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Perusa Partners Fund II and co-investors have acquired Secura Industriebeteiligungen AG including MÜPRO-Group and UBB GmbH effective 23 January 2018.
MÜPRO Group is a leading provider of building technology solutions for fixing, sound insulation and fire protection applications with annual revenue of 95 million EUR. Its products and solutions are part of many commercial and residential buildings, industrial plants, and aboard ships, especially for the installation of heating, air conditioning and ventilation equipment.
The investment will support MÜPRO-Group`s long term international growth and help it focus on its core competencies of engineering, development, consulting, and project support.
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Foundry Innovation & Research 1 (FIRE1) has closed a Series C financing totalling EUR40 million.
The financing was led by new investor Glide Healthcare, with the participation of new investors Gimv and Seventure and all existing investors, including Lightstone Ventures, Medtronic, and New Enterprise Associates.
Janke Dittmer, partner at Gilde Healthcare, and Patrick Van Beneden, partner at Gimv, have joined FIRE1’s Board of Directors.
The financing provides FIRE1 with capital to further advance its novel remote monitoring solution to improve outcomes for heart failure patients. Nearly six million Americans live with heart failure, a number that is expected
Carey Olsen has played a central role in advising its existing client NYX Gaming Group Limited (NYX) in relation to its recommended takeover by Scientific Games Corporation (Scientific Games).
The deal valued NYX at approximately CAD775 million and represented a premium of approximately 112 per cent over the closing market price on the day before the deal was announced.
NYX is a Guernsey-incorporated company, headquartered in Las Vegas and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada. It is one of the fastest growing B2B real-money digital gaming and sports betting platforms in the world and its group includes
Sixpoint Partners, a global investment bank serving the middle market, has closed Blue Point Capital Partners IV (Fund IV), with USD700 million of capital commitments.
The Fund, which is the fourth investment vehicle for Blue Point Capital Partners (Blue Point), closed at its hard cap and well in excess of its USD600 million target after only three months of marketing. The Fund received commitments from a number of top-tier investors, including endowments, insurance companies, multi-manager funds, consultants, public pensions, corporate pensions and family offices.
Fund IV will continue the strategy of its predecessor fund, Blue Point Capital Partners III,
Gen Cap America, a private equity firm focused on lower middle-market buyouts, sold three of its portfolio companies in the final month of 2017: Thomas Pipe and Supply sold to Winsupply Inc; Air Transport Components (ATC) sold to Holder Family Investments and its partners; and International Systems of America (ISA) sold to Align Capital Partners.
Terms of the transactions have not been disclosed.
“These three companies represent the latest iterations of our firm’s long history and successful track record,” says Barney Byrd, President of Gen Cap. “Our business model is built upon our ability to successfully provide liquidity and
SpherePay, Singapore’s homegrown mobile payment app, has completed a fundraising round of over USD10 million.
With this latest round of funding and the affirmation of its strategic partnership with oBike since last December, SpherePay is well-placed to be the top three payment platforms in Southeast Asia. It currently serves over five million users and has more than 10,000 merchants in the region.
Last year, SpherePay announced its strategic partnership with oBike, Southeast Asia’s largest bike sharing operator. In a move that is set to deepen its partnership, SpherePay will integrate oBike’s operating system into its app. This means that
German technology venture capital investor Target Partners saw record portfolio fundraising results in 2017 with the startups financed by the firm raising more than EUR110 million in 25 financing rounds.
The total market cap of the Target Partners portfolio increased by EUR450 million and now exceeds EUR1 billion for the first time.
“Consumer-related startups historically got a lot of attention in Germany. Now, however, innovative technology startups are the ones shaping the future of our industry. Tech startups and tech venture capital are on the rise”, says Berthold von Freyberg, Partner and co-founder of Target Partners.
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Tera Ventures is to raise a second seed fund, the Tera Ventures Fund II, which has a target size of EUR55 million.
The majority of the capital has been committed by some of the most prolific Estonian, pan-European, and global investors. The fund will invest in about 30 seed stage technology startups in Estonia, Scandinavia, and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The Tera team members have invested in early stage tech since 2009 and our relationships spread across highly lucrative regional tech hubs with untapped potential.
“We will explore new technologies and business models to support founders building the
Pemberton, a diversified asset manager backed by Legal & General Group, has provided senior term facilities to Cinesite Studios, an independent digital entertainment company.
Cinesite Studios, headquartered in London, produces award-winning feature animation and visual effects for the film and television industries. Productions it has worked on include Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Skyfall, Thor, Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them, and The Commuter.
Pemberton will initially provide Cinesite with USD40 million for general funding and acquisition finance purposes. Pemberton will be supported by Barclays Corporate Banking, which will provide USD4 million of revolving credit facilities. Together, Pemberton
Mekong Capital’s Mekong Enterprise Fund II (MEF II) has completed the divestment of 100 per cent of its investment in Mobile World Investment Joint Stock Company (MobileWorld), the biggest mobile device and home appliance retailer in Vietnam.
This was the culmination of an exit process that began with a pre-listing private placement shortly before the 2014 public listing of MobileWorld on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, and involved gradually selling blocks of shares to institutional investors approximately once per quarter after the listing. The final block of 5 million shares was sold at a price of VND165,000 per
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