Allocations
Anthemis Group has held the first close of the Anthemis Venture Fund I, which will focus on early stage venture investments, providing pre-seed, seed and series A financing to digitally native financial services startups across North America and Europe.
The fund is anchored by the European Investment Fund (“EIF”), as well as UniCredit, a leading European banking group.
Year-to-date for 2016, Anthemis has raised USD285 million in capital across its platform from institutional investors and is actively investing in early stage through growth-stage financing rounds.
As an early mover in financial technology with a history of successful venture capital investing,
Private equity platform TPG Capital is to acquire a majority interest in Transporeon from The Riverside Company and other shareholders. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval.
Transporeon offers various connectivity-focused applications for the different stages of freight execution, providing shippers and carriers with meaningful cost savings, productivity gains, and service-level improvements by enabling them to communicate, collaborate, and transact efficiently. Transporeon is the leading cloud-based logistics platform with the largest network of its kind, connecting more than 1,000 shippers with more than 57,000 carriers across the world.
RightCapital, a financial planning platform for registered investment advisors and independent broker-dealers, has secured USD1 million in a seed capital fund raise led by Camellia Venture Capital with other individual strategic investors also participating.
Camellia Venture Capital is a New Jersey based venture capital firm that focus on early-stage, high-growth fintech firms.
"We created RightCapital with the goal of developing a next-generation financial planning software that advisors can use to simplify the financial planning experience for their clients," says Shuang Chen, co-founder and CEO of RightCapital. "This round of funding will help us reach more advisors and deliver significant product
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired 100 per cent of Symplicity Corporation.
Headquartered in Arlington, Vitgina, Symplicity sells SaaS-based solutions to over 1,200 colleges and graduate school programs that help manage all aspects of a student’s life on campus, including career services, academics, behavioural intervention, and student conduct. In addition, more than 400,000 active employers utilise the Company’s on-campus recruiting software to leverage the largest Higher Education job network in the US and recruit students and alumni for entry-level jobs. In 2015, five million students submitted more than 13 million job applications through the
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has supported NFT Group’s GBP20 million-plus acquisition of owner-managed logistics company NR Evans with a debt package of GBP13 million.
Founded by Neil Evans, NR Evans is a leading UK temperature controlled distribution business, delivering over GBP1 billion of chilled and ambient product annually via its well invested fleet of 180 trucks and 300 trailers. The business will maintain its South Wales base, whilst integrating into NFT’s national network.
The acquisition the NFT Group significantly strengthens its market leading position in the provision of time critical logistics services to the UK grocery market. It employs
BMO Financial Group has completed the acquisition of the business of M&A advisory firm Greene Holcomb Fisher (GHF).
The transaction complements BMO Capital Markets' existing M&A practice by significantly increasing BMO's number of global M&A professionals. In the United States, the transaction expands and deepens BMO's footprint, raising deal flow and increasing the focus on key strategic industries ranging from Industrials to Food, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Technology, Business & Services and Energy.
GHF has been rebranded as BMO Capital Markets.
JZ Capital Partners Ltd (JZCP), the London listed fund that invests in US and European micro-cap companies and US real estate, is to sell its equity interest in Fidor Bank AG (Fidor) to Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France.
JZCP first invested in Fidor in August 2013 through its EuroMicrocap Fund 2010, L.P. and has since worked with the senior management team, including Matthias Kröner, CEO, and Wolfgang Strobel, CFO, to grow and develop the business. JZCP invested a total of USD18.4 million and is expected to receive total gross proceeds[1] of approximately USD34.3 million from the
The latest issue of Beauhurst’s The Deal shows that deal numbers in Britain’s start-ups and high growth companies in the first half of 2016 have fallen over 20 per cent compared to the second half of 2015.
The firm writes that it appears that the EU referendum and its impact on investor confidence has had a significant effect in the second quarter of this year. The number of deals completed on crowdfunding platforms has fallen for the first time on record, the firm says with deal numbers down 17 per cent against the second half of 2015.
Although fewer
Crowdfunding platform Seedrs has been named as Britain’s most active investor in private companies, ranked number one with 78 funded deals at the halfway point in 2016 according to a leading source of objective deep data on UK startups and scale ups.
The company writes that it is experiencing exponential year on year growth with 55 deals funded during the same period in 2015, and 43 deals funded in the first half of 2014.
Seedrs has a 50 per cent share of the UK equity crowdfunding market in 2016 with its closest competitor Crowdcube at 40 per cent while
Institutional and private client service provider JTC has acquired Arcange REIM in Luxembourg, enabling it to launch a new AIFM management company (ManCo) business as it continues to enhance its range of European alternative fund services.
The acquisition of Arcange REIM, which was one of the first Luxembourg based independent management companies to comply with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), was completed on 6 July following approval from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF).
The new ManCo is called Global AIFM Solutions. A wholly owned subsidiary of JTC, Global AIFM Solutions will offer a fully AIFMD-compliant
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