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Capzanine, an independent European company specialised in private investment, is selling its stake in Taliance, following the latter’s reorganisation of its capital and its reacquisition by management.
Taliance creates, develops and distributes the first software solution for modelling alternative investment portfolios, combining the flexibility and the security that these specific assets require. Taliance helps GPs, LPs, pension funds, investors or investment managers to optimise the performance of their international alternative investment portfolios in sixteen countries.
Based in Paris, London and New York, Taliance employs 30 staff and generates annual sales of around EUR6 million. Taliance works principally for Generali,
Alpha Private Equity Fund 7 has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Waterland and its co- shareholders for the acquisition of 100 per cent of the share capital of IPCOM.
Founded by Waterland in 2010 and headquartered in Belgium, IPCOM is the leading European insulation solutions provider with sales of circa EUR285 million. The Group serves a large and diverse loyal customer base of installers, international contractors, wholesalers and OEMs. IPCOM delivers its products and solutions through a network of 50 outlets across the Benelux, the DACH region, Ireland and Scandinavia.
The new shareholders will continue to support
Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Investments, has acquired WightFibre and will invest a further GBP35 million to fund the expansion of the company’s infrastructure with a full-fibre, ultrafast broadband network across the Isle of Wight.
This is the first investment by Digital Infrastructure Investment Partners, a platform launched by Infracapital and Cameron Barney to invest in full-fibre broadband infrastructure in the UK, supported by funds from HM Treasury. The investment is being made jointly with Infracapital’s Greenfield strategy.
WightFibre is the first company in the country to receive investment from the government’s Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund,
OFI SteelPath, an OppenheimerFunds company, has launched the Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP & Energy Infrastructure Fund, which will primarily invest in the equity securities of North American midstream energy infrastructure companies while adhering to a 25 per cent limit on master limited partnership (MLP) holdings.
The Fund will focus on US and Canadian energy infrastructure companies with a 40 per cent limit on non-US holdings. Further, the Fund may invest up to 20 per cent in the fixed-income securities of energy infrastructure operators.
Stuart Cartner and Bob Coble will act as portfolio managers for the Fund.
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qodeo, a company that monitors the global venture ecosystem, and is rolling out the first global service that automatically matches best fit investors with entrepreneurs, has announced a crowdfunding campaign on crowdfunding platform Seedrs.
Qodeo is raising funds to roll out its next generation global venture matching service, which aims to revolutionise the global funding landscape.
Qodeo has already raised half of its total funding target for this round of GBP500,000, from follow on investments by many of its 23 existing angel investors, plus new investors, including Christopher Clement Davies, formerly Director at S G Warburg and partner at
When given a choice between USD1,000 worth of Bitcoin and USD1,000 worth of a traditional financial asset, 27 per cent of millennials chose Bitcoin over an equivalent amount of stocks, 30 per cent chose Bitcoin over government bonds, 22 per cent chose Bitcoin over real estate, and 19 per cent chose Bitcoin over gold.
That’s according to a survey by venture capital firm Blockchain Capital which suggests that as Bitcoin adoption grows and millennials consider purchasing decisions, financial institutions may be wise to offer these assets and services in order to attract and retain millennial customers.
The survey, which
Last year, Ardian, the French independent private equity firm, joined forces with Seven Mile Capital Partners to launch a North American direct buyout business focusing primarily on US industrials. The business unit, overseen by Vincent Fandozzi, Head of Ardian North America Direct Buyouts, includes the whole Seven Mile Capital Partners team, retained in full, and adds to Ardian’s buyout arsenal by focusing specifically on investment opportunities in the lower middle market.
At a time when valuations are getting toppy and capital continues to flow into the private equity space – according to Pitchbook PE firms across North America & Europe attracted
Unigestion has made an investment in cyber insurance company Ascent Underwriting, the company’s third direct private equity investment this year – and the sixth in total – from Unigestion’s Direct Opportunities 2015 (UDO 2015) fund.
Ascent is a cyber insurance and specialty focused Managing General Agent in the Lloyds of London market. Unigestion made the investment alongside Preservation Capital Partners, the financial services focused private equity firm with a broad network and extensive experience in the insurance sector. The investment, which is subject to regulatory approval, will allow Ascent to further strengthen its presence in the fast growing cyber insurance
OTCX, an over-the-counter derivatives platform, has secured backing from the Angel CoFund as part of its latest funding round.
The Angel CoFund is a GBP100 million investment fund, supported by the British Business Bank, with objectives to back promising UK businesses and help develop the important business angel investment market.
In a market in which over 50 per cent of OTC derivatives are traded via chat, email or voice technology, OTCX provides new solutions that help structure price discovery, negotiation and affirmation communication between counterparties. The investment by the Angel CoFund is further validation of OTCX’s technology and progress in bringing an antiquated OTC derivatives community into the
Nautic Partners has sold portfolio company IPS Corporation to funds affiliated with Sherman Capital Holdings through Sherman Capital’s existing portfolio company Encaspsys, for USD 700 million.
The two companies will operate together as Cypress Performance Group (CPG), offering a portfolio of advanced materials and diversified products with leading brand positions in niche, value-added verticals. Nautic originally acquired IPS in February 2015.
IPS is a global manufacturer of specialised, highly engineered industrial products serving diverse industrial, commercial, and residential end markets. Selling through the professional trade channel, IPS is a market leader in multiple product categories including solvent cements, structural
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