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Vesalius Biocapital, the specialist life sciences venture capital investor, has launched a new Portuguese investment vehicle, Vesalius Biocapital III Portugal, in collaboration with the Portuguese National Promotional Bank or Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (IFD), to invest in Portuguese life science companies.
This unique investment vehicle is a joint effort between the IFD and new fund Vesalius Biocapital III, launched earlier this year and which secured over EUR65 million of commitments in a first closing in May 2017.
This is the first joint investment made by the IFD Capital Fund with an international venture fund and is part of its initiative
Threat Stack, provider of an intrusion detection platform for cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premise environments, has raised USD45 million in a Series C funding round led by F-Prime Capital Partners, the venture capital group associated with the parent company of Fidelity Investments, and Eight Roads Ventures, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners, .406 Ventures, and Accomplice.
As part of the funding, which brings the total investment in Threat Stack to more than USD70 million, Gaurav Tuli of F-Prime will join Threat Stack’s Board of Directors and Davor Hebel of Eight Roads Ventures will be an observer.
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Telcoin, a new cryptocurrency promoting financial inclusion through telecommunications industry partnerships, has secured an investment from East Ventures Managing Partner and Mixi co-founder Batara Eto.
Eto served as co-founder and CTO of Mixi from 2004 to 2007. Mixi began as Japan’s first social network, a predecessor to Facebook likened to a localised version of MySpace, before pivoting to mobile gaming. The company went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2006.
In 2009, Eto co-founded East Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm jointly based in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. The firm has invested in more than 150 seed and
Milost Global has partnered with Monnaie Africa (Monnaie), a Mauritius based Investment holding firm, to launch Isilo Fund 1, a new and agnostic Private Equity Fund which will be focused on leveraged buyouts and restructuring of Microcap companies in Africa.
By the end of this month, Milost and Monnaie will form Isilo, a Mauritius GP which will act as the fund manager to Isilo Fund 1. Milost Global Inc. GPs will own 70 per cent interest in Isilo whereas Monnaie will hold 30 per cent. The closed ended Africa Fund will seek to raise a total of $1 billion within
LRI Group, an independent investment services company, has appointed Bastian Dittrich as Global Head of Business Development Real Assets, to support the growth of the Real Assets team alongside the wider LRI Group business.
Dittrich’s newly created role will help to strengthen the positioning and increase the footprint of LRI Group in the real assets sector. He will be responsible for acquiring new clients specifically focused on real estate, private equity and infrastructure projects.
Dittrich has 20 years’ experience in consulting institutional investors and joins LRI Group from LC Germany GmbH, where he was Managing Director and Executive Director
Investing in the UK’s innovative life sciences and biotech sector just became more accessible to a wide spectrum of investors, with the launch Capital Cell, Europe’s first dedicated Life Sciences crowdfunding platform.
Capital Cell has formally ‘opened to investors’ with the first four investment opportunities now live on the platform. These opportunities include a company developing alternatives to antibiotics and an equine health company.
Capital Cell works with companies whose technology is based on biology or healthcare to secure the investment they need to progress their innovative, potentially life-changing ideas. Capital Cell’s model is to support early stage companies,
FFL, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, has completed an investment in Bacharach Holding Corp, a manufacturer of refrigerant gas leak detection and monitoring instruments and combustion and emissions analysers.
Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Bacharach designs and manufactures gas test and measurement (T&M) instrumentation for commercial refrigeration and HVAC equipment, and also develops performance management software for its monitoring products. Founded in 1909, the company’s T&M products are aimed at helping customers – original equipment manufacturers, supermarkets, contractors, building managers, hospitality, military operations, and industrial manufacturing businesses –
Online discretionary wealth manager Netwealth Investments Limited, has completed a second round of capital subscription, raising and additional GBP10.02 million.
Some 13 new investors joined the 28 angels who provided initial capital of GBP6.57 million pre-launch, resulting in total funds raised to date of GBP16.6 million.
Charlotte Ransom, Chief Executive and co-founder of Netwealth, says: “We are delighted that the vast majority of our existing shareholders are backing us in this second round, having experienced the business rollout over the last 18 months. We are also excited to have thirteen new shareholders who all share our vision of how
Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) in conjunction with existing management, has invested in Cartegraph Systems, a provider of SaaS-based asset management solutions to local governments.
CEO Jake Schneider and the Cartegraph management team will continue to lead the growth of the Company moving forward. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in Dubuque, IA, Cartegraph devotes itself to cities, counties, and government agencies seeking to be more effective, efficient, and productive in their daily operations. The Company builds software that empowers users to capture infrastructure asset data, analyze it, and use it to prepare for the future.
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IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP2.75million asset based lending facility to Dundee-headquartered engineering firm, Pryme Group.
Pryme Group sought a flexible financier to support its growing order book and expansion plans, particularly in the aerospace and defence industries. IGF’s facility also provides Pryme Group with a greater level of working capital flexibility.
The Group was formed to provide high quality, integrated manufacturing solutions through bringing together a complementary group of established engineering, testing and manufacturing companies. Collectively, Pryme Group has over 100 years’ experience in providing solutions to a broad range of industries across the
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