Allocations
Calculus Capital, an EIS and VCT investor, will invest GBP2.4 million as a cornerstone investor in a GBP6.6 million institutional and private investment round in Blu Wireless Technology (BWT), a specialist in the provision of ultra-fast millimetre Wave (mmWave) wireless technology into homes and businesses through the roll-out of Wi-Gig and 5G networks.
Calculus Capital’s investment supplements the recent funding round that included ARM, the UK semiconductor IP company that was acquired in 2016 by SoftBank. The investment will enable Blu Wireless Technology to accelerate the design and development of its core wireless technologies.
Semiconductor manufacturers use Blu Wireless
BGF has invested GBP3.85 million in support of Dolphin Homes, a South Coast based specialist care provider for young adults with complex health needs.
The funds will be used for the provision of two new care homes in Hampshire, as well as investing further into Dolphin’s existing homes. Now operating 12 homes with a total of 99 beds, the investment will see the group expand to 136 beds.
Dolphin’s care homes cater for adults with learning difficulties, challenging behaviour, physical disabilities and complex health needs, focusing on quality of care and supporting them to live independent lives.
The
Cavendish Corporate Finance has advised Cotswold Collections Limited in an investment by Rockpool Investments, funding a management buyout of the business.
Cotswold Collections offers a unique range of fashionable women’s clothing and accessories, aimed at affluent mature women. The in-house design team, led by Managing Director Jane Cheeseman, has considerable experience of creating designs that appeal to its large and loyal customer base and fit within a classic British style. Using the direct retail channels of mail order catalogues, online and telephone, Cotswold Collections has successfully operated for over 20 years, maintaining the high quality design, materials, and manufacture of
Beechbrook Capital, a specialist direct lender, has completed two more investments for its UK SME Credit I fund, taking the total invested since its first close in January 2016 to GBP77 million in 10 companies.
The fund, which finances non-private equity-backed UK SMEs, has provided unitranche debt to support the management buyout of Nu-Heat, a leading UK supplier of underfloor heating products, from its founders. The lead equity investor is Bestport Capital, which primarily invests funds from family offices and high net worth individuals. Nu-Heat’s management team, supported by Bestport, has ambitious plans both to accelerate new product development and
Hilltop Private Capital (Hilltop), in partnership with KCB Private Equity (KCB) has acquired Spiral Binding (Spiral), a manufacturer and global distributor of a diverse line of print finishing, graphic arts, and presentation equipment, supplies and services, including binding, laminating, paper handling, photo finishing and custom imprint services.
Spiral was founded in 1932, is headquartered in Totowa, NJ and operates six distribution centres nationwide. The existing shareholders of Spiral will remain as substantial investors in the Company and will continue to manage the business. Debt capital was provided by TCF Funding and QS Strategies. Other terms of the transaction were not
Tages Capital SGR has held the final closing of Tages Helios Investment Fund (Tages Helios) with committed capital of EUR253 million.
Tages Helios is a renewable energy investment fund focused exclusively on the Italian solar infrastructure sector and represents one of the largest fundraisings dedicated to the sector.
Tages Helios has attracted interest from institutional investors who were typically enticed by the value and quality of the assets already acquired. Furthermore, the manager’s existing capability to increase target portfolio returns to an IRR in excess of 8 per cent, has added to the appeal. The final investor base breakdown
An affiliate of private equity firm Gemspring Capital has acquired the assets of Therma Corporation, a full-service design-build specialty mechanical contractor that focuses on complex HVAC, high purity process piping and process controls for cleanrooms, laboratories and high-tech manufacturing facilities.
Therma was founded in 1967 by Joe Parisi, the CEO, and Nicki Parisi, the CFO, and has grown to become one of the largest mechanical contractors in the United States and a leader in the Silicon Valley market. Within the approximately USD300 billion market for mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, Therma focuses on engineering, building information modelling, energy modelling, design-build,
Funds managed by Inflexion Private Equity have completed an investment in ProLabs, an independent supplier of compatible optical transceivers which are used by home broadband service providers through to hyper scale data centres.
Principally serving blue-chip telecoms and financial services businesses in the US, Europe and Asia, Prolabs has grown profits at over 25 per cent annually. The global transceiver market is expanding rapidly as accelerating demand for voice and data services drives the roll-out of faster and higher capacity networks. Supported by significant infrastructure investment, the market for these devices was estimated to be worth over USD6 billion
LeapFrog Investments has acquired a stake in Cignifi, a platform creating financial profiles through mobile phone data.
LeapFrog is partnering with Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm created by eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar, a long time investor in Cignifi.
Cignifi is aiming to help meet the needs of more than two billion emerging consumers worldwide who have mobile phones but limited access to financial services. The company has developed the first big data platform to deliver credit and marketing scores that currently reach more than 100 million consumers in 13 emerging markets, using mobile phone behaviour.
With over
Trinitas Capital Management, a Dallas-based collateralised loan obligation (CLO) manager, today announced that Pine Brook has closed its previously announced USD250 million line of equity commitment in Dallas-based collateralised loan obligation (CLO) manager, Trinitas Capital Management.
“We’re very pleased to partner with Pine Brook and look forward to continue building the platform into a world-class CLO issuer,” says Gibran Mahmud, chief executive officer at Trinitas Capital Management. “We believe that Pine Brook’s track record and experience with financial institutions will be a great asset for Trinitas Capital Management, and that access to their global investor base will continue to strengthen
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