via the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Life Sciences Fund, provided GBP150,000 and the Manchester Tech Trust Angels (MTTA) provided GBP350,000. The funding will be used to expand the team, and to develop its product offering, including three new SaaS products.
Founded in 2014, Biorelate uses existing knowledge to help scientists solve
Nosto, a specialist in ecommerce personalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) tools for retail, has closed a new round of funding totalling USD7.4 million led by European investment companies Tesi, Open Ocean and Idinvest.
The new funds will be used towards investments in Nosto’s machine learning core, omni-channel personalisation and continued international expansion.
Nosto’s innovative retail personalisation solutions have fuelled a three-year growth rate of 260 per cent in North America driven by deep relationships with 2,500 of the world’s fastest growing retail brands. To date, Nosto has raised more than USD25 million from investors to further expand its leadership
ThinCats, a fintech lender to SMEs has launched a new programme for up to GBP300 million with global asset manager Insight Investment to fund UK SMEs with commercial loans.
On top of GBP300 million from existing investors, ThinCats now has a potential GBP600 million to fund UK SMEs across the full risk spectrum in all regions and sectors from GBP100,000 to GBP10 million. ThinCats’ lending focus remains on meeting borrowers’ ambitions through funding of up to five years to companies with asset backing or reliable cashflows for working capital, acquisition, refinance or growth.
Damon Walford, Chief Development Officer, ThinCats,
LBO France has widened its fund range, usually reserved for institutional investors, with the launch of the FCPR White Caps Sélection, a private equity fund for high net worth clients with a minimum investment amount of EUR25,000.
The FCPR White Caps Sélection fund will invest directly or via funds managed by LBO France in profitable and growing unlisted French or European small or midcap companies within the framework of expansion capital or buyout capital transactions. To ensure additional diversification, the fund will also be able to invest in real estate.
Investors in the FCPR White Caps Sélection fund will
Mariana Enevoldsen (pictured), Director at Estera, explains how the recent IPO of music investment fund Hipgnosis demonstrates how Guernsey continues to be popular and trusted by advisers and investors, and highlights the attractiveness of the island for alternative asset classes…
This summer Merck Mercuriadis, a former manager of Sir Elton John, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden and Morrissey, floated his new music investment fund on the London Stock Exchange. Hipgnosis Songs Fund raised GBP202 million to invest in music royalties. Shortly after the IPO, Hipgnosis announced the acquisition of its first catalogue of hits from The-Dream, which includes hit songs
ForeVest Capital Partners (ForeVest), a private equity fund manager operating primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, has closed a general partner-led secondary transaction of a fund it advises, PineBridge New Europe Partners II (NEP II).
In the transaction, a new investment fund advised by ForeVest acquired portfolio companies from NEP II. The new fund also obtained commitments from new and existing LPs for new capital to support and develop the acquired portfolio. Park Hill advised NEP II on the transaction.
Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) Strategic Equity team led the transaction from the buyer’s side and became the largest investor
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
