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UCL Technology Fund’s first investment to IPO has seen MeiraGTx Holdings, a clinical stage gene therapy company, raise USD75 million of gross proceeds from a public offering on 12 June.
MeiraGTx sold 5,000,000 shares at USD15.00 per share. The shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
The UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF) is managed by Albion Capital in collaboration with UCL Business (UCLB), UCL’s commercialisation company, and is dedicated to bringing UCL’s research in life and physical sciences to commercial reality. MeiraGTx is its first investment to IPO. MeiraGTx’s rare eye diseases business was borne out of the laboratories
Private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners (Insight) has held the close of its Fund X at USD6.3 billion, the firm’s largest to date.
The oversubscribed fund will be used to further its leading growth equity technology investment engine. With the close of the new fund, Insight has a total of over USD23 billion under management.
Since inception in 1995, Insight Venture Partners has seen its software-focused investment strategy drive increasing impact in the space. The firm has 150+ current portfolio companies, has overseen 225+ M&A transactions and has participated in more than 40 IPOs. In the
Scottish Biotech company Ryboquin has acquired Nanogenic Solutions, to form a new product and platform company, which, following acquisition will be named Nanogenics Limited.
Ryboquin raised GBP4.45 million in its third funding round from new and existing share-holders to finance the deal.
The combined company is set to revolutionise gene therapy by pioneering the safe, efficacious and regular dosing of all forms of gene therapy. Currently viruses and liposomes are used in this process, which have limited applications, severe side-effects and expensive technical problems. Nanogenics is developing LipTide, an artificial virus, which acts as a custom-built delivery system that
Connect Managed Services (Connect) has announced record financial results for the year to December 2017 as the firm targets further growth.
The LDC-backed business, which specialises in customer experience (CX), and unified communications (UC) technologies and services, achieved total revenues of GBP21 million in its latest financial year, up from GBP13.3 million the previous year. Over the same period, total EBITDA increased by 77 per cent to GBP2.3 million from GBP1.3m in 2016.
Connect delivers 24/7 CX and UC environments for global businesses including BP and Johnson & Johnson. The business was backed by LDC in a multi-million-pound management
Venture capital firm Greycroft has closed Greycroft V, its core early stage fund at USD250 million in capital commitments. With the formation of Greycroft V, the firm now manages USD1.3 billion.
In recent years Greycroft has been more aggressively investing in seed stage companies in addition to traditional Series A companies. To accommodate the increase in global deal flow, the firm has grown its investment team, which now numbers over 20 investment professionals between New York and Los Angeles.
“We’re seeing so much opportunity in the current market environment on both coasts where we’re uniquely positioned, but also everywhere
Alternative fund manager Abacus Capital’s Hogi Hyun is stepping into the crypto world to bring investors a blockchain and tokenised investment grade diamond investment opportunity.
Abacus was established in Singapore in 1996 and has some USD1 billion in assets in special situations and private equity investments in commodities, natural resources and mining. It also has a family office fund platform.
Hyun’s new venture, the D1 Coin, is based on the physical delivery of an initial 1,500 investment grade diamonds from Alrosa, the world’s largest diamond miner. The diamonds will be used to support the new asset-backed token D1 Coin.
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Atalaya Capital Management, a private credit and special opportunities alternative investment manager, has closed a USD250 million senior construction loan and a USD65 million preferred equity investment to finance Flag Luxury Group’s construction and development of The Ritz-Carlton’s new flagship hotel in New York City.
This project will be the first ground-up hotel construction in New York City completed by Flag, which has developed numerous world-class hotels and resorts, including four Ritz-Carlton properties in Florida.
We are excited to be working with Atalaya, who worked diligently to structure a creative and comprehensive capital solution to facilitate the development of
Black Bay Energy Capital has held the final closing of its inaugural private equity fund, Black Bay Energy, with total commitments of USD224 million, exceeding its USD200 million target.
Black Bay’s investors include endowments, foundations, private pensions, fund of funds and family offices. Black Bay invests in companies led by talented entrepreneurs offering proven, next-generation products and services that help improve the economics, efficiency and safety of oilfield operations. Black Bay focuses on investments requiring up to USD30 million of equity capital.
“We are incredibly thankful and humbled to be partnered with such a knowledgeable and supportive group of
Cathay Capital has held a first close for Cathay Midcap II at EUR600 million. The fund, which is targeting EUR1.2 billion is backed by Cathay’s historical cornerstone LPs, China Development Bank (CDB) and Bpifrance, and a mix of sovereign funds, institutional investors and family offices.
Cathay Midcap II is also the first fund invested by the China-EU Co-investment Fund program, which was established by the European Investment Fund and the Silk Road Fund for the purpose of developing synergies between the Investment Plan for Europe and China’s Belt and Road Initiative .
The Fund was officially launched at the
Ciena Corporation has acquired Packet Design, a provider of network performance management software focused on Layer 3 network optimisation, topology and route analytics.
Drake Star Partners acted as the exclusive sell-side advisor to Packet Design in this transaction.
The acquisition of Packet Design helps accelerate Ciena’s Blue Planet software strategy by extending its intelligent automation capabilities beyond Layers 0-2 and into IP with critical new capabilities to help customers optimise service delivery and maximise network utilisation. Specifically, the combination of the Blue Planet software platform and Packet Design’s performance analytics and service path computation capabilities forms a distinct
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